skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Yes! To expand on this a bit, disaster.radio locally hosts web apps, e.g. a vector tile map of the local area, and serves them up over WiFi to local devices with a reasonable bandwidth, then uses the very low bandwidth of LoRa to share points on the map added by users over long distances (e.g. where you can get water, food, etc).

disaster.radio is not a replacement to a existing internet infrastructure like NYC Mesh. Setting up a high bandwidth mesh network is a lot of work. Each node needs a non-trivial amount of power (enough to make solar hard) and nodes generally need line of sight which requires good mounting locations and planning.

We, the creators of disaster.radio, actually also run a small wifi-based mesh network https://peoplesopen.net/ and the idea for disaster.radio came out of frustration with difficulty of mounting wifi nodes (finding interested people in good locations, then negotiating with landlords for permission to mount on rooftops and running ethernet cable for PoE into building, then finding another location within line of sight and repeating the process). We thought: What if we could make a "mesh throwie" where installation was as easy as throwing it on a roof (and maybe strapping it to something).
I’m pretty convinced there’s an efficient way to desalinize ocean water. It frustrates me that this hasn’t been realized on a large scale yet
> Maybe if they had _some_ cartographers in the maps team perhaps google would understand the importance of a having a scale shown on a map _all_ the time.

Missing scale in online maps—and Google is a frequent offender—drives me fucking crazy.
I forgot who said it but "bubbles grow far bigger than is rationally thought possible, and fall far faster than anyone expects".

These bubble can go on for decades but once it bursts, the bottom of the bucket drops out and all the water goes with it.
I don’t enjoy the key management part of Keybase and don’t find it particularly strong, but why do you think the curl method is inscrutable? The entire payload (basically a JSON blob plus a signature) is there for you to see instead of a binary client that could do god knows what (even if you have the source code it’s probably harder and at least slower to understand than the final payload sent over the wire). I would say the curl method is actually the most inspectable one.
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They are just using off the shelf fab space. OTOH, they do a fine job of building a custom core for a specific purpose. That means they can tune and remove functionality they don't need for their particular application set. As someone else mentioned in this thread apparently they don't implement EL2 which is the virtualization layer on armv8. Yet their die sizes a huge and they are targeting a pretty narrow frequency range. So It doesn't really take much to eak out a few 10's of percent here/there to create a product that looks better than a generic core from ARM + a generic OS tuned more for servers (linux) with a JIT'ed GUI.

I've seen cases where just pulling compiler flags on an application yield a larger difference than what is seen between top end android and apple phones.
Line rate doesn't imply small packets. But most userspace benchmarking uses 64B packets. That being said, the "imix" packet size, which is supposed to represent internet traffic, is around 500B.
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Because the real protection chrome users need is from chrome itself and google. This helps I guess but what’s the point if google sucks up everything about you regardless?
> Alchemist

!

Does that mean I can add occupations like "car warranty representative" and "pretending to be an architect"?

Edit: also, why is it in italics?
Here is a fun one: film interpreter (解畫員 in Chinese/Cantonese)

Many many years ago, foreign films (primarily from Hollywood and in English?) were becoming popular in Hong Kong, but the general populace was either too illiterate or didn't speak or read English. Dubbing in Cantonese was inexistent back then (I guess the studios didn't distribute the films to the Hong Kong movie theatre chains or distributors with dialogue and sound effects on separate sound tracks, like they can today thanks to object-based encodings); subtitling was also useless or inexistent (maybe due to lack of technology, and also due to poor literacy levels). So the movie theatres hired film interpreters. The film interpreter would literally stand next to the silver screen during the screening, and verbally explain, in Cantonese, what the actors were saying or relevant English text displayed on screen.

Obviously that wasn't very scalable.

As technology progressed and as the population's literacy and education improved, it became feasible to put subtitles or dub the films in Cantonese. So the job of the film interpreter became obsolete.

Nowadays, the verb (解畫, to interprete a film) has been hijacked to mean something else: to defuse a misunderstanding that was a result of ambiguous or careless wordings in speech between two parties.
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I suggest changing the post URL to be the source ICANN post, https://www.icann.org/news/blog/org-update

The only content added by the original URL (https://domainnamewire.com/2019/12/10/icann-delays-org-sale-...) is a link to the
webcast meeting referenced in the PDF letter linked in the ICANN blog. It is https://domainnamewire.com/2019/12/10/video-watch-the-qa-wit...
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Not in at least ten years. Except for on BusyBox systems.
I feel like you have to compensate for our aging population there as well
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The UI is not clear at all. I don't want to update Catalina for the time being and the "other updates" option is small and hardly noticeable and clearly being mostly hidden in order to get people to update to Catalina. I definitely missed the option the first couple times.
You don't use makefiles in go! You just take your code, copy go.mod and go.sum into a Docker image, then RUN mod download, then re-copy the rest of the code and run bui...

Shit... Docker is a makefile...
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> I think it might be a lack of personal financial maturity

Just think, the whole student loan thing is decided when they're even younger.
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Ah! Ok, that helped tremendously, thank you. Very cool technology and application!
The rating for a panel is the absolute best case where it has full direct sunlight and the panel is cold. Most of the time you will be getting less than the rated power.
The tax code is totally corporate dictated and to their interests - the huge bias against self employment is evident of that, whereas in a more competent economy policymakers would acknowledge the strong growth potential of incentivizing small business creation.
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I thought the problem with Amazon wasn't the search, but that you couldn't always trust it to deliver a legitimate brand product?
Press release - http://media.hotstar.com/hotstar-decodes-the-online-video-co...

Lots of good insights on Indian video consumers.
That will almost certainly need a much bigger panel. If a phone is a 3W constant load, that's 2232Wh in a month, except in summer there is no way a nominally 20W cheap PV panel will keep up with that from October to March at latitude 54. Combination of short daylight hours and overcast weather so rarely any direct sunlight.

The 20W rating is at what is called standard test conditions, basically equivalent to direct sunlight in the Arizona desert.

You'd probably want at least a nominal 180W panel and a basic 25 Euro PWM PV charge controller.
My understanding is that chip QA at Intel took somewhat of a nosedive post Haswell. From my ignorant but interested outsider perspective, everything from Broadwell on seemed to be a mess execution-wise compared to Haswell (modulo TSX), and _especially_ compared to Ivy Bridge.

Some of the recorded comments on https://danluu.com/cpu-bugs/ (First update section) mesh with my observations, but I wouldn't know enough to tell if I was on to something, or just confirming my own biases.
It looks more like a concurrency bug to me.
Completely agreed with the fundamental point that it's all about the "funnel" from ~100 (arbitrary number) grad school hopefuls to ~1 tenured role. Unless the number of hopefuls changes, the only design choices correspond to a bunch of "selection events" where the group could be winnowed: grad school admission, qualifiers, granting degree, offer postdoc1 after degree, offer postdoc2 after postdoc1, offer tenure track after postdoc2, offer tenure after tenure review.

The "shape" of the funnel will reflect the design choices we make, based on which groups to be "kind" towards, and which groups to be "brutal" towards. I think prevalent mindset is that it's acceptable to be most brutal in grad school admissions, or after granting PhDs -- because then people have a degree to take away and get to leave with a sense of closure, without much sunk cost worry.

The system of each faculty member graduating significantly more than one student is fundamentally unsustainable, and will lead to all kinds of problems. They can only be shuffled around and partially hidden, but never fully solved. It's amazing how many otherwise smart people don't want to understand this.
You definitely can't fix anything by not trying... (to make a website?)
open multiple browser sessions for the user, and randomly choose one of them as the 'result' (but still click on all of them, even if the resultant page isn't viewed).

Or, just don't use the website if they do this.
Do you mean "as a species"?
"Good news, our brand new processor has twice as much space for microcode as the old versions!"
That's not the right title for this site.
This isn't anything but the company firing someone for their own reasons.

The issue at hand is a) us knowing that fraud was perpetrated and b) appropriate jurisdictions being able to try that individual for fraudulent actions.

Neither is present today. Facebook polices its own employees and if those employees were important enough you'd bet they would not release that information nor hold those employees accountable.
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As a simple example, (anecdotally) most CS graduate students currently have a much more comfortable (even cushy) time in grad school compared to counterparts in the hard sciences. Just an observation, not casting aspersions or making a value judgement.
I did not intend to use any coded language. In case I was not clear, let me state this explicitly: my comment takes no position on the treatment, position, abilities, or any other property of women or men in the workplace or any other context.

If my comment conveyed to you any such meaning it is either your own biases coloring your interpretation, or a shortcoming of my own writing ability.

> It is not unfortunate that the parent cannot talk openly about his misogynistic interpretation of the success of the few women in tech he’s observed

How do you know that his interpretation is misogynistic?

Also, what I intended to call out as unfortunate was not that he could not talk about misogynistic interpretation; but rather that he could not talk about any interpretation, be it misogynistic or not.

> If the parents interpretation of the success of women in tech is reverse discrimination...

Is this his interpretation?

> The very real numbers that we see today are that women are severely underrepresented in tech

I do not see how this point is relevant to anything I said; and I have made it explicitly clear that I have no intention of discussing this topic on this thread.

> his freedom to express his non-explicit but actually really misogynistic interpretation.

If this was his intention, he failed miserably at it. As I said above, I have no idea what his interpretation is.
Governments obviously do more than what your absurd statement implies. They are democratically controlled veichles of power. One of the things they do is some measure of redistribution of wealth, attempting to counter the capitalist tendency for wealth concentration.

Bizarre references to "conservation of energy" (?) aside, you can simply look empirically. Places with low social and economic inequality are factually better places to live.
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You could also just have actual public transit in cities so that car ownership isn't mandatory for all residents.

NYC is pretty much the only metro area in the US that fits this criteria, and thats entirely because it was the only city built up to reasonable density and scale before the postwar racist zoning laws came into effect everywhere else.
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Yeah, some are actually not obsolete like Scribe.
There are dozens of them at http://www.csszengarden.com.

Enjoy!
> It felt like the iTunes U2 fiasco.

Looked it up now and this explains why I had a lonely U2 album in my iMusic when I finally got another Apple product after 7 years.
try your for loops and equivalents in godbolt.org with different C++ compilers.
CDR coding isn't really used because lisp now has standardied vectors, and one big reason to use lists over vectors is the ability to share structure.
An ML based one of course.
Excerpts:

"The key lies in creating a structure with spacing between the plasma and metal columns as small as the wavelength of radiation being manipulated."

"The group showed that rapid changes in the electromagnetic characteristics of these crystals—such as switching between reflecting or transmitting signals—could be achieved by simply turning on or off a few plasma columns. Such a capability shows the utility of such a dynamic and energy-efficient device for communications."

My thoughts: Or for building transistors... or devices that emit and/or detect high frequency waves...
It's a zero coupon bearer bond, that's all. With some very elaborate anti forgery. Nothing wrong with an organization printing bonds, it's just that these aren't a debt but represent locked up economically inactive etherum.
You are right much of this might just be oportunity (e.g. if you leave the car jnlocked). But breaking into a locked car still demands a certain culture that provides you with excuses (to yourself) why it is okay for you to steal (e.g. “I deserve this because society never treated me the way it should”). People don’t really just think of themselves as the bad guy.
I almost did this for a recent (non-FANG) CI project, but I went for Mac Minis instead (they have more aftermarket rackmount options).

If I need more throughput I’ll probably upgrade to the racked Mac Pros.
Thanks for the link to Darknet Diaries! It was new to me
I always thought I'd be good at making logarithm tables by hand.
So, now you've gone from your original claim about a hardcoded list of sites with autoplay to a hardcoded list of sites which get MEI "preloaded" and an "explicit popularity filter".

Do you have either of those things to show us?
Yeah see “startup” is the problem word there. That implies you have a product. You have a cool hobby project, but there’s no use case.

I’m so curious why people think (and it’s certainly not just you, I see this attitude all over) that it is possible to run a business without providing value to customers.
Public transportation is very bad in the U.S. Even in major cities. For the vast majority of people a car is a necessity in the U.S. Most Americans end up in debt to buy a car. Then there is insurance and the opportunity cost of the government having to spend a great deal of money on road maintenance that could otherwise be spent on things like education.
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It's extremely hard for large companies acquiring smaller ones to do it well.

Kind of interesting to look through these and wonder what (if anything) survived:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_AOL

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Oracle

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_mergers_and_acquisitio...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Cisco_...

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_acquisitions_by_Electr...
When I was visiting Oakland this happened to us, on a busy street. Someone wrote down the license plate and left it for us. The police didn’t care.
Which is quite fair, they have to live from something.
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I looked through a dozen examples, they all look like below:

http://www.csszengarden.com/220/220.css

None of these satisfy the aforementioned qualities. None of them look better, IMO, then an equivalent SASS/SCSS version that likely make most of these even more readable.
yeah, maybe not a problem but I would not call it "more than normal"
Interestingly, in Greenland, we are forbidden from deploying Huawei equipment according to the terms of our LTE license.
I think he might be asking how to calculate, but who knows?!
Sure. In the case of Qt, it was very expensive but well worth paying for because it does a good job. The LGPL stuff is important because it provides us with an "out" if the Qt company goes crazy with prices.

Avoiding the "out" makes me not want to make use of the new modules. And the hassle of audits makes be question the cost of the inconvenience to me, the dev, of having a license.

It's tradeoffs all the way down.
Software Engineering: Report of a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Garmisch, Germany, 7th-11th October 1968, P Naur, B Randell.

Software engineering techniques: report on a conference sponsored by the NATO Science Committee, Rome, Italy, 27th to 31st October 1969, JN Buxton, B Randell - 1970

These two books (actually conference reports in a unique style) got me thinking about software engineering as a discipline. Much of what was said then is applicable today.
Exactly, that is why you can only have nice tools when working for big corps.

FOSS made it fashionable to want to be paid for work, while refusing to pay for the work of others, and in the process using clunky tools.

Naturally upstream cannot pay bills from PR and eventually moves on.
No, PPS and bandwidth are two distinct metrics. Although there can be a linear relationship between them line rate does not always imply a payload equal or close to the interface MTU. You see this with network vendors and some of the higher end gear. Network vendors always give specs for their gear by quoting both metrics. And there is some gear that that is capable of doing line rates even with small packets, example the Cisco ASR 1000:

"For example, because one of the newest Cisco routers, the Cisco ASR 1000 Series Router, is capable of forwarding packets at up to 16 Mp/s with services enabled, it can support the processing of the equivalent of 10 Gb/s of traffic at line rate, with services, even for small packets."[1]

[1] https://tools.cisco.com/security/center/resources/network_pe...
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This might sway me if they didn't repeatedly refer to it as "cash" on their website.
> A lot of things in Lisp force the implementation of lists as cons cells

This is one of the reasons that Clojure wasn’t written to be backwards compatible with CL. Rich chose to implement all of his core functions on the first/rest abstraction instead, as explained in his Clojure for Lisp Programmers talk.

https://youtu.be/nDm-QDEXGEA?t=32m47s
> simply having a requirement that several independent people

You're asking for government mandated bureaucracy.
Here's how I've seen this play out in the context of the world's largest bureaucracy, the Department of Defense.

Let's say the law requires someone in a powerful position, like a VP, to approve the un-ban request so you can hold someone "accountable". The following chain of events will occur:

1. The VP will be inundated with un-ban requests and become increasingly annoyed at requests that should obviously remain in effect.

2. The VP will delegate a subordinate to check that each request is sufficiently nuanced to require the full attention of the VP.

3. Repeat steps 1 and 2 until you reach a management level that's too over-burdened to add another review layer. You should have 2-4 layers of review at this point.

To properly route a request, each layer queues the request and runs some cheap processing and sends it up the chain where the process repeats. We can borrow some concepts from networking to model this process:

- buffer bloat: queues are typically unbounded in the real world. Requests are rarely dropped. Instead they accumulate.

- back pressure: the VP goes on vacation. All requests will pile up at the previous layer.

- latency: certain days have exceptionally high latency, notably Saturday, Sunday, and most parts of Friday.

- network partitions: often the transport layer (usually an intern to shuffle paperwork) will become unavailable as the scheduler (boss) repurposes the intern to higher priority tasks.

With a bit of tuning, a well-established bureaucracy can increase latency from minutes to months per request.
I think his point is that there's no point in discussing whether or not there are ties, but rather the degree of ties.

Just like there is a degree of difference between China and the US, and it's not as different as you may have been taught to believe.
> not being able to predict my schedule

Funny you should say that. In grad school, I could predict with reasonable accuracy where I'd be any given day and time, because I kept roughly the same routine every week. It was comforting.
Isn't a large part of CalPERS problems related to the fact that they ended up being the one holding the potato when the housing crisis started? I thought before that they were very solvent.
It seems like the solution to that would be to use multiple types of housing construction within the same city, and then people can choose one suitable to their situation. And to make other sensible choices like to put heavy appliances on the ground floor.
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Yup. One of my old coworkers from years ago, an OS programmer, used to joke that his mother was a computer. She had been a computer for the University economics department. When electronic computers came in, she became a keypunch operator.

He got a job as a systems programmer at the university following the standard hiring track of the day -- as an undergrad he figured out how to crack the OS so that he could under-bill his runs and get free mainframe time. When he was caught, he was offered a part-time student job on the sys-pro staff. I met him years later when he was a senior OS architect.
Their acquisition of Alias in 2006 was good, wasn’t it? That’s how Autodesk ended up as the owners of Maya, MotionBuilder, the FBX file format and a few other things.
Thanks for articulating my thoughts and feelings regarding Keybase and Stellar.
Man, China must have way more incarcerated people than the U.S. then right? Just throwing people in prison left and right for saying anything.

Hint: Go to China, most taxi drivers will talk all the crap they want about Xi Jinping. Nothing happens to them.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incarceration_in_the_United_St...
Probably should be that the pop fast, not fall fast. In real life bubbles fall quite slowly.