skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
You’re right g.711 is not ideal either. Jitter is a killer. T.38 is a solution when it’s supported on both sides and it is often not. The best solution is email but apparently every title office and pediatrician in the land cannot be bothered! ;)
Although thankfully many have moved on.
It would have to be a lot bigger than "a nuclear warhead" to cause a global catastrophe rather than a local one, and it has to be more unfortunately aimed than just coming down over land. It would be pretty bad if the Chelyabinsk meteor had hit Tokyo or Mexico City, but as it happened it troubled glaziers more than doctors.
See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22927202

https://old.reddit.com/r/dredmorbius/search?q=gresham%27s+la...
I thought this was a pretty good explanation of the 3 sightings:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q7jcBGLIpus
As a somewhat dilettante and casual home sysadmin (currently) I was messing around with screen on a box downstairs and ran into this:

https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/4ldewx/systemd...

Namely that systemd doesn't allow persistent processes started from the shell by default, preferring to terminate them when the user logs out.

This would include processes like "screen" whose entire raison d'etre is to persist after the user logs out. (Well, it has other uses, but this is the main one IMO.)

The stated workarounds - fiddling with some options like "KillUserProcesses=no" in logind.conf &co. - have so far failed.

I don't know whether this situation is a problem with systemd or the distro, but it seems very much a problem with the culture summarised by the top commenter in the above thread, of (paraphrasing) glibly breaking existing workflows then casually brushing away criticism with arguments often boiling down to: "this is the right way, I don't care about tradition or protecting 'incorrect' usage."
The history of Saudi Arabia is the history of factional infighting in the Said family. MBS is not yet King and his rise & rule have ruffled a lot of feathers.

That said, the system of keeping the royal family fat and happy with lavish stipends is entirely by design.
The name apparently comes from "Version 7 AT&T UNIX", which is where the page first appeared.
This is nothing new, the US has been there since WW2.. Before that the UK. People forget history.
Here's a related video

https://www.bitchute.com/video/4yaWXbBF7lYd/

It's very interesting how history becomes muddled over time.
it’s SIGBOVIK season.

http://www.sigbovik.org/
> The NYTimes did a story on these hornets one day before the Post ran this story:

Who cares? There have been reports by other news organizations for months now? Does the exist of these hornets change whether it is reported by the nytimes or not?

https://www.oregonlive.com/environment/2019/12/huge-invasive...

> There's a second story today about how Japanese honey bees swarm these hornets, raise the temperature, and cook them alive:

This has been on social media for many many years. Nothing new or worthwhile really.

> There's a cool video to go along: https://youtu.be/awoV5Wj9Iys

See. 2017.
Back in 2015, we hired someone who is an undergraduate ME student. I trained him, and I was amazed at how fast he learned, and he is now one of our devs. Your background in Mechanical Engineering will help you a lot, with the right training, you can learn a lot of things fast. Knowing the technologies, you stated above already gives you a solid foundation. If you need help getting training materials to strengthen your skill set, feel free to contact me.
The Saudi’s have burned through generations of radicals by exporting them to other conflicts. Afghanistan, Balkans, Chechnya, Somalia, Indonesia, Libya, Iraq, Syria and Yemen.

With an ever increasing population and shrinking pot of gold, I’m thinking Syria Part II once the current regime in Washington DC is removed.

For neoliberals, like neocons, Terrorism is a feature - not a problem. Neither have had a seat at the table for the last 4 years, but they’re not going to let this opportunity go to waste.

And we’re going to pay for it.
> long lead times (12-36 months!)

I was skeptical, but this seems right (at least circa 2012). Here's a source:

https://www.energy.gov/sites/prod/files/Large%20Power%20Tran...

(summarized in the Concluding Remarks section)
They speak perfectly intelligible English, you just need to listen for a second to understand the accent. Subtitles would be great but come on, there's no reason to be a jerk about it.
Yeah not understanding how Intel has back at the wall.
If you want to make money with solar seems like it’d be a lot easier to just sell the electricity back into the grid
I'm just getting out of school (last round of finals coming up) and I've got several ideas bouncing around. I've also taken to putting them down in diary/journal (originally just started as aimlessly sticking hundreds of post it notes around my room). The one thing I've taken away from it is that design is work - and magically - when I sit down and work on the design and get more specific the better the design gets. It's a motivating feeling for me as I gain momentum. If it's written down I don't feel like I'm throwing a baby away every time I consider a different approach or project because it's already written/drawn and I can go back at any time, and usually when I go back I can take what is newly considered and recognize some commonality between them that leads to yet another new approach that is simpler and covers the value proposition of both approaches. All of this is objectively better than having the images and ideas flash into my head - because that doesn't stop. It gives me the freedom to iterate with new ideas rather than the same model 0 over and over again.

But again this process is all new to me. We'll see if anything comes out of it.
That page does not really offer any explanation.

For all intents and purposes, firmware is like a key or a password you must supply to the device to make it work. The driver, which is indeed open-source, just says: "here, device, is the firmware you need". That's it. You are not achieving anything useful at all by making people go through some ceremony to download it separately. Maybe they just want to send the signal that people should buy devices where the firmware is already burned into ROM or ASIC or whatever?
Does nohup work? That's what I would expect to be the standard solution, as the Unix tool that "does this one thing and does it well".
I visited Dawson City in the Yukon last year and was surprised to see Kirkland Signature goods on sale at the general store. Didn't think to ask how they got there.
> Aren’t those social aspects part of their merits? A big part of why systemd won widespread adoption was by stepping up – the number of people working on the others wasn’t enough to be more competitive.

They had the people because they had the money. The debate about systemd is only partly technical; it's mostly a culture war about how Red Hat is hostilely taking over the free software ecosystem, and how that invokes memories of embrace/extend/extinguish.
Maybe not so odd, as no other comments existed when I looked at the thread and we don't have a time machine.
OP seems to enjoy distributing links to Android exploits.
I'd draw a pretty significant distinction between Iran and Saudi Arabia.

Iran has a theocratic regime, and gets a lot of oil revenue, but is a fundamentally diversified and surprisingly self-sufficient economy. They have factories, an educated population, and they produce a fair number of things other than oil. Agriculture exists (if not self-sufficient).

Saudi Arabia is oil rich. The princes are oil rich. The wealthy are oil rich. Normal people are oil rich. It's oil, all the way down.

The country simply doesn't produce anything else. Most of the citizens simply don't work -- at all. There's no plan B.

Iran can fall back to "hard times" and a pre-oil-wealth economy. SA can't. There's nothing else there except sand and starvation. They aren't going to "grin and bear it".
As someone who has little cluster of hardware at home, this is a concept I can go with.
Do we stress test our grid(s) core components with inputs that would be similar to that of a solar flare to write any of this off?

I feel like 5 months ago we’d be sitting here dismissing the notion that a face mask shortage is a trivial problem, all countries can just suddenly ramp up production. But we couldn’t.
Systemd, 10 years later: a historical and technical retrospective
I thought they just kept the computer open?
Cloudinary CLI
No. SystemD defaults to breaking nohup, tmux, screen, emacs server, etc.
That’s totally reasonable but just be aware side projects have severe diminishing returns after awhile. Unless you are shipping complex software as part of a team it is not preparing you more. You will still be junior. The exception being if you invent NPM or some similarly massive FOSS contribution. But if you could do that you wouldn’t be asking if there is hope for you. The sooner you write code with other professionals for money, even part time, the better off you will be when you make the switch. Personally I haven’t done side projects in years and it has come up zero times in startup, consulting, and FAANG interviews. Once you have experience pretty much nobody cares and until you have experience no matter what you do, you will still be junior. Writing code and building things is the easy/fun part of being a developer but its the other stuff that matters.

Also I came from a non-traditional background and have lead teams on quarter billion dollar projects. Once you prove you can ship nobody who matters remotely cares about other, preliminary or proxy credentials.
Compare HN title with actual titles given by the author/publisher:

"og:title" content="Federal Judge Stunned by Facebook's `Unscrupulous' Violation of the Law, Warns of Much Deeper Problems"

<title>Judge Timothy Kelly Stunned by Facebook's Violation of Law

One could argue the HN title suggests the important point of the news story is that the settlement was accepted despite "stunning" privacy violations.

One could argue the author's titles suggest the important point of the news story is that a federal judge was "stunned" by Facebook's violations when approving the FTC settlement.
Those numbers are not measuring the same thing. Those are the marginal cost per engine. What did it cost Space X to develop the design, and what did it cost them to build the production facilities? The price NASA is paying is for delivery, not the cost to produces one more after billions have been sunk. Also, how many do they plan to produce? NASA probably only needs a few dozen RS-25s for the life of SLS, so probably not worth the billions Space X spent developing a new engine.
There’s plenty of programs where you don’t need a BS, you need the requirements.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062072
Nice read - enjoyed that.
Another factor I was thinking is that almost everything in systemd is there because someone saw a need, even if it’s a niche – things like mounts aren’t a big deal for many people but the people who had something which wasn’t well served before wanted something better in a new system. Trying to replace a core component will flush out a lot of those smaller communities.
I bought it and I am happy with my decision. You need to understand, however, that there is still a bit of labour involved in extracting reusable components.

For example, you will want to make things like the buttons easily reusable instead of repeating the same CSS utility classes everywhere, so you may want to spend time creating reusable components for the common UI elements in your front-end framework.

Another frustrating thing is figuring out which are the "active" and "inactive" classes on some components, as described in this tweet:
https://twitter.com/cgenco/status/1256948882065494017

Overall, I'd say if speed of development is a priority, then it may be easier going for a ready-made bootstrap template or UI component library. If flexibility and customization is a priority, then go for TailwindUI.
Yeah that's why I feel like I may be at the point of applying now. I'm thinking of maybe getting a few leetcode problems under my belt for a few weeks just in case that comes up. But yeah, the pandemic being what it is, if I'm applying for a job I want to make sure that 2 months in I don't get let go cause the industry isn't doing well anymore.
I can't agree more. Outside of the US you're interaction with ESL speakers varies wildly but it's a pretty essential skill nowadays.

I'm the only native English speaker at my company. Some folks speak perfectly, others don't.

The people in this video spoke though, even if they did have a fairly heavy accent.
In fact I would be curious if a single medical textbook anywhere in the world mentions this as a possible solution to any epidemic.
It seems to be a innovation, coming from politicians more than scientists.

The practice so far, still uncommon, was to quarantine sick people, not force the entire population to stay at home.
We don't need to guess the market. Lets use App Annie to tell what games are going well in the App Store.

Top Grossing seems to me to be about 50/50 casual / core games.
This is worrying - not least because every WeWork in the world has the same WiFi password.
Agree MGS4 was by far the worst offender. And had really bad writing too.
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BDC dances online in age of social distancing
Powerful House committee demands Jeff Bezos testify after misleading statements
From wiki

The blackout's proximate cause was a software bug in the alarm system at the control room of FirstEnergy, an Akron, Ohio–based company, which rendered operators unaware of the need to redistribute load after overloaded transmission lines drooped into foliage. What should have been a manageable local blackout cascaded into the collapse of the entire Northeast region.

How fragile we are.
Yeah about releasing something I recently wrote and released an online game that gets around 2000 plays a week. It's probably the closest I've come to making something "commercial"
Certificate Transparency Log Compromised via Salt Vulnerability
Author here. I don't recommend category theory. There are lower hanging more mind blowing fruit.

I'm having a hard time thinking about a blog posts worth of content that is mind blowing. Mind blows tend to take more investment than that.

I'd recommend checking out an algorithms course https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/electrical-engineering-and-compu... This one is very good. Has free videos.

I'd recommend giving functional programming a try. I'm an FP fiend. I found SICP tough going though.

I'd recommend giving low level programming a try.

Learning prolog is pretty mind blowing http://www.learnprolognow.org/

Digital Circuitry is pretty mind blowing https://www.nand2tetris.org/

Making interpreters can be pretty mind blowing https://craftinginterpreters.com/contents.html
Name brought back fond memories of SLAX Popcorn Linux. 128MB vs ISO's today that are 1GB+ ... what happened!?

PS. This distribution sure does sound like Beowulf
from https://github.com/ssrg-vt/popcorn-kernel/branches

upstream-rfc Updated 5 days ago by ahughes12

upstream Updated 19 days ago by jnarf

nginx_heterogenous_fixes Updated last month by AshwinKrishn
So looks like it can do "checkbox training" (add an iota of training capability just so you could check the box labelled "it does training").

Got it.
I think even if we had a corporate “death penalty”, companies would find a way around it with help from the government.

A great example is Pfizer’s punishment for off-label marketing. In addition to fines, the gov’t can ban a company from doing business with Medicare and Medicaid. That’s a death knell for a company as those public insurers typically pay for half of all drugs.

So what did the gov’t do? They did ban the manufacturer! But which one? Oh yeah, the empty shell company called Pharmacia and Upjohn (which Pfizer has acquired years earlier and stripped of products).[1]

So everyone is happy! Government mets out a ban and the company can pay the fine and go back to business as usual.

[1]http://narpa.org/reference/pharma_too_big_to_nail
Voting share ? There is no vote unless you work for RH. And even then.

An init system is harder then it seems ? You and Jonnax seem to think that unless you made it you have no right to say anything. Have you ever made an init system ? Researched what exactly goes into it ? Sure, there's more then just starting programs. But not much more. The only really complicated thing about getting a [linux] computer from kernel boot to firefox is setting up devices. And even that [udev,"hotplug"] is not complicated as much as it is.. obscure. I know about these stuff, do you ?

I'l defend a newbies right to say anything. Nobody was born with all the knowledge of the world. I will not have compassion for your kind of ignorance.

SystemD is about as much an init as my foot is me. That is the problem that most of those you so casually dismiss have with it. That and that it wants to become mandatory. Could they have just extended udev instead of integrating it ? An i wrong to say that ? Is my opinion wrong because i don't have "Red Hat senior engineer" next to my name ? Programming is just a hobby for me. I don't even have a degree in it. So i'm ignorant on the subject ?

Funny thing.. most of those on teh internets who are vehement in favor of systemD don't know much about how a computer system boots and what goes into that.

edit: Never mind. I see feelings and fancy words are still more valuable then knowledge or thinking. Maybe one day, when computing is not as young of a science as it is now.
It occurs to me that, should extraterrestrial life exist - we might be more likely to be visited first by rules-flouting rogue individuals than by an official mission.

This also neatly explains problems like the "aliens have interstellar travel, but not spectroscopy and can be stopped by wooden doors" mentioned elsewhere in the comments --

A couple of good ol' boys off to deface a nature preserve (Earth to our aliens, the Nazca lines to our GOB's) by driving circles in it could do so today in a truck with active-torque differentials, wireless radiofrequency entry and activation, catalytic conversion of exhausts, an on-board diagnostic computer, turbocharging engine, liquid crystal display and a cmos camera, radar-based cruise control, lidar detector, GPS navigation relying on atomic-clock level timing precision..... without needing to know a thing about how even a single one of those components actually worked, and could be stopped by simple stone bollards.
It's up to each distro to package things. You could probably open a package request with Ubuntu. I've done this for Guix and Nix many times.
For these kinds of purposes, I liken most video games to drugs, or junk food -- they're designed to appeal to some of our instincts without actually satisfying the needs those instincts are meant to address. They offer us novelty without meaningful discovery, challenge without development of a transferable skill. Do what interests you, with the caveat that if people have spent time and effort to create something that plays with your brain chemistry and creates the artificial sensation of "interest," then consume in moderation. The same applies to TV shows, trashy novels, and any other "content" that is meant to be consumed, rather than spur creativity.

Not meaning to judge anyone here. I'm mostly speaking from my own challenges. And obviously, I'm not talking about all games, TV shows, etc., either.
It's a hell of a stretch to call a built environment with a car dealership in it a "community." These things are blighted dead space, and they belong out of the way.
Comparing Software Engineer Salaries Across Cities
The article and especially the title seem a bit tendentious to me, so I googled to try to find another story that quoted the same judge's remarks. I found https://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/350552/facebo... and almost changed the URL to that, but decided in the end to adapt that title instead. Clearly the news here is not just what the judge said during a ruling, but the ruling itself.
To add to the other reply - the dollar per barrel price required to balance the national budget is typically much higher than the price required for the oil extraction to break even.
I am amused and impressed that you chose an API and cURL to send a fax than any of the many apps and services built on top of that API.
This is how things are supposed to work. The federal government is give very specific enumerated powers per the constitution. The founder are would be appalled by the size and scope of the federal government. One thing they did not account for was lack of loyalty people have towards their own state.
In mainstream IT, you'd usually set up a Hadoop or Spark cluster on the machines and then write your code to run against one of those. What's the advantage of this approach over those?
They do care about security. They just don't care about Rust.
If Kojima was not interested in MGS games anymore he would be an amazing liar. I saw him about every year talking about each new episode or spin off and he never looked like he was even a little bored with it.
There are drawbacks to G Suite not being considered a personal account. For example, you can’t use a G Suite account with Google’s Nest.
So a nobel prize winning scientist giving his opinion is banned?

Keep bending over buddy..

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23062531
Fairly sure I'v seen news over the past few years about Saudi Arabia diversiftying.

From https://saudiembassy.net/agriculture-water -:

Today, Saudi Arabia exports wheat, dates, dairy products, eggs, fish, poultry, fruits, vegetables and flowers to markets around the world. Dates, once a staple of the Saudi diet, are now mainly grown for global humanitarian aid.

...

As a result, there has been a phenomenal growth in the production of all basic foods. Saudi Arabia is now completely self-sufficient in a number of foodstuffs, including meat, milk and eggs.

From https://saudiembassy.net/energy -:

In addition, with the discovery of deposits of precious and semi-precious metals, Saudi Arabia expects to become a major exporter of minerals in the coming decades.

...

Exploration projects over the past two decades have unearthed extensive deposits of precious and industrial minerals throughout the country. These include not only gold and silver, but also copper, tin, tungsten, nickel, chrome, zinc, lead, phosphates, iron ore, bauxite, potassium ore and even table salt.
Yes, imagine that a function looks like this in memory:

+-----------------+
| return address |
+-----------------+
| executable code |
+-----------------+

The way you call a function is to store your desired return address in the first slot, and jump to the code in the second slot. The function jumps to the saved return address when it's done.

We did it this way for years.

Now given that mindset, how could you even contemplate recursion? Where would you put all the return addresses?
heh, what? in what scenario does contact tracing save hundreds of millions of lives? I think if it were widely agreed upon that it would save hundreds of millions, folks would universally be on board. It's disingenuous to assert that people who are against contact tracing are murderers, because evidence is lacking that it will make the difference between peak caseloads exceeding or staying under healthcare capacity.
As someone trying to practice my writing via blogging myself, I'd be pretty interested in Option 2.
You shouldn't be downvoted, this is correct. Sane distros will change the default.
I'd suggest jumping in, if you have some financial buffer.

The reason is all your future peers are getting paid to spend 25+ hours a week writing software. You need to get on that same plan.
How much data do you expect to have? If you want the government controlling every aspect of society that’s a tradeoff few people will make.