skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anything with a ThunderX processor is maximum beefy. You can get on-demand servers like that from places like Packet. AWS also has their own A1 instances with lower core counts. These would all be good for cross compiling/builds.

Comedy answer: iPad Pro
Sears missed the boat on ecomerce, but that isn't why they are gone. Walmart missed the boat too at first, but they are still big because their manageme was good. They also have adjusted overtime such that now my family does most of our shopping there (once this pandemic is done I'm looking forward to going back to the local stores I used to go to.)
This is not universally true, as someone who didn't finish college and is at a FAANG. I can't even remember off the top of my head which of others of my colleagues didn't finish college, because it simply doesn't matter. There's more than enough evidence from the quality of work that people do to produce a rough ranking for who might get tapped for critical/high risk work; who went to college simply doesn't play into it in the least.

That said, if you didn't go to or finish college, it's entirely incumbent upon you to fill the holes that you likely have in your knowledge. If you managed to get hired despite some glaring deficiencies in certain areas, then you're going to be in the bucket of people who get picked last for critical projects. That has nothing to do with your degree and everything to do with your skills, though.
You’re in good company with Steve Jobs, Bill Gates and Larry Ellison.
Phone repair shop in Manilla is gonna be very different from repair shop in western mall. In manilla they gonna resolder any component from a salvaged phone, where in west you gonna buy a new case for it (probably exaggeration from both ends).

My point is - it was quite exciting and interesting job for early 2000s, probably paid ok too. There was some software to crack and occasionally write something. Nowadays the hardware is much cheaper when adjusted for inflation, but people still need the service. Jailbreak scene continues to exist too.

Also transitioning from writing a simple virus into production software is a long long way.
Gotta say, really comforting that this was written in python. Everyone I talked to when it comes to quadrapeds tells me python is too slow for my projects.
Right. That’s what I was getting at but I didn’t know the NaN-return rule.
My team reprioritized efficiency over features during the recession, trimming a large amount of unnecessary AWS spend that wasn’t as pressing when the economy was performing well. That specific spend will never come back to AWS, because it was always unnecessary.
I get it, but I also simply don’t want to deal with it at an embedded level. Which is why I vote with my wallet and choose x64 hardware with Quadro GPUs to ship for production.

More expensive, more power consuming? Sure. More sanity? Massively better dev experience? Massively better production/ops experience? Absolutely.
Aren't you making gp's point for him?
I'm using one as my work desktop and it's a very nice unit. It will not do Hyper-V for some reason but it'll run 4-6 VMWare instances just fine.

The double M2-SSD and double 2.5" SATA for RAID is also great in such a tiny box.

I really hope a new BIOS will make it compatible with the Ryzen 4000 desktop APUs when they arrive later this year.
It does exist. The state can cause an involuntary dissolution of your corporation [0] if circumstances dictate. That would include such things as not paying your corporate taxes.

[0] https://www.upcounsel.com/involuntary-dissolution
This was called circuit-switched data (CSD). The handset would emulate a serial modem to the attached computer and the mobile network would know how to emit the correct "noises" to the far end of the connection.

It was brilliant for getting into systems I managed via a dial-in modem before Internet access was broadly available. In its twilight years, carriers that had a tariff to support it would charge something like $1.35/minute to discourage its use until the tariff could be updated.
I wonder how many other rare disasters there are that cost only 300M to prepare for.

If it's just a couple, then sure, fund this one.

But if there are thousand of possible rare disasters - how can you possibly fund them all?
"Why don't we"

Way too many people ask "why don't we" before figuring out what they are talking about.

Arthur Andersen got the death penalty. If you point that out, people will argue with you, no the death penalty would be something different.

It doesn't matter what you think a word or phrase means, you should have a good idea of what you mean by it before advocating it.
Maybe they can use some of they money they invested in wework and such
I give up and tell them I can't send a fax where I'm from. When they ask where I'm from, I tell them I'm from the year 2020.
Another Apple Finally: The iPad Toaster-Fridge
How about a service that can grab a document out of your Dropbox or other cloud account, then fax it for you? $10 for 50 pages could result in hella margins, if it's done right. (Everything done digitally, of course.)

The account could even be managed from a phone app.
Dining Cryptographers Problem
I very much disagree with:

> 7. You are operating mainly on assumptions

You'll always be operating mainly on assumptions. Everyone will.

It does help to check your assumptions against external things, so if you're wrong, you can notice faster. But even the process of noticing that the data is confusing is like 99.99% rationalism and only 0.01% empiricism.
I used to live in Stockholm. Every now and then,on our way to the water, we used cross Östermalm-a pretty expensive area. One day,we noticed Mercedes SLS outside an apartment block. The guy must have been one of the earliest adopters,as it was only released for sales a few weeks earlier. After seeing the car for some time,one day it was gone.Oh,well,maybe the owner moved somewhere else or he sold it,etc.Turns out,this happened instead: www.motor1.com/news/23266/1-million-speeding-fine-in-switzerland-for-swedish-sls-owner/amp/

And the Swiss apparently keep your car until you fork out the fine..
> using a more functional style instead of class methods

Does Rust even have classes?
> so doesn't some interchange between me and the person i'm calling ultimately decide what frequency carrier the receiver hears?

Probably it's an interchange between your POTS handset and your local phone service provider's head-end, that determines the "media type" of the call; and then, in the case of fax, that call is forwarded (including media type) to the other land-line's service provider's head-end, where the service provider then negotiates+accepts the media type, rings the fax on the line until off-hook, and then sets the opened line to operate at that frequency.

I'm guessing that the thing picking up the carrier on the sender's head-end is the same thing that parses DTMF tones off the line; and therefore, not a component that exists in the signal chain of cellular service providers.

(A similar thing happens in cellular voice signalling—the negotiation of a voice codec—but it happens out-of-band, not in-band, AFAIK—on both ends (like a web browser talking to a web server) unless one end is POTS, in which case the cellular voice provider jumps to the POTS network with a DAC+bank of line couplers. In theory, this means that a cell phone might be able to send a fax to a fax machine, if there was a special voice codec option in GSM/CDMA/VoLTE/etc. for "lossless 56KHz PCM", that would be decoded at the POTS gateway into a raw line signal.)
I can see a couple of rather obvious problem with this. The electrical grid is, well, connected - the long, high-voltage sections are connected to the lower voltage sections which are connected to the even lower voltage sections. Those connections are through transformers, but if the surge is big enough to destroy even the largest transformers what's to stop it from blowing through all of the transformers and frying the delicate low-voltage control electronics of every grid connected device, including ones critical to operating the grid and power plants? Also, smaller devices are naturally going to be a lot more sensitive than huge transformers, so even if they don't experience the same level of voltage and current this could still be enough to destroy them.
There is a vast difference between claiming some public figure is not a human being and a reasoned belief that the same person should be held criminally accountable for the actions of the corporation they control. One is a facile attack, the other is an interesting legal opinion.
That would be down to how they do accusitions, it's not just what they are paying, it's also backedup with a plan and investment. So you get a couple of years of nice big budget and the expectations would be that it would yeild back within that period. Now if those expectations play out, not just the product doing as they expected, but also the customers buying into it as expected. Those two are sepeate beasts. So either the company lives up to expectations and everything aligns and carry's on, or it gets a restructuring, which can take many forms and can happen more than once.

But like anything new, gets fat marketing budget, then after that grace period runs out, they are expected to be self sufficient and yielding a return.

Then even if everything goes well, those expectations and returns will also grow and eventually things change.

But initially, the honeymoon period is always fun, bit like first year at university, then things start to get real, real fast.
Comparison between present day and WWI helmet design for blast wave protection
Yes, once your call gets to the central office it's moved onto a digital connection -- essentially an ISDN line.

Notably, the entire telephone network is standardized on G.711 as a codec, which is raw PCM audio at 64 kbps, from 300–3400 Hz sampled at 8,000 samples/sec. (There's some regional differences that determine whether the network uses G.711u or G.711a, but that's not really important here.)

Also relevant: The digital telephone network is exclusively a switched (not packet-based) network, so you're guaranteed near-zero latency. This is particularly important for fax modems, which don't tolerate any jitter.

The end result is a connection that might not sound the best (due to the narrow bandwidth), but has call quality characteristics that are standardized and guaranteed across the network.

(At some point in the future the telephone network will upgrade codecs to G.722 and AMR-WB, which will give higher voice quality. This is the "HD Voice" feature you see on VoLTE phones. But it'll be a while before that's universal.)
Tencent buys 5% stake in Australian buy-now-pay-later firm Afterpay
Incidentally, "Netscum" is a reference to Netscape Communications Corporation. They introduced SSL. This company was founded to commercialise a web browser, called NCSA Mosaic, that was originally co-written by venture capitalist Marc Andreesen of a16z.com as part of an academic project at U. of Illinois. The name "Mosaic" refers to its support for a variety of internet protocols, not all of them web-based. Netscum code-named their derivative browser "Mozilla", marketed under names like "Navigator" and "Communicator".

Fearing the growth of the web, Microsoft acquired rights to use the NCSA Mosaic code and produced a derivative browser called "Internet Explorer", which they included as part of Windows.

As web use grew, Mozilla Foundation, who inherited rights to publish the Netscape source code, added a "search box" to their derivative browser called "Firefox" and started directing search queries to Google, receiving large payouts in return. Mozilla Corporation was formed.

Google later hired developers from Mozilla to write another derivative browser called "Chrome".
Mailing list? It has to be at least a web forum like Discourse run by the inner circle, otherwise wrong-think cannot be down-voted or deleted.

These people cannot survive in an open environment.
That video desperately needs subtitles. Or, preferably, people who can speak intelligible English.
> Practicing a musical instrument

This is not fun?
That's the thing, I've been writing HTML for 25 years and JS for over 20.

Lately I've been writing a lot of .md when writing Jupyter Notebooks.

Thus I figured that Hugo would offer some advantages to relatives who wanted a dead simple site that they wanted to add some posts from time to time.

Static site would be perfect for them but I do not want to manually add their posts...

Started looking into Forestry.io and well it is not quite as simple as Netlify.
> That is why they think that US strain cme from Europe.

From what I've heard, NY stain seems to have come from Europe. I've not seen anything about the CA and WA strains.
The Acquired Immune System
The dev support is also bottom-of-the-barrel even if you’re a high-margin cloud customer. For a generous upper bound of what Nvidia considers “software support,” look at TensorRT, where a majority of the useful stuff has either been written by third parties or scoped out the hard way by people trying to use it. Nvidia isn’t really a software company, and their core product has a very narrow user interface. These factors hamper whatever you can get out of a Jepsen.
To paraphrase the "sibling" post:

If you've invested the effort and personnel in being able to move from some cloud provider to some other cluster/cloud solution, it probably already makes sense to just get your own servers and move yourself there, since you're basically capable of doing that (and your costs will be cut by a large factor).
Words matter, concretely define "open ended"? Did you just add that phrase to preemptively nullify evidence to the contrary?

Deep learning has surpassed human level performance on many tasks [1][2]... (could add more you get the point).

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2215017X1...
[2] https://arxiv.org/pdf/1502.01852v1.pdf
It's still context-free, the reason is because by the time you hit the '=' symbol you already know whether you're in a <Statement> or a <Compare Exp> production rule, based on the preceding symbols (namely the LET keyword), based on these excerpts from the BASIC EBNF:

<Statement> ::= CLOSE '#' Integer
| DATA <Constant List>
[...]
| LET Id '=' <Expression>
[...]
| Remark

<Compare Exp> ::= <Add Exp> '=' <Compare Exp>
| <Add Exp> '<>' <Compare Exp>
| <Add Exp> '><' <Compare Exp>
| <Add Exp> '>' <Compare Exp>
| <Add Exp> '>=' <Compare Exp>
| <Add Exp> '<' <Compare Exp>
| <Add Exp> '<=' <Compare Exp>
| <Add Exp>
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> You really don’t believe politicians - ... - are greedy rich people?

Could you point out where I said that? Please don't put words into my mouth just to "win" a discussion. That's pretty cheap.
Is the Guides link at the top supposed to work? I’m on mobile (iOS) and the link doesn’t respond to taps. Is there a direct link to the guides?
Tangentially, this reminds me a lot of an episode in Black Mirror:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Be_Right_Back
(1) this is reaching, a lot of gates have to trip before that becomes even a remote possibility and (2) that liability as a director was there anyway.

In short, if you're a VC and you know about the company you are investing in applying in bad faith for stimulus money and you don't do anything about it then you are possibly liable.

Directors and officers of the company can be liable under certain circumstances anyway, whether the fund or the VC (management) firm is liable is another matter entirely and the article does not address this, at a guess this is only the case if the firm is mentioned as such a director.

In short: don't commit fraud, and if you are in an oversight role: act the part.
Thanks, at least the one you linked tries harder to account for the link (as opposed to the report linked here). Nothing too striking from a quick read, only potential leads that need more data / experimental work.
> I2C on one side of the chip, analog output on the other.

Surely you meant I2S [0] (or at least SPI)? I2C doesn't sound very optimal for this kind of application.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/I%C2%B2S
I think what we've been seeing with hubs.mozilla.com is the threshold for "game" can be quite low. People need something to do, yes, but what this is could be barely game-like: give them a few ways to create objects, draw, etc, and that might be good enough.
Also, don't miss the reference to the "Shpectre vulnerability" :)
I did a little research into this. This website [1] mentions something I'd never heard of before. That some browsers "collapse" real mouse events into fewer "fake" events that tie the event poll rate to your monitor's refresh rate. Even though I'm using Firefox and not Chrome like they mention, I'm seeing that exact phenomenon. The highest number of mouse events I can seem to generate is 60 per second.

However, this other website [2] is showing me events on the order of up to 124 Hz. Either that site is doing something special or it's lying. The JavaScript there is decently obfuscated. I'm going to spend a few minutes trying to deobfuscate it and see what I can find out.

[1] https://www.vsynctester.com/testing/mouse.html

[2] https://zowie.benq.com/en/support/mouse-rate-checker.html
Microsoft missed the boat on mobile and now they are the biggest firm in the universe.
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> I think one time that could have been better is the occurrence of encountering "random side quests" as was done in rdr2 often was extremely successful in making the world feel alive as you traverse it.

That was one of the things I really liked about it. The side quests are really rewarding (in terms of powerful upgrades), and you can happily complete the entire game without touching most of them. So you end up getting rewarded for exploring and taking on non-central-story deliveries. The materials rewarded for a lot of those quests is also very, very useful. I felt as though I was engaged in the side quests a lot more than I typically am in games like say, Assassins Creed, where end up only picking them up if I was low on money. RDR2 was also incredibly successful in achieving this, but I'd just say via a different approach.
Surge protectors
In the early days of running "analog" telephony over digital circuits, the edges of the audible hearing range would get clipped and compression would muddy the sharpness of the tones used. Humans couldn't tell much of a difference but devices cared a great deal. Nowadays you can run a fax over specific codecs designed to not do this (G.729, I think? Maybe G.711, it's been a few years).

We would also pull off a clever trick with the reverse. If the modem sensed a digital carrier and your ISP was digitally-connected to your telephone company, the connection could be put into a sort of digital-hybrid mode where the downlink of the connection would be 56kbps (the upstream would still be 28.8kbps maximum). This is where US Robotics "X2" modem names came from.
Pretty sure a typo and the million wanted to be a kilo?

$120m/year for apparently unnecessary IT capacity would be hard to hide even in government contracts...
This is one of those things that's strictly true, but is kind of misleading because it doesn't capture the full picture. In particular, there is actually no guarantee that the source code you see on GitHub matches the source code you compile from crates.io. Now, most responsible maintainers tag each release and publish exactly that tag to crates.io. Which is good. But that's just a convention. There's nothing enforcing it.

If you want to actually review the source code, then you'd have to download the crate archive itself and review the code there. There is some tooling for this (notably, cargo-crev), but it's definitely not a normal part of development in the Rust open source ecosystem as it stands right now. For the most part, trust and reputation hold the system together. For example, imagine what would happen if someone found malicious code in one of my crates that I was duplicitous about (i.e., published it on crates.io but kept those code changes off of GitHub).
This seems very promising. Hopefully they can eliminate the regulatory red tape and ramp up production to meet demand.
They'll just use that as proof the judge is biased and ask him to recuse.

Honestly, if I had another life, I would become the tech-savvy judge. Give Facebook a 300% revenue fine.
How much should we worry about this?

http://www.lloyds.com/~/media/lloyds/reports/emerging%20risk... was prepared by Lloyds of London after the 2012 detection of a large solar flare by a satellite in interplanetary space. (That one missed the Earth.)

Their estimate was $600 billion - $2 trillion dollars of damage from an event that happens roughly once ever 150 years on average. Therefore the amortized cost of this risk per year is $4 - $13 billion.

If a substantial fraction of the risk can be mitigated over the next decade for $300 million, it would be cheap at 10x the price. In fact Berkshire Hathaway probably has enough exposure to this risk that it makes financial sense for them to not debate over who pays and to just create the stockpile to reduce potential future insurance claims.
You could when your tablet was a Newton.
Transformers are usually housed in metal boxes. Any wires inside metal sheeting of whatever geometry would be protected because any current induced would be induced in the metal container which dissipates the power of the pulse. To learn more read about Faraday cages.
Why not use good ol' for?

F.e for %f in (.doc .txt) do type %f
Corporate charters can be revoked. It doesn't happen because of the jobs factor but in theory it can be.
The lineup continues to balloon in price. A lot of students would the TK and TX models for robotics and whatnot, since they were only 200-300 bucks.