skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The article is true, there isn’t an expert or collective group of experts that can guarantee a complex system’s behavior.

This is why bugs exist, why there is a security industry, why these companies have bug bounty programs.

The safest way of protecting information is not creating it or using strong encryption.
> Private Networks

> [...]At those scales, 5G could function essentially like Wi-Fi networks.

Now that's going to get interesting, I hope. Will we finally see a reliable alternative to 802.11?
I Northen Norway, in the 80s or 90s, at least when Commodore 64 was popular, teachers would distribute IT/Engineering exam/test exercises over the universities local radio, for students to record on cassettes and then replay on their C64s. When I was told this many years later, and each time I reflect on it, it sounds to cool.
Agreed–also personally I find the UX of Zoom to be really awful. Having helped a bunch of new-to-Zoom people get set up with it in the past few months it almost feels like they never did any user testing at all.
Learn how money works. This means learning how to save money effectively, how much to save, when it’s appropriate to spend and when you’re better off either waiting, borrowing, or going without.
I wonder why this doesn't get many clicks and comments.
When Day Traders Do Well, It’s Probably Just Luck
The way I think of it is that our vision system has evolved to work in sunlight.

Therefore the sun looks "neutral" to us. Which is "white".

Or at least sunlight does. The sun itself looks like "pain" :)
I would guess the most scientific answer would be a convolution of these plots.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Solar_irradiance#/media/File:S...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_vision#/media/File:Cone-...
https://archive.vn/oTB6q
Or perhaps the best way of answering questions from five year olds isn’t causing these people who know about spectra and wavelength-response to go into pedantic and excessive detail?

If you answer “white” then the next question is “why does it look yellow”. This article seems to presuppose that there is a “correct” way to answer a five-year-old that will prevent further questions.
I had a similar experience! Did yoga in between, it was even very healing.
Which for me is a design smell, why bother with workarounds when XML already offers me all the best tooling out of the box.
Because good fake video is now possible for the first time, good video was nearly impossible to fake.
Because people believe certain leaders who are willing to use false evidence.
Because the populace is not prepared to be that discerning.
I was babysitting younger cousins at 13.

As in, I actually took babysitting classes at that age, it was common and socially accepted.
The spectral peak is blue-green but the emission is relatively even along the visible light range, so if any color is perceptible it's only a very slight tint. The atmosphere scatters blue light more than other colors so direct sunlight viewed from Earth at noon is even more balanced and pure white.

https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Solar_spectrum_en.sv...
> not everything we do needs to be optimised

That reminds me of the Japanese craft of kintsugi, where broken/damaged everyday household objects honored and elevated above their station via repairs with gold inlay. It’s finding perfection in the mundane, leaving something undone, just so. Very Japanese vibe.

Some things are better off left broken in view of being later restored, rather than being discarded and instantly replaced with nondescript sameness. Newness itself isn’t bad, but it is alluring; and yet, we can’t leave our culture by the wayside.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kintsugi
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Color_index
Looks like 5700k white is pretty close, 5756.59 is more exact.
The Economist leans "liberal" in the sense of liberal economics, or UK's Liberal Democrat Party. In the US, this is perhaps better translated as "libertarian."
No, all other devices are gigabit ethernet switches only.

I’m linking two switches together with this fiber, and the rest is copper ethernet cables in these switches and other switches :)

Behind each switch are 4+ devices, so individual network cards won’t help here.
The color of something is not defined by its peak radiative frequency. I can easily create a spectrum that has a peak in blue but looks red, by having a lot more red overall but not at one frequency.
> That’s one very liberal interpretation for “terrorist”.

Isn't terrorism about "making enemies"?

That's what you wrote.

> If your skin is too thin to deal with angry customers you should not be facing them

Isn't it exactly what the OP did?

> If you’re an enterpreneur, you probably should hire someone if you’re too easily offended.

I'm almost never offended.

But I'm not a psychologist, I don't have to deal with people hanger management problems and honestly I\m not even trained to.

> Most of those angry customers are people who are suffering some kind of pain inflicted by your product

That nobody ever forced to buy.

Small companies are usually made by a handful of people, working on a few products, all day.

Complaining that their support is not the best around is futile, they get the blame simply because they offer some form of support, because in the end they care about their customers and they obviously care more about 99.9% who appreciate their work than those few who do not.

The real offenders - Google, Facebook, Twitter etc. etc. - don't even offer a customer support while making billions out of their users.
Ugh, scons.
Looking from ISS it's pretty much white. It's gets yellow to orange when filtered rough the atmosphere.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P8bBQun8p7U
There was such a world. Travel back to 1990, and NASA is selling launch services to DoD via Shuttle. In fact, every other domestic launcher had been shut down to reduce competition on NASA.

It worked out so well (read: sarcasm) that DoD created a program to pay two defense contractors to create essentially-new expendable rockets. Which were hideously expensive, but still less expensive than Shuttle and previous expendable rockets, so this was considered a win. Those two rocket programs were later more-or-less forcibly extracted from their parent companies to become... ULA.

There was a point in the early Space Age where government employees designed rockets: Army Ballistic Missile Agency and Naval Research Lab and such. Basically never were they built in house; even the earliest rockets were actually built by airplane manufacturers. It didn't take long for design to move to private firms, with government specification, insight, and funding. Like pretty much all defense technology, rocket development and manufacture in the US is today all done by private firms. The government often owns the designs, but all the skill and know-how is in the private sector and they can easily make close derivatives on their own or for other customers, if they are allowed and want to do so.

(NASA's SLS is the major departure from this, as the first rocket NASA has ever designed in house--though still built by Boeing and ATK and friends. It's a bunch of Shuttle leftovers that somehow has still cost tens of billions of dollars and counting and is some 5 years behind schedule.)

The point of all this is: the USG isn't handing over the keys to the kingdom of spaceflight to private companies today. They did that in the 1950s and/or never had them in the first place. There's nothing different today except a project and contract structure that better aligns cost incentives, creates competition, and encourages these companies to create a market outside the government.
No one here has mentioned this.

But I believe speech recognition will not take-off until it understands whispering speeches.

Vocal chords strain makes current solutions unsustainable for continuous usage
Maybe it's more coherent, but the fact that, after learning the language, you discover that you have 20 more extensions to learn feels like a never-ending quest. I think that's what the previous commentators mean.

If the language is more coherent with the extensions, they should enable them by default.
That's a bizarre comparison. The AMD CPU doesn't do OBS with AAA games; the GPU and VRAM does that.
I found a stored xss vulnerability on school website and I wrote a payload that only she can see. :)
> But on the industrial side, there will be offerings that allow for low data rate, low power applications at cheaper and cheaper prices.

oh great, now my appliances can phone home even without connecting to a wifi network.
Commuting by train, I agree! But when I commuted by car in the past, it was a time to languish in my vehicle, parked on the highway, wondering why a drive normally taking 15 minutes on weekends instead takes 60 minutes on a work day. Definitely not a de-stresser for me!
I loved that among Lin Warrior. Libre games have lots of gems out there.
> This could be solved by a carbon tax. If the company lied about their emissions and got caught, you could retroactively charge them to make up for the difference, and then any profit they would have gained from skirting the regulations would be nullified.

Yeah, but what if the CEOs moved on? Or secured their profits?

I think carbon tax is the way to go, but on top of that we need criminal justice.
This looks great. Does it support avro via the schema registry?
My recently retired brother thinks that he will die soon. He's in excellent health. He believes that there will soon be a mandatory vaccine that will include nano-microchips to track and control people, and that he will be killed while resisting its administration.

I don't even vaguely believe the microchip thing, but if it is mandatory and they do try to force it on him, I believe he is actually prepared to die fighting it.

Yes, he's a conspiracy nut. But he's far from alone. I've met several people with the same attitude here, in a different state. They are uniformly serious and well armed. We should consider if the cost of widespread armed resistance outweighs the health benefits of universal vaccination. Even if you don't care much about the lives of the resisters, consider that deaths among those tasked with enforcing such a mandate would be high.

I'm an advocate for vaccines to my brother and to these other people. If it is optional I will likely take it, even seek it out. But I may well resist if it isn't optional, though not violently. It isn't clear to me that the difference between the herd immunity we've developed so far, and the immunity we can reach with a vaccine starting in several months is that great. Like protesters that aren't social distancing, I believe that the threat to civil rights is a greater danger than the virus at this point.
QNAP has some fairly cheap routers that have a couple 10GbE ports, like this one: https://www.qnap.com/en-us/product/qsw-308-1c

I paid $200 for mine. Not cost-effective if you have more than a couple 10GbE-capable devices, but great for hooking up a fast NAS to a couple primary workstations and leaving the rest of the network 1GbE.
Most of it is running a single app at a time, with far less complexity than a desktop system.
Plane lands in Norway 1 minute past midnight, 158 passengers in quarantine
> There is a multiplicative hidden cost working with uneducated/lazy people people. It's like the locked doors theory of crime. The most criminal 0.1% of society costs society a 100x increase in security costs.

This is probably a lesson that is endlessly learned by new junior consultants. When new consultants get into consulting through the fluent practitioner route (as opposed to the "warm body contract job shop" route), they tend to make the common assumption everyone is as excited as they are about the field, and the only difference between them and their clients' staff is time-on-keyboard, and perhaps some perspective.

There is a distinct category of staff that the new consultant will encounter who immediately glom onto the convenience of treating the consultant as a personal Google service, with the added bonus of not even having to sift through the search results and handed the answer. Kind of a value add when the check-signing manager witnesses this happening first-hand; many appreciate getting confirmation they bought the services of an expert.

However, the trap is the new consultant assumes the staff member will leverage these answers to find their own new lessons to learn. Or even remember the answer. This becomes a significant time sink, so different consultants develop different ways with different clients to mitigate this anti-pattern. Nothing to fire a client over (to bring us back to the original topic), but definitely an issue you want to keep tactics to employ in your back pocket for.
> I can pick when I work, so when I'm feeling completely mindless and distracted at 2pm I can just zone out and do my own thing, but then make it up later.

This is by far my favorite perk of working from home. I’ve been able to max my efficiency. When I hit this wall, I usually go do something that requires me to move around, such as going to the grocery store or doing laundry, which are things I would’ve had to do anyways. The difference is that I’m doing those tasks when I’d otherwise be sitting at my desk being unproductive. It’s kind of like intuitive eating; working when your brain is up for it. Of course, you can’t utilize this luxury every day and every hour, as often times you do need to bunker down to accommodate the typical 9-5 schedule. But, it’s still much more apparent than when being in an office.
This seems like an ambiguous question deriving from the fact that "color" is a bad representation of light outside of a small window of power and frequency.

What color are x-rays?
Why do you ask? Is it phrased strangely?
My favorite people to stay updated in web development space
A quick search shows that single strand fiber is available with a white outer color. That would almost visually disappear in your mopboard example.
Why? If performance matters, don't browse Reddit on your lab machine.

I don't run antivirus on my microwave oven. There's no need.
Nasdaq Valuations Say You’ll Be Stuck at Home for a Long Time
Just add a SIM card. I've always wondered why they don't put one in the smart TVs, then they could eavesdrop on you all day long. Maybe they'll finally do it now.
The authors themselves point out the valved N95 masks might be worse than what the raw results show:

"Furthermore, the performance of the valved N95 mask is likely affected by the exhalation valve, which opens for strong outwards airflow. While the valve does not compromise the protection of the wearer, it can decrease protection of persons surrounding the wearer." [emph. mine]
Horrible website, post the study instead.
Huawei says it’s running out of chips for smartphones because of US sanctions
If you have a big enough starting pool of people engaged in a mostly chance-based activity and they all have low odds for success, after a few iterations you still end up with a hefty number of people who look like they've got it all figured out.
I sell a physical product, and this is my policy as well. I don't really care if I get the product back. I've learned that most customers calm down greatly, once they know two things:

1. They're interacting with a real person

2. They didn't just dump their money into a black hole

So I always start with empathy and an offer to refund their cost, and then proceed with the troubleshooting. Most of the time, it's something like, oops I put a dead battery in, or set it up wrong.

Refunds are part of the cost of doing business. I have an extremely high quality standard, to make sure those refunds are quite rare.

A person who used to blog about the online junk business said that the only reasonable policy is: Refund instantly, and ban the customer forever.
Ridiculous. PG says that startups cause billionaires as though this is a law of the universe. Why should it be? It would surely be possible to structure society in such a way that startup founders of unicorns don't obtain more wealth than they can possibly spend in a lifetime.

Further, not all startups become decacorns or megacorps. Small business exists, even though PG and the broader VC community would rather focus on the startups that make it huge. A sustainable business that employs 30 people, even under existing social structures, won't make the owner stunningly wealthy. And yet these businesses provide jobs just as well as the next uber or airbnb.
It certainly does, in the vast majority of cases.

Ranting on forums is far less effective and satisfying to the ranter because it's not boiled down to a 1-star rating and because it's easy to recognize a rant as such. So it's less attractive to begin with.
Rectangle solved that problem for me, by making it very easy to move windows around.

https://rectangleapp.com/
A colleague of mine sent me a link to a subreddit when it all started. I completely dismissed it but he insisted I read it. So I had a look and some content of the leaked emails made me feel quite uncomfortable. Of course I didn't believe the code they used actually refered to children, but I couldn't explain what it meant. Also, at that time I had no idea the accompanying instagram images were fake (at laeast some of them), and the people involved deleted/disabled their instagram accounts and suddenly became reticent. I thought I'd just refer my colleague to an online article debunking all this as bs, but I couldn't find any. The whole thing developed over several months, but nobody bothered to treat it seriously. It changed only after the gun incident.
You're right that the terms and conditions say there is a "fair usage" limit that may result in warnings from my ISP, which seems to be around 1 TB. However it looks to be largely unenforced, which is fortunate as with a gigabit connection you'd blow through it in about two hours.
whoa, am i doing something wrong? please share thoughts
I honestly found it no harder than anything else - I just did a 300m run to an outbuilding, as 802.11g just wasn’t cutting it, and the project basically compromised two media converters, a reel of armoured fibre, and a termination kit - took all of an afternoon to do.

I guess it’s just overkill in most scenarios - but for long runs, you can’t beat it. I’ve also got a 200m cat6 PoE run with a repeater/voltage booster halfway down, and it does duplexed gigabit just fine - which even further limits the scenarios in which fibre is the better option. Even with the repeater it was cheaper than the fibre alone, never mind the media converters.
Congratulations, but you're still a bastard. Don't ask me for forgiveness, try a higher power, maybe he/she will give you what you're looking for.
Bill Gates calls Microsoft’s TikTok deal a poisoned chalice
I will have to check to see what the FCC provides. Are you interested in any data in particular?
>"A friend of mine serviced an early user of his app during the early days with free customisations. That same user came back asking for more custom features, while being on the FREE plan, and threatened to write a 1 star review if they didn't."

Reminds me of Aesop's "Please all and you please none" moral (but applied in a modern-day context to a customer base):

https://etc.usf.edu/lit2go/35/aesops-fables/648/the-man-the-...
You might find https://www.broadbandchecker.btwholesale.com/ helpful. If you want to check an address and don’t know the phone number, use https://www.findmyaddress.co.uk/search to get the UPRN for the address and paste that into the BT tool.

I’d also love FTTP, but the state of affairs in the UK seems really disappointing at the moment. If you run a business and live in a rural area then the Government will contribute £3500 to the cost of an FTTP-on-Demand build. Unfortunately, Openreach’s engineering costs are so ludicrous that (in my experience) it’s still not a realistic prospect.
That in 2002 already was looking outdated.
I was looking for something like this about a year ago but no open source solution existed. Thank you!
> Or secured their profits?

What does this mean within the context of tax evasion?

> we need criminal justice

There is a reason Al Capone was booked on tax evasion. Showing an executive wilfully defrauded a test is difficult. Responsibility is too diffuse. Proving tax fraud is much easier—executives personally sign off on books.
Distri: A Linux distribution to research fast package management
Building a Brainfuck Compiler with Rust and LLVM
It was a satiric comment/mainstream media rant. I _chose_ to live in East Europe for 5 years also.
For ads and fake news?
You have 4+ networked devices in your kitchen, which require more than one Gbit/s network transfers?!
Another illusion is that these are absolute numbers. They're relative. When you're young, $100k is a lot of money. Enough to be happy and worry-free. Once you have that, you need $1M in cash to be happy and retire. Once you have $1M but realize everyone around you is making $1M/year to retire at $10M you suddenly need $10M. This will repeat itself, and you'll never have enough. You'll just become more miserable realizing how much more everyone else has. Yeah, platitudes. We all know this, right? Turns out, this cycle is totally unconscious and incredibly hard to break once you're in it and surrounded by such people. Get away while you can.

At least for me, this was one of the reasons why working at FAANG where everyone is striving for $$$ made me miserable. It gave me such a warped view of the world.
It would be a great time to get a little glass prism and show him that it really has a lot of colors in it!
Thank you! It's been really really great :)
Sure thing. I am using the FCC form 477 data. Unfortunately it relies on ISPs self reporting their coverage data so it may not be fully up to date.
Sorry, this doesn't work for the many people who simply aren't equipped to WFH and are learning to work remotely. They lack the dedicated workspace at home, they have children/family/roommates who don't respect the "im at work" mentality, or they simply need a mid-afternoon nap, and as a result they have frequent and often lengthy periods of not working.

Would be fair to the employer if those people still adhere to a strict 9-5 schedule despite the lowered productivity? I think most reasonable people simply adapt and that's why we have articles like this pointing out longer and different work hours. It's not unreasonable at all.
That would require a lot more computational power than is currently available in an Echo device. It's possible that Amazon could sneak a custom ASIC into the device to do something like this, but it would add quite a bit to the device's Bill of Materials, and would still probably be noticed by the iFixit crowd.
I’ll give credit for one out of three - the personal computer. The digital music market already existed when the iPod came out (“No Wireless. Less Space than the Nomad. Lame.” [1]) The smart phone - a phone that could make calls and run third party apps - already existed.

Apple popularized both and reaped immense profit from it, but you could say the sane about the smart watch under Cook. The Apple Watch is more profitable than the iPod at its peak [2]. Even the iPad was just a big iPhone under Jobs. It didn’t come into its own until years later.

[1] https://slashdot.org/story/01/10/23/1816257/apple-releases-i...

[2] http://www.asymco.com/2019/12/12/ipods-pro/
Not to mention that being able to retire at 35 is exceptionally rare, even in the SV bubble.
I use ReasonML a bit, but I don't think the comparison is exactly the same as I'm saying. ReasonML has JS like tools, such as esy in place of npm. I'm saying JS tools should be make in languages like ReasonML or Rust: fast, efficient, compiled languages.
You'd still see the network traffic for the audio going back to Amazon's servers for analysis.
Wouldn't you still blow one of the media converters twice a year?