skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had they run 5/5 Mbps or even 9000/5 Mbps, then they would of hit the same ceiling of active VC connections.

Biggest issue with video over networking would be bit errors as those micro delays of retransmission of if just sending without error checking, you will notice the impact. Audio a single bit error and you won't notice, networking you won't notice as all transparent or insignificant to notice. But with video, artefacts stand out hard and a single bit error can do that.

I did Video-conferencing in the late 90's and 128Kbps H320 VC link's worked for most and if you wanted to roll-out the red carpet you would bond 6 channels for 385kbps and that was with dedicated ASICS using codecs far weaker than what you can run in the background upon today's disposable CPU's and that shows how far things have moved in raw processing power. Back then to do conference calls you would need a MCU (Multipoint Control Unit) and those would be many hundred of thousands. Today, you have all the raw CPU power to do that on your mobile phone.
I wouldn't say it works if it doesn't even support your running costs.

A website I live from generates about 50€ per month in donations.
Absolutely. I wish Google would do simple, sane routes by default, emphasizing roads that were meant to be thoroughfares. I feel bad, and carsick, treating a quiet and winding neighborhood like a highway. And I hate all the traffic that goes along my residential side road presumably due to Google Maps.
I would imagine that in Google most managers would be former engineers. If that is true, there might be more to the story rather than introverts/extraverts split.
This only works because video conferencing generally uses low resolution (320p/720p), low framerates, and terrible bitrates (that adapt downward as your connection lags).

It's really annoying that with all participants on symmetric gigabit connections we can't have 1080@30fps or 2160@30fps on any major video platform.

This is definitely a "5mbps ought to be enough for anyone!" puff piece (as another commenter pointed out).
None of the safe languages I know of that are capable of writing an OS in are "safe" in the verification sense. They require extra, external processes for doing such. See the SEL4 kernel.
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Most terminal emulators date back to a time when one byte of input occupied one character-cell on-screen. Since Unicode arrived with combining characters, terminals have adapted to N bytes of input occupying one character-cell, or under special circumstances (Chinese characters, emoji) two character-cells.

Proper ligature support requires terminals to support N bytes of input mapping to M character cells... and unlike the N:1 or N:2 cases, the N:M case doesn't allow a hard-coded list of how many cells an input string covers, it varies from font to font. And that risks software designed for one font breaking in a terminal that uses a different font, if it has a different set of ligatures, or the ligatures are different sizes.
I thought I was cynical about the city, but your comment leaves my dull-grey feeling positively bright and sunny. Most people in the city, and indeed across the country or the world for that matter, want a decent life for themselves. At least in Bangalore, government jobs are not the best option for that. Economics dictates that one needs to go very high up in the government service to out-earn a regular, private-sector job. Since most people realize they will not make it that far, it is far easy to get a better life here and now by taking a private sector job - or even be a new-gen gig worker. I do not actually see everyone wanting themselves - or their kids - to just become corrupt babus.
Italian Navy officer caught selling NATO classified documents to Russia
Spotify didn't go "full remote"

> ...we are giving employees the opportunity to elect a Work Mode—whether they’d prefer to work mostly at home or in the office...

https://newsroom.spotify.com/2021-02-12/distributed-first-is...

They also have a 17-year lease on space in 4 World Trade Center.
Seriously. Infrastructure is falling apart everywhere. The angry homeowner with the median occupancy of just 13 years is able to halt progress on virtually anything from a train to a homeless shelter. We've locked entire cities into a stasis in terms of development for decades and constrained our housing supply by handing untold power to local, often corrupt city governments, who generally have no interests in listening to the needs of those on the bottom of the local economy who have no money to donate nor time with which to vote. We've allowed wages to stagnate and inequality to surge, all while cost of living has been rising. We've done virtually nothing meaningful on climate change in the past two decades. We've defunded our public schools and closed down our mental hospitals in the country with the worlds largest economy. Yet the stock market is at all time highs in a global pandemic. Could you imagine anything more backwards and bizzare?
Our political conditions are also driven by extroverts. Our promotions are also driven by extroverts. Our insurance for the house, and the value we add as programmers, extroverts organize the world and take their share. I consider being extrovert as a quality for many things, and one has to learn to be versatile, even if I don’t like it personally.
It's broader than that. Their whole life is being dictated by extroverts (teaming up with other extraverts, something introverts cannot do). And that's why one should strive to shift as much into extroverted state as possible and defend their opinion and find allies.
Don't. Keep it light hearted as it is now.
> Maybe putting your network control plane in 'the cloud' isn't such a good idea after all...

Sure it isnt. It is extremely bad idea and actually something like the ubiquiti breach is not even strange to me, once you have worked once in "enterprise(tm)" world this doesnt seem like anything strange.

There is just no way to buy a router that communicates with 3rd party servers and to let it access the LAN is a complete no-go (even if I am paying ISP router as a part of the package it is running as bridge just to pass the connection to my router).

I consider router as a first line of defense for inbound traffic and last line of defense for outbound and there is just no way to trust some fishy corporation for this.

And if the corporation is actually promoting cloud access, like Ubiquiti or Google, they are pretty much banned from my shopping list for all times.
"I don't need treatment!"

"Saying that you don't need treatment only further proves that you need treatment."
Apple definitely listens to China, since their entire manufacturing is there and it's a huge market for them, but the claim that Apple listens to Myanmar has no basis at all. Why would they care? And there's a ton of other VPN apps.

It's an AppStore glitch and nothing more.
Oh how I would like this to be an april fool's joke...

15M doses? We definitely could have used them (if they weren't messed up).
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Not if you choose to not opt in. If you choose to not opt-in you will still take those days but you will be unable to work from home around whatever emergency or appointment you have.

It's a trick.
One more reason to decline to provide SSN or non-disposable mailing address, email address, and phone numbers to institutions or vendors.

Hopefully people stop finding it weird when customers don't want their PII in the vendor's database.
> but I think that the greater disappointment would come from learning that foundational principles in physics had been overturned,

That would have been exciting, actually. More stuff to learn, more natural laws to discover, more possibilities!
That’s a fairly baseless assertion to make. There’s nothing fundamentally special about the human mind that a computer couldn’t plausibly simulate eventually, and morality is included. A computer could just as easily develop morality as a human would. I would even argue it’s inevitable.
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Yep, it looks like they are trying to justify 5 Mbps upstream can meet FCC “broadband” criteria. FCC has been asking for minimum of 100/100.
I think this is neat, but I also think you've misinterpreted the title: "offshore" is being used oddly here to mean "outside of universities" rather than the much more usual meaning of "outside of the country". The examples given appear to be within the U.S., just outside of university organizational structures.
Ah, those April 1 jokes. Don't fall for them. Of course it did develop trust. It is the future of space propulsion.
We have papers showing how to exponentially accelerate AI using quantum computers, the same way we can accelerate other types of problems. (Finding a “best DAG” is related to lowest energy state.) Microsoft already has published a number of articles and is working on more. In general, global entanglement will give an exponential boost over isolated data centers — the same way a fully entangled computer is more powerful than a DWave.

I understand a number of readers aren’t familiar with QAI research though.

But that’s my point —

> Why should we get scientific? You didn't.

The person responding made a generic negative comment (as did you) due to not knowing the state of the art.

Incorrectly “correcting” people while yourself ignorant is prevented by giving people specific corrections: if you’d taken the time to tell me what you think I’m wrong about, you’d probably realize you don’t actually have a specific thing you think I’m wrong about — you just were surprised by my conclusion.

See here for more detailed arguments:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26657056
I’m not so worried about the networking, it happens anyway even without the dodgy networking.

It’s the wasted resources that worry me.
This paper and this comment sound like cognitive dissonance between monetary theory and psychological reality.

Don't get me wrong, crypto's price is a ponzi scheme build on fomo. Scarcity shouldn't be the only thing required to create value. But here we all are proving time and time again that psychology at scale _can_ at times be more powerful then economic theory.

Also:
> With a blanket ban on cryptocurrency, the economic engine of the American system would do what it does best, a new wave of investment from the private sector would be redirected back into productive enterprises and new ventures that could strengthen US markets and the Dollar instead of undermining it.

American banking infrastructure was antiquated and rotting in its own success before bitcoin was a thing. Paying money with a phone is still considered 'innovation' in the US as far as I've heard, lagging the EU, India, and China by a decade.

> Halt all wire transfers of dollars in and out of cryptocurrency exchanges.
> Halt foreign entities trading in dollar cash-equivalent crypto assets.
> Add Chinese and other foreign cryptocurrency exchanges hiding in tax-havens to sanctioned entities lists.
> Regulate the sale of any existing cryptocurrency assets to US persons by classifying them as securities investment contracts moving forward.

I'm not sure what the Dollar is going to be in 20 years, but if the US did this, historians would look back at this action starting a new global divide that ends in war and/or the collapse of the US dollar.

Which brings up another point that gets glossed over but should be stated at least once in this context: The status of USD as a reserve currency for every bank around the world is what allows America to print so much money. It is a national security issue and the US will use force if the position is at risk.

And in the smoldering ruins of some unnamed city, someone can trade his bitcoins to buy a can of pre-war chicken and a pack of cigarettes because bitcoin escaped inflation.
The Environmental Protection Agency in the Early Trump Administration
Totally agree with the [1]. I have experienced it many times.
A TANSTAAFL-defying machine...
As a uMatrix user, this is a pretty misleading set of statements.

Disabling JS and blocking 3rd parties breaks -- and I mean completely, unusably, breaks -- a ton of websites. It's rare I run across a site these days that is strictly 1st party and has nothing else going on. I can't even order a goddamn pizza without enabling four different 3rd party domains.

Sure, you can save your preferences in uMatrix, but when the website updates you're back at square one, or worse, you're overly permissive.

Worst of all, I often have to completely turn off uMatrix for some sites.

While the intent is good, I honestly cannot recommend this approach anymore. It just sucks.
The downvote count is useful for identifying videos that aren't what they claim to be.

Down votes only tell you someone decided to give a negative reaction. They don't tell you anything about why they did that. Using them as proxy evidence for your assumptions is dubious, especially on videos with small numbers of votes.

Often the reason why public dislike numbers are hidden is because people copy reactions - a visible count of down votes attracts more down votes. That doesn't tell you everyone who watched the video had rationally decided that the content is actually bad.
Yes, plenty of it. But one of the gift I think Steve had was to completely change course once he acknowledge something as wrong. Whether that is persuaded by someone he trust or the market.

Now no one at Apple has that intuition.
> At this time, we have not observed the new attacker website serve malicious content, but we have added it to Google Safebrowsing as a precaution.

Translation: we here at Google can censor any site we want, at any time, in all major browsers, without any shred of due process or even a requirement for our internal processes that it be hosting malware. It's entirely arbitrary who we kick off of the web. Don't cross us, and don't cross the government who we cozy up to.
Why would changing code from c++ to rust fix those issues? It looks more like bugs in logic rather than language.
Have my downvote sir.
>EVERYBODY talks, nobody listens.

This is how I feel about any voice chat that extends over 5 other people being in it. I usually just leave because its too busy.
Stupid question: would 99% alcohol (as in for cleaning electronic parts) also potentially have the benzene residue?
Yes. These are good ones. I'd be happy to pay for such "premium features" if they wanna make money
I always preferred the well-produced podcasts where a week is spent to make an hour of content (like those made by Gimlet, Radiotopia) over the ones that just throw some people into a microphone to ramble for a few hours. It seems like Clubhouse is that latter sort, turned up to 11. But those were the most successful podcasts anyway (eg. Rogan), so Clubhouse will probably take over the world.
It goes both ways though. Up until now the nice chat zone was limited to people on the same floor. With WFH we got people in other countries joigning the chats on equal footing.

The info density difference also seem to be compensated by everyone being more open and comfortable (not packed in noisy office for the day)

There's definitely less random chats, it's more formal and less intense, but also broader and the hurdle is lower.

I think for companies above some size it's not better or worse, just different.
Let's see how much this will be covered in tomorrow's news.
This proves my point. :)
What theme is that?
A global pandemic limiting human interaction likely had a big effect in Clubhouse's success.
It's an Office Space reference: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8p8Ni1sXBLk
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Yes; SpaceX is setting up Starlink, which is much brighter at night than any Mars mission.
Heavy on allegations, very light on proof, as usual.
The arch analogy is fantastic, thanks!
What is Clubhouse really?

What I've gathered is that it's like an IRC or Slack channel, but with voice? People just chat with each other. Is that really it?

Why is it a thing?
I'm totally not an introvert: I love being around nice people, I love playing table tennis and having lunch with my colleagues. But wasting 1h-2h daily on commuting to/from work is in absolutely no way worthy of this.

It's our duty as human beings to resist going back to the office as much as possible. To gain back some of the life we otherwise would spend on commute. Work is for work, not for socializing, or having fun, or playing Xbox and table tennis. I mean, sure, these are nice perks, but we are being paid for the work we do, not for the fun we have. And working without being distracted by some colleagues loud music in the headphones, or the chit chat of others, or the "sorry, quick question" of some manager, improves my quality of work tremendously.
Nearly 40 years ago I disassembled the ROM from a TRS-80 model III and it used the exact same O(N*N) algorithm. As you point out, garbage collection is being performed due to lack of free memory, and so the algorithm used only the 8080 registers and something like six bytes of dedicated RAM to keep track of everything.

Both BASICs were written by Microsoft.
Extra 20 miles and shorter by a minute : I'd guess the other route is a hell to drive. Bad roads / congestion / stoplights / low speed limits/ etc
Mikrotik.

https://mikrotik.com/

Or something like this:
https://www.aliexpress.com/wholesale?&SearchText=pfsense+wif...

Again, dont expect it to be simple. Be prepared to learn.
I have hired data scientists, but not in the last two years. I agree that 90% of the work is building a good pipeline and identifying + cleaning data, but disagree that example code is a good way to evaluate either of those skills. I'd much rather see that a candidate knows how to use common tools, understands how to go from real-world data to usable data, and has a strong focus on an end result that's actually business-valuable instead of a toy.

Probably a different focus, though. Most of my projects and hires are for large corporate clients, not smaller niche companies/startups.
I don't know if it is relevant, but I receive daily requests on ResearchGate from people with lots of 'following' and zero 'followers', no picture, no papers, no questions, i.e. empty profile.
The names are quite 'inventive' such as Alex Brooks, Julie Sanders, Mark Wellington, some chinese-like names posing as students, and so on.
> We explore and contextualize changes at the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) over the first 6 months of the Trump administration, arguing that its pro-business direction is enabling a form of regulatory capture.

> Under Administrator Scott Pruitt, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has undergone rapid shifts in its stated priorities, policies, and other practices that have broken with not only the Obama administration but all its past history.

> Scholars, policymakers, and activists have long questioned the degree of corporate influence at the EPA. Our study demonstrates a decisive shift to the overt and systematic influence of regulated industries in the first year of the Trump administration

> Although currently available evidence cannot prove regulatory capture, it does show an ambitious, intensifying movement to cripple the EPA’s capacity to confront polluting industries and promote public and environmental health

I’m at a loss of words. What is the point of capitalism if it negatively effects public and environmental health?
It is April 1st in may parts of the world already
I don't see it anywhere else on the web so it might be specific to Wezterm, but they seem to call it "Batman".

https://github.com/wez/wezterm/blob/a034730373c341aa078765c0...
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Puerto Rico is pretty vulnerable to hurricanes, which are only going to get worse going forward. And if they do eventually win a referendum on independence, then the facility would suddenly be on foreign soil.
Story behind.[0]

[0] https://old.reddit.com/r/openttd/comments/mdpb4f/ships_now_h...
So much yes. The only way to actually fix the housing market would be to just… build more houses. Increase the supply, put market pressure to the existing rents, and prices will go down eventually.

The problem is that it's a rather long-term cure, and I don't know if there's enough political capital for this. It will probably be there soon, considering how big they screwed up this time around
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Of course I can only speculate, but I see two primary reasons to suspect improvement:

* It's a purposeful re-write: not just because it sounded like a fun idea, but because there are reasons to redo the stack. Memory security a main one given the choice of language, but presumably cleaning up the logic and making it better overall is another.

* Broken-windows theory of software development: Writing in a sloppy, old, foot-gun language encourages bad code that just barely works for the happy path. Writing in a language that is far stricter and requires intention and design makes one think a little more critically about the logic.
"They" is a plural pronoun. Obviously.
This article is not worth the milliwatts of energy consumed to bring to your browser.
It definitly is, because most companies core product isn't shipping software.

Software is a cost center on their production line that they gladly outsource.

E.g. a company selling water bottles doesn't care how their inventory system looks like, as long as it doesn't affect how many of them get shipped.
Discord is the better clubhouse
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Yes, of course there are workarounds; no matter what scenario you or I come up with, the other will be able to propose a different way of doing things. I chose a deliberately trivial example because I was illustrating a fundamental aspect of Git's design, not trying to stump you. But we're talking past each other.
https://archive.is/KHSQv
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I don't take her seriously anymore, anyway. Yesterday it was "war on the FSF/RMS", today it's "defend FSF/RMS". Tomorrow? Guess it depends if she has a good day or a bad day.
Is there benefit from using one of these GPU-accelerated terminal emulators on a laptop with integrated Intel graphics?
Why do you say there is nothing to show for it? To take one example - mobile phones - India is now the second largest manufacturer of mobile phones in the world [0]. Samsung recently started the largest mobile phone manufacturing unit in the world in Noida. There are now over 200 mobile manufacturing units in India, compared to just 3 in 2014 when "Make in India" was launched.

A few auto manufacturers - Kia, SAIC and Citroen as I recall - have also set up new plants in India since 2014, although in this sector India was quite adept before 2014 also.

0. https://www.timesnownews.com/technology-science/article/indi...