skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Linksys does not make Open Source Hardware.

Also, it ships with their proprietary "Smart Wi-Fi", not OpenWRT.

> While the Linksys WRT1200AC provides an outstanding experience via Smart Wi-Fi immediately out of the box, advanced users can further modify the router with open source firmware. Developed for use with OpenWRT, an open source Linux-based... [0]

No one, to my knowledge, makes the appropriate Gigabit Ethernet (ideally Dual Gigabit Ethernet) + Wifi Open-Source Hardware SBC that could be used as a router. There are a lot of SBCs with open-source software and mostly-accurate PDFs of their schematics, but very few (the Olimex OLinuXino project, maybe?) that are actually open hardware.

I do understand that truly open-source hardware is a tough sell, as Jay pointed out in his amazing piece "So you want to build an Embedded Linux system" [1]

> People forget that these EVKs are built at substantially higher volumes than prototype hardware is; I often have to explain to inexperienced project managers why it’s going to cost nearly $4000 [2] to manufacture 5 prototypes of something you can buy for $56 [3] each.

And an EVK is likely built at a lower volume than a consumer SBC. The idea that someone can download your hardware design, modify it, and respin it for their desired open-source router but now with a piezo buzzer added might work for Arduino-scale hardware projects but simply isn't reasonable for something that reaches the performance required of a router.

[0]: https://www.linksys.com/ca/wireless-routers/wrt-wireless-rou...

[1]: https://jaycarlson.net/embedded-linux/#

[2]: https://circuithub.com/projects/jaycarlson/BEAGLEBONE_BLACK/...

[3]: https://www.newark.com/beagleboard/bbone-black-4g/beaglebone...
so spam?
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LUnix
Be gone fetus, for there has always been honest marketing. It's just harder to find, sadly.
> saving any money.

NASA does not understand these words in this order you have put them. By "saving" you mean tripling them, twice?
Notes on Newsletters
Maybe some direct successor to the technology is active or maybe there is something still have not been discovered by civilian competition?
I built a slack app today and it was a lot harder than it should have been. Event payloads are really inconsistent (one even is a JSON object encoded in a form data field), data about users is inconveniently hidden, and building a functional home tab with navigation is just annoying.

This looks like it might solve some of that. The deployment side of things looks awesome, and the typescript types will really help with the inconsistent event structures.
However I’m not sure if they are not cutting out a huge part of their target audience with their approach to hosting. How would I connect to an internal service or database with this? I can’t, which makes it super inconvenient for “quick company specific workflows”, which seems to be exactly what they are targeting.

That being said, I love the idea of Slack becoming a GUI for an event bus connecting various things together.

URL should also be changed to https://api.slack.com/future
There’s all kinds of silly names they could borrow from stories hypothesizing its existence. Nemesis, Nibiru, Vulcan, and Planet X, just for starters. But in all likelihood it will end up as something much more anodyne.
Right, but you would still get the basis states for all 127 qubits right? And that would be 2^127 output states. Yes, you could do some sort of search maybe to find highest probability outputs only, but if you needed every output value for a follow up algorithmic step (like in VQE for ground state prep wherein you keep using previous results to adjust the wavefunctions until ground is reached), then wouldn't it be a bit tough to use?
Oh for the simplicity and consistency of Office 2000. I now live in the hell that is Office+SharePoint+Teams, where features churn at random intervals and nobody knows where anything is really stored.

This is a real thing that happens to me regularly:

Someone sends me an email with a spreadsheet attached. Except it’s not an attachment, even though it looks like one. Needless to say I can’t access it until I’m online. I get online and find that the attachment is actually some kind of link. I click it and it opens a web browser. Inside the browser is Teams. Then actual Teams opens, and inside Teams is a half-assed version of Excel. I can do some casual browsing around the spreadsheet, but I need real Excel to use it properly. There is a button to open the spreadsheet in Sharepoint, but I avoid that because I know it’s a trap (Sharepoint is where the three-quarter-assed version of Excel lives). The button I need is “Open in Desktop App”. And I finally get to use the spreadsheet. But apparently it is stored on Sharepoint? Or is it OneDrive? And Teams is actually Sharepoint behind the scenes anyway? Autosave will be turned either on or off, randomly, so maybe my edits are being auto-shared with other users? I guess I can get back to an old version because Sharepoint versioning is turned on. Or maybe it isn’t? I can share the spreadsheet with a colleague, but I can choose to make it read-only - so how does that work? Have I now got two copies of it, a read-only one and a writeable one? Is it really my file anyway, since I got the link to it from someone else originally?

(I do actually know the answers to some of the above questions, but what an utter farce it has become).
> it doesn't involve robust debate because it's not democratic.

Fair.

Let me step back a bit, I do agree the undemocratic fed is ultimately bad. But I also wouldn't want to subsume it to congress in today's state, because FTPT, Senate, and supermajorities are not democratic, and ensure no experiments + tiny overtone window of things where are actually.

I like democracy, but the problem is democracy in its current US form (parliamentary system is better but EU constitution is fucked and causes similar problems) is best at interpolating the options that have been presented. If the democratizing happens with out expanding the "doing" overtone window, it's like 100% exploitation not exploration, and we are also kinda fucked.

It's frustrating because alternative democratic methods would probably be great for experimentation. Highly ideological parliament + independent civil service + sortition for skepticism is an exciting potential brew.

> Big social policy involves/requires taxation

No it actually doesn't, because "potential output" barely exists and to the extent it does we are nowhere near it. We can print money, and if there is inflation we can fix bottlenecks --- like WTF why isn't the port of Los Angelis twice is big by now with tons of extra rail freight capacity?

When there is no obvious benefit, and labor force participation is actually high (vs the headline unemployment rate which is widely acknowledged to be bullshit) then, and only then, do we need to worry about reducing demand across the board with taxes.
Here's a youtube video by Anton Petrov describing the paper https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSyAO4fGZOE
That second issue is the kind that scares me. Be it Rust, Python, Node... public package managers have always seemed like a huge risk to me with how we just assume nothing nefarious will be installed b/c hey, npm repo said 11,000,000 downloads per week, so it can't possibly be dangerous?

I'm guilty of this: my latest Nuxt project has 47,000 dependencies. yarn audit helps, but can i even trust that since it is retroactive?
The NRO have the best mission patches.

NROL-39 seems to be the crowd-pleaser.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_NRO_launches
Can you flip qbits with rowhammer?
If I understand it correctly, a 4-word password like in XKCD would require about 100,000 rig-years to crack. Do you think that is too low of a safety margin? Or is the problem that most people's word list may be less than 10K words?
I mean yes, but when your province experiences over a 4 month period:

* Record heat wave
* Record forest fires
* Record rainfall
* Tornadoes for the first time in history
* And now record flooding

It's hard not to feel a little apocalyptic.

Especially while most of the people in charge and seemingly 60% of the voters still want to hand-wave these away as one-offs, and unusual, ignoring the trend or the density of unusual/record event.
I agree, though it's worth noting that GTK apps (particularly GTK2/3+, not necessarily GTK4/libadwaita) tend to behave and look pretty normal on any desktop that enforces a native-looking stylesheet. GNOME apps, however, do tend to look quite alien, even on their own desktop many times. Not quite sure what the disconnect is there.
A combination of things, I think.

1. Running those builds in VMs is a good idea.

2. Monitoring for weird behavior.

3. Restricting build scripts from touching anything outside of the build directory.

4. Pressuring organizations like npm to step up their security game.

It would be really nice if package repositories:

1. Produced a signed audit log

2. Supported signing keys for said audit log

3. Supported strong 2FA methods

4. Created tooling that didn't run build scripts with full system access

etc etc etc

I started working on a crates.io mirror and a `cargo sandbox [build|check|etc]` command that would allow crates to specify a permissions manifest for their build scripts, store the policy in a lockfile, and then warn you if a locked policy increased in scope. I'm too busy to finish it but it isn't very hard to do.
My trust in AMP can be summarized as the "ampproject.org" one liner in my proxy blacklist.
If Planet 9 contains rare earth metals, mining and manufacturing facilities could be built there. This should help alleviate the chip shortage.
With BC there's a substantial geography component. When a highway washes out it's often 100s of km detour. In contrast, for substantial portions of Alberta, a highway washout often means just a jump over to the next township road . . . which are about every mile (cuz those were the units of measure at the time they were laid out).
This is nice. I started to learn Cloudflare Workers a few months ago, and used TypeScript for my project. Since I was to this platform, I relied heavily on the TS types and tab completion in my IDE to explore the APIs and to make sure I was using them correctly. Unfortunately there were several gaps which lead to a less-than-ideal development experience and general confusion.
Why do basically zero companies seem to follow this?

Banks and airlines are of course some of the most egregious offenders, but even tech companies like Apple and FB have complexity requirements on capital letters and numbers. Surely the login security teams at these companies are aware of the NIST recommendations.

Yet a tiny 3 person startup launching a simple crud app is more likely to google the NIST requirements and follow them than any of the biggest billion and trillion dollar market cap companies in the world. Are these companies acting irrationally here? Or is NIST not taking into account the factors that big companies actually care about, like support costs of dealing with account takeovers, etc.?
It's crazy that a lot of the freezers they use, that can get temperatures down to a few millikelvin, are commodities at this point. You could go and buy one if you wanted to for $50k!
I don't understand why you would sneer at a role in the first place, without at least taking some sort of look into what they have to do.
On top of that, have you had to go GitHub fishing to find a fork of an abandoned package? Try chasing down a version of an ffi module that doesn't keep ghosting.
Are you speaking as an employee or a customer? I just checked my password db for a few Citibank accounts and all of them were far longer than 8 characters.
professional degreed horticulturist here:

1) grinding your own ferts is nonsense, JR Peters makes the best, hands down.

2) I built my own RO system with permeate pump years ago for like $350 in parts off the internet, uses pressure bladder tank and solenoid on timer (dumps every 45 min or so) to fill a 55 gallon barrel every 24 hours. I use the largest ice maker hexametaphosphate cartridge filters to control the calcium and keep it soluble so it will not poison the RO membranes,I get about 20 days on each hexmetaphosphate filter cartridge.

Ph control is done with sulfuric acid from Duda Diesel, 1/2 capful in 55 gallons of plain city water (not needed for RO water) - - comes out to about 6.5 after 24 hours. My water is in limestone country, about 450 ppm soluble salts.

Duda used to sell the real deal,it was syrup like and super dangerous, now it's watered down crap, still it will burn you real fast. Always wear gloves, full face mask and apron. You can also use weak battery acid from auto parts store, weaker.

Many orchid growers use more expensive citric acid, they keep it mixed in concentrate tank for days,they are not loosing it's strength in hours as you suggest.
> I'd argue that we aren't

It's been a hot-button issue since it was created. If it's characterized as a system run by a bunch of bankers with greedy fingers on the tap, it sounds terrible- if it's a system to stabilize the economy, or any number of its other arguably beneficial purposes, it mightn't sound so bad.

All of this things can be true, but without deep knowledge of the system (does anyone really understand all of the interactions?), it's hard to weigh the tradeoffs and so easy to jump to conclusions. I appreciate the desire for the relative simplicity of things like the gold standard.

Just reading this article has made me reconsider my opinions on the matter (I was pretty certain QE was a primary mover driver of wealth centralization going in). My intuition tells me there is a lot of misleading correlation here, given how interlinked all these systems are.
psst, i know a guy. meet me by the bicycle racks at 3pm
I’m not sure why your link makes such a low assumption given total EV sales in the USA already exceeded 1 million a year before the publication date:

https://insideevs.com/news/340135/plug-in-electric-cars-sale...
I look forward to the day we can look back at these "quantum chandeliers" with nostalgia, like we look back on those massive, room-sized mainframes today.
Oh shucks, wikipedia has betrayed me. I swear I googled the name first and the wikipedia article uses two 'n's...
Twitter CFO Says Investing in Crypto ‘Doesn’t Make Sense ’
The point is sort-of the official reasoning behind the rules as they are. People will promise they'd accept all consequences of their actions. But we restrict people's freedom to trade away their own future freedom to such a degree. You can sign up for the Army for 5 years, yes. You can't sell yourself into indentured servitude. Somewhere in between those two, there's a (vague) line we've decided to draw.

Very comparable: the idea of just letting unvaccinated people die in hospital parking lots. Yes, they were stupid. Yes, they were told about as much. But no, that's not the sort of offense that warrants the death penalty. No, not even if you suspect they'd gladly let you die of your delayed reaction to the vaccine, if that were actually a thing.
Aha, age, as in life experience :-) I think I understand & agree, also about the stupid shit
I'm not sure it does. I see weird people in the subway most days, I see all the time people that look like they spend all their day being outside - doing nothing, there are people making noise at 2 am on a week night, there are people going at crazy speeds on the street, at night or during the day. I feel like lots of people have some kind of weight on their shoulder, and/or one or multiple things bothering them a lot. Sometimes the atmoshpere feels a bit tense and everyone seems a little crazy.

I think it's a bit reductive to put all that on social media and the web. People are packed together in cities, sometimes you smell piss while going to and getting back from your job, sometimes people make noise when you want to sleep, it's hard to see nature, it's hard to be alone, it's hard to escape the noise and the light, public transportation can feel suffocating, the air isn't clean, it's very hard to have space to grow some food or practice some hobbies.

Most of it is "normal" in that many people live like this. However, I feel like all that I mentionned has a negative impact on my mental health, and on the mental health of the people around me. One that could translate to people being more aggressive, more tense in general.
Sorry, I have to give bonus points for, "their ceaseless effort to make competing software feel inferior on their operating systems."

The point where Microsoft Word overtook WordPerfect was when Microsoft released Windows 95, which somehow broke WordPerfect, and refused to give Corel any access to it in advance of the release. By the time Corel had figured out how to make WordPerfect run 6 months later, it was too late, Microsoft Word was more widely used.

Incidentally the original formats were literally a dump of in memory data structures. Which means that compatibility became a huge headache every time Microsoft tried to change its internal data structures. That's WHY they migrated to the docx format.
Two are cut - the washout is on the eastern-most line heading to Kamloops about halfway up from Chilliwack. That's the most direct rail line to the rest of Canada.

Going through the US and via Spokane is quite a detour.

Also not all rail lines are created equal. The northern-orientated line that heads to Prince George can't carry the same capacity.
You’ve read it correctly.

The idea is to mitigate against brute force by account lockout/disable following N failed attempts rather than enforcing greater password length or complexity requirements.
I like the KISS principle applied here. I'm guilty of over-engineering. Once I worked on a project where we processed a lot of very large XML files ... and we set up a distributed application with Akka! We spent a couple of days to figure out the most clever way to listen for file system changes at the OS level. It was just crazy to read and process a bunch of XML files. A story like the one told here is a good reminder that in many cases a simple solution is enough (at least for a start).
Or... the result of a settlement of a trademark infringement lawsuit brought against Lambda School by Lambda Labs..
> Aside from the variety of languages in the extension ecosystem

That's a big one to omit. But alright, I'll play.

It has much less packages, it's almost never used on windows, it has stopped being popular 10 years ago, it doesn't have anaconda because it's not a "corporate tech", you rarely install several versions of perl on the same system, you don't make enough projects with perl to justify one isolation per project, nobody moved to perl 6 so the all CPAN transition never had to happened, perl is not used to script DB/GIS systems/3D engines/IDE, perl is not used by millions of non coders (geographers, mathematicians, physicists, bankers, etc) that have no idea how their machine work.

But to be honest, the nail in the cofin is that distros decided not to split perl and cpan in separate packages. In fact, in somes distros, perl and cpan are already installed and ready to be used.

So for linux:

- python: you must decide among several python, then intall the right package to use pip and venv, isolate your install with venv. The procedure is different for windows. Also 2.7 is a thing.

- perl: you have one perl that hasn't change for years, no new packages, it's already installed, cpan is installed as well, and it's not gonna break your system if you use it. You don't care about windows. Perl 5 forever.
The point is that the human in the Chinese room is just the hardware, and no one really thinks that any computer hardware on its own understands Chinese. It would obviously be the entire computational system that understands Chinese. The only reason this can even appear to be confusing is that we often casually use "computer" to refer both to an entire computational system (your "implementation of a function") as well as a physical piece of hardware (like the box on the floor with a Dell sticker on it).
I'd support this for optional private deploy where you get to control and manage what was already using that space and conflicts are a local thing to deal with. I can't say I'm in support of the chaos that is expecting billions of internet endpoints to stay out of space that was permanently reserved for other use and expecting anything useful to come out of of the rubble. 1.1.1.0/24 was bad enough and that didn't even have the same standing or blast radius as 127/8 sans 127/16.

I've seen lots of 127/8 use for "next hop self" tunneling on network gear and of course lots of 127/8 use for local communication. You'd have better luck getting people to finish going to IPv6 than convincing everyone to change 20 year old configurations to new ones so someone else can deploy new stuff in the old space.

It's also interesting all 3 chose to represent themselves as being under the sole backing group of "IPv4 Unicast Extensions Project". I'm not sure if they either couldn't find support or didn't seek it such as with previous RFC's by the offers (e.g. stuff around bufferbloat). Either way it's disappointing to see standards track RFCs that haven't first sought/demonstrated wider opinion and support.
Skirting a discussion on how relatively good or bad Netgear are, the results seem to be vague as to whether they're resolved, how bad each vulnerability is, and it seems to list a device for each firmware version. I don't think the front-page numbers are necessarily particularly helpful.
>It's not like there's an intrinsic reason TCP packets are the way they are now, it's largely an arbitrary choice that we standardized on.

This is incredibly off-base. There was a huge effort to force an OSI-designed networking protocol stack that was designed by a committee of government bureaucrats and big blue sales engineers. It was a total disaster, but the vast amount of resources that were dedicated to forcing the OSI memes was in the billions of dollars. Large amounts of actual physical hardware were produced conforming to protocol standards nobody doing anything real actually wanted to use because a lot of government agencies required all network equipment to be compatible with the OSI protocol stack.

TCP, UDP, and the modern routing protocols (BGP, OSPF, etc) and their associated address resolution systems were not an arbitrary choice -- they represented orders of magnitude level improvements over the government-backed OSI standards and getting them to succeed was the product of intense collective effort of some of the most brilliant minds of the past century.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protocol_Wars
This is a very rosy view of rural America, to which I am a frequent visitor. Just a few dysfunctions off the top of my head:

- Reactionary politics were born in rural America, urban America is just catching up these days.

- The value system of rural America is dismissive of nerdy/intellectual pursuits, and so it drives out talent that was already enticed by the opportunities present in cities.

- More broadly there is a kind of pride in being very separate/distinct from the other parts of America, but it seems pretty shallow to me -- the emphasis seems mostly to be on the material trappings of "ruralness" (being a farmer, having a big truck, wearing camo patterns), and not on the values themselves.

- And perhaps rolled up in politics, but I feel the need to call it out because I sense it on display in your comment: An eagerness to play the victim to the rest of America. "It's just those city folks that cause all our problems."
Sigh, brain lag. At least the wiki link I pasted was correct.

Nothing to add to your point about self-sufficiency, my intent was to draw parallels to the comment I was responding to. ("It's [Vancouver] essentially a peninsula, it still has road and rail links to Washington State." <=> "It's [Point Roberts] a peninsula, it still has road links to British Columbia.").