skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A bit of a tangent, but I recently discovered GL.iNet[0] and ordered a couple of routers and hotspots. HK vendor for network devices running forked OpenWRT with a bunch of extras and customization.

I haven't had the time to dive deep enough into all of the code yet, but so far I'm very optimistic. Not perfect; some of the more interesting functionality (like site-to-site VPN) is tied to a proprietary closed SaaS with associated telemetry (and maybe even backdoors, intentional or otherwise). The Wireguard setup is for some reason (legacy?) not using the OpenWRT WG-interfaces but set up using custom init scripts. And getting anything else than OpenWRT/LEDE running on them with full hardware support will probably be a significant effort. I'm a bit wary of using the stock OS without compiling it myself because, well, you know.

Still, the sources are provided (including instructions on how to customize and compile your own OS/firmware). The locked-away functionality can be ported/unlocked if you're up for it. They fully support users hacking their devices all they want - and stuff like this[1] shows some hacker DNA. Out of the box the hotspot is by far the best I've found in the price-class.

The mudi's pretty cool; pocket wifi with swappable miniPCIe 4G/WiFi cards and a small dongle for Ethernet. So one could make it into a fully customized road-warrior bridge for any WiFi/Ethernet devices, or whatever other shenanigans you can imagine with that.

I really hope they steer course on the right track and don't fall to the same fate as Ubiquity. As mentioned I haven't battle-tested them extensively yet but so far I can warmly recommend them.

[0]: https://www.gl-inet.com/

[1]: https://github.com/gl-inet/portal-detection
It is funny how the LCG is getting overlooked. As far as I know 128 bit state Lehmerthat outputs higher 64 bits works for every application. The problem with the old LCG wath that they had extremely small state (16 bit) and they just gave it right away.
The 128 bit Lehmer is dead simple, very well studied and should work fast on any modern CPU (one 128 bit multiplication).
Links for Android and IOS

Android: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.bytmatic.t...

iOS: https://apps.apple.com/us/app/traddit-for-reddit/id159395652...
> Discounting the fact that there are almost certainly more than 3,500 drug abusers in a city with 5.6M people.

It is not at all certain.
Definitely, if they were legal in the countries where those tinkerers live. I can see replacement electronics and batteries and motors being done to try to extend range and improve performance.

The use of commodity rather than special automotive parts is not a problem - most experimental electric vehicles (include e-bikes, skateboards, etc) don't use automotive specific parts, because those are usually too expensive, too specific purpose, and occasionally proprietary.

If these cars were sold with schematics or even block diagrams I could see lots of people buying one just for local use or modding.
But saturating the ground with liquid nitrogen (it kills if it displaces oxygen), I wonder why wouldn’t that the correct idea.
I sincerely hope that we’re only witnessing

“Any sufficiently long Internet discussion will propose blockchain as a solution.”

rather than

“Blockchain is eating the world.”
I sometimes have very weird and destructive thoughts, but I have often wondered if it were possible to take thermite and pack it, make it stable and rigid somehow, enough that it could be made into a long rod, like rebar, suitable for pounding into the earth. Then you surround your nest or whatever with a bunch of rods, run one through the middle, set them alight and let them just burn down however many yards.

Thirty meters, though ... whew.
Vienna is almost unrecognizable. I knew they did a lot of work on the Danube over the centuries, but wow.
First, I acknowledge that your given observations are accurate. We just evidently view them in light of different set of principles.

I've also been family tech support and as often as not the problem is that some app or other stopped working properly or altogether after a system update. I often get complaints along the lines of "I used to do X this way and now I can't, can you put it back?" And I pretty much just have to say "no, I can't. You need to now do X in this new way," supposing it's still possible at all.

More generally, I believe that the West, and perhaps the world, has been sliding toward ever greater heteronomy for several generations now. Not so long ago most drivers did replace their own spark plugs. Not so long ago virtually all computer software did respect the user's autonomy. And it's not like we're talking about the dark ages, this is all comfortably within living memory. On a similar note, the right to repair tractors is another big autonomy issue for farmers, especially smaller ones that are operating on razor thin margins.

Another example is cooking. Also in living memory, virtually all food was cooked from scratch in the home. People had autonomy over what they put in their bodies. The submission to the heteronomy of a mostly processed food diet may well be responsible for a number of serious public health issues from endocrine disruption to obesity.

I agree that many would be uncomfortable with having more autonomy. Nevertheless, we as a culture should value freedom and autonomy and hold them up as values to aspire to. As you say, some will benefit from autonomy more than others, but I just don't believe anyone truly benefits from having their autonomy taken away.

By the way, I appreciate your spirit of pragmatism. I also try to be pragmatic. I recognize that in some matters heteronomy is socially beneficial. I simply believe we're striking a considerably suboptimal balance skewed ever further toward heteronomy. I think our social structures will become considerably less fragile if we work to encourage a culture of autonomy.

Thank you for this exchange. I think you've laid out your position clearly and distinctly and I appreciate it.
There's just no way that information about what was (is) going on would have come out to the public through normal channels, after all the very reason why Snowden did it was after senior nsa officials explicitly lied to congress about them spying on US citizens
Dash cameras, front and rear.

Nothing is going to change the habits of these drivers. So be alert and have evidence when one of these idiots hits you.
But what's not allowing access for compliance reasons and that's it? There should be a form where he can request access if he thinks he can pull off an implementation in days of something that takes months otherwise.

I worked in big and very big corporations and cut through PCI, HIPPA, and lots of those with requests like that. That they have forms and scheduled for a month in the future (assuming second half of December doesn't exist which is reasonable) is good. But that there's no process to get access to their code and figure our what's going on is not ok. Specially if they are an infra team.
I see.

Then perhaps you can explain why so much stuff leaks from, say, the USA government?

Not just the stuff from government employees or contractors like Snowden and Manning who appear to be motivated by whistleblowing, but also the actual double agents working for the Soviets in the Cold War, and the apparently accidental leaks of NSA spyware: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EternalBlue
Some more specialized movie databases:

the defunct Internet Movie Radio Database: https://web.archive.org/web/20181201121627/https://www.imrdb...

https://www.moviemistakes.com/

and the Bechdel Test Movie List: https://bechdeltest.com/
Peak-Season Production Readiness
Quit, obviously. You like startups and this isn't one. What's the dilemma?
Awesome! I'll definitely take a look at those.
The architecture in that game is really beautiful, though I admit the brutalist look isn't for everyone. Neither was the gunplay or story, in my opinion, but I did have a load of fun exploring the moody, minimalist interiors of the game. It reminded me of the stark, arena-styled level design of old-school shooters like Half Life and Quake with much more modern lighting and linear storytelling.

Quite a bit of fun! Getting it to run on my aged GTX 1050Ti, on the other hand...
> This is basically the only thing the computers can definitely outdo you, the human, on. They really can't think as good as you.

Can you give some intuition about “thinking”?

Is “thinking” what I do when playing chess? In my case probably not, but let’s say a grandmaster. Because if so, in that domain, whatever a computer is doing seems superior to “thinking”.
Tantrums on planes and opting into elite special lineskip status are both things I expect from people with particular personality disorders. I would not be shocked to find that they were highly correlated.
Billionaire Makes Public Break from Mormon Church
Short term: Mentally check out. Embrace the Zen of just doing what's asked of you. It's not your job to be a go-getter anymore. Half because of institutional complexity/inertia, and half because in a tall organization hierarchy the middle managers don't want anyone below them swimming outside their lane (even if it would be to their unit's benefit and they can take every ounce of credit).

Or, more usefully, find (or ask your management to help you find) something else useful to do while you're waiting on the other team.
To echo what avsm said, our intention is to preserve the C API. With the exception of naked pointers, if you follow the rules around the existing C API then your extensions should continue to work in sequential code running on 5.0.

We have a scheduled build and test of every package in opam with multicore: http://check.ocamllabs.io:8082/ to try to shake out C API incompatibilities and that's proved fruitful.

If you do find things that don't work on 5.0, please let us know (and if you can, get it in to opam so we test it automatically!).
Yeah that story is total bullshit. It's someone's fantasy. The equivalent of me telling the story of my epic comeback in the Superbowl.
Governments need to protect "bamboozled suckers" in order to not get scammed for money, shaming them publicly won't help.
I had the impression, a goal of ECS was parallel and not sequencial processing.
If you price for the amount you expect it to sell for you might only get 1 or 2 offers even in a hot market. That can still work, you can get a great offer you are happy with right away. But there is a significant risk that you won't get an offer you are happy with without this competition. A buyer who is willing to pay $2.5m might only offer $2.2m if there is no competing offer. You need to keep the home listed for a few more weeks until you get a better offer or more competition.

If you put in a lower list price you will probably get 5+ offers, you can either pick the best one, or counter offer a few, and you can be almost certain that you will be under contract by mid next week if you list on a Thursday or Friday.

Most people are also buying a home at the same time, if they are moving to another high cost area a delay of a couple weeks on the sale of their home can cause a lot of problems with their purchase.
Yes, those are valuable but power electronics don't need/use leading edge processes with EUV photolithography. Building more European fabs for power devices would be affordable and useful but it wouldn't compete with TSMC for advanced CPUs and GPUs.
And it's not just large companies that slow down, either. I work for a very small organization (three developers) that's been around for 10 years. We'd love to spend more time building new stuff, but we've got 10 years' worth of old code to support. We don't have bureaucracy getting in the way, but we still can't move as fast as new startups.
The original post is pretty condescending, it's just worded slightly less so. Now, that doesn't mean the very best response is to be condescending, but the invitation is right there. Sometimes a reasonable response to ~ "can you believe these idiots!" is "actually, look in the mirror, and squint a little".
Can confirm. We did this in a pinch once. Sure enough, most grocery stores do in fact sell these, readily available in just about every city in the United States.
It’s a copypasta proposal. The point is to cast aspersions and socialize a point of view without delivering information. Very social media-like.
> This feels like a rant that comes from someone who doesn't have a lot of experience deploying and maintaining complex systems over long periods of time.

Agree. Also:

> Finally, after many rounds of arguing about why this needs to be done in the first place (ahem: you told us to migrate to your platform, and it literally does not work for our app)

If migrating the app to the new platform is a priority, why not escalate up the startup's leadership chain to get it prioritized higher in the infrastructure team's roadmap? Looks like the startup was poorly run, with no clear escalation paths, and employees unaware that such mechanisms exist in companies (and find it odd when they notice another engineer do it).
I think (hope?) that it's sarcasm. The last paragraph is the tip-off.
Is it possible that there might be a code freeze at the end of the year so that engineers that are on call don't have to work through the holidays?

Without knowing the codebase, can you accurately assess that the fix you want can truly be completed within a few days? Does that cover testing and documentation?
Remove all traffic signals, signs, everything that these people rely on to aid their distracted driving.
We really need an "internet movie meta- attribute database" with a way to represent all this stuff. Cuz as far as I know, nobody's set up a whole website for the Internet Movie Household Appliance Database, it's not THAT big an interest.

But if I could just log onto the IMMADB and open the Household Appliance tab, it'd be cool to find out what that cool-looking vacuum cleaner was...
Count yourself lucky you had the necessary kit to actually interact with the codebase at all.

I've seen large corporations dragging their heels getting basic laptops, database access or repo permissions out to devs, even when there's some critical fix required.

Accept there's little you can do in these situations except play their game. You're now going to have to figure out whether the financial gain is worth the loss of agency, simple as that.
If you fly more than a few times a year the TTP system is common sense, and generally you can stop by and enrol when you arrive at an airport while you wait for your luggage to come through.

It’s not really an “elite” thing.
As an honest worker hoping to go remote one day this guy pisses me off. If you pull this crap you're not just burning yourself you're burning ever honest worker in the industry. This is why people ask remote employees to put monitoring software on their computers.

At least in this situation it sounds like good management at the top was able to spot the problem early.
Please forgive me as most links are in French and google translate breaks some embedded media.

TLDR watch these videos : https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/12/19/gros-partys-de-...

National Health institute released a timeline :
https://inspq.qc.ca/covid-19/donnees/ligne-du-temps

Following the summer vaccination campaign, cases were stable, vaccination was going well, higher risk locations and activities (gyms, bars, restaurants, etc.) had to up requirements of having a proof of vaccination, restrictions were slowly being lifted up to the point where bars and restaurants were allowed to run at full capacity provided patrons were seated, vaccinated and wearing a mask when walking around. On Nov 15th, they lifted even more restrictions.

https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/2021-11-15/les-assouplissem...

This removed the requirement for bars / restaurants to hold a visitor's registry, wearing a mask in public schools, and also allowed patrons to dance and sing karaoke. Nightclubs were allowed to reopen since now patrons didn't have to sit and could dance although wearing a mask at all times while inside the establishment and being vaccinated was still mandatory. I've seen snaps and stories showing quite the opposite about masks and I heard from a friend that he went to a place where they tried to verify his proof of vaccination with a powered off device...

Cases were slowly ramping up but still manageable, corporate xmas parties were booked and private gatherings were announced to be allowed up to 20 people.

On Dec 16th, government officials announced that cases were going back up and that they were monitoring the situation. Return to remote work if possible, restrict commercial capacity to 50%, limit dropped to 10 people for xmas private gatherings and that starting on monday dec. 20th, covid tests would be distributed for free in pharmacies. Also dance and karaoke would be forbidden in bars / restaurants.

https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/2021-12-16/explosion-des-ca...

https://www.lapresse.ca/affaires/2021-12-16/vague-d-annulati...

Then this happened and made the news
https://www.journaldemontreal.com/2021/12/19/gros-partys-de-...

Which led to this
https://www.lapresse.ca/covid-19/2021-12-20/en-guerre-contre...

And we are waiting for more announcements on wednesday as Quebec has hit 5k new cases per day and they forecast a possible rise to 10k per day

As for the free tests, some pharmacies need you to book in advance and the system crashed yesterday after coming online and last I checked there was no availability in my area. I went to 2 pharmacies where you can walk-in and request it on a first come first served basis. They said they got about 100 each yesterday and today and they were gone within an hour of the store opening.
Are you kidding me? What buses?

There's no public transport in the US, aside from a few exceptional places like NYC, Seattle, Boston (maybe), and, like, DC.

Uber is so popular because it actually allows you to get from A to B, for some money.

But I love the circular logic of "nobody wants the buses, why fund them" — "you can't get anywhere on a bus, why fund them" — "look how few people ride the bus" etc.
Yes, and it's gonna thrive regardless of your disapproval :)
10 EUR per tile? Shouldn't such maps be in public domain already?

It's odd how differently countries treat their cultural heritage. Poland, for example, has published a lot of archival materials in public domain [1]. But this is not the case for Austrian state, which, I guess, owns large fraction of the maps on OP website (Austro-Hungarian Empire). They also charge large sums for using materials from their digital archives.

[1] https://polona.pl/
One time I received 30ish calls everyday for a few days and each one of them was from a different number but with same prefix. It bothered me that I couldn’t block that prefix.
> There are large code bases in production that are productive: Everything that is open source

Yes there are but these are not without rules. Try to add a new feature to a large open source project as a new contributor. That has probably as much chance of succeeding as doing this in an enterprise.

There is a reason larger OSS projects have the "good first contribution" section. These are small bug fixes where the work is already spelled out typically. You do these to get familiar with the codebase and learn how to make a valuable contribution the size of a feature.
I don't think there is. It is the second. The clear convention is that each meal item is a list element.
It looks oppressive and dystopian to the point of surreal.
Dude, that rocks! The gun-building community is going crazy these days. There's some very cool sci-fi guns being printed: https://twitter.com/p80ralph/status/1473091500225572866/phot...
I don't follow your reasoning at all.

It sounds like you are claiming public 802.11 hotspots are more noisy that everyone running their own routers. You do realize it is the same spectrum, right? It is literally the same impact, except with a larger BSSID you can route traffic more effectively.

Sharing more stations across phy APS in the same BSSID would be less overall traffic because it can be evenly distributed.

Maybe I missed your point: please explain how personal router vs public hotspot over rented router is different w.r.t. 802.11 interference.

EDIT: Deleted the part where I computed power cost incorrectly, because I'm an eeeediot.
Killed by Google, hardware edition.
TIL: "Each function of the ZF-1 demonstrated by Zorg was a separate prop which only had that one function".

This is entirely obvious after thinking a bit, but still great example of movie editing for fooling audience.
'Or they could make their own payment processor...'

Theoretically maybe. Money transmission laws will likely trip them up. Big barrier to entry.
> Why would one prefer to fully remove laziness?

Far from an Ocaml/Haskell expert, but is it that laziness makes resource use less predictable?
1911s are wonderful, but definitely not for everyone. Polarizing grip angle.
This looks amazing dude. Great work. I hope you guys do well.
In Our Time: A Christmas Carol [audio]
LetsEncrypt
Yes, it works well, but the only reason we used it instead of Tuple was that it's free right now. Tuple's pricing is rather absurd ($25/user/mo.) unless your org pairs so often you can justify it on the basis of 40 hour/week use. Pop's free tier lets us pop on actual controlled sharing when simple screen sharing isn't enough.
Wayback Machine link if you get resource limit errors

https://web.archive.org/web/20211220184240/https://blog.haym...
Hah, agreed! That demo is 3 years old at this point. I'm trying to find someone to help us redo it.
Buy routers that can work with Openwrt, period.

TP-Link actually has quite a few(not the newest models though, but the not-newest-model should work for 95% of the customers) that runs openwrt well.

All my routers are running non-vendor firmware(e.g. openwrt) for the last 15 years, never had any troubles.
Realtek does contribute directly to the kernel, but I think it depends on which internal team is handling the device support. For their PCIe 802.11ac and 802.11ax wifi cards Realtek devs wrote and upstreamed rtw88[1] and rtw89[2] respectively.

[1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...

[2] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/lin...
This reads like something straight from hitchhiker's guide. I had to check the citations to make sure this is not a great troll page. It even includes a whale death by coconut! I'm at a loss of words that this wiki page exist in such detail.
One recalls the recent story where an impostor sold a man's house without his consent and the British government was just "sorry, we signed the papers, it belongs to him now"
Yup, there's also the mark that it's a ‘background vehicle’ under the image. The site's UI could use some work, though—I'm saying that as an occasional user.
Have you tried Obsidian? https://obsidian.md/
> I'm saying there can be targeted enforcement.

How is this law different to any other then? Are drivers permits a racist and homophobic tool? Murder laws? Fraud?

The singapore law is that it is illegal. The approach is zero tolerence, and the law is enforced.
The western world, the US for example, it is also illegal. The approach is then to sort of enforce it when you want and to not the rest of the time. Some days you can shoot up next to a police officer, some days they put you in jail for it.

Which of these two systems sound more likely to be problemeatic when it comes to enforcement. The zero tollerence one or the one where the law is enforced based on what the mood of the officer on the day is (or maybe just the color of your skin)?

If junkies doing heroin in the kids playground and leaving their used needles in the sand pit is a sign of success, and a lack of them a sign of failure - I want to live in a society that has failed. The more it has failed, the less time I have to spend checking the sand for a needle before my child plays the better.