skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I remember in 2013 I spent $3000 on the latest everything and built myself a new PC. My wife walked in just after I got it running and looked at me; I had graphs and spreadsheets all over the screen.

"I can tell you're not working. What on earth are you doing?"

"Calculating how far back in time I would have to go until my PC was the fastest computer on Earth. 1992 is the answer. It would be faster than DARPA's $90m supercomputer that filled a warehouse. If I go back to 1984 my PC is actually faster than every computing device on Earth, combined."

"I'm sorry I asked."
Given the minimal case numbers Australia has experienced, I'm firmly on the side of the response being appropriate.

And I'm firmly against most of the supposedly anti-terror laws Australia has rushed through in the last 20-odd years such metadata retention, backdoor enforcement upon request, and various mouthing-offs about encryption.

Real versus imagined threats. My version of...
I apologize for the projection. To help you understand how it came about:

It would have seemed less racist if you had specified that your day was ruined by the discovery of people eating animals alive - exactly as you have in your follow up. Without it, the sentence is ambiguous as to whether your day was ruined by the particular country’s people, their practice, or any eating of animals. The English language isn’t as precise as I would like it to be so again I apologize.

Follow up question: How do you feel about your distant ancestral blood relatives eating animals alive?
Why isn't there a race to the bottom to shrink the sponsor cut from 20% to 5% or something? If being the sponsor is as protected and lucrative as suggested surely plenty of people would be willing to sponsor for less of a cut, which in turn would make the deal less of a bad deal for others?
This is IIHS, not J.D. Power. It’s based on objective tests.
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Ever read Focault? Perhaps they want you to feel that their powers of surveillance are nearly infinite so that you believe you could be observed at any time. You comply because you never know when you’re being watched. A self-inflicted oppression.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaze

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Panopticon
What do you mean with "securing your place within the system of being successful"? Just keeping your job? Or are you talking about abandoning other goals than monetary success? I'd say that getting a win/win is more than a achievable within the "system". I.e. I get to do something I enjoy doing, while also getting payed for it. The company gets the output of my labor for a reasonable price. Everyone wins and no one is sacrificing anything.
I was hiking in a trail along the Pacific coast in the Bay Area and came upon an abandon missile launch site. There were a barrack, observation post, communication poles, and clearly underground missile silos. Not sure whether there're still missiles buried underground. It's pretty close to residential area, too. Very interesting. It's probably from the Cold War. Nowadays missiles are mobile.
I had OpenWRT running on an Archer C7 for a while, but the wifi was "unreliable". It's like the 5Ghz would just randomly stop flowing packets. I never root caused it, but since I stopped using it my home wifi experience has been generally boring in a good way.

I live near main street in a small touristy coastal town, and there's tons of access point beacons flying around. I only have a 10,000 sq. ft. lot and have three access points to cover it. I turned off "legacy" rates everywhere I could so hopefully all my beacons are 6Mbps+ with greenfield preambles.

Different wifi chipsets cope differently with congestion. Specifically, when packet collisions do occur, some chipsets miss both frames, while other chipsets successfully decode the frame of higher signal strength as long as there's enough of a difference. In low congestion areas it doesn't matter since packets rarely collide, but in high congestion areas it can make a big difference for throughput as packet collisions occur frequently.
Those millions of Americans are working those jobs serially, not in parallel. That’s why this is controversial.
1) The scale of the problem seems much lower on PCs because Windows and MacOS respect local regulations, Linux has an infrastructure to do so that works by default in some distros but not others, but overall the Linux market share is small and as is PC WiFi adapters are more often sold in country-specific variants with hardware restrictions than the chipsets in routers are (and usually have lower hardware Tx power limits). Overall, the architecture of WiFi is such that it's rare for a PC to make these kinds of decisions anyway. If it's an infrastructure mode network, the AP dictates channels.

2) FCC enforcement is, in general, rare. It usually requires specific complaints from commercial broadcasters in order for the FCC to respond. In the ISM and WiFi-specific bands, enforcement is extremely difficult because enforcement methods like radio direction finding are inherently difficult for the frequencies involved and even more difficult because of the high noise floor and large number of sources in urban environments. Even if the FCC allocated significant resources (which they do not), it would technically be difficult to enforce these regulations.

The FCC has closed more than half of field offices and laid off half of the enforcement staff over the last ten years. They have eliminated most of their field enforcement teams and now only have teams (perhaps only a handful, they don't say but the best public info I've found suggests 5) based out of the DC area that have to fly out. It's been very frustrating to see the FCC eliminating enforcement resources these days, but the reality is that enforcement has become far more difficult and less effective over time due to advancements in the technology. Direction finding FM pirate stations is technically pretty easy and something the FCC is very effective at (especially since FM broadcasters inform the FCC promptly). Just about everything else... fat chance of the FCC doing anything about it unless they can do so at an organizational/regulatory level (e.g. fining manufacturers or large scale operators). At the field level it's just too expensive and unproductive to try to track down individuals who have configured their WiFi routers in violation.
Oh hey I just read the post about transceivers being slow only in one direction. I have the same problem on a different scale. Two X520T cards, one in a Dell T20 and the other in a Dell T30. Both connected with DACs to the CRS305. 9.something Gbps one direction, 7.something Gbps the other.

I haven't bothered to do much actual diagnosis on this because I'm satisfied with the speed as-is, but it's another illustration of weirdness where you'd least expect it.
TL;DR: Vendor's driver performs far better than what's upstream.

This is what happens when the kernel community is confrontational and generally a pain in the neck to deal with. After enough friction caused by the netdev folks, the vendor just gives up on upstreaming and self-publishes their driver.
> And consumers were harmed by one company controlling 97% of the desktop market

When the 97% is potentially all free, then I don't where's the monopoly, unless you also include in the definition of monopoly having a special place in people's hearts after you gave them such gift.

People made a choice to pay for convenience, but if you looked around you'd find ways to get Microsoft products for free.
The intention is not to look down on people, but too make people aware of the places they may be giving up freedom for convenience. We all do it in one way or another, it's required for modern life.

People who prefer to use commercial software are indeed giving up some of their freedom in exchange for convenience. Almost all of us willingly give up some freedom by not growing our own food, or building our own car. This isn't a value judgement, just an observation.
End of Q1 2022 for a significant feature sounds reasonable for a large company (a few days to implement means a few weeks once you include design, documentation, review, implement, test, deploy).

It's annoying, but everything takes longer in a big company because every change you make can affect many teams/customers, and it's very hard to get unscheduled project work done quickly unless it's a real emergency.

Your best response is to make porting your apps to their platform dependent on that change, so you can't do it before end of 2022Q1, escalate the dependency to your manager so he/she can either elevate the priority of the feature you need, or just live with the timeline.

It's annoying for sure, I work at a growing company that used to be a small startup and am often dismayed at how long it takes to do even trivial changes, but am also reminded of the time that we accidentally caused a full outage for all of our customers with a config change that was deployed everywhere before we discovered a problem. We didn't bake it fully in the QA system (where we would have discovered the problem) because everyone "knew" it was a harmless change similar to others that we make all the time. We esentially applied it to QA to verify the syntax, then rolled it out globally, where it ran fine for a few days before filling up some temp space. So now it takes at least 2 weeks to roll out those "simple" changes due to mandatory documentation and testing.
IMHO when discussing "Big Data" you have to go up PB (in total) and some large numbers (in daily) to reach "Big Data". If the data can be stored inside a commercial Xeon box then it's not even "Medium Data".
did you not read Stage 7?:

> Use project funds to complete leveraged buyout of Darden Restaurants, Olive Garden's parent company
Could it all be so simple? At the very least, would the Statement of Cash Flows need to be massaged as well?
5G on 700MHz, 1.7, 3.5, 3.7, 4.5, 28GHz are in operation in Japan.
It is in fact trivial to create a new subreddit.

What's slightly more challenging is replicating the 26 million subscribers to /r/videos

https://old.reddit.com/r/videos/
The laws of the metaverse transcends the laws of the meatverse.
I mean Excel can handle a few million if use Power Pivot.
> and Mr. Herbert had close contacts among the Quileute and Hoh peoples of the Olympic Peninsula in Washington State

I think headlines and articles should refer to the specific peoples, I'm of the view that we need to normalize mentioning the specific people/tribes/collectives because its overinclusive since all them are separate. Its not really weighed by a random indigenous person saying "I'm fine with Indian" or "I'm fine with First Nations" etc, its more about how it doesn't provide any context for people with 100s of years of shared history, many of which have semi-sovereignty and autonomy.
If they could get a license to drive a car they wouldn't need an EPA in the first place.
Free Web3 education platform launches
This is wonderful.

I love stage 5 in the roadmap, the console TBA note is a perfect addition.
The car was technically Tesla's property they contracted the repo agent because the owner stopped paying the finance so as long as you haven't finished paying your car to Tesla it makes sense for it to still be their property.

The issue would be if they start doing this for illegal parking or similar stuff.
I've found OSMC to be great, even on RPi2. I tried LibreELEC recently and couldn't get live TV to work acceptably with a USB TV tuner (glitchy). I ended up somewhat going down a rabbit hole of USB isochronous/asynchronous/buffering settings but just went back to OSMC.

You can also use apt to customize OSMC because it's based on Debian[1].

The maintainer, Sam Nazarko seems really helpful too.

[1] https://osmc.tv/wiki/general/installing-packages-via-apt/
The sibling comments here are also correct of course but keep in mind that 5G, excluding stuff like mmWave, does not prescribe any particular frequency band to use and can work on just about any. Regulators will find some slice of free frequency space somewhere between roughly 1 GHz to 5 GHz and auction it off and then carriers and device manufacturers will make 5G run in that band. The iPhone 13 for example can use literally 30 different 5G bands on the US models.
On the flip side, an excellent time to raise awareness of the issue.

The cost of such informaton on the IPO / trading price is one thing that public trading makes highly visible and manifest.
After radioshack.com I think the chances went up substantially.
You can use wireshark to access the server on the device, its what they use when they update firmware, but have you used a modded powerline adaptor to access engineering settings in white goods like modern fridge freezers because alot of them have a cpu controlling everything and you access it using the mains plug?
Ah but after the stage 5 RPG (console tba), stage 7 gives them ownership of the parent company :D
The back of the "stock" looks pretty highly sloped. I think it's a fin type stabilizer.

You don't need an FFL to make NFA items. You just need to have the tax stamp before you start if you don't have an FFL SOT.
They didn't – Madison and Hamilton were backed into a corner during the ratification process by the anti-Federalists.
It means “spanned which legal-y periods”, I think. E.g. if a user is billed weekly, billing should ~group 2 weeks, even if login events happened at Sat and Mon. As a former accounting consultant/developer I can guess use cases like “group fixed assets by how many tax amortization quarters they already took part in, and then …”.
I'm not at all surprised by this article because I recently purchased a new TP-Link router (Archer something IIRC) and it's quite honestly the worst router I've ever run. I goes down several times a day, dropping all network traffic that isn't TCP. Thus DHCP, UDP DNS and ICMP echo all fail.

My old router is > 5 years old Asus (possibly as much as 10 years old!!) and literally held together with electricians tape. I've had an array of physical failures due to age from the antenna no longer standing up to the power button no longer functioning and I've used electricians tape to fix all of them. But for the stuff that matters it still works extraordinary well.

So I figured it was only a matter of time before that router died completely and I'd need a new one. And I figured it has been so many years since I last upgraded that my new device should be amazing in comparison. But man was I wrong.

After getting kicked out of an important Zoom call last week (and weeks of issues and debugging too) I finally lost my temper, unhooked the router and went full on Office Space[1] on it.

I'm now back to running the old router. A router that's older than both of my kids. A router that had earned its retirement. I'm going to replace it with a Draytek device in the new year. Given I'm mostly working from home these days I want something reliable. But I'm also thinking Draytek will last me another ~10 years so it will work out cheaper than the TP-Link crap. In fact I'll never buy another TP-Link device again.

[1] For those who haven't seen Office Space: https://youtu.be/fjsSr3z5nVk (also definitely watch the movie. It's great!)
A side question: What is an equivalent position to a mainframe's system programmer in Cloud environment?
I use OneDrive for all my stuff. The computer that was tied to OneDrive no longer exists, so "the network is my computer."

I am on a desktop at work as I type. I have a work laptop that hasn't left the bag I carry in months. I have no computer at home, and no tablet at home. I have a phone, an HDMI-USB/C adapter, and bluetooth keyboard/mouse. The phone is my computer.
> You're clearly not involved in live entertainment

I used to be.

> It's also a false choice

Yes, yes it is. It's been like this for decades. Entertainers are expected to buy the most expensive hardware available even when they're just getting started. Conform or be stigmatized for using inferior technology. We're talking about an industry in which AudioQuest has no trouble selling passive 3m HDMI cables for upwards of $1k.

Maybe this is the first time Apple has stepped on your toes, but it won't be the last. Be prepared to fork over the cash for a specialized dongle you wouldn't need on any other platform, lest that orange dot mar your reputation.

Let's be real: this isn't going to harm Apple's sales in the slightest, and they know it. The only way they could possibly harm their reputation in the entertainment industry is by lowering their prices, opening up their ecosystem, and eliminating $1k monitor stands.

They know you'll ultimately cough up the dough for an adapter, no matter how much you complain. They know you don't have a choice. They get money from me, a privacy-conscious end user with a choice, and they get money from you, a disgruntled professional without a choice.
I don't know what you're talking about - I'm totally non-ironically putting all of my savings into this. Olive Gardens are an American institution that is permanent and immovable - owning an Non-Fungible Olive Garden Token (NFOGT. See - it's the OG) is, it thus follows, an asset that is going to be stably locked to the value of OGs thus yielding a stable long term investment. At no point could anyone create, say, an NFOGTv2 which is literally the exact same thing except re-issued to make more money. We all know that NFTs are unique and thus must never be duplicated - it's part of that blockchain stuff.

NFOGTs are a sound investment for a better tomorrow.

PS: Please buy mine - the market price has already dropped 99% and my wife is wondering where our kids' college fund just went.
If nothing else, the nft crowd is more fun than most tech groups.
When those people die and quit paying for hosting, the information on their website doesn't magically become useless.

Perhaps other people still have a need for it.

Thank goodness the IA doesn't blindly obey robots.txt.
Quantum theory based on real numbers can be experimentally falsified
You've repeated this incoherent point multiple times in multiple threads now, and I would very much like to know what phone can't charge and listen to music on at the same time.

It surely is not the iPhone, which you were disparaging in one of the other threads, because I'm doing it right now.
Testing real quantum theory in an optical quantum network
I have configured mine to go to file manager when I press 'f' on the keyboard. You may not have a keyboard attached but it might be worth your while.
This isn't any different from the bulk of NFTs that are simply selling other peoples property (or at least urls pointing to said data).

This one is just pointing out the absurdity of the entire NFT concept.
The manager maybe, but you don't change the culture of the company like that. A low level manager has very little influence on that, they'd be replaced the moment other VPs started complaining.
My wife was working for the NRO's agency-private data center for applications that couldn't be hosted atop Amazon's cloud service in C2S, and it somehow ended up with the initials "RC" which nobody really knew what it meant, so they either called it "Rodeo Clown" or "Rogue Central," depending on who you asked. When they had a renaming contest put to a vote, I can't remember what actually won, but #2 was "Totally Not a Government Death Ray Facility."

Believe it or not, the hackers working for spy agencies are exactly the same nerds as the hackers working for wherever the rest of you work. They have senses of humor. My personal favorite piece of NSA software was "Bilbo Badger." A sibling comment mentioned the NROL39 Octopus mission patch. The latest next great vehicle they launched late last year had a motto written in Elvish. I remember when they first showed it to us before the launch, I thought it might have been the Black Tongue of Mordor, but it took maybe 20 minutes to find someone on the program who recognized it and could translate it.

The program I was on at the time, which ran the ground processing for that vehicle, was code named "Lateralus," which is a Tool album, and my wife's old program after the RC one, was code named "Rush," the old Canadian prog rock band. It was the program that ran the Sentient software, the thing people get all freaked out about as some government AI autonomous control system like Eagle Eye or Enemy of the State or some shit. When they renewed the contract in January, the new code name became "Cyberdyne," in honor of all the public paranoia over what they're doing.

If you think it's embarrassing to have nerd names for stuff, you should see what the people look like. My first boss there had purple hair, never wore shoes, and wore a different wolf shirt every day of the week. I'm not sure who you think goes to work at places like this. There's a reason 80% of the NRO mission patches are wizards and dragons.
Actually pretty much all of the examples in the article were in all likelihood A tractors, not EPA. Except perhaps the green Duett one.

Heck, I'm a greybeard, and I've never seen an EPA store.
Not in manufacturing so I'm just speculating here. But I'd imagine that would create a new set of logistical issues, specifically instead of one bill of material that can be applied everywhere with controlled applied via software, now you need N BOM's, when N is the market region that has a slightly different set of RF transmission rules.

Not infeasible but certainly a significant increase in cost.
Perhaps, but as long as you're not on YouTube which will take you down regardless, brilliant satire like this is the one thing courts usually respect when it comes to fair use.
TSA Preparing to Begin Accepting Mobile Driver's Licenses in February 2022
When was the this golden age of US federal government efficiency?
>I tasted blood from the top of my lip. It took a moment to know it was seeping from my nose, which she had broken. My mask was getting wet, and thus useless.

Come on now
Comparing with Korea would be interesting. Similar culture and health.
Self assembling cluster crystals from DNA based dendritic nanostructures
New Company Quantinuum Offers Quantum-Based Encryption
As a brand-new UNIX user around 1991 and coming from MSDOS, I was used to being 'God' on my machine so I thought it would be a good idea to login always as 'root'. I couldn't understand why long-time users of UNIX knew that to be a very bad idea, and always advised against it.

Like the SunOS person, I had lots of dot-directories in /tmp. So I duplicated his actions almost perfectly.

Also like he did, I was wondering why an 'instantaneous' action was taking so long. I had to do a complete re-installation.

Ever since then, I've always logged in as a 'normal user'. My reign as 'God' in a UNIX environment lasted about 2-3 weeks in total.
The UK govt doesn't generally get involved in house sales. That sounds like a tale of good old fashioned fraud and I think I know the one you are on about - https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-essex-59069662

The Police response looks a bit shit to start with but nothing to do with the government - Welsh or British.

If you are going to have a go at this sort of nonsense then you need to sound credible. You are not going to bring down civilisation as we know it with a comment like that.
I only recently recognized that a high number of movie posters contain an actor(s) with a gun(s). Studios have obviously done their studies and we humans are obviously drawn to such imagery. I find it genuinely interesting from a psychology perspective.

It would be interesting to process a dataset of movie posters to determine the % containing guns (or other objects of interest).
That's strangely the opposite of my experience. I think you have to work at a company that values engineering culture. Also, you could suggest it.
Sure, a Fiat X1/9 or a Toyota MR2 would make a great A tractor.