skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Length restrictions are generally looser in the US, but there's one very notable exception: 53' trailers may pass through NYC to Long Island on a couple of highways, but may not make pickups or deliveries anywhere in NYC
https://www.dot.ny.gov/about-nysdot/faq/are-53-foot-long-tra.... 53' trailers are pretty much the standard large trailer in the US. They are recognizable because they have a little "53" written on the side. Don't bother reporting it to the NYPD if you see one though. They pretty much refuse to enforce laws meant to make NYC safer for its non-driving residents.
On native apps, there's no scary warnings, and https isn't free. Especially at scale.
Sounds like you do not have the building inspection hell of many places.

Local governments often insist that every aspect of the build is documented before you start (which is unachievable) and any deviations from the plan require stopping work and re-documenting at vast expense in professional fees and charges from the state.
> I'm much more interested in figuring out how to fund the things that later become building blocks rather than pouring money on something that industry is likely to do anyway.

Industry will only ever fund things that are easy to monetize in the very short term. Translational research can be just as important as basic research, so both should be funded when they are plausibly in the public interest, regardless of any private returns.
IMHO, the speed up should be user controlled. Not everyone's first language is English and can tolerate higher rates of communication.
Uart over Bluetooth serial modules
this isnt a war against the nazis

all modern causes are normal people on both sides with a few crazies because thats how populations work
Poignant remarks. We're not getting any younger:

"Erik "alphageek" Jan Tromp passed away in 2020 after a long illness. He was
a long-time member of the Slackware core team doing a ton of stuff behind
the scenes and a master of lesser-known programming languages like Tcl. :-)
For a long time he lived closer to me geographically than anyone else on
the core team, but unfortunately with an international border between us
we never did meet in person. But he was there in chat every day and was a
good friend to everyone on the team. He is greatly missed. Sorry I didn't
get 15.0 out in time for you to see it...

My old friend Brett Person also passed away in 2020. Without Brett, it's
possible that there wouldn't be any Slackware as we know it - he's the one
who encouraged me to upload it to FTP back in 1993 and served as Slackware's
original beta-tester. He was long considered a co-founder of this project.
I knew Brett since the days of the Beggar's Banquet BBS in Fargo back in
the 80's. When the Slackware Project moved to Walnut Creek CDROM, Brett was
hired as well, and we spent many hours on the road and sitting next to each
other representing Slackware at various trade shows. Brett seemed to know
all kinds of computer luminaries and was an amazing storyteller, always
with his smooth radio voice. Gonna miss you too, pal."
Google has only one business - search, and so far hasn't been able to show an ability to build another money printing machine, and actually an opposite - they are failing at cloud for example. Compare that to AMZN which has already 2 - the store/marketplace and the AWS. That difference between 1 and 2 is humongous. The tech history is littered with one-trick ponies.
Scams happen because of humans. Technology makes it easier to pull them off.

It just so happens that a core principle of crypto, "anonymity", allows scams without consequence.

The only force holding us back from hurting each other in the real world is the possibility that our identity can be tied to our actions.
More Americans died in the last month from Covid than died in the Vietnam war… to me, that’s an unacceptable toll. I get that people differ in that opinion but it can’t be too surprising that people really aren’t okay with that level of sustained death as the “end game” of this.
Time to kill another Windows in my household.
It’s not dominant because of any inherent trait of Android besides it’s price.
https://blog.pragmaticengineer.com/software-engineering-sala...

This is from Europe, but I think it's true in the US as well. Software engineers at large tech companies and venture funded startups get paid a lot, including equity. Software engineers at consultancies or doing internal development at businesses with several thousand employees are on a different salary scale.
The biggest one for me is that the mental model for maintaining your system is tiny. As a system it is easy to inspect how it works - you can trace the entire boot process along with a finger, the init system is excruciatingly simple, the package database is a directory with files each containing a brief description the output of a un-tar command, SlackBuild packages are easy to make and modify. The community is also very nice and has a lot of highly experienced users in it.

Most software I want is also already installed and ready to go. Some people like to craft their OS from a minimal base, and I absolutely respect that and understand that it gives them a system which is perfectly catered to their needs - but I’m very lazy, and am perfectly happy letting someone with over 30 years experience do all that for me :-)

That being said, I use Fedora at work and wouldn’t consider using Slackware. This is because I don’t want to know anything about my underlying system as long as it works and gives me the tools I need to do my work, and because GNOME is a boon to my workflow.
Good.

At the very least, people should be allowed to install browsers that aren't Safari.
I've gotten several results were the link is no longer valid.
Looking forward to porn apps and or app stores on iOS. Seriously. There's several Android only sex apps (sideloaded), and lots of PC only sex apps, that could be on iOS if there was a way to load them. Many are made in Unity so it could be as simple as just re-exporting, but until now there was no way to ship them for iOS.
You can both be right. CIA poured fuel onto the fire.
> Kessler syndrome is not going to happen because unlike their competitors SpaceX intentionally put all their satellites in very low orbit where the atmosphere naturally cleans up any debris within a couple of years. That's something uniquely enabled by SpaceX's low launch costs because it limits the useful life of the satellites, requiring frequent replacement.

I haven't researched Starlink much before, but if the target satellite count is 10k (some say 30k?) and replacements are needed every 24 months, this suggests that to keep Starlink running they need to deploy an average of ~415 satellites every month, forever. Some quick searching suggests a cost of $250k/satellite[0], for a total monthly bill of over $100M. I must be misunderstanding, because that seems pretty pricey, and it excludes launch costs, which they say are ~$30M. Maybe everything will be cheaper by the time the constellation reaches 10k satellites.

[0]: https://www.teslarati.com/spacex-starlink-satellite-launch-s...
Uhhh try fixing your build? Learn to write proper tests.
I think that's the idea of the project, dip switches are used on boards to select a configuration (since you only need to do it on setup)... speaking of which, i wonder if a jumper version is planned for the IDE HDD nostalgia.
Luckily I'm not in a city of any size, and my remodel is extensive enough that my town has called in new construction even though it really isn't.

But I don't actually care if I disconnect from the grid. I just don't want to pull any watt*hours from it. That's why I call it grid independence rather than off grid.
Let the surgeons know.

Yes, compliance and knowing how to wear a mask has been an issue. That's not the same thing as "masks don't work."

This is a random place to put this, but I just want to point out that I think for the most part even mask wearing is not required anymore (unless you are sick, but why are you going anywhere sick?)

Part of the reason I put it here is that I want to make sure it's understood that despite the fact I'm pretty pro-vax, pro-mask and generally supported the lockdowns at the time -- we're past all that for now with Omicron. Things are still a mess, and the facts on the ground could change, but I think it's important that everybody gets on the same page that we're moving on.
To be clear, I don’t think the person is stupid, and I don’t believe I’ve called them stupid. I appreciate the intent to support me, but I also find it a bit of a stretch that answering “is DO_NOT_USE supported” with “no, it’s not supported” must be a consequence of a culture shock. :) But I’m biased so idk.

I didn’t get the impression from the reader that they were a beginner, or someone struggling, or someone who doesn’t “know they’re on the wrong path”. My impression was that a professional came to get an authoritative answer on a level of support of an API, and I tried to provide it.
There is no way I could not renew. I use it way too much. I easily save that much in gas and probably 10x that in valuable personal time not having to go to walmart/best buy/etc
They can also keep current exobirant fees and see how that works out for them, when their app store monopoly is inevitably legislated away.

They wouldn't be subject to legislators' interest in the first place if they charged reasonable fees.
Maybe it is the dark patterns of the real life that push people back into games? What help could be given to help people find worthwhile things in the "real world"?

For many people, life is just going to work and then crashing exhausted on the couch to watch Netflix. So they would quit games for the sake of watching Netflix.
We could dig a canal from South Carolina to Oregon so that ships can travel from China to the East Coast of America with a minimum of detour and save hundred of thousands if not millions of gallons of ship fuel every year. That's more environmental savings right there.

It would also create millions of American jobs and pour trillions into the economy with the increase in speed and quantity of shipping that can arrive for distribution, and curtail piracy around the Horn of Africa.
are you going to keep that same energy next time some dude walks in with a nazi flag at every single protest you care about?
Then how else is app usage tracked across apps that can’t be done in the browser?
That's coz it's actually the land value that's appreciating.
Ask HN: Microtic Router configured as switch will not let iPhone 13 Pro connect
Couple months ago I purchased a Microtik Hex S router. I configured it as a switch on my network. For some reason an iPhone 13 Pro can't connect to the wireless network when this switch is plugged in, meaning it will not pick up an IP address. An iphone 12 pro will be fine. Once I remove the Microtik iphone 13 pro connects and gets the ip from the UDM Pro. It took me a while to figure out that it was the Microtic, however I'm trying to figure out the why.

map is as follow

Internet-->UDM Pro-+->NetgearMesh MR60 ->wireless devices

|

|
+->Microtic->wired Devices

Any idea what could be causing the conflict?
Slackware was my first linux distribution, and one that I used continuously before moving to Arch.

As it happens, I think Arch embodies many of the original Slackware principles, but its focus on more modern hardware led to it growing a larger community - one that includes great documentation.
Caltech is and always has been a private institution even when it was Throop College of Technology. To my knowledge the only public institution ever privatized in the US was Tulane (for reasons having to do with Jim Crow).
IIRC Google had provided search with translated query. It was useful. Anyone know alternative?
Is this sarcasm? Because if not, glad you figure it out.
Jean-Paul Rodrigue 4 phases of a bubble chart vs. BTC
A few things that weren’t mentioned in detail or which I skimmed over without noticing:

- The problem with bind before connect is that the OS thinks you might call listen after bind instead of connect and listen requires the src port/ip to be unique.

- Running out of ports may affect short-lived connections too: by default when you (the client) close a connection, it goes into a ‘TIME_WAIT’ state that locks up the {src,dst}_{ip,port} quadruple for (by default) 2 minutes to protect new connections with that quadruple getting packets that were meant for the previous connection.

I think one thing that weakly surprised me about the article was that cloud flare seem to be mostly using standard BSD sockets apis and, presumably, the kernel interface to the network cards. I would have expected their main products (ie being a CDN) to use more specialised network cards and userspace networking (eg the final function they give for UDP does a ton of syscalls, and for tcp it still does several) with a non-BSD api. The main advantage would be having more control over their system and the ability to avoid a lot of unnecessary overhead from syscalls or apis, but there could be other advantages like NIC TLS (though this can also be accessed through the kernel as kernel TLS).

I’m sure cloudflare have reasons for it though. Maybe the hardware is more expensive than underutilisation or hard to source or buggy or user space networking just doesn’t improve things much. Many of those things can make servers more efficient but that might not be necessary if many servers are needed at lots of edge locations with each server not needing efficiency. Or maybe those things are mostly just saving mics when the latency over the wire is millis.
> My priority was simplicity and being able to easily change things in the future.

Yes. A lot of people (I think the original author of this piece) wish to have everything from the start.

Much better IMO to start small and simple and expand.

Easier to sneak around the out of whack inspection systems. In my area, that matters, as the inspection system has gone bananas
License classes. C (at least in my area) authorizes <26001 lb, B more, and A anything legal to put on a highway.
I assume M1 is a motorcycle license or endorsement.
When I submitted this, I thought it was obvious that it was about fertilizer, which is already in short supply and is going to make inflation worse. I think that is a lot more interesting and important than what's going on in Ukraine.

I guess I'm in a bubble.
Possible, but it would probably be sitting in another area of base (hint: up north of there).
What? They’ve already prevented it from falling to that level. If that is changed through legislation how is it their failure?
Objective reality is an axiom, it can neither be verified nor disproved.
This is a manufactured argument. 99% of their question was "do you value prime enough to keep paying for it", it was nice of the person to let them know that you can quit anytime and get a prorated return of money for the annual subscription price but really wasn't the main point of the question.
Definitely interesting to look at the Pay Gap charts. But it might be interesting to see what the pay gap is after looking at hourly wage.
I often hear this argument that men work longer hours. Given how much data they have presented, will definitely be worth looking at that dimension too.

Edit: In S/W that might not matter at all, but some business functions hours might matter. More data the merrier.
They could NOT sell the tech. It's a choice.
I remember staying up all night downloading Slackware 96 (version 3.0) floppy sets over my 28.8kbps modem. I think I used it for my first 6+ months of home Linux use.

In retrospect it was probably a good thing to learn on because Slackware was so simple but did so little for you. I remember having to read a long HOWTO from the Linux Documentation Project about how to get XFree86 working. Hand crafting /etc/X11/XF86Config, including experimenting to find modelines that worked for my CRT monitor. Learning how to get Apache setup, which was kind of pointless but fun since I was on dialup.

And setting up auto dial up with a PPP session whenever I used anything that needed to get online. That seemed like magic!

Learned a lot there before trying out RedHat (4.x, before Enterprise was a thing) and Debian 1.3 (Bo) and then staying a Debian user for a long time until mostly moving to Ubuntu for server things.
Exactly. Yes, coding by itself is useless, but arithmetic by itself is useless by the same token. Both are tools that give you the ability you solve many useful problems.
> I thought the whole point of Bitcoin and similar cyber coins is a decentralized system. But it appears it is not the case.

It's the case in Bitcoin, but not as much in Ethereum and other ecosystems. The latter have a track record of compromising on that principle to bail out thefts enabled by shoddy engineering practices (this, The DAO, etc).
I build a WebXR app at work. It's a virtual environment for taking foreign language classes. You travel around the world and talk about what you see in-language.
PipeWire 0.3.45 (2022-02-03): A server for Linux audio and video streams
How dangerous?
You can't really do a lot of tracking with Oculus.
>Trumpists seem to forget that neither their movement nor their President have ever had the support of the American majority, much less of all "regular people." Never even the popular vote.

Neither did Hillary, who won 48% of the popular vote in 2016 to Trump's 46%. Does the fact that not until 2020 did Trump's opponent win a majority of the popular vote invalidate the validity of the opposition until then?
Apologies for implying that scientific employment outside of the US is easy to obtain. I should have clarified that my comment pertained only to the US scientific job market, which enjoys considerable support from public and private funds.
When the alternative is a game of “find the cancel link”, slog of retention attempts, or gauntlet of phone bots it starts to become tempting.

If services universally had an obvious cancel button that did exactly what it says it does without a runaround, then yeah the premium makes zero sense.
who said they were in the group? if you keep seeing nazis everywhere than maybe you're the one with the problem?
Advertising is all about eyeballs and ears. The biggest advertisers have always been household names.

e.g. Any television channel (e.g. BBC, CNN, ESPN, MSNBC, SiFi), any newspaper/magazine (NYT, Life, etc), all of radio, every storefront and its flyers (e.g. Safeway, Wallgreens, Costco).

These are all directly or indirectly advertising companies that have been household names for the last 100+ years.

The only difference now is (unlike for billboards), digital real-estate is very cheap and can be owned by a single conglomerate, rather than a decentralized group of capital holders.
I hate the idea of having to go to school normally again
thanks for all the wonderful explanations.

are you on researchgate or twitter?

it would be great to follow you since you seem current on the latest research.
I always though the 16 bit port was too little.

GNUNet CADET (admittedly a very experimental and non-production system) uses a 512 bit port number. A port can be a string, like "https" or "my-secret-port" which is hashed with SHA-512 to produce the port number. I like this idea very much and dream of it becoming a reality on the web.
To be clear, it’s sitting at a FedEx facility. I’m not watching some new owner ride around on the thing. But since people are so offended, I’ll disown it.
> just-in-time logistics makes businesses much more efficient

Where is it written that "efficient" is the be-all-end-all for businesses?

If a business can only extract money but can't serve society when required, perhaps that business should be replaced by something that can?

This is the whole "smoking ban" thing once again. Smokers were so much more profitable that businesses that gave them up simply couldn't compete against those who didn't. At some point, we, as a society, decided that the downsides of such businesses finally outweighed the benefits, and we changed the laws to force those businesses to change.

> Carrying enough inventory to weather a shortage like recent COVID shortages would require months and months of inventory; imagine the obsolescence costs if the factory needs to make any change at all!

However, we also had situations like toilet paper where the factories had capacity in the industrial sector to make toilet paper, but we couldn't transfer that to the consumer sector because every step was so hyper-optimized (rolls are larger, no ability to individually package, only able to ship pallets, etc.).

So, the demand shock rippled through consumer and the supply chain had no ability to adjust upwards because they had no extra capacity. And the industrial chain that had extra capacity was so hyper-optimized that it couldn't pivot to serve the demand shock.

Maximally efficient is minimally robust.
Wow, that is one well-optimized site! Time to first model was lightning.
By wearing a mask? They are sacrificing their childhood?
And forget that Canadian and Mexican trucks are also transiting the borders.
There are some good arguments that current hospitalization metrics are misleading and underestimate the healthcare workload. Delayed treatments or patients who cannot access treatment may be a more useful metric to measure how overwhelmed a healthcare system is.

See https://twitter.com/DellAnnaLuca/status/1486208081142947840/...
Isn't the root issue that money itself is an "inefficient" allocation mechanism for scarce resources?

The theoretical economics idea seems to be that it's some sort of voting system. But it's a voting system in which I have a thousand times more votes than someone else.

If a fairly well off person thinks that X is worth doing, they have an outsized say in whether we use energy on X. And probably, if X has anything to do with business or investment, this advantage accumulates.

I agree with the article in principle as a result of the above argumentation but I'm still not convinced that it leads us to a situation in which Bitcoin is somehow something special. You could make the same argument for essentially anything that has market demand.

If you're going to have some central planning actor decide that Bitcoin is a waste of energy then I don't see how you can avoid the conclusion that me taking a holiday is, that plastic fidget spinners are, etc etc.

You end up in the coronavirus 2020 "what is essential" situation really quickly.

I sometimes wonder if there's a misgiving that Bitcoin is somehow set up to eventually use "all energy". This is incorrect, because the amount of mining that will occur is governed by transaction fees. Logically a person is never going to spend 100% of their wealth on simply transferring bitcoin from one place to another.
Lol do you know how unsafe it would be for 'non-driving' residents if trailers can't unload food and necessary items to NYC? Non-driving residents depend on semi as much or more than anyone, since non-drivers rarely have the means to transport heavy loads without driving (some may have a team of pack dogs or horses I suppose).

>They pretty much refuse to enforce laws meant to make NYC [undeliverable by standard trailers]

Good.
I never saw it in an office building but I do vaguely recall people vaping on airplanes during this time period.
Quake autoaim is far weaker than Halo's autoaim.

Console games generally have much more autoaim, to the point where people kinda call them "defacto aimbots".
Actually, there’s nothing “extreme” about Slackware, in fact, I find it easier to use, and more reliable than Ubuntu, for example. It is one of those things that you would say about: it’s perfect just the way it is.
Second-hand smoke strikes me as antisocial if produced in an unavoidable setting.

Obesity ... seems like an entirely personal matter, except perhaps in children where they might be considered victims.

Highly infectious viruses several times more harmful than the usual ones are indeed turning the world upside down. I imagine with time most societies will come to accept such things after they've become endemic for a while.