skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Still used in some consumer devices with older Mediatek (MTK) wireless SoCs and older Qualcomm (QCA) wireless SoCs. Qualcomm has moved onto arm uarch, in addition to largely shuttering their switch ASIC lineup (lots of MIPS in that product family). MTK seems to be moving in the arm direction as well.

Sometimes, we have vendors like Mikrotik who love the old QCA MIPS lineup and shove those ancient SoCs into everything they can.

But the older MTK MIPS chips still seem to find a lot of new hardware releases. I recently picked up a TPLink WiFi 6 AP because it used Mediatek wifi chips, which are well supported in the mainline kernel. Was a little surprised to see it still used a Mediatek MIPS SoC as the main glue between the various wireless chips.

If you see a WiFi 6 AP that only has WiFi6 on 5GHz, and WiFi4/n on 2.4GHz, a good chance it is using a MTK MIPS WiFi 4/n SoC + a MTK WiFi 6 PCIe IC, with the SoC providing 2.4GHz and 5GHz being provided by something like the MT7915 or similar. The Ubiquiti U6 Lite and U6 LR are examples of this, as are the Belkin RT3200 / Linksys E8450.
I don't believe in it as moral imperative. It conflicts with my libertarian moral imperatives (right to create a contract that stipulates what people can do with what they otherwise own). However I do otherwise believe in it as a value, in the same sense that owning a house rather than renting is a value. You're more self-sufficient, and there's more dignity in not having people be able to pull strings on you. Free Software means fully owning your devices without strings attached by others. Again strings attached isn't immoral but it has downsides.

The community aspect is pretty cool too.

So, I use some proprietary software, but I keep it in a safe box (separate device or VM), and treat it the same way I treat external services, more or less. (I wonder if Stallman could be convinced of this). By default I try to make everything FOSS.
I speak only for myself, but to me these two sentences clash with one another:

> The free software movement gave me an operating system and critical applications so I can do my work without big company garbage interfering.

[...]

> Because this is onerous software developers who seriously wish for success and profit minimize exposure to copylefted source code.

I couldn't say them without feeling I'm internally adopting a double moral standard in order to justify my goals.
The PS4 makes a surprisingly decent PC all things considered: https://youtu.be/CmneiL9O5RY

I wish companies weren't so hostile towards this sort of thing. I'd certainly buy a PS4 if I could confidently use it as a media server without worrying that Sony could shut it all down overnight.
Julia is a fairly elegant nice language and multiple dispatch makes a lot of sense in all sorts of places.

I don't really get why Julia is pigeon-holed for numerics. I prefer its syntax to Python and would consider it for scripting applications where I use Julia now.
Is investing in Twitter a meme too far for Elon Musk?
The H1 visa thing is one, although usually those jobs get posted in obscure places and are purposefully written very poorly.

Another is if you want to justify using a contractor. Sometimes you have to show problems attracting good candidates before you can go that route.
Even if you make this assumption it still wouldn't be a successful attack because OTP makes no security claims if the key is re-used. If there's no security claim there's nothing to attack to begin with.
Oral History Interviews: John Preskill
> What would be neat now is “proof of unique living individual” in the same way.. that would solve a number of problems, related to UBI and voting.

So, there was a project called Aurora that tried to do exactly this during the financial crisis fallout in Iceland, it failed, mainly because it was way too early and the blockchain itself wasn't protected as well as Bitcoin: it was presumed that PoS could serve as a possible solution if it has a specific usecase.

Unfortunately, we didn't gain as much info and data as we could have other than then from a security standpoint deviating from BTC was not tenable.

Jack Dorsey is seeking ways to just this with Block, he did a recent talk on how UBI could work via Bitcoin's blockchain as a way to facilitate seamless txs, the biggest obstacle being that this would need to be a layer 2 or possibly layer 3 because of the ID component that ensures that this info is not retained: think zero proof knowledge protocol.

It can be done on mainchain via a derivative for incredibly low cost (100 million sats/BTC), but just like colored coins was too early this may prove tricky.

What we learned from the COVID unemployment debacle was that the payments system in the US is entirely broken and cannot function even at the best of times, much less under any strain without being subject to total collapse or perpetual grift so this needs to happen either way.

Personally speaking, I'd really wish that we can derive more data from all the UBI test runs and then have this be a major part of layer 2/3 development: for all this talk about 'Web3,' a total boomerism if I ever heard one, and the money pouring into this space I wish some of it would be spent in this space.

I'd offer to help get involved if it were the case as a former co-founder, dev and consultant in this space, if that were to happen.
AFAICS some other interpreters, perl, python, ruby, tcl are happy to
return a 0 exit code if invoked on an empty file.
That's just going to make them more valuable.
This is great.

I've been dabbling in Deno for a while now. Standard lib is there. Testing is there. All the packages I'd ever want are there. Linting, a strong style guide, and a documentation generator too.

And unlike other beasts, it feels so minimal and out of the way.
Indeed, it isn't something that is only cool for a month or to be embraced by magpie developers.
Having been through this several times, you usually start out with a differentiated product, represented by boutique resellers, and pitch/sell to early adopter types. After you've gotten a little bit of runway under you, you can start targeting a broader array of resellers and customers, and grow from there.
https://vatsalparekh.com updated a few months ago using https://getpelican.com/

Haven't updated anything in years though
Simple architectures work well, until they don't. A good example is ye olde ruby on rails monolith. Dead simple to set up and iterate quickly, but once you reach a certain organization and/or codebase size, velocity starts to degrade exponentially
Don't forget the culture of corruption, esp. in the south of the country.
On the other hand, if you are a midsize or large business, with minimal effort you can effectively own a vendor that will act as an unofficial extra department. You give them enough business to become their biggest customer and they are effectively hooked for life, because who's ever going to drop a client providing 40-50% of their total revenue?
It's not an approximation, it defines a variant version of the problem that makes sense in the context of practical computation.
When you type something into IRC that message shows up in the log and every online users client pretty reliably. Furthermore the high degree of diversity among clients provides a pretty extreme amount of client side functionality that Slack completely lacks (scripting is a huge one.)
Hm... wouldn't the dead simple pattern of "RRRRREEEEETTTTTRRRRREEEEEAAAAATTTTT" in the message defeat the attempt to sow confusion?

To be clear-- the parties agree ahead of time that each message will consist of repeating each desired letter in the message N times (before encrypting). If there's a letter that doesn't repeat N times in the received message then the message isn't authentic.

Surely a cryptographer could figure out the math to make N large enough that the probability of defeating the authentication is practically equivalent to guessing the message itself.
Well, hydrogen is a way to go.

I don't think anybody has enough information to know what is the way to go. But well, I'm an outsider with very little information.
Having lived as a foreigner in other countries I can say: The US is worse than most of them. In other countries you at least get a bank account without the equivalent of an SSN.
> why take 600m

Just because that was the amount locked in contracts :)

If you have that much money you'll find ways to funnel them out while keeping anonymity. Heck, even selling tokens in real life at half their market value is an option if you're desperate.
Also:

> In the future I'm going to tap into Spotify listening history so I can surface music recommendations and other features.

See: https://github.com/zachwinter/kaleidosync/blob/6136f79988867...
Many restaurants, bars and coffee shops did not survive the pandemic. In some cases, the owners were already quite old and were trying to sell but when business went downhill during the pandemic, they simply walked away since they didn't own the property.
Hard disagree. Sometimes the terminal is the most efficient way to run Emacs on a machine in a remote data center that has a mountain of CPUs, GPUs, memory, and disk. TRAMP can be slow and inefficient. A LSP server process on a huge monorepo can chew up a large amount of memory and CPU on startup. Running all of this stuff locally on the actual hardware your code needs to run on is great.
Juergeb Schmidhuber predicts the “Omega point” of technological development (including AGI) to be around 2040

https://youtu.be/pGftUCTqaGg

The MIT Limits to Growth study predicts the collapse of global civilization around 2040

https://www.vice.com/amp/en/article/z3xw3x/new-research-vind...
"...their paper even provides a specific way to make one. The one-way function that they describe in their paper is too complicated to use..."

So can someone briefly describe the construction?
I'm certainly not so full of myself to demand some sort of special treatment on the Internet :P
Good question! I am using paper.js for svg path manipulation.

My guiding principle of finding the balance is that if something I can teach within simple instructions, in a reasonable length to be consumed in an app, I don’t mind adding it in even it seems complicated. A good example is kerning, which is adjusting the space between letters. Kerning is considered advanced level design skill, but the principle is so easy - it is like pouring sand between letter gaps and the goal is to make each letter gap contain the same volume of sand. With this straightforward instructions, all of my user tester kern the logo the way I would have (I am a trained designer). So I added it in.

I want the app to make my users smarter, not dumb down the app in sacrifice of the quality of results.
I think there's a lot of things that I have ignored in my career and come back to and then said "Oh, yeah, that was a massive net negative, I should've just done it right in the first place". Those are really valuable insights. Where can you skip the "best" method, and where is it really going to screw you.
You can startup an AI automated car driving startup more easily in italy than you can in SV?

In SV you can get 10M+ in capital pretty easily - close relative with one prior startup did just that recently. It's VERY low overhead, you can hire (and fire) folks pretty simply. The due diligence on that $10M didn't even require audited financials or anything.

I don't know anywhere in italy even close to that.
People are/were downvoting you but I actually gave up trying to figure out what this is about after 3 mins of the video.
You know exactly what I’m talking about. Which means you’re arguing in bad faith.

You’re telling me you are unfamiliar with people arguing that private companies can do as they please when somebody they don’t like gets canceled, then decry free speech restrictions when their side gets the axe?

You seriously want references? Go on twitter.
No, not even remotely accurate.

The browser still has to fetch and render the HTML. JS-heavy sites do tend to be slower, but no site has a 0s TTI/FCP.
It is a lot of work to create a business ecosystem that is able to nurture startups. I have some experience gathered over the years from Silicon Valley, London, Amsterdam, Bangalore, and now most recently Stockholm. There are drawbacks and benefits to all of them. The EU based startup environments suffer heavily from relatively smaller amounts of money available for the same thing (often an order of magnitude), and a fragmented starting market. The startup market in the EU is also fragmented over nearly every capital city in each country.

In Stockholm, where I am now, there has been reasonable progress. But it feels like we are nearly where the Valley was in 2000. (That is exaggerated, it is better)

A key takeaway for me from efforts like what the article describes is that a lot of it feels like cargo culting. “If we are more like Y-Combinator (replace with suitable other aspect of the Valley) we will succeed.” Where what is missing are things that are hard to bootstrap: large amounts of capital, capital willing to take risks, investors that invest in bold efforts, experienced and successful investors, successful entrepreneurs that go another round, a common market with similar rules, regulations and language; and more things I am missing (much mentioned in other comments).

Things are getting better, but it is still a challenge in the EU. However, looking at some of the valuations I see in the US, it appears there are bargains to be had in the top EU startup spots, where Stockholm is a good candidate.
I'm not sure I 100% agree with the rule, but sales teams should definitely consider it deeply.

It's worth the money for a sales team that understands this process. If your team isn't influencing the RFP, that means they have no real relationship with the client and relevant stakeholders. You'll likely just pull in cost-conscious or high-maintenance clients.
I believe in open source but not in free software. Keep a software its not easy and we should pay for it. But the source code must always be open. That’s my 2 cents.
This looks pretty cool, will give it a try. How much of a user's portfolio do I get to see?
Private-equity giants back new nonprofit promoting employee ownership
>It is Russia that started the war with Ukraine now

Russia certainly invaded, but do you think war started in February?

This conflict has been ongoing for years. We've known for 25 years that NATO encroachment on Russia's borders would guarantee war, even Biden spoke publicly about this in the 90's.[1] And yet the US thought it was a good idea to foment a revolution in 2014 and ensure a pro-US/NATO regime was put in power, triggering a move towards Ukraine NATO membership.[2] Why would anybody not expect war to come from that?

If Mexico joined a "defensive pact" with China, and the Chinese military then set up shop in Juarez do we honestly think the US would let that fly?

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o7DbO51Z3Co&t=17s

[2] https://www.bbc.com/news/world-europe-26079957
Interesting that they are changing the official distribution method from snap to flatpak. I've had much better experience with flatpak than snaps.
I would caution someone interested in this to consider some of the ramifications of using Julia / Genie. When I last used it, it was a extremely painful development experience because of the time it took to for Julia to reload when "live reload" was enabled. Further more, many features like authetication were nowhere to be found. Also, startup time for the server was SO large that it just does not work on heroku, even with PackageCompiler. And forget about using AWS Lambdas or Cloudflare pages or something like that. IMO, Rust, Go, Javascript or even Python is a waaayyy better option for this.

Kudos to the devs for continuing this work though. I'm sure it'll get there some day.

If you absolutely want to use Julia because you have an existing Julia code, you can use HTTP.jl instead. It's more lightweight and you can build routes using that into your application.
Sorry, you are misunderstanding me. I realize it's just an orange cat, but who placed the pixels on /r/place to create the cat image? That's what I'm referring to.

Reference to "everyone" on their sub being banned by admins:
https://old.reddit.com/r/Drama/comments/tty3fn/_/

If you go to their official site, you can clearly see (as of this comment) that they're using this cat as their mascot, and it's posted all over the place.

https://rdrama.net

So yes, it's "just a cat" except it's being used in a specific way.

And no, reddit didn't tweet an image of the cat. They responded to someone else's screenshot of /r/place.
You think the energy problem is hard? Meet the food climate challenge
No, that’s not true. Plenty of cryptography is asymptotic.
Combating glorification of Nazism, neo-Nazism: United Nations voting tally
> But it's the kind of thing you would see in a CS textbook, not just come up with on your own.

Well, LeetCode is a CS-textbook-problems kind of site.

You use it however you like. While I was searching for my first job, I spent some time solving problems and optimizing them, half to keep my skills from degrading after college, and half just for fun. I just treated it like a puzzle collection and had a good time with some of the more open-ended questions. I'm sure it'd be useful to help learn a new language as well. I'm not convinced it's effective as a general skill-improvement tool, though.
We don't know that M2 will be based on A15. M2 could be based on A16 which we know nothing about. I wouldn't be surprised if M2, Raptor Lake, and Zen 4 are very closely matched.

Very few people are going make buying decisions based on +/- 10% differences.
Yes, that’s the difficult part that the research is tackling.
Now, add jsx and ssr to your example, deploy it, then compare with the deno version in terms of performance, code length, and dev time.
AWS Cloudformation templates with pre-defined lambdas for example.
I can't remember ever having a receiver fail. Every receiver I've owned still functions. If I visit my dad, he still uses a receiver that he got in the 1980s.

Older receivers (1980s) can blow an output transistor, which is a pain (fixable if you are skilled). Newer receivers are often built with integrated power amps that have extensive protection circuitry... they're truly impressive, and hard to accidentally damage.

I've done some amplifier repair work. The amplifiers I repaired were typically much older (1950s, 1960s). The most common failure modes are fuses blowing, potentiometers failing, capacitors failing, and PCB-mounted jacks failing.
Can you explain yourself? 13G is the form that passive investors fill out. 13D is a more detailed form intended for activist investors. What is your special knowledge that everyone is getting wrong that you’re alluding to?
Go to the toilet before you start, ime.
This is just not true. Even with PackageCompiler I was getting 30 seconds or more startup time for a medium size codebase with Genie.
How the World’s Languages Evolved over Time
Was there a moment when you felt a market fit step change? What was that like? You've told us what you didn't do (great, btw!), but perhaps you could distil a couple of things you did do around that time that made the biggest difference.
> Firstly, anything which normalises surveillance by citizens on citizens is a death spiral for society.

The new SaaS is Stasi as a Service.
> May I ask how you decide to add me content? Do you follow links? Do you use other search engines' results as a starting point?

I initially did basically a DFS-walk originating at a few websites I liked, with some filtering criteria that deprioritized websites that didn't look too interesting. Now that I have a fairly comprehensive mapping of the space I want to index, I use a few factors like frequent outbound links from highly ranking domains to inform which new sites to index.

> I could probably shoot many more questions, but don't want to be a nuisance.

No worry, I love to talk about this stuff.
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I programmed FORTRAN on punch cards and on paper tape using a teletype, over an acoustically coupled modem, timesharing to a Univac 1103. Those were the days.
> I'd just like to hear a coherent argument why a good product doesn't carry itself to a decent valuation

Why do you need a coherent argument when you can do one better, observing reality. Lots of well polished products flop very hard. Ex: Quibi.

Unless you're tautologically defining a good product as one which is successful (I.e. carries itself to a decent valuation).
> offering completely random advice

To be fair, all startup advice is completely random advice. Really, there's no guaranteed rulebook for success, so everything should be taken with a grain of salt.
Crowdstrike releases replacement for gogo/protobuf
It read to me more like general advice that one should carefully examine any industry "best practice" in the light of your company's specific needs and circumstances.

So for example "we just used Heroku" might stick in the craw of developers who think AWS Lambda based microservices are the future, but for a small startup with limited resources and time Heroku is probably a safe bet.
Weirdly, this may be an unintentional bug, but it certainly READS as on-brand for AT&T.
This was precisely our approach, but we built our own features for the "gaps" that we believed existed in the other products.

If an existing app was doing a decent job, we didn't want to compete with them. The issue is that we ended up arriving in this "dead-zone" where we didn't replace an existing tool and pull budget from an existing category of tooling.
IRS details strategy for replacing its most ancient computer code (2020)
Realistically almost every web app can start as a one-tier web app that uses SQLite as a data store and serves mostly HTML.
Can't speak about AIX, but it was massively more used than HP-UX. Solaris was still under pretty active development and adding new and cool features in 2012, while HP-UX seemed pretty much abandoned by HP. Itanium on HP-UX was HPs last big push on HP-UX, but after that failed to catch on they seemed to give up on the OS.
That doesn’t really work either. I can afford to lose 75% of my income in any month. I have been in a situation where losing 5% of my income is financially crippling.
Yes this is also an additional gotcha that makes this process an even deeper quagmire.
Actually I'll extrapolate a little: The strings attached can turn into something similar to political control, or sometimes actual political control. This is admittedly a leftist (or modern right-populist) sentiment, but it's evolved from my basic libertarian notions. Large companies can have their arms twisted by the government, or they can have their own ideological missions. Free Software, maybe self-hosted services in particular, give us an escape hatch at least.
> If you want control over your workflow, a program with a stable extensions API will go a lot farther than a free software license.

You underestimate the effect of other programmers having that freedom. Even without being a kernel hacker myself, I get the benefit of an OS that does not spy on me.

That's why the freedom to redistribute modified copies is so key - the resulting ecosystem of free software is in many ways more important than the individual rights from which it results. So it's a mistake to think you don't benefit from the software freedoms, just because you individually don't exercise them.
Mexico will not send weapons to Ukraine or sanction Russia
It’s hardly narrow if it includes 99% of crypto in deployment.