skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The things not really mentioned about Eero, tailored for this crowd.

- There is no SNMP.

- There is no decent network monitoring at all: on the app, or available via the API, if you were to use one of the unofficial API libraries off of GitHub. At all. I've put significant effort into this and ultimately routed the Eero through a dedicated VLAN on my network switch, and have a SPAN port up to do traffic monitoring and analysis via a Linux box.

- The (iOS) app is pretty flakey when it comes to syncing the state of the router vs what you see in the app. Eg. you'll have a device paused in the app, but it's not actually paused on the router and vice versa. You end up having to toggle it a couple times until the settings are synced properly.

- The CEO/founder and engineers hang out in a certain subreddit and are communicative about the underlying technology. I get a strong sense they care deeply about their product -- with the caveat that they are entirely focused on the non-technical consumer market.

I still use Eero, because it's the best I've found for dealing with kids and Internet use. If I didn't have kids, I'd just do OPNsense on a Protectli mini-computer.
> But this focus - deliberately engineered btw - on right wing firing is misleading. There is an order of magnitude more firing and suppression of left wing voices at college. It’s just there is no Fox News of the left to focus culture war agitprop on those cases.

If you're looking for a parallel that applies to cancelling the left, albeit outside the academy, union-busting is very common and tends to involve doing your very best to fire people who're speaking up about wanting to form a union. Such speech is pretty unambiguously treated as a "heresy" (in the Graham sense) by business owners.
The man seems to have also forgotten the cold war and the entire era of McCarthyism because if he thought being a socialist in cold war America wasn't a heresy he should ask some. I'd pin 1985 as one of the most monotonous periods of American discourse (mirrored in the election results of the time). Discourse is much wider today, mirrored in the resulting polarization that everybody talks about.
I find it completely maddening, and it poisons search results.

But on the other hand, in specific markets (like fashion, artistic photography etc.), Pinterest is unavoidable. People use it for planning all sorts of creative endeavours.

I loathe it, but I might consider using this for my mood boards.
> What would image compression look like if designed around other things perceptions?

If the other creature's vision is in a different wavelength range, then RGB images are not applicable to it at all, in the first place.
Not so sure about that causation. There's nothing helping me more to sleep than being healthy.
Matrix: Are We P2P Yet?
This is a very simple case. There is no nuance.

The number of matters in both law and public safety where there is no nuance is very, very small.

People who regularly speed are mad that this will make them face the consequences for their habit of breaking the law.

No, it won't. This app isn't going to produce admissible evidence for a speeding prosecution.
A big part of the problem is that the alcohol industry has had such a profoundly successful marketing campaign that they have actually embedded nonsense beliefs into the culture.

They have convinced society that A) it's almost impossible to really enjoy oneself in a social setting without alcohol and B) anyone who has multiple negative behavioral incidents related to alcohol must by definition be severely genetically deficient (rather than the alcohol having any blame for their behavior).
Wasn’t this compiler liscenced from Silicon Valley Software?
Atlassian Has a Recovery Time Objective of Under Six Hours for Its SaaS Products
Strange observation indeed. Must be difficult to live in a world where everything is black or white to you.

Is body autonomy absolute when you have a living organism inside of you? Is the "hate for women" justified for the sake of saving life? Is life even that important to us if we can allow a pregnant woman to arbitrarily take it? If so, what is our definition of life then?

Excuse my little tirade. I love the age-old abortion debate:)
Don't joke too hard on the internet.

4chan once decided to promote the idea that the "a-ok sign" (making a circle with your thumb and finger) is a white supremacist coded symbol, basically as a test of how easily gulled the press is about such issues.

Well, the press got gulled, and today displaying the symbol can get you fired, or banned from certain locations. The ADL considers it a hate symbol.
In my understanding, oceanographers complain of the huge lack of data and therefore knowledge of the oceans. They are surveying, but at a scale far too limited to be able to model that complex ecosystem.

My point is not to stop the current level of surveying, but an ethical issue: would it be such a good idea to give all the means they could dream of?

However, there is an interesting link provided above by a commentator: the global mapping will maybe be done by 2030. Mapping is an important part, but there are many other aspects to survey in the ocean ecosystem.
This is validating my decision to mute tech twitter hype accounts like TylerGlaiel and SwiftOnSoftware many months ago.
Unfortunately, I found that Hide My Email complicates unsubscribing. I tried unsubscribing from Jumba Juice many times unsuccessfully, only to realize that the email that I entered was my actual email, and I should enter the email that was shared to Jumba Juice instead.
> someone expected this junior to be somewhat more productive than could be reasonably expected and you were caught in the middle

Good eye.
All this really shows is that people are easily influenced, especially people who are habituated to getting their 'news' from cable outlets like Fox or CNN.
web3 apps do have high transaction costs, but that's not really reducing the costs that the web3 app would have otherwise paid to have a local database. So it costs money, but the developer doesn't really earn anything because of it.
It's called SVG :)
Venor Vinge, A Fire Upon The Deep (1992):

>Fleet Central refused the full video link coming from the Out of Band … Kjet had to settle for a combat link: The screen showed a color image with high resolution. Looking at it carefully, one realized the thing was a poor evocation…. Kjet recognized Owner Limmende and Jan Skrits, her chief of staff, but they looked several years out of style: old video matched with the transmitted animation cues. The actual communication channel was less than four thousand bits per second

>The picture was crisp and clear, but when the figures moved it was with cartoonlike awkwardness. And some of the faces belonged to people Kjet knew had been transferred before the fall of Sjandra Kei. The processors here on the Ølvira were taking the narrowband signal from Fleet Central, fleshing it out with detailed (and out of date) background and evoking the image shown.
My comment is about news outlet's obligation to verify information they publish. I never said anything about posting satire by individuals.
> Grid-scale battery systems have fallen more than 70% since 2015.

Grid-scale batteries are still tiny. Lithium batteries will not solve the grid problem anytime soon. Lithium (and co) will be strained to the max already.

Every other technology has barley been deployed at all. And there is already a whole litter of energy storage startups that have died.

> Nuclear is one of the most expensive and keeps getting more expensive

In order to get more expensive we would actually have to build plant.

But literally any series engineering analysis of modern GenIV plants show gigantic potential of cost improvement. And if we could actually build them in series production there is another order of magnitude of potential cost improvement.
The answer seems to be no based on the Google SEO podcast: https://developers.google.com/search/podcasts/search-off-the...
Maybe you could elaborate… what do you mean? Both of those examples (JPEG, H264) have decompressors for viewing, right?
I couldn’t find the link of the repo in the site. Thanks for checking.
Everybody knows batteries are the most expensive storage. So, rising battery prices have no impact on utility-scale storage cost.

A GW-scale electric ammonia synthesis plant is under construction in Norway. Hint, you don't built a GW-scale operation on unproven tech.

We will need hundreds more of them.

Every cent diverted to building nukes from building out renewables brings climate catastrophe nearer.
But the quote isn't about "ideas" being in power. It is about people. I think it is plain to see that gay people and transgender people are definitely not "in power" in the west in any special way. For somebody to believe this is to believe a wild conspiracy based in no facts whatsoever. And I think this is a pretty compelling argument for why the quote is horseshit.

Unless there is some actual secret shadow government operated by women, gay people, and transgender people, the existence of "Kill All Men" as a joke on Twitter is a rather intense indictment against the merits of the quote.

So in addition to being originally coined by a Nazi to argue that Jews secretly control the world, the quote is idiotic on its merits.
> ..and that when we fixate on the people who build systems and forget those who maintain, moderate, and use — or, in this case, exploit — those systems, we’re missing the messy realities of how technology actually evolves.

(Somewhat out of the original context, but this really stuck with me)
They used to literally reuse the animation in older Disney films, just with different characters on top. You could send that information, the scene and the characters, in significantly fewer bits than it would take as video
I think you were on the right track with physical books. (And I think of the delays in writing notes as a way to force me to linger with the material I'm trying to remember.)

Sometimes I will leave the house with a book or two that I want to read -- leaving behind my laptop (and maybe even turning off my phone). A peaceful, boring, sunny day out in nature somewhere....with only my book.
Companies doing molten salt reactors, including Thorcon, think they can make nuclear dramatically cheaper. There are reasons to think they're correct. It seems like a good idea to let them try.
Does anyone have a good reference for Tikz? I feel like I'm pretty good at it (at least better than most my peers) but I also believe it takes a significant amount of time to create interesting pictures and do even basic things that PPT or other basic tools can do easily. I want the full editing power of tikz but doing the basic parts is tough (same with manim, though lower barrier to entry).

As for writing documents with lots of math, absolutely no problem. I can churn that our faster than peers can with Word.
What happened? They took VC money which forced them to "grow without bounds". This caused them to lose focus and expand their features in irrelevant ways while stretching their internal teams too much and not listening to their active customer base on features to prioritize (even though they had forums for this very purpose). Over time their tone-deaf stubbornness caused the accumulation of too much technical debt. Instead of doubling down on developing performant features that customers actually needed and wanted to use in their knowledge-bases systems, they dressed as Teletubbies (seriously, it was on their "Careers" page a few years back) and created a disjointed mess of alternate products that they did not integrate properly into their system (i.e. Penultimate does not integrate in any useful way). Then they had a brain drain and executive flight (new CEO etc.). Then they moved to Electron, lying to customers saying it was "Feature-Ready" (from the mouth of the CEO) when it was a dumpster fire of a regression, actually removing features and poorly implementing then existing ones. Now its a nagware-bloatware.

Don't take VC money for knowledge-base companies. You need thoughtful development for these types of applications and a commitment to the very long term, which is incompatible with VC. Obsidian has fallen into this same trap.
COVID has changed a lot because it brought into public debate how to evaluate deeply held beliefs about predicting the future. The discussion is high-strung because it covers a life-or-death topic, and it’s so diverse (e.g. science vs region vs conspiracy vs liberty etc) that it forced the quantization of opinions. Once you swap an opinion for a symbol, game theory takes over the conversation.

What could help solve this? Real reconciliation of the different perspectives. There’s a common overlap: we all want to live, and we all have nonzero ignorance.

The tragedy is that the inordinately rich like paulg continue to divide with these self-serving essays instead of helping other to grapple with the K-shaped recovery we’re in now. The place to innovate now is not in blue-sky futurism but to innovate the recovery of those who COVID hit the hardest.
Personally for feedback I use editors like overleaf or the extension for vscode that autocompilea and displays a PDF next to the working TeX file. I prefer it over something like LyX or waiting to compile manually.
All these years later ... all anyone ever wanted was /cgi-bin/gallery.pl ...
The anti-progress candidate—as defined by “affluent coastal elites”: https://www.nytimes.com/2020/09/18/opinion/biden-latino-vote...

E.g. they called Trump a racist for saying things that most minorities themselves agreed with.

> We began by asking eligible voters how “convincing” they found a dog-whistle message lifted from Republican talking points. Among other elements, the message condemned “illegal immigration from places overrun with drugs and criminal gangs” and called for “fully funding the police, so our communities are not threatened by people who refuse to follow our laws.”

> Almost three out of five white respondents judged the message convincing. More surprising, exactly the same percentage of African-Americans agreed, as did an even higher percentage of Latinos.
In addition to not being the same as getting through the night, it's far from the same as getting through several cloudy days in a row.

Energy sources that work when they want to will never replace energy sources that work when you tell them to. Lobbying against nuclear is just lobbying for coal and gas.
> the government is charged with fairly apportioning the space to each of them in turn, in such a manner that both will ultimately be able to express themselves.

But even if you have the space according to whatever schedule is set up, I and all my friends can still go to the square while you are talking, and we can open our mouths to scream at the top of our lungs for as long as we like. Right? That's unrestricted free speech, is it not? For the government to come along and tell me to close my mouth, that would abridge my free speech rights.

> What people are describing as "cancel culture" is a totally different phenomenon.

I'm not sure. I've seen the term applied to almost any kind of restriction of speech, no matter how benign or justified. It's so broad as to be meaningless at this point.
Because it would be astounding to add any creature to the list of self aware creatures?
You may also want to check out sioyek which is an open source PDF viewer specifically designed for reading research papers and textbooks.

https://github.com/ahrm/sioyek

Disclaimer: I am the developer of sioyek
Can I use this to build a internet video archive a la netflix? I don't trust the copyright owners to do so forever.
You can enforce the constraint, but it shouldn't be in the class itself. How to you make instances for tests?
Hm. I meant to say that "The Amtrak-run NEC is decently run."

Is it true high speed rail, no, but at this point the startup costs of actual high speed rail are so high that private entities pretty much never take it on. (Brightline in Florida is not actually high speed rail due to the speed, Texas Central is floundering due to lawsuits, Las Vegas to LA is on constant life support, etc.)

The only profitable private railroads are the ones that started off with cheap property to develop near stations and never sold it off, essentially becoming landlords/property developers in their own right. But the horse has left the barn for that in the US and nearly all city center property is expensive for a singular entity to just buy up and redevelop.
Maybe with lots of investment and buy in we can do that in the West.

However for emerging economies like India, Indonesia and many others I still think reliable nuclear power close to population centers is a far better plan.

The actual investment required to get a modern MSR style (doesn't have to be thorium) is not actually that much.

I would at least like to see nuclear get an actual shot at it.

But I agree that after nuclear getting the short straw for 40+ years solar/wind are finally getting to the point where they might be an option.
single-pair ethernet?
> Of course, Google didn't pay that much. They own the hardware.

You’re right. Google had to:
1. Design, tape-out, manufacture, and deploy TPUv4
2. Run PaLM
One tip I've picked up from experience: avoid projects that have user accounts.

If your project has user accounts, you'll get users who you have to take responsibility for. Then it's not a side-project any more, it's a part-time job.

These days I much prefer side projects which have no user accounts at all (like https://www.niche-museums.com/) or that are open source tools where the end user installs and uses the software without me having any involvement at all (like https://github.com/simonw/shot-scraper)
Little rant about GNOME's file manager (a.k.a. Nautilus)
POV-Ray has a special place in my heart. For the vast majority of artistic tasks, Blender is a hugely superior environment that will produce better images, faster. And you can generate meshes to import into Blender with OpenSCAD if you really like CSG. It doesn't have the precision of raytracing the mathematical specification directly, but you don't really need that ever.

However, for certain very narrow categories of things, it's probably still the lowest-impedance tool for the job. Want to make a website that shows a static image of the current cloud cover + illumination of the Earth, updated every minute? Want to make some geometrical visualizations for a math textbook? Want to experiment with extremely weird and exotic camera projections? POV-Ray!
Warning efficiency vs. Infection, not deaths.

And omicron is practically harmless for the vaccinated.
Yeah, I'm personally a proponent of these kinds of reactors over coal or traditional fission reactors. The post I was responding to was asking for devil's advocate instead of all rosy.

I think the upside tradeoffs for this kind of nuclear power are preferable to going without.
https://trustoverip.org/wp-content/toip-model/
I called the right a bunch of nationalist hypocrites!! I wasn’t trying to be kind to them, I agree they are doing identity politics too.

I am claiming that is the left that more prone to be cancelling people for heresy as per the original article. The right is more pernicious but there issues are different from a free speech/heresy perspective.

It’s OK for me to just use one side to make a point you know. I’m not the BBC.
As you mature and gain experience it’s normal and healthy to have less “raw certainty” - but most of that is misplaced anyway and we’re just ignoring the uncertainties inherent in the world, and getting over excited by our own untested ideas.
As I’ve aged I’ve found that it’s easier to focus on the questions that really matter, whether it’s “will this actually make money” or “will I actually enjoy working with these people at this company (regardless of how fashionable or prestigious it might be).
Mail services also included small parcels, and if anything those continue to need ever faster logistics.

When we talk about air vs rail we are talking about hours and days vs. days and weeks.
Except that the conversations on social media seeps into and spills over into other facets of real life and affects public discourse on traditional mass media and public policy in general.
Study[1] has two authors, second of which is well-qualified[2] to discuss procedures and ethics regarding organ donation. Funding information is listed right after the publication date. It's not hidden information that requires any digging.

If this is sloppy anti-China propaganda as asserted, it should be easy to dismiss. Does it make sense that everyone involved in the review process of the American Journal of Transplantation all share the same political beliefs?

[1] https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1111/ajt.16969
[2] https://www.eacts.org/faculty/jacob-lavee/
Fired for being gay at public school: absolutely cancellation, and wrong.

Fired for discussing sex and gender with students: debatable.

Fired for being gay at a Catholic school: much like I'm fine with Hasidic Jews, Mormons, or Muslims doing "backward" things to maintain their enclaves, so too am I fine with Catholics doing it. Do I want all of society to be like this: please god no.

Whether all of this changes my opinion: no, but I will keep my mind more open. I think more examples, especially ones in public schools could change my mind.

I can also hear an argument against enclaves of the sort I spoke of above having less freedom. I don't have a great one in support of it to begin with. The topic is very messy.
I agree with what you're saying here, just want to add that your example also kind of upholds the original line. Delivery, audience, tone, implication/insinuation factors all matter a ton... but in a text medium, barring access to any of the above, we kinda assume that if someone's white, upper-middle class and well educated, they're at least a little prejudiced against black people. Which was the original point.

(For bonus points I likewise kinda assumed with nothing to go on except the broader context that our "white, upper-middleclass college graduate" is going to be male and likely middle-aged or older.)
> you probably don’t want to use a random address for critical services such as online banking.

Why not?
There are several studies that show that a significant portion of Americans hold a more conflicted view of driving than you believe here. A quick search gives me [0] which is cited by a ton of follow-up research. While I think this is a sociological issue and therefore difficult to pin down, I have a hard time seeing this research and thinking that “a tiny minority” of people want to do away with cars.

Re: cars vs insurance, used cars are the economical choice, so new car commercials are targeting the premium demographics.

0: https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S09658...
Regulation prevents all technical progress for 40+ years is a good thing.

Its just mind-blowing that such a statement can be made on a site called 'Hacker News'.

Lets promote fear of technology and use regulation from preventing new technology to replace deadly dirty coal for decades and decades. What an amazing plan anti-nuclear people have been pushing for the last 50 years.
I'd love to say that I had some weird or crazy network and that was the cause. But it was all the usual stuff. 1 TV, a few phones, a few laptops, a printer, etc. Probably less than 15 devices, some of which were only occasionally active (e.g. printer) at any given time.
Talking gigas is a bit sexually provocative, but I thought the US was mostly limited to megabits.