skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I just bought an AS5300 to play with a few months ago to see if I could get 56k modem connections to work over VOIP.

SIP channels -> voice card -> out a T1 (network) -> in another T1 (CPE) -> to DSP modem.

(Or dialout, DSP modem -> out a T1 (CPE) -> in a T1 (network) -> voice card -> SIP.

It just -doesn't quite- work. I can get 14400 no problem, but V.90 doesn't seem to entrain. Still troubleshooting (could be undesirable jitter buffer settings on my ISP side).

I just barely missed end-of-sales of ISDN BRI in my area which could have been useful for get to the PSTN at high quality.
I once read or heard a similar anecdote about Ludwig Prandtl who set up computation method using a room full of people each doing one step of a calculation. I recall it describing a finite element method, but that would predate the origin of FEM in this article by a few decades. Maybe it was just some numerical method.
Muda
The Fall of Big Tech Is Boosting Stock Quants on Wall Street
Yes, we get it. Microsoft bad. Very good. The reality is that quite a lot of “us” are still using GitHub, including the Microsoft-built/directed parts of it, willingly. A company can be hideously evil and still make a single useful thing in ~50 years.
Certainly that would be a problem for the US.

Over a century since war (as opposed to terrorism) has touched the continental US[1] means that no one alive remembers that being a problem, and it shows.

[1]: except $500 of damage from a Japanese submarine in 1942, perhaps.
Simplewall is amazing- and is impressive in how it's able to stop a lot of Microsoft's attempts to get Telemetry out.

I've been looking at Portmaster for a while- it seems to be a valid option for those of us who dabble with the idea of totally halting the telemetry despite it being designed to be hard to stop
Your van is one accident away from getting completely totalled and destroyed. Van lifers that do it for while and not just for the Instagram attention prefer something they can rip out and reuse in a new build because they will inevitably be changing vehicles in the near to medium future.
Huh. That's almost the opposite of what I understood - "new incremental hires" sounds like active recruiting, but I could see "passive recruiting" falling outside that heading.

Who knows? It's HR PR, it means whatever they want it to mean.
"I know you'll probably vote for $foo. If I check after the election and find that you did|didn't vote, bad thing $bar might just happen to your friends and family."

Edit: It's probably not a particularly good threat, but it could maybe be used to suppress certain targeted demographic groups that tend to vote one way or the other.
I'm sure there's no correlation between "teams with people leaving" and "teams that are under-funded or struggling"...
That risk exists at everything you do not host yourself on the internet.
You can just spoil your ballot.
yeah, but on twitter you're probably a nobody, the staff have no incentive to read your dms. on mastodon, you're at least a friend-of-a-friend of the operator unless you're on a huge instance.
What you describe sounds like the old Cracked model, which worked for a surprisingly long time.

The Onion was funny for a long time after they sold out; what seems to have tanked their comedy is an editorial decision in the last few years to become more politically engaged, and to start "punching up". You can date this to the time when they ditched the absurdist persona of Biden as a washed-up drifter they'd been building up all through the Obama years.
I'm surprised information about who voted is publicly available

Will businesses start offering discounts/bonuses for people that show proof that they've voted (under the guise of rewarding those that did their civic duty), but only in areas that are heavily biased towards one party? Technically it's available to everyone but only easily accessible to those that voted for the business' preferred party.
A bit obscure for the US, but fits well as a pun when the topic is NASA and JPL.
I’m going to love seeing all these gains eaten alive by adware and js and general modern software bloat, while the common user does the same functions on the computer they've been doing since the 1990s (email/web browsing/document writing).
I think that one of the main issues with stack machines is that the order of instructions in the original instruction stream is constrained by the instruction format - you can't as easy software schedule instructions (harder to express "I have all the information required to load that value from memory around now, I'll start it now because it might take a while").

Now any high performance stack machine is likely to decompose stack code to register renaming and micro-ops so some of that stuff is going to happen anyway (as it would in a register machine) and some stack ops (like dup) are going to disappear into the renamer (but then a compiler would do that as a CSE on a register machine)
It would take a college class on the subject to do the topic justice, but the one that comes to mind readily for me is the Space shuttle O-ring disaster.
Yeah there an incident of Muslims protesting LGBTQ+ content in Dearborn schools/libraries just a week or two ago. The left protects groups like Muslims because it's the right thing to do, regardless if that group can be hateful towards certain groups. The majority of Muslims used to vote for Republicans until 9/11, because Republicans continued to generally be against them while the Democrats stopped after realized hating a whole group over the actions of less 0.1% of them was actually bad. The Muslims I know mostly vote Republican locally, and Democrat nationally.
FOIA laws.

Voting integrity depends on transparency.
Not if end-to-end encryption is available.
And in the case of NASA: quite a few astronauts
Like who? I’ve never heard of this and am struggling to find any supporting material for your claims. Are you able to provide any?
Opt-in is generally more fair than opt-out, but in this instance it makes sense - they are not checking personal property, they are checking publicly facing webservers. They are not doing it for the server owners benefit, they are doing it to help keep people secure. Servers that aren't being patched properly are exactly the servers that are a security issue waiting to happen, that such a security force should be identifying and telling to buck their ideas up.

I suppose the differences in how those two equivalent departments approach this, likely come from national mindset differences, and the political differences they cause. At least it seems reasonable to me: that in Washington people might all agree that the right to decide if you are tested is more important than finding insecure webservers, whilst in London people might well all agree on the opposite.
Different NASA centers have very different cultures, with their pros and cons. JPL is known to have a tendency to overpromise and underdeliver.
This seems like a pretty ludicrous threat to make. You could just submit a blank ballot or vote for the opposing party and your hostage-taker would have no way of knowing.
> advertisers and agencies need assurances that Twitter isn't on the road to becoming a cesspool, and that their brand/ads won't appear near harmful content.

The underlying assumption is that slackivists will actually put their money where their mouth is. The Chick-fil-A boycotts did absolutely nothing to their sales and I suspect the same would be true for any company that people call out for advertising on Twitter. I seriously doubt that there are very many consumers will genuinely care where a company allocates its advertising dollars.

I'm actually politically left, but the reason I care is that I hope that this forces the left to actually act outside of being angry on the internet. As much as I disagree with conservatives, I have to applaud that they actually take meaningful political action (e.g. volunteer as poll watchers because they believe in election fraud).
Not being in the business of voter suppression, I couldn't tell you anything authoritatively. But if I was, I'd use the data to find who has a spotty or non-perfect record with the hypothesis that they're more susceptible to suppression methods than someone with a near perfect record.

Then the next step would be targeting locations that lean towards one party or using a combination of retargeting ads +obvious party selectors to run a BS phone or ad campaigns that disenfranchise or provide misleading information. Like this. Which was a real thing that happened:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2011_Canadian_federal_election...
Sounds like just another day at AWS.
This can be approximately true on certain teams but falls over for others, like people working on diagnosing issues, security, or performance. Those jobs are engineering-related but generally require spending a lot of time thinking about code rather than writing it, so the contributions from it are not easy to see in a codebase directly.
yes, because watching molecules is easy…right?
Sure, maybe if your manager passively mentioned looking at the stat, you wouldn't. If your manager brought it up in performance reviews as a reason you weren't getting a raise or being promoted, or suggested you might be laid off if you didn't get your LOC metric up, you would immediately change your behavior (or hopefully quit).
(Hypothetically) wouldn't it be possible for client devices to generate key pairs, and for messages to be stored on the server encrypted in such a way that recipients' client devices could decrypt them? (I think that's what Signal does?)

Not saying that that's what happens on Mastodon instances, I don't know enough about it's operation to comment.
Farmland is a lot cheaper than any land in a city.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09T643TQ8
Its probably even more efficient to utilize a regular plant where you get some secondary use from that biomass you’ve been cultivating
Very interesting! Most people who've lived in NYC know what overheated steam-fired apartment heating feels like in the winter, but I don't think many people know the backstory here.
You still doing that? Would love to peek at your blog.

Edit: from your KeyBase to Twitter to https://theothermccain.com/
You would have to do that on a pretty wide scale for it to be effective and would be caught pretty quickly after going after just a couple people.
Agreed, I learned it from his cs231 visual recognition YouTube lectures, makes it super simple
Oh they're "YOUR KIDS" when they misbehave, huh??
Since you admit to no prior experience, I fear that you might end up destroying the iPhone quickly. I would be more inclined to use it as a UI to an Arduino (or similar) embedded system.
There was like a few hours where it showed up as Helpful and showing on the tweet on Birdwatch (I saw like two or three separate screenshots of it) but not showing on the actual tweet, so I’m not entirely convinced
I don’t know if they are, but I think it is more likely than not that they are. It’s too compelling not to for a company like Amazon. Like PayPal, when you are caught it’s better to apologize and then quietly reinstate it. I’m shocked people trust smart speakers as much as they do.
Respectfully, the issue i see with bluesky and at is that it’s solving a problem no casual user really cares about solving. And jack hasnt been particularly great at solving the issue social media suffers from these days: toxicity. Facebook, twitter, instagram, reddit are all ridden by toxicity. Give us a place where nana and that weird cousin can socialise without risking being radicalised one political way or another, cant be misinformed and cant be scammed. On twitter i follow strictly science, book writer, game dev, and tech topics yet politics and identity issues are always creeping in. Angry mobs of glorified nobodies and their followers toxify.every.single topic. So instead of solving protocols please solve the quality of content and emotion. We need to fix the habits social media helped create instead of creating new ghettos.

Capture the beauty of life not the garbage of it. Look at human psychology and see what else other than anger can increase engagement and what algorithms can create a better culture. There is more than that emotion that can drive growth. I refuse to believe we are all angry shits, we can do better.
That's very different than your initial statement of: "Many schools of thought believe that it is impossible to prove the absence of something.". Many (all?) schools of thought believe in the law of excluded middle, which makes it possible to prove the absence of many things.
For any one else wondering what this new material could be, they mean aluminium.
Replace it with helmets if you want a more controversial option.
Can you suggest good places to look for more info on this?

I have tried a few times to find info on the accuracy of these models and couldn't find much. And most models seem to be closed source.
One of my favourite eponymous laws! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
Oh yeah, the real Internet! We scaled up to an Ascend Max TNT with a DS3 before dial-up went south, ISDN stuck around quite a while though.
Moxitec's L-shaped 1.5" extrusions can be used for largish frames with lightweight panels, https://moxitec.com/shop/ideas-and-inspiration-aluminum-fram... & https://moxitec.com/aluminum-framing
This isn't quite true at least in most of the US: if you never register to vote your voting history isn't public. If someone asks, you can always just say the IRS required you to give up your right to vote. This is a real thing done for some groups.
Just don’t enroll in a political party. Political people want to turn out votes for them.

In states with a closed primary that has some blowback. Where I grew up, the Republican primary was the election. Where I live now, the Democratic primary is the election - the only GOP candidates are clowns with no organization.
Sure they are. I’d like to use multiple V8s over multiple Camrys so I can get there faster for the trivial cost of some more electricity.
"Bashing new myths about digital nomads" with almost no actual evidence to counter those myths. The quote below is one of the "arguments" from the article. I hope the author can realize the extreme irony in this paragraph:

> What we need are real studies measuring the total economic, employment, housing and well-being effect of actual digital nomads on local communities. Such studies would show that digital nomads are very, very good for the communities where they live.
I never refer to myself as an engineer, it's mostly a job title that's been bestowed on me by industry trends. (Remember when "web developer" was a job title?)

I have tried to learn from my for-real licensed engineer friends what the profession means and emulate them. Without the safety net of a license or a code of ethics, it's mostly a self-indulgent exercise in what might be.
I think you realize that in a team of average-to-below-average ambition, it would usually be possible to accomplish manyX more if only the ambition could be raised way above average like you sometimes see in some high-performance organizations.

It wouldn't really take any more work either in the long run.

It really is a matter of attitude, it's so intangible but everyone has their own ambition level and some may never be able to level up beyond a certain point.

Sometimes everyone has to function close to the low common denominator, and it really can work at its own level. At the other end of the spectrum a team dependent on all high-performers going full speed will feel crippled with one person being out for one day.

If you've done the high-performance thing in the past, it can actually be less frustrating when you get into a laid-back environment, since you already know what you can do. It can be rewarding recognizing how manyX more effective everyone would be even if you can't utilize it at the time.

Also when you're going full steam that won't last either so you need to be prepared attitudewise for a more laid-back period after that too.

It's when you never have pushed your own performance to your above-average target level yet that you might benefit by moving way sooner from a place that's too laid-back. This may be early-career advice but it's good to know early what you really could do with the resources if you had the chance, even if you just prove it to yourself.
Yeah they’re really good at climbing so basically move all around.

As I understand it the fly bites hurt a lot so I’d imagine they’d prefer a lizard but worth testing.
I assume it would be a finite differences calculation, which is also very easy to parallelize/vectorize. They solve the same class of problems, but calculations with finite differences don't always converge the way that finite elements do.
> There must be around 100k forums in there.

Do you mean 100k posts? I wasn't able to grok the links, they had a search box that seemed to show individual messages without context and a general "closed" message.

It looked more like a guest book than a forum from my casual perusing.
If you don't own the key exchange (and you don't, even on the services most people consider secure), you're still, on some level or another, just relying on trust that this is the case.

At any rate, mastodon is a web app, not an IM client. No one who's ever raised this has even begun to explain how you could work e2e into something like it. Certainly no other microblogging platform has e2e anything, because that's not actually a thing that makes sense.
Whatever happens I feel like it'll be a big learning experience. I really have no idea what to expect - maybe Twitter does great and Elon's selling at profit in 3-5 years, maybe Twitter spins apart and breaks down horribly within a year, maybe the service works about the same but with some new features. I just really have no idea how to even assign likelihood between those three possibilities, I kind of think the last is most likely, but no idea. This is like running an experiment when you have no idea what the outcome will be. It's exciting!
Immersed VR connects to the computer but runs on its own. Imagine a remote desktop with multiple monitors.
We're moving on to quantum-resistant public key cryptography, so unless some QC hardware breakthrough appears really soon, we'd expect quantum computers to be useless against public key cryptography because we won't rely on the difficulty of factoring large numbers as a security measure by the time large enough quantum computers appear.
You are misrepresenting (Kendi’s approach to) antiracism with CRT. Antiracism (in general or any specific approach) is not the same thing as CRT. CRT is an analytical approach to description of what is. Antiracism is a mix of normative judgement of what ought ought to be and beliefs and descriptive theory about what actions will get from what is to that goal. CRT or other analysis of what is may inform antiracism, but they remain very different things.
It's not something that's out of reach for a web dev. It might seem like an insurmountable task, but if you break it down, you can digest it easier.

ML is just math. We're at a point where you don't even have to completely grok the math to apply ML techniques productively.

If you want somewhere to start and need a project idea, read up on how to build a simple binary classifier. The "hard" work is building good training and validation sets if you use a ML framework.
It shouldn't be dogmatic, but I think it should be something to think about when writing the test or reviewing one. A test should be single responsibility too, in order for it to not be brittle.

I disagree, it can be a good starting point for most cases. You should be able to condense your test in 3 steps (arrange, act, assert) each one a single line, and even if you do not do it because setup is too complicated, it's not worth it for that single test, you assert more things etc., I think the mental exercise to try to think: "can this be made in a 3 line test" is invaluable in writing maintainable tests.

> is that then one assert logically for any N? At what point does it stop?

This is one of the hard things about good tests, they are a little bit of art too. Maybe you can apply the single responsibility like I said before: the test should change for one reason only. By one reason I mean one "person/role": it should change if the CFO of our clients want something differet, or if Mark from IT wants some change.

I am not stressing or enforcing single asserts too much, I feel like tests allow a little bit of leeway in many ways, as long as the decision enhances expressiveness. If the extra lines are not making the test clearer, if a single assert would be clearer for the story that the test is telling, then it should go into a single assert. If I can break the story into multiple stories that still make sense, then I do that, such that each story has it's own strong storyline.
Alcubierre warp drive are a major plot two of my favorite hard sci-fi books, Flood[1] and Ark[2] by Stephen Baxter[2]. Really excellent books.

1 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flood_(Baxter_novel)

2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ark_(novel)

3 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stephen_Baxter_(author)
I’d argue, running it on your local machine as your own copilot seems like a better proposition than what is offered now.

There is still the issue of setting boundaries on what to learn from, but it is much more aligned with you taking the responsibility for what your copilot does or doesn’t, and it might give a better window of opportunity to customize it to your needs.

We’d lose economies of scale, but also lose infringement at scale, and gain individual control. Net positives overall ?
They're random on purpose.
Poll results:
https://gabrielsroka.github.io/hnpoll.html?id=33480849
Right. It would probably be more effective for getting someone to just stay home.
Debt only decreases if your income is going up as well. Otherwise it just stinks.
Worth noting with models like copilot is that if you deliberately give it an input similar to the training contents, odds are it'll near verbatim reiterate it.

The main issue is that while you can use copilot to create "new"/transformative code, it's also trivial to get it to pump out licensed works in a form where you could claim "I didn't know it was taken from x project with y license because the tool made it for me".

I personally have no problem with copilot in concept however to do it (or any other AI model based text/graphics tool) without infringing on people's copyrights is practically an unsolved problem (excluding just per-licensing the training data ahead of time).
"The ground game" has always included "finding out if your supporters have voted yet, and calling them if not." Long before the Internet.

It's just that now it's much more efficient, more accessible to more people, and it isn't just on Election Day, but for the whole period of early voting. So that might be a good reason to stop releasing the information.
The FSF has funded a set of white papers on the topic: https://www.fsf.org/news/publication-of-the-fsf-funded-white... . The one by Bradley Kuhn, which is likely closest to the FSF's official position, concludes that CoPilot is problematic.
Last I checked you can't actually access the underlying Postgres database through standard DB connections, the marketing is misleading.
Everyone wants to use VR to program on a few giant screens

but what if we changed the nature of programming and could represent it as something we could walk around and change things. Get back to working with our hands.
Wordpress.org Removes Active Install Growth Data for Plugins
Open-source licenses were a mistake. "Do whatever the fuck you want" should be the only open-source license.
There are poll observers who watch this stuff.
> wish leaving a comment was a requirement for a downvote at HN.

Finally. Someone who shares the same viewpoint as myself. thank you.
Sold to ad tech agencies who can match it with whatever other information about you they already have. It's a binary yes, no, so maybe abuse is too strong a word. There's limited use.
Not quite yet, the video is not real.