skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What makes a company a "US Company"? Aren't the big social media companies all global with offices in the US and most other countries? I get that a lot were founded here, but I don't get the impression that they feel that they derive any particular allegiance to the US because of that. Isn't it to the shareholders?
I'm like you, Asus router on stock firmware and happy. In my case I set that up after a bad experience with openwrt.

Years ago I bought a $100 gigabit Linksys router, immediately flashed it with openwrt, and set it up. I assumed my isp was the reason my download speeds were struggling to hit 100mbps (new house and network all at once), and later when I bought my first NAS I assumed hdds are just inherently slow.

I had abysmal network performance for over a year before I figured out my gigabit router was the performance bottleneck, my isp was giving me 3x what the router could handle. The reason for the terrible performance was that openwrt doesn't have the closed source binary blobs to run hardware accelerated routing, instead everything gets squeezed through the cpu, and my router couldn't do it.

So basically, many routers lose performance, in my case I got a 10x performance drop, and openwrts website is all but useless for telling you which routers to buy.

All I can say is be careful blindly installing openwrt unless your router has a CPU that's complete overkill for what you want to do...and none of the mid range consumer combined routers/access points meet that criteria.
It's a known and well disclosed part of Taiwan's deterrent strategy.
I've you've never had to do business with people you don't like, color me impressed
> Did PC manufacturers embrace FireWire even though it was better?

For a time they seemed to, I had FireWire ports even on computers at the lower end of the price range. What I didn't have where FireWire based gadgets and going by Wikipedia that isn't surprising. FireWire style peer networking seems to force a lot of complexity onto peripherals, with every device being equal. USB on the other hand pushed most of the complexity to the host, making peripherals cheap and easy to implement. Given that I am not surprised that USB pushed firewire out, especially when after it came out that most FireWire implementations had significant security flaws.
All the kids are chasing the AI money, so there's a lot of AI idiocy crowding out the good stuff.

I don't get this take at all. AI is hardly something specific to "the kids". Hell, AI has been the part of C.S. that I've been most interested in dating back to about 1992. And I'm creeping up on 50 real fast here. And I couldn't be more excited to see all the progress we've made in recent years, on the AI front.

Now granted, there is a little bit of a "pop" in interest right now specifically around LLM's and the GPT-x stuff, and probably more than a few silly startups being spun up that aren't really contributing anything new. So if that's the "AI idiocy" you're talking about, then OK, that part I can get. But underneath all of that, there's some legitimately fascinating research going on and some really cool stuff happening. IMO, of course.
Microled will prove very cheap when somebody figures out a good production process.

None of the materials are expensive.

The risk is that they patent that process and we have 20 years to wait till we get cheap screens.
"Gameplay is more fluid" =/= "game has fluid fps"
There's pushing and pushing. Nintendo vs Sega in the early 90s showed this. The Genesis had way more CPU power and MHz but it wasn't balanced (less colors, worse sound compared to SNES chipsets).

The N64 was a bit like that too, they waited quite a long time to release it to get special SGI capabilities.
Seems like a little bit of a strawman, they're all bad.
Apple seems to be terrible at software, especially web software. Either that or they just care less about quality control than anyone else does. I've seen 500 errors with stack traces printed out on iCloud.com before.

I'd suggest using software from an actual software company that cares about the quality of the service. Sync.com, for example, does only one thing (not like Dropbox, which is rapidly adding features no one cares about), it's end-to-end encrypted, and it's based in Canada.
Can’t wait for the injunction to hit in about 5 days.
For sure - I casually looked at OpenWRT on x86 and it seemed (on the surface at least) to be more fiddly than opnsense. Updates and handling storage/partitions appeared to be more unclear to me. But that was probably just me, I didn't dig too deep into it.
They need that money to try to invest more into the AI war
Germany at least used have an extremely rigorous licensing process so the average German driver was considerably more skilled than the average American. Maybe someone can let us know if that’s still the case.
I agree, the recount of that interaction had major "Oh you love X? Name every Y.[1]" Vibes

1. https://knowyourmeme.com/memes/oh-you-love-x-name-every-y
No, of course not. It's a certain demographic who have latched onto the word "woke" as Elon used it: first as a label for ridiculous radical-left ideas, and then for anything they associate with the left that they don't like.
Or Bitwarden's Passwordless.dev which is free for 10,000 users. The pro plan is $0.05 per user/month for the first 10,000 users and $0.01/user for users above 10,000.
>All you need is a for loop? Interesting! Why did they say that? What design decisions informs this approach?

For starters, Go not having a while loop.
hello,

idk ... but if your model is in the device compatibility-list, your should always be able to change to an alternative FOSS firmware. for example to https://openwrt.org or to some maintained tomato-clone like https://freshtomato.org

ps. i'm a happy owner of a 10+ years old RT N16 - it runs really great on openwrt ...

cheers,
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> The european community wasn't built out of solidarity, it was built as a mechanism to ensure we don't resort to barbarism again

You should read the Treaty of Rome before you try to act all mighty about stuff you clearly don't fully understand. The word solidarity is in the founding principles, and it actually comes even before "peace". The Treaty established the European Social Fund as well as the investment bank. Economic solidarity has always been the key policy to achieve progress in other areas. Most of the money the EU handles today, like yesterday, is used towards enacting that.

Everything else, i am sorry, is hot air (and yes, lies).
11%, below the Irish rate of 12.5%

https://amp.theguardian.com/technology/2023/apr/09/profits-a...
I'll have you know my fragile monster of a razer phone 2 has survived being dropped more often than I can count XD
Okay, how? Provide details, thanks.
Agreed! Have been a happy Affinity user since 2016.
But that would be for existing engine options yeah?

As in switching an A320neo from P&W to CFM, not switching an A320 to a LEAP that’s never been an engine option.
Someone correct me if I’m wrong, but micro-LED, by design is going to suffer from PWM flicker.

That is a deal breaker for many.
Of note, the smoke associated with coffee roasting isn't exactly healthy.

https://www.jsonline.com/story/archives/2019/09/18/coffee-ro...

> Tests at two midsized Wisconsin roasteries that agreed to let the news organization analyze the air in their production areas found diacetyl levels from unflavored roasted coffee that exceeded safety standards proposed by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

> In some areas, by nearly four times the concentration.

> Workers exposed to similar levels at popcorn plants suffered serious, incurable lung disease.

> "If roasters our size knew what this was, they would be super proactive," said Matt Earley, co-founder of Madison-based Just Coffee Cooperative, one of the two roasting operations that allowed the air sampling. "There needs to be hyper-awareness among people roasting and grinding coffee."

> ...

> The degree of exposure in an establishment depends on a variety of factors such as ventilation, number and size of batches roasted, how much coffee is ground on site and what type of equipment is used.

> Grinding coffee increases the surface area and releases higher concentrations of diacetyl than roasting alone, according to the Journal Sentinel samples. The government's study of the Distant Lands plant in Texas also found some of the highest levels in the breathing zones of workers who ground coffee.

> Inhaling diacetyl has proved deadly. Diacetyl attacks and obliterates the lung's tiniest airways, causing a disease known as bronchiolitis obliterans. As the body tries to heal, scar tissue builds up and blocks the airflow. The damage is irreversible.
Gameplay, art direction, and having an incredibly popular IP with a near 50 year history of solid game releases.
It's incredibly easy to emulate, and at much higher resolutions than the switch. There are also patches to unlock the FPS (and to fix the occasional 20 FPS throttling that the game forces) though I haven't tried them yet. I've had a few minor graphical issues, and had occasional crashes until I updated the firmware and game version, but it's working amazingly well overall.

Your GPU won't matter too much, so long as you have a decently powerful CPU you should be fine.
As someone that was born in the '90s and didn't really get access to the internet until ~2005 I feel like the "hacker culture" that I saw referenced in movies like Hackers (1995) was just a dream. I continue to feel like I haven't yet met people that even come close and continue to hope I can find them, but perhaps it was all just an illusion (or an over-exaggeration by Hollywood) and they never existed or they became extinct once the 90s ended.
Apple Pay but for passwords!

It will take over slowly, especially if they handle the edge cases well. Explaining passwords to people is a pain.
TotK's in-game mechanic literally operates like a gachapon machine. You insert something (a facsimile of a coin), out comes a capsule with something random in it. Softening kids to the mechanics of gacha isn't good. Furthermore, you completely dismissed the rest of my comment and what I was responding to.

Pokemon Masters is definitely a gacha game, so maybe there's a progression there in terms of where this is heading.

In the spirit of gambling, I bet you fifty bucks that the Nintendo theme park has gachapon machines with capsule toys in.
Graphics have stopped making any meaningful difference in the total experience since the PS2 era. The move to HD and 4k is nice, and things look a bit more realistic, but they don't make games any more fun, and they hardly even make them any more immersive. I will take a fun 20fps game any day over a 4K 60fps game that sucks.
I'm often discouraged by comments on Hacker News that downplay the importance of great design in a design-heavy medium.

This game isn't succeeding primarily because of great marketing, franchise, or blind loyalty to Nintendo (though all of those help!).

It's succeeding primarily because it's the follow-up to a game that critics and players universally found enormously fun. Before Breath of the Wild previous Zelda entries did not sell this well.
+1 for Acorn, my image editing need are pretty light and Acorn does everything I need.
Though note that the recurrence theorem applies to a finite phase space. An expanding universe such as ours is not subject to that. We just get heat death instead.
That such bans don't include domestic companies spying on people and providing that data to domestic entities says everything about how bankrupt this whole thing is.
You know that just because it's the same franchise doesn't mean it's not innovative.

BotW was completely different than the zelda before. The only similiar enough zeldas mainline were Ocarina of Time and Majora's Mask, and these Switch Zeldas. And still both MM and TotK changed enough things from the previous game they they feel very completely different.

Same applies for mario main games for example. Check 64 -> Sunrise -> Galaxy -> 3D world -> Odyssey. They are all very different games.

Formulae changes, that something that most companies don't risk with their big IPs. And still, nintendo does occasionally comes up with new IPs like splatoon or arms.
Nice, but looks like it didn't get finished :-/
Great article, but it's somewhat ironic that the article about UI has such a laggy JS/CSS heavy UI. Why on earth does this require React? A basic HTML page with a minor CSS polishing would do the job.
You can also build an X86 pfsense box that you can upgrade over time just like any other computer.
Yeah I think you nailed it. I think there's also different levels of hacker culture. I couldn't tell you a thing about golang's GC, but as a young kid I was absolutely fascinated by computers and learning at such an extreme pace. I was much more of a hacker type than I am now. And much of that is because I had basically unlimited time to learn. And you had to have a passion for it because there was typically no one to help you back then. Some of the stuff I coded as a kid I would struggle to make even now!
> ... nothing productive to spend it on.

Employees. Spend it on them. Fully pay benefits (actually no, we need to decouple HC from employment, but that's another rant), pensions, raises. etc.
Weird take because of how much they have experimented with entire consoles in the past. I don't know how the Wii could be called betting on withered technologies.
Affinity by Serif: clean, very capable and no subscription BS, so far. If you used to like Adobe Photoshop or Fireworks you will be at home with Affinity Designer. Disclaimer: I am not affiliated with Serif/Affinity, just a happy customer.
Are you kidding me? "MBA-types" have the same problem. How many frausdsters in prison have an MBA? It's a lot.
Part of it is that the systems got really complicated, and a complicated system encourages standardization, not specialization.

When computers were small, dumb, and did very little on their own, creative integration of heterogeneous pieces was rewarded and rewarding. Computers are now large, complicated, distributed, and part of a whole ecosystem. The kind of "hacker-shaped" grit that makes someone do something neat gluing a telephone receiver to a TV tuner? Well that's a fun Adafruit demo, but you could have done it easier and faster on a Raspberry Pi, and hell, there's already the scragglypete/tv-phoner repo that you really should have used (if you'd done a bit of research before you whipped out the glue gun, you'd have found the StackOverflow post from three months ago where someone went "Hey, I want to glue my telephone receiver to my TV tuner" and they were directed to that project). And while we're on the subject, that's not nearly as useful as the telephone-receiver-glued-to-a-tv-tuner emulator in this Docker container, because it does exactly what your workbench solution does but you can deploy eighty of them in one minute with a few shell commands and some money thrown at AWS...

Hacking is less cowboy-shaped for the same reason there are fewer cowboys... Eventually, the pioneer towns give way to the skyscrapers and city streets because once the wilderness is tamed, the city is way more powerful, comfortable, and productive than the cowboy life.
> no matter political views no one in either Russia or Ukraine seriously considered full scale war possible.

Plenty of experts have been calling it for a decade now... EU/US influence has been slowly creeping east for 30 years. Russia had no other options really - as soon as a pro-west leader was elected to Ukraine, war was inevitable.

And the same will happen in Belarus when the leadership changes there too.
Against LLM Maximalism
> Mobile connectivity plays an important role but it should be complementary, an add-on to the backbone not a substitute.

Why?
For-profit prisons, the "free market" of healthcare in the US, the need for environmental conditions free of demonstrably toxic chemicals, monopolistic rent-seeking... and more!... have legitimate use cases where capitalism is not positioned to address systemic issues. However, the author points to social media posts rather than address or even provide lip service to these concerns.

The result doesn't meet my bar for critical thinking, but I did appreciate the cartoon.
I get what you're saying, but I think the "nerds typically have subpar social skills" meme is often used as an excuse for behaviour that shouldn't be acceptable anywhere. I'm not even sure it's that true. Most of the more capable people I've worked with have been very emotionally intelligent, and I don't think I've ever found nerdy behaviour to be a useful judge of genuine skill or interest in a subject.

But in a reply to your comment there's already someone talking about nerds not getting on with "MBA types", like this is some American high school film and not real life...
That’s the thing, taking Ukraine gives Russia several advantages, Ukraine produces a lot of the agriculture in that region, so taking that gives them another large bargaining chip in their sphere.

Not to mention, it’s a large landmass that offers a huge buffer between the NATO countries and Russia.

And it’s got another 40 or 50 million people for Russia, which has a population problem.

And it’s got iron & Steel exports…

Taiwan has TSMC. And I suspect the US has a bunch of fueled up C-17’s ready to take all the important infrastructure to the US and plans in place to effectively destroy the rest at a moments notice.
so in the original context of my post... Zuckerberg : Harvard :: hacker : software industry. it's an analogy. I wasn't saying he's a great hacker.

But also the dude obviously is a great hacker. There are vanishingly few people who can bootstrap the infrastructure that will let a company grow to Facebook scale -- you need exceptional depth and breadth of computer knowledge, as well as great focus and an ability to prioritize and satisfice.
What is a "word"? Whether a sequence of sounds/symbols is one word with two unrelated meanings or two different words that are coincidentally represented the same way is quintessentially a semantic argument.
Bug Bounty Grift – Not so $1M bounties
How does this compare to automerge, yjs-rust and especially diamond-types which was also designed for text?
The problem is those routers usually have secret kernel modules that enables hardware acceleration, for example NAT offloading engine and ASIC acceleration for routing. Those are bound to a specific kernel version and is hard to reverse engineer for open source use because some of them are obfuscated binary blob
until a Node coder withdraws a tiny-but-widely-referenced package.
Slowly, chewing my food completely.
Would you mind explaining your issues in a little more detail?

> being passed user-defined SQL

What does this mean exactly? Customers were writing their own SQL on their own machines? Maybe expensive operations such as:

`SELECT ROW_NUMBER() OVER (PARTITION BY THING ORDER BY TS), * FROM EVENTS`

And since it was on a customer's machine, it became a problem you had no control over?
An Introduction to Async Stack Traces in Node.js
Can you heat treat to kill the knotweed? Like injecting steam into the ground?

Inspired by a demo reel of a ground cooking weed remover, I've experimented with using the tea kettle to kill stuff in my drive way. Works pretty good. A few square inches at a time. I poke a few holes and pour in boiling water.

The industrial size tool covers the ground with a foam, to create a thermal blanket. And then it cooks the ground. It looks like those street pothole fixing tractors, but using steam, instead of flames to remelt the asphalt. (The foam is like a thick bubble bath and will rinse away.)

Just curious. I recently became a "forrest steward" volunteer, and knotweed was specifically called out in training. Do not touch! Immediately escalate!

Ignorant, naive me thought blackberry and ivy were the final bosses.
Ancient Warfare Expert Rates 10 Battle Tactics in Movies and TV [video]
And this is why people who care enough to afford higher end products shouldn’t be burden by commodity product vendors like PC makers and Android manufacturers.

FireWire was better. Apple and high end PCs had them. If Apple created a better connector than USB C that cost more to include, it would never be accepted by Android manufacturers who want to sell shitty $60 phones.
I saw this one a few weeks ago. It's sad that it's displayed with a highly reflective glass cover in a very bright room. It's impossible to take in the whole thing at once.
I don't believe it would be by design. LEDs can dim without flicker.
You can't use LS or anything like that to get around GDPR.
I've been running separate APs for awhile and IMO it's the way to go if you're at all interested in running anything like openwrt/opnsense.

Modern routing appliances are like a vcr/tv combo. You will have a better time if you split the functionality apart. It allows you to change/upgrade pieces of your network infrastructure more easily.
I think I'll still be fuming about KSP2 for a long time. I don't know why I let myself have any hope it'd be good given the development history but I still bought (and returned) it on launch.

KSP didn't deserve that.
Publicly accessible DNS resolvers are an awful idea. Don't do it.
Same exact issue here on my RT-AX58U.

"dnsmasq-dhcp[1489]: failed to write /var/lib/misc/dnsmasq.leases: No space left on device (retry in 60s)”
There's small matter of the gigantic trove of treasure.

The Kuomintang took huge amounts of priceless Chinese artifacts when they fled to Taiwan, which are now in the National Palace Museum[1]. There's a case to be made that the CCP was on an iconoclastic spree and there was good reason to take the artifacts to Taiwan for safekeeping, but the fact remains that vast amounts of priceless Chinese relics are now in Taiwan. China would like them back and is willing to do more than ask politely. Taiwan can blow up the fabs, sure, but they're probably not going to blow up the relics. Chinese leadership would gain a historic amount of face by bringing them home.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Palace_Museum
FWIW I don't think it's coupled to size anymore: https://twitter.com/Dan_The_Goodman/status/16592125619115130...

> Although I just built and did a first load with the local server and got a 561ms before-hydration, so it's something specifically with `getServerSideProps` on Vercel
It's a pretty far out risk and far better than putting it in China like most companies do.
Tainted Kernels
Most of this applies to people developing applications that depends on LLMs. Some of it also applies to people using LLMs for other purposes. Very little of it is applicable to someone developing LLMs.
Six hectobillion dollar company
The real answer is that .zip should never have been allowed as a TLD.
FTA:

> “We value your privacy…”

There's a special place in hell for the originators of this Orwellian triple-speak. Three meanings overlapped: meant to give users the impression that "we respect your privacy" or "we protect your privacy"--but it doesn't say that. It says they value your privacy, which is literally true; they're happy to put a dollar amount on it and sell or mine it, because it's of value to them. That's two true senses; one inferred and one real. But the second gives rise to the third, Orwellian meaning: these people actually don't value your privacy at all. It's a lie, pure and simple. A special kind of lie that has such a flippant, corporate-speak, technically-accurate dry meaning that is meant for a court of law--it holds up when lawyers start arguing long technicalities before a judge--but just one level deeper it is despairingly careless and dystopian.

When I see this phrase I just know I don't want whatever it is these people are going to do with my data. They benefit and I don't.
Well, Figma is now part of Adobe, I recommend Penpot as an open source alternative, although it's not as good as Figma yet.