skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Absolutely, ESPs are just microcontrollers. A Pi is a fully functional System-On-Chip. That being said the VPN is the only usecase you mention where you couldn't use a flavor of ESP.

Funny thing is that modern 3G/4G/5G modems are full System-On-Chip computers themselves supporting virtualization. The Qualcomm Snapdragon MSM8916 is a popular SoC used for LTE dongles that runs the modem Baseband Real-time OS and Debian/Android OS on the same CPU.
Don't forget the lies of cost savings that the Cloud providers have shoved down our industry's throats. We are paying out the nose for cloud services and we are giving up all the rights to our data. It's a bad deal in the end.

I have a bunch of friends that work at SaaS companies and their cloud spend for pretty basic deployments is in the many thousands of dollars a month. Most of their deployments could be handled by a half rack with beefy servers in a couple of datacenters for a fraction of the cost. I pay for a full rack myself and it costs me ~$1200 a month for space, power and bandwidth (10Gb pipe with a current 1Gb commit), and my hardware costs for everything in that rack were a one time cost of around $3000. I have 160 GHz of CPU and 141 GiB of memory for my workloads with a few servers that are not yet provisioned into my Nomad cluster.

And before you say well there are costs involved with finding people that have the skills to do that kind of thing and time needed to set all of that up, yes that is true, but our industry has moved from one bucket to another one that is more expensive in the end with a bunch of downsides. I think there is a middle ground where you can use some cloud services and run the important stuff on hardware you own. The tooling to self-host your own stack in a rack of servers you own is light years better than it was 10 years ago and it keeps getting better. Tools like https://nebula.defined.net/docs/ and https://github.com/poseidon/typhoon for example enable you to use whatever providers you want and build a deployment can cost less, gives you more control over your data, while being agile enough to make changes when the team needs something new or different.

I am excited for the next 10 years of progress and I'd expect we are going to see more companies self-hosting their deployments on bare metal.
Thank you for doing that. I've made it a rule that any smart home device I get must but usable when the internet is off. I got burned a few years ago when my fiber line was cut and I was without internet for five days, so I couldn't turn on some of my lights or control the temp on the thermostat.

Vowed to make sure that never happens again. All my smart switches now have local control.

The internet should add functionality, but not gate it.
Is anyone else unreasonably upset that they didn't reveal which the last shipped disc actually was?
> One theory is that such CEOs are overpaid because they have too much influence over the board that should be monitoring them on shareholders’ behalf and too much influence over the committee that sets their pay. Thus, CEOs are effectively able to set their own pay and distort their compensation contract.

Just a small amount of research unveils that many boards are comprised of people from a small and exclusive club. Why would one of these club members ever rock the boat?

As an obvious example, can Tesla shareholders really say with confidence that the board can objectively evaluate Elon?
The problem is that you have no way to verify what may or may not have been done by malicious actors using compromised keys in the meantime.

If you have immutable, permanent audit logs, you can go through all actions authenticated with something directly or indirectly signed by the leaked key. However, building such an audit log in a way that someone with maximum permissions still can't tamper with it is not easy — and not cheap. (And, worst case, the audit log may not have the necessary detail; e.g. just listing an authenticated identity, but not the way authentication was established — thus not allowing easy identification of possibly compromised access.)

As such, the hole in the strategy is that it doesn't account for other persistent backdoors that may have been added while access using this leaked key was possible. It only prevents further exploitation of the issue. But depending on the sophistication level of the attackers — which seems extremely high considering how the key was apparently stolen — it's nigh impossible to figure out how many secondary avenues of access they have established.
> I don't own the USPS nor do I own the national parks.

Yes we do (if you're a US citizen). You even get to vote for the "board of directors" so to speak (the legislative/executive branches of the US gov).

As for your other example, I can own quite a bit of a company and still get denied access to their offices and computer systems.
I have so far had to reinstall Windows 11 4 times. One of those times was a failed motherboard but 3 of them were Windows and its updates breaking the installation in some way and I was unable to work out how to fix it without reinstalling. If they move to keys not working again I loose something they have offered to me.

Microsoft really needs to work out what it intends to do for money in the future around Windows. I do not want ads, telemetry and all the other garbage and I certainly wont pay for it.
Sonos does a pretty good job still supporting there old hardware. The ZP100 came out 20 years ago and works pretty well today
This would be a decades long project.

You don't just have to get the probe there. (And which probe? You have to design and build it first.) You have to get it there, have it get data, and have the data come back. Otherwise you've just thrown a rock, which, yeah, if we spent a fortune we could certainly throw a rock out vast distances very quickly.

So, you either:

Do a flyby, which requires a slower speed. New Horizon's speed was good for gathering data from Pluto and sending it all back. The hypothesized PBH is small enough to fit in your duffle and probably much darker.

Enter orbit. Easy enough with a 5-10M object. But the orbit has to be a useful orbit. So either you burn a tremendous amount of delta-v to reduce your tremendous speed so you get a compact-enough orbit; which requires even more energy to get out there, or you craft the orbit such that the object itself helps slow you: but that takes time and more speed means more time.
Worked in an IT dept in early 2000's, still recall the office 2000 key code we used, fairly good for passwords honestly.
They only need to change the CDMA codes of the civilian GPS to render it unusable. Also at the beginning of GPS they purposely added inaccuracies into the timing to make it less precise for civilian use, but because of the FAA and other needs (and methods that have been developed to counter the injected inaccuracies) they finally removed it in 2000.

To respond to my question. With long term measurements and the help of the L5 band it is possible to obtain sub-millimeter accuracy [1]!

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Global_Positioning_System
SigNoz: Open-source observability platform built on OpenTelemetry, raised $6.5M
The Indians and Chinese buying gold are most likely much older and not as well educated or trusting of brokerage accounts and ETFs.
I bet it had a lot to do with those sticking around actually being the ones who use the service the most.

Similar to how gyms count on a decent chunk of members coming once a month or even less, but those members basically subsidize the $10/m price for everyone else.
And has shit performance, shit battery life, and runs shit hot compared to that Mac.
Dividing by zero was a lot more exciting on those mechanical calculators: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JU9ICaPZUCg
And in my opinion, the most crucial part of the hacker spirit is ESR's own edict: "No problem should have to be solved twice."

So I would convey the exact opposite aspect of the hacker spirit to the youth. Don't feel the need to read anything about history that isn't directly related to what you want to hack on. Black box liberally and dangerously and deal with the consequences as they appear. If reading history is what you want to do with your spare time, great, but let's be clear about what the actual heart of this avocation is.
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Backdoored firmware lets China state hackers control routers with magic packets
> capable of detecting active optical devices such as sniper rifle scopes, binoculars, and anti-tank missile targeting systems

For anti-tank missile targeting systems I could understand, since that might involve illuminating the target with a laser, but is it really that common for binoculars and scopes to emit light?
to be fair, the "casino of modal boxes" is not GDPR compliant.

The GDPR says refusing non essential cookies should be as easy as accepting them.

Enforcement is happening for cases like this, but it is very slow....
Oh goodness... I didn't expect to shed a tear at the end of that. What a gorgeous bit of writing. I can only aspire to be such a powerful storyteller as Mr. Chiang. Thanks for sharing.
That would be an introduction to antitrust similar to Google experiencing it with making Android free.

Continuing that thought, a free OS would hurt other (free) OS's, further hurting competition.
Don't a lot of modern systems combine GPS with GLONASS and Galileo?
That's more in the $300-500 range.
A thinktank got the cost of net zero for the UK wrong
"First, the researchers defined a way to measure CEO skill."
Very difficult.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jack_Welch

Was he good for GE or the beginning of the end?
UK airport confiscates passenger's Flipper Zero
Is it? I mean, I remember when VCR recorders first came out. Though they still exist, I don’t know anyone that owns one and I can’t go to the local store and buy one. What about zip drives? Floppy disks? 8 track players in the car?
I'd rather not have the $200 windows license at all and just use linux
Not really, though. In both cases the customer won't have a working device. Just in this case it's obvious while in the other it's less so.
Ah interesting, I did not know that. I was wrong about it existing before the transition. I was not a Twitter user before the transition and I don't know much about social media beyond X.

I still think it is a good thing, I've seen many examples of its usage combating wrong or misleading things and the community note is often more important and more entertaining than the original tweet. Increasing its usage I think is a great thing for democracy.

Side note: are all instances of being wrong considered misinformation? Can I start telling my wife that she's spreading misinformation every time she says something that isn't correct?
You "just" need thousands of employees to do additional labor. And then you need to process all of that data, including adjusting for the variability in how supervisors measure performance.
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Little by little? It was a mass lemming Exodus that jump-started back in 2014.
Well put comrade.
> You may be leaving a lot of upside on the table by never considering them as an option.

Maybe, but you're also avoiding a whole lot of downside. I don't think it's unreasonable to avoid Microsoft products, either as a business or as a person.

Whether or not it makes business sense to depends on your business, of course, but there are plenty of successful businesses who avoid Microsoft.
I'm saying that disappearing chat that is on by default is (trying to be) like in-person conversations. So it's easy to interpret person A's request to take the conversation off the record as evidence of a conspiracy, but maybe just just don't want a record of what they're saying because it's weird if I took a video recording of every in-person meeting I've ever had, and that weird feeling holds true in the digital realm as well.
How? Where? Asking for a friend.
If you can turn a project into a popular OSS framework, I think that's certainly a possible path to getting either consulting jobs or at least some interviews.

I've had multiple large companies (Shopify, Verizon, Comcast, Twitter) reach out to me in the past because of my large contributions to well known Open Source projects as well as my participation in the community.

These weren't job offers though, just an invitation to interview, so I still had to do system design and coding when I actually responded to one of them.

I've also been able to showcase my contributions when asked about a project I was proud of in other interviews.

My advice would be to contribute to very popular projects and get involved in the community, and let people know you're looking for work as well.
It's interesting though, to imagine a dystopian future where instead of red lights, we are stopped by ads that we must watch before progressing through an intersection, and the advertisements are spaced perfectly to control traffic patterns.

Samsung should hire me to design their next smart city, imo.
The Fascinating Article
A completely unremarkable article.

By that I don't mean it is bad, just that it is business as usual for the EFF. The article is expected and not particularly provocative. There are dozens like this on the EFF own Facebook page.

That's what makes me think the content of the article and the fact it comes from the EFF doesn't have much to do with the blocking.
Well, many people here ARE apologists for USA and NATO, they simply don’t know what they have done, or really anything outside the cherrypicked narrative they have been carefully shown by their domestic maintream media. (Similar to people in Russia and China being conditioned by their governments.)

But what do you mean by mental hoops? Let me reiterate, the view is held by:

Billions of people, and their leaders outside the NATO bubble

EVERY SINGLE ONE of our own ambassadors to Russia and experts have signed group letters warning every administration since the 90s: https://www.armscontrol.org/act/1997-06/arms-control-today/o...

Heck even the Ukrainian PEOPLE, the Ukrainian public itself was against it:

Pew: https://www.pewresearch.org/global/2010/03/29/ukraine-says-n...

Gallup: https://news.gallup.com/poll/104356/ukrainians-see-more-valu...

You gotta start realizing the role George W Bush played in all this, at the very least — pushing for Ukraine in NATO at the very time when its own public overwhelmingly opposed it.

https://www.reuters.com/article/us-nato-ukraine-bush/bush-vo...

The mental hoops are for those who continue to repeat the stock phrases

“open door policy”

“purely defensive”

“unprovoked and unjustified”

“weapons of mass destruction”

“hacked the election”

“axis of evil”

“they hate us for our freedoms”

These phrases are carefully tested w focus groups, and dropped if they don’t work (eg “islamofascism” and “crusade” was briefly used by Bush admin before being retired in favor of “weapons of mass destruction” and “axis of evil”.)
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Genuinely curious whether there were films you found on the DVD service that were inaccessible via your local library loan system (if you are in the US that is, did Netflix ever do the DVD service outside the US though?)

Good library systems have a good percentage of DVD released films readily available for free.
> to the point the government

we've gone from "a consentual and loving relationship which is useful for society" to "well some parts of it aren't THAT painful, so why complain?" real fast...

> prevent everyone else to benefiting

nobody benefits. Not even companies. It's a zero sum game. Spend more than your competitor to get an edge.
Microsoft have no idea what they are doing. They just throw poo at everything and keep what sticks.

Everything is however, still covered in poo.
> nobody has made the decision that making sure Earth doesn't get hit by an asteroid is worth an investment of a few hundred million dollars.

This is not true. NASA spent over $300 million to test DART, an anti-astroid planetary defense system.
Back in the day, when being a cable cutter was a badge of a pioneer - I have to admit that in all the excitement I never realized that switching to streaming digital content means never having access* to “your collection” - available catalog always changes. Doesn’t matter how old the content is - someone is always busy thinking of a ways to monetize it, which usually translates to it not being available when you want to watch it.

* unless one blackbeards it
Discoverability will also be an issue, I really liked getting into the more obscure parts of the dvd library and found many many titles that I would have otherwise never seen or heard of.
you're not wrong, but it's just crazy to me. They could've decided to do just 4K UHD Blu-Rays and charged $30 a month. There are niche's to be found. Like you said the opportunity cost is huge and so here we are.

From an outsiders perspective it's just incredible, though.
Office 97 was easier - 7777-7777777
> There seemed to be a general understanding of "people are running their business off of this stuff so we need to make it work".

I think this is the part that Microsoft gets, at a deep level, and Google doesn't (or, more likely, doesn't care)
Just show them some California -cool videos that Google “gets them” and Pichar talking some generic BS that they care about Education. That will work 8/10 times.
> your assertion as to the reason behind the increasing prominence of permissive licenses is overly reductive

Possibly. The push to use MIT/BSD from businesses, however, is very much real. To mention one, Apple methodically purged their OS of pretty much anything GPL. Most businesses involved in opensource insist that everything should be MIT/BSD, and absolutely nothing should even smell of GPL. They certainly don't do it because of philosophical differences.
I thought the Graphic showed "Rocketman." Did I read that wrong?
ah, Ok, I see what you mean. Maybe not quite as dramatic of a fall as I was envisioning. Yes if you're renting, that once fat salary can seem just passable.

I lucked out by buying when I did, and I was able to do well by renting out an extra room for a while until my income helped me be able to 'afford' the place I was in.
Sum types with pattern matching would likely take the place of (foo, error) in a lot of codebases.

This is especially true in cases where a function returns a collection of results where each result is independent from other results and a result can succeed or fail.

For instance, a batch report generator that is called every $INTERVAL might return a ([]Report metadata, error) today, but each report could have succeeded or failed without impacting the others.

The output is emailed to $SOMEONE to let them know the reports ran and information about each.

In today's world, the "error" could be a special error type that capture failures on a per report basis. The ReportMetadata type could also have an Error field, but one is not forced to check either.

Sum types could force checking for error on a per report basis, increasing the odds something is done with the error.
Low or nocode is imho not the holy grail for solving business IT problems. Low code or mda like tools have since 1980 be promoted using several names. have, e.g.:

Low code tooling
No code tooling
Model Driven Engineering (MDE)
Model Driven Design (MDD)
4GL tools

Low code tools are not strong on versioning and dealing with multiple parallel development tracks and teams simultaneously. Most tools are in fact based on a big design upfront paradigm, like an overall data model. Versioning on models, meta data and data of all created and generated software assets is poorly supported, if supported at all. Common practices seen in mature agile software development tools using micro services paradigms and advanced distributed version control systems are often lacking in the new low-code MDA family of tools. In large companies it is not uncommon to encounter models with hundreds (or even thousands) of entities / classes. That kind of models not only doesn’t help with developing software faster and more cost-efficiently but even has an adverse effect.

Low code tools have a strong focus on initial productivity gain. But a continuous fast changing business context with changing requirements requires an approach and toolset that is suited for giving long term productivity benefits.
No, blame the electorate, which has significant contributions from all generations (but decreasing Boomers now).

There is a doom loop of (western) democracies voting themselves welfare, wars, lower taxes, various anti-market subsidies, stimmie checks, bread & circuses... Then have the central bank print trillions $£€¥ to cover the deficits (actually quadrillions for ¥¥).

If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.
This product seems like the kind of thing a company would buy, it would be tried out in a few meetings, then everyone would go back to driving the meeting room's mounted TV with a laptop.
Is it really though, when you consider the realistic lifespan of the device? I literally got 10 years of use out of a 2011 MacBook pro, and I now run a second-hand 2018 Macbook Pro which is still going strong, despite being an Intel the performance is still fine, and it should hit the 10 year mark as well.

I don’t think there are many other brands getting a real 10 years of use.
This is why I keep a handful of old torrents alive in perpetuity.

If you’re looking for it, just be patient for me to turn on my client every few weeks.
Haha, I have exactly the same problem with my iPhone 12 Mini too, except I use Waze and YouTube Music with CarPlay, and it only happens on hot summer days, although it was in the shadow.

My hack was to put the phone so I could aim one of the AC outlets straight at it, which solved the problem.
Recent advances in SNARKs/STARKs/VDFs were funded by crypto. SNARKs have gone from unusably slow to reasonably efficient.
If it ever comes close to that the Federal government will ban it. They aren't going to run a Russian funded and built OS on government computers, OSS or not.
Is this true? A friend tells me that torrents for new episodes of ongoing stream-only shows are typically up within minutes to hours of being released.
> What are these individual "Internet Load Bearers"

Unsurprisingly (if you know his history), the author suggests himself: http://www.catb.org/esr/loadsharers/

This dude has been a "hanger on" since the 80s and has continuously pushed to put himself in the spotlight of the free software movement.
> I can't say definitively. But if you look at the linked article there has been a large increase in cancer since the vaccine rollout.

https://swizec.com/blog/pirates-downfall-causes-global-warmi...

> But go for it put your head in the sand and call me an antivaxxer.

Ok.
BTW the newer RotMG maps are based on this http://www-cs-students.stanford.edu/~amitp/game-programming/...
Very neat, i hope this will get easier to do in the future once languages start including these SIMD semantics in the language itself like rust tries to do:

https://doc.rust-lang.org/std/simd/struct.Simd.html

Libraries implemented in languages without these semantics will greatly benefit from this.
https://www.learnancientrome.com/were-there-ads-in-ancient-r...

> In 3000 BC, a slaveholder in Thebes, Egypt created the first-ever written ad. [..] The slaveholder was trying to find a runaway slave while also promoting their weaving shop.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

https://www.theguardian.com/cities/2015/aug/11/can-cities-ki...

> Even David Ogilvy, widely considered the father of modern advertising, expressed his disdain for the medium back in 1963. “Man is at his vilest when he erects a billboard,” Ogilvy wrote. “When I retire from Madison Avenue, I am going to start a secret society of masked vigilantes who will travel around the world on silent motor bicycles, chopping down posters at the dark of the moon.”
I know it is not a popular opinion, but I think Hebrew came before Phoenician. As far as I can tell, the data could point in either direction.