skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not sure if it was intentional, but Crichton here uses the same Pollan metaphor that Johnson makes in his book, The Information Diet. In fact the tagline is right on his site: http://informationdiet.com/

I just got finished reading the Information Diet a couple weeks ago and was pretty disappointed in the book overall. Same with this article. Both seem to have a problem that I agree with: we should be more intentional about the information we consume. However, the "solution" in both isn't fully realized or it's tainted with an agenda of some sort.

I'm really ready for a good book on this topic as I raise my kids in the junk knowledge/misinformation age.

Anybody have any recommendations?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJX4ytfqw6k
I am more worried that humans are destroying this planet and ecosystem at an exponential rate, no external cause needed.

https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2014/sep/29/earth-lo...
HomeKit was announced in June 2014, and released September 2014.

Thread was developed at Nest. The Thread Group was announced July 2014, far into HomeKit's R&D cycle. There wasn't much, or obvious, commercial support for for years. (Although to be fair, HomeKit has taken forever to get traction, too.)

I believe that at the time Apple was also concerned about the quality and security considerations of a Thread-like system. I can't prove or cite this, but having worked with Apple engineers who worked on MFi (ironically, I worked with them at Nest, not Apple), I'm skeptical of the narrative that it was devised as a revenue source. My sense from the culture of Apple when I was there (90s) and everything I see coming out of there more recently is that Apple tries to maintain standards of peripheral quality, security, and compatibility and that have been difficult to find in the Android ecosystem, say, although this has been detrimental in the case of HomeKit adoption and they've finally backed off.
You're right, I'm referring to port forwarding, including the SOCKS interface.
> But you won't be able to synthesize a RISC-V CPU. The iCE40 series consists of relatively small parts.

You can fit picorv32 on an iCE40-HX8K, although admittedly you'll only get an RV32IMC core with just the user ISA.
This looks good, I think that it would be worth giving it a shot. My main problem is XML, it is always incredibly slow to parse, and there is not an accepted defined way to express the content, s-expressions would do a much better job, perhaps a combination between C parsing scheme definitions of UIs could work.
Do you have good config files for this? I've tried all the prebuilt stuff and I have serious issues with it. Would love to have a cheap VPN termination point at my office and at home.
I really think you have some mythical view on how people used to live.

Regardless of how far back you go life was harsh, miserable and unforgiving and the further you go the worse it gets.

Fresh food was never a staple diet, hunting wasn’t done on a daily basis it was seasonal meat would be smoked and salted to be preserved.

Fat would be fermented and preserved.

Plants as well would be fermented or dried to be preserved for later consumption.

Famine and starvation was abound whole populations were wiped out due to famine multiple times even before we started to live in large cities.

Living in caves and huts burning wood would result in lung damage even before counting things like cavers lung.
The smallest of injuries could be fatal and it often was.

There was essentially no period in which we were healthier than we are today even if you are an alcoholic coal miner who’s living only on KFC.
Shopify account takeover via race condition – Fixed
Saving a possible inflammation probably?
Is “Murder by Machine Learning” the New “Death by PowerPoint”?
Nice. I'm actually working out of a library today with the Planetary Omnibus, and I keep intending to set aside time while I'm here to start from the beginning and take notes. Such a rich world and I generally can't take enough time to read very far into it, I keep losing track of what happens along the way.
From the readme:
"Relaxo is designed to scale to the hundreds of thousands of documents. It's designed around the git persistent data store, and therefore has some performance and concurrency limitations due to the underlying implementation...
Relaxo can do anywhere from 1000-10,000 inserts per second depending on how you structure the workload."
had never thought about that - I've lived in Japan for 14 years where we hang dry, and yes, I have some pretty old stuff that is still in fine condition
I know you probably can't say who it is but I am bursting with curiosity.
> I don't need to shell out anything. I can find perfectly good content from people that care for free, and I myself write perfectly good content for people that are interested in the topic and provide it for free.

What kind of content is this, exactly?

I think you're missing the forest by focusing on a few unique trees. I agree, you're likely to find far better free stuff about tinkering around with microcontrollers (for instance) that are written by hobbyists than you will from paid publications. Taken all together, though, that kind of stuff is ultimately very limited and misses whole universes of valuable areas. For instance: news reporting, history books, etc. require a breadth of attention and effort to create that just isn't possible with a day job. If you want to "improve your mind, to improve your awareness and understanding of the world" you can't hyper-focus on hobbies.
CuriousMarc (I think, not sure if typed correctly) has a lot of behind the scenes videos on YouTube for that vintage computer stuff, mostly at the Computer History Museum where they work on the IBM 1401 and the Xerox Palo Alto.

Some of the repairs are for the tape drives, some are for the CPU itself, it's all really interesting to see.
U.S. Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs SD-538: HODL
The way HN is wholeheartedly glomming onto this is just nauseating. Please don't tell me we're going to start a whole new wave of language-shaming because someone someone linked to an implicit newspeak advocacy PDF once.
It's interesting that nobody doubts that these images are real.

It's quite off topic for hacker news but I really encourage people to research nasa and the so called space exploration program.
> However, my car payment is fixed

You are missing depreciation. Those miles aren't free, in capital cost.
You can replicate it to other regions, but it's not assumable that it's replicated by default. You can enable replication to other region's buckets though.
Windows 7 has basically the same problem with settings. You have the dumbed-down, XP-style control panel that doesn't expose all the settings, and the hidden classic versions of the settings.

For example, the useless user settings in the control panel and the more useful old version in "control userpasswords2".
OpenVPN is easier to setup than what exactly?

I found OpenVPN to just feel VERY VERY clunky. The clients look ugly and unpolished. Before anyone says that's superficial, I do think it shows a lack of attention to detail. Setting up the server also wasn't terribly easy (it wasn't too hard either for someone like me who's used Linux for many years).

I think most of OpenVPN's value has come from the fact that it's the last difficult of solutions to implement.

For the record, I wasn't claiming that WireGuard was this easy to setup. But I think the mentality of WireGuard is simplicity. I think it's only a matter of time before someone DOES implement a single click client/server with it.

Right now I use Algo, which is just an excellent set of scripts used to setup VPN servers. This way I don't have to use OpenVPN, and I can actually use IPSec with built-in OS clients.

Update: Also I'd like to add that WireGuard just feels like the kind of thing Apple would've implemented in their OS 10 years ago. But Apple today wouldn't. They just seem to be barely treading water in their MacOS group.
I used to use VirtuaWin[1] on Windows, which adds virtual desktops to it. It's possible it doesn't work in the most recent Windows (although, given Win compatibility, it could just as well work), but until Windows 7 (when I stopped using Windows) it was a life-saver. I used Enlightenment (E16) on some of my computers back then and after working with multiple desktops I just couldn't live without them. I mostly use 3x3 layout, with the main application I work with at the center, and other applications to the sides. Works great for me!

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VirtuaWin
In my opinion, you're arguing against a point nobody made. Literally not one said people lived better before.
I would say "computer people" ie spend a significant portion of their time on a computer with a physical qwerty keyboard tend to use FB messenger to chat or discord if they play games.

My preference is probably steam chat. The new signal desktop is a dumpster fire.

Most people in my age group simply don't spend very much time in front of a computer. Their phone is their portal to the internet and has generally everything they're looking for.
A good write-up and read, as ever, Ken.

I've a punch card from that machine (somewhere!) - picked up the last time I visited the museum.

I used to fly over from the UK a few times a year to visit corporate HQ in San Jose, and I used to enjoy taking the VTA light rail to Mountain View at the weekend and walking to the museum.

Sadly, I have now changed jobs so the chances of coming over again are very low - unless you need to hire a 'specialist' to hold your multimeter!?
Yeah but when you think about it, you’re probably still working in an industry that frowns upon pajamas in the workplace. Just because it’s OK to not wear a suit doesn’t mean that people aren’t judging you.
Maybe I want my world to unravel. Added to wish list!
(Oh man, I think it was a stinker. I'm a big Stephenson fan and I was really disappointed. Just one point: It was so freighted with exposition and so thin on dialog and character development, "show, don't tell" was out the window.)
I love that the journalist asked ”What do your critics say to that?”, and that the researcher gave a meaningful, non disparaging reply. This should be expected from everyone doing research work, but is sadly far from the norm.

It’s along the same lines as, in a debate, asking each participant to sum up their opponent’s point of view in a way that they agree with. A fundamental tool for productive discourse.

Really enjoyed the interview.
I'm going to have to give it another go then, though I do love my MATE desktop.

The last time I tried it, I got frustrated when working with a lot of pdf sources - hitting the super key just presented me with a myriad of white rectangles where open windows would frequently rearrange requiring a slow manual search to find the file I was looking for. This can be less of a problem with a taskbar, as the filename is the main identifier, and being 1 dimensional it is easier to scan and preserves its position better.
Yes, I realized that I didn't take that into account. A follow up though: could a executable loader find and "trim" implementations that aren't optimize for the processor it's using, if it's properly marked in the binary?
To each their own.

To me Windows is bloatware. But I also make the OSX dock as small as possible and autohidden. I launch everything through spotlight though as I abhor unecessary point and click (synonymous with hitting the windows key and typing a couple letters of the application to launch.).
The actual hard part when switching from something like this is migrating user accounts (users will be forced to reset their passwords, which is lame), order history, and active subscriptions so that you can seamlessly continue billing your paying users.

And at 10%, you're definitely going to want to migrate at some point if you succeed, so keep this in mind.
> Right. There are some amazing writers out there who are true artists and yet have to subsidize their writing with traditional employment. The writing far outvalues the other-job output.

My "completely free" opinion applies more to people writing informative content based on their successes and experiences separate from the writing it self.

It definitely doesn't apply for those who are writing for the sake of writing as a creative work, where the "other" job is just a means. In this case it's back to the same question, and it may even suit the content more because it's more about what people enjoy to read than what is objectively "good" of "useful", in which case voting with your monkey seems not to corrupt as much... then again there is hollywood and pop music so scratch that. I think the best ideas about for this now are things like patreon - where the focus is more on encouraging author creativity rather than monetisation of past works like copyright. However this still has it's downsides... e.g it suits and encourages continuous streams of small pieces of works more than masterpiece style sized works.
I'm hoping so though from where I am now it looks like it will be a long road ahead ;)

https://opencollective.com/property_web_builder
Prohibiting the third zone (partially taken care of by work and partially by the state) is deadweight loss, leading to both less tax revenue and greater need for subsidy. Full welfare dependence is not economically or morally superior to halfway in, halfway out. Designing the welfare and labor protection systems based on this belief leads to all kinds of binary cliffs and thresholds that discourage or punish incrementally improving one’s station.

Heaping obligations onto full time work relationships, for example, just encourages employers to keep anyone from getting too many hours. Needing to assemble multiple part time jobs with unpredictable schedules leaves low-income workers worse off than before.

You can’t legislate benefits into existence without also funding them. There’s this seductive idea that you can extract more from capitalists by setting high minimum standards for allowable transactions (see: “affordable housing”) and they continue to disprove it by just walking away from the transactions instead.
Yep, Charge HR looks like the one.
I have the DPT-RP1, and it's fantastic for reading things in A4 or letter format like articles and papers. The best things about it are the large size and the extremely light weight, which makes it both easy to read and hold.

Highlighting works great as it detects lines of text and can select even over multiple lines (the Remarkable doesn't do that). Writing quick annotations/notes with the pen works fine, but it's not pressure sensitive and the writing looks quite bad compared to real paper.

Long PDFs or books are hit and miss: There is no table of contents view and no support for anything besides PDFs. So you can't put e-books on it without converting to PDF first, and if you need to jump around in a (technical) book the lack of a table of contents or overview is very inconvenient. If you read through from A-Z then it's ok.

All in all it works great in replacing printer paper, but not so much in replacing your paper notepad.

There's no actual official announcement, but the lack of table of contents and a few small other things will probably be fixed by the upcoming firmware update, once it's actually released.

The DPT-RP1 really shines as a paper/article-reading and annotating device, but I wouldn't recommend it outside of that use case.
Fighting the tide: Underground dance music in the Bay Area
MATE, Plasma, and Python 3 – The Roundup #3
From a performance perspective... the minimum-spec'd version doesn't make much sense at all. Especially since the 18-core Power is only $1290: https://secure.raptorcs.com/content/CP9M06/purchase.html

It is a dual-socket motherboard though. So fully-decked out with 2x 18cores gets you to $9k or so.

But really, the point of a developer machine is to be an accessory to a Power9 server. You develop on the "cheap" $5k developer machine, and then run things on the production $10k+ machine. So you basically want to build a test environment that would emulate your bigger machine: dual socket (match the NUMA with the bigger box), even if the CPUs are a lot smaller.
What’s interesting is how ignorant your comment comes off to me

I know a lot of people that speak to crowds about technical topics.

But they don’t come out swinging with jargon, and rely on analogy and metaphor. Since not everyone will get the jargon

It’s almost as if you maybe just don’t know why they talk that way, rather than the extent of their knowledge and skills?
really?

At least when I looked at it a year ago, govmomi was terrible. Little documentation. Most return values being opaque objects that you have no idea what to do with (and if pass to another function that takes the opaque object, but not what its wrapping) it errors out.

I only was able to manage to get things done via lots of trial and error and seeing examples others had written.
> The only ecosystems that seem to be sort of thriving are closed, but extensible ones (Alexa, Google Home) and their originators seem incentivized to keep them going.

It will be interesting to see how it plays out, but I think Amazon has a big advantage in that it has sold a massive number of Echo and Echo Dots and is fairly open in all respects except the actual voice data captured.
Sustainable forestry is a myth it can take centuries to sequester the carbon back into wood that you would burn in one winter.

Electric is by far more net carbon emission efficient than wood burning stoves (wood boilers are a bit better but not by much) especially considering the percentage of nuclear and renewable energy in the UK.
This always seemed to me like a flaw in the standard C library - there was no good/built-in true array type that held the array size and was incorporated into stdlib functions (especially string functions).

I haven't done C in a while, but I lost track of how many times I had to create `struct array` to ensure I always passed the `*` with its length - it always felt like I was doing something wrong. Maybe I was. But the prevalence of overflow errors that could be fixed by size-checking makes me think there's something missing in the language or standard-libraries that could have helped a lot for many years.
Deepfakes ban
Some openvpn providers just give you a conf file that you import in your client, and that's all you need
Engineering Marvel of the Winter Olympics: A Broom
Tesla Fourth Quarter & Full Year 2017 Earnings [pdf]
There was never a healthier option for any activity you can do today in the past.

Anything is safer today even walking.
And what is more, am I supposed to subscribe to all sites where I occasionally find valuable content?

One of the good things about internet journalism is that I can read different publications very easily, every day. Some of them I'd actually like to pay, but not by way of a subscription, because paying for five or ten subscriptions at ~$30 per month each is just too much.

With paper newspapers, I can at least buy a single issue. With online articles, it would be feasible to pay per article, heck, even per half articles or whatever. But for some reason all the publishers come up with is obnoxious paywalls, and the option to subscribe or get lost. I honestly don't understand why micropayments haven't become a thing for online journalism.
Depending on how it happened, the world population at 1% means that there's all this infrastructure and existing inventory to support up to 100x more people. Hopefully that should be sufficient to get a long way back to where we left off.
Your methodology is flawed. I just searched my own Reddit account which I deleted early 2015, which was around for five years and had thousands of comments and 100ish posts, and it identically returns no results of any kind.

https://www.reddit.com/search?q=author%3A+Karunamon&sort=rel...

Now, if we take the same search to Google, you see [deleted] posts by me, and posts that reference my name:

https://www.google.com/search?source=hp&ei=cnF7WqfTHI7ctQXJt...

If we grab a random account from that image, say frank_calder, we get results:

https://www.google.com/search?ei=n3F7WqD7E8W2sAXu1ZzIBg&q=si...

Including one that calls out the botted nature of that account by name:

https://www.reddit.com/r/videos/comments/4vsk1e/a_tour_of_ac...

And with some more digging, we can turn up their actual posts:

howard_lowery: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4vm8e2/paul_ryan_...

john_valtierra: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4vm7zz/could_sput...

frank_calder: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4vm88x/donald_tru...

terry_moore: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4vm79m/khizr_khan...

carlos_liu: https://www.reddit.com/r/politics/comments/4vm8xn/donald_tru...

Reddit's search is and always has been awful.

This accounts for every user called out on that image. I'd thank you not to call me a liar in the future.

I've gone ahead and not flagged you because I don't abuse the flag feature against people who make mistakes, given your utterly baseless and easily disproved assertion that those accounts were photoshopped onto this image.
What about Thread and OpenThread? Zwave?

Edit: What about Zigbee? Google Home? WeMo? And new to me, Bluetooth Mesh.
> You sound like a blast at parties.

This is mean and tired and boring. Let's please not.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Fun fact, one of the original designers of the pebble timeline ui (Itai Vonshak) works on Intel's new Vaunt smart glasses prototype as head of products at the New Devices Group.
Would this concept allow users to share subsets of data between each other? assuming they had their own nodes.
Have you explored non ad methods like patreon? I don't know if it applies to written content but I would prefer to leave a penny when I enjoy something than see ads.
Making Poirot Fast
i think its expected to next swing past earth in 2030
> It's an epic about a king traveling and killing a dragon, it doesn't take a ton of education to enjoy.

That is an extremely simplistic look at literature - you just reduced it to one sentence description of plot alone. That is not how it works and that is not how it ever worked. What makes it hard is the way it is written, presence of either dragon or killing does not make something easier to read. He is right in that most people would not enjoy it.

> And beyond that, there are many books on there that are accessible for anyone who can read.

And many many more that are decisively not accessible. You assume that people will dig for hours through guttenberg to find something fun and accessible, but they wont and probably cant.
I wonder if they'll have twitter hand the name over. Twitter certainly isn't above doing that.
Humor aside, this makes an important point: Each unit of code is a liability, so we had better make sure it is providing value.
I sent a resume to one of the production editors looking for some freelance work. They happened to need someone to fill in for one of the editors who was out on sick leave. That was eight years ago.
Stop lights might want to have some 1-n beacon protocol available for automated cars, and vending machines likewise might want a way to expose what's currently in stock and allow sufficient verbs to pay by a phone app.

These don't necessarily need to be the same system, only one might need interactivity, but there's certainly a case to be made that both devices could reasonably want to communicate with passers-by.
Scott Aaronson still has his $100 000 wager available for an actual refutation of scalable QC. The impetus for the bet was actually from arguing with Gil Kalai in the comments on a blog.

https://www.scottaaronson.com/blog/?p=902
CuriousMarc's YouTube channel is https://www.youtube.com/user/mverdiell and has lots of videos of the IBM 1401 as well as the Xerox Alto restoration, HP hardware, and other interesting things.
FYI: The tutorial guide is missing: http://lcui.org/guide/