skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The problem is that the patient doesn't know what the right price is, and what the difference in products will be when going to a competing lower price offer. It's fine to try out a competing smartphone at a lower price point; I would not want to gamble with my health that way.
Ah, thank you for these two points and the book suggestions!

I too am not an original thinker and I often synthesize ideas on this matter incoherently. But how is it that it is not universally accepted that the structure of employment, even in its most compassionate incarnation, is a structure that is designed to humiliate and strip the dignity of the employee? And then we have the modern employment contract that explicitly forbids talent to be shared with other employers, or for allegiance to be enunciated in corporate culture slogans drummed to death as though attempting to wash away the employee's identity.

Maybe things are different in different cultures vis-a-vis the structure of employment. Japan for example where Salary Man choose to willingly marry his corporation for a lifetime.
How to Emit Data in Vue: Beyond the Vue.js Documentation
There are some, e.g. https://github.com/jeremydaly/lambda-warmer and my post https://mikhail.io/2018/08/aws-lambda-warmer-as-pulumi-compo...
Even if you remove Amit Shah from equation, you can say black money converted to white, by paying 30% tax.
Whether this qualifies as a switching supply is an interesting question. I don't think I agree with Animats in that regard. Regulation is accomplished by switching a nonlinear element via a feedback loop, and that's good enough to qualify it as a "switched-mode" supply in my book.

You certainly couldn't call it a linear regulator, because the thyratrons are either fully on or fully off at all times. From the input's point of view it will exhibit negative resistance, with a reduction in the current required as the input voltage rises. That makes the classification especially hard to refute.

It's true that energy is being stored in the smoothing choke, but that alone doesn't make the difference since the choke could be used to accomplish the same thing in a traditional linear supply. The choke isn't inside the feedback loop, though, and that is a point in favor of the "It's not a switcher" camp. But it's the only one. In any event, charge-pump supplies don't need an inductor at all, and nobody questions whether they operate in linear or switched-mode.

(Edit: looking at the schematic, the filter choke is indeed inside the feedback loop. Case closed, it's a switching supply.)
Reminds me of the movie Kafka.
Must watch!
Yes, but you could also just refer to it as light. In it's most common (visible) form it readily demonstrates both quantized and wave-polarization effects. DeBrogli also showed it with matter, but it's significantly more difficult to observe.
Yes it looks like their security was really amateur hour stuff too, with a lot of the authentication done on the client side. This makes their claims that it was "hack-proof" look particularly embarrassing.
System programming is definitely a bit overloaded these days though I believe it is now widely understood to be languages like C/C++ that can be used for OS, kernel, and embedded development.

I would agree though that the language ecosystem is shifting a lot in the last few years. IMHO there are now a few languages that are becoming proper full stack languages in the sense that they scale from embedded all the way to browser development. Rust is a great example.

I'm really impressed with what the Rust community has done in just a few short years. All my life, C/C++ was the only game in town for the stuff that is now done with Rust with arguably the same or in some cases slightly better performance.

Stuff like WASM allows the use of system programming languages in places where they would not be used in the past. Using Rust transpiled to WASM makes it a proper fullstack language. And people are using it for that. And people do server development as well in it as well as OS development.
Wait until you hear where the word "server" comes from...
It's like saying "wet water". Not a false statement, but under normal conversational assumptions, it sure sounds like there's some non-wet water or some similar contrasting idea.

If you're familiar with Grice's Maxims, then "quantum light" violates the Principle of Quantity by providing too much information, inviting misinterpretation.
Pointers are not even necessary for writing operating systems or memory allocators. The Oberon system writes those low-level components using intrinsic peek/poke functions (like some ancient BASIC!) that are recognised specially by the compiler and turned into direct memory modifications. This is clearly just as unsafe as pointers (probably more so), but it means you don't generally pollute the language to support some very specialised code. The rest of Oberon is memory-safe and garbage-collected (with the garbage collector also written in Oberon).
Troy Hunt: Is India's Aadhaar System Really “Hack-Proof”?
Being potentially wiped out by a healthcare incident is not simply a matter of the looming bill. Your recommendation (i.e. to carry on by ignoring the bill) assumes the illness causes little disruption and the cure is complete. Many illnesses or injuries take much time to recover. Sometimes proper medical care cannot be obtained. Sometimes doctors don't want to take on a case, or even care to be honest. Others might withold a cure to generate recurring therapy revenue. Especially in the US, medical fraud and waste is monumental and the social safety net is insubstantial. These things will disintegrate a life more surely than a bill. Employers and creditors become impatient. Opportunistic predators circle about. If people are in debt, and without savings, then life circumstance unravels quickly at any non-trivial interruption.
He is describing an HTML+JS solution. Even then, it's just a few lines of JS - create an image or a script object with a given URL, append it to the body.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_Fisher_(theorist)#Death

Fuck! He took his own life. :-(
do you do that much money from nitro? I actually never seen that many adds in discord about nitro and I didn't even knew it exists (i'm using discord for over a year) and I mean we actually migrated from a 10€ teamspeak to discord. while it is unlikely that everybody in my group would buy nitro, I find it amazing that you do not have many adds in your app, not even about your own service. (i mean sometimes there is the update pop up and some messages between the chat messages, but we basically never use that much of the chat anyways...)
honesty ? respect ? integrity ?

As someone who doesn't live une the US, maybe I can't figure the whole complexity of such a situation, be it really strikes me that people can recommend to fraud people that saved their life...
This made me smile because I too have been puzzled by the hype around serverless. I'm sure it does have its uses but it wouldn't provide an acceptable solution for any of the problems we currently need to solve. Not saying that won't change but I do find it vaguely irritating that serverless has at times been presented to me as an end to all woes when that clearly is not the case.
The author's point that functional programming principles are important to systems programming and should be taught alongside it is well taken. I think he confuses the issue somewhat with all the discussion of what is a "systems programming language" as these days it's just used to refer to languages substitutable for C.
I want to be able to sync tagged faces from photos to contacts. Or at least access the tagged face via the API.

My photos, my contacts. What's the big deal?
Automated Red Team Infrastructure Deployment with Terraform – Part 1
Yes, one could prewarm N instances by sending N parallel requests every 5 minutes. You have to know N though :)

For most apps, scale-out cold start won't be too much of a deal breaker: longer instance lifetime + shorter start will do the trick. And wait for the next wave of optimizations from vendors, I'm sure there's more to come.

P.S. I'm the author of OP, thanks for reading!
I had no idea this law had passed.

If free credit freezes are the only thing we got out of the Equifax breach, that's still a lot better than I thought we were going to get. Free freezing/unfreezing is huge - it turns it from being something that can be prohibitively expensive into something that anyone can do.

And I can do it from a website instead of calling someone on the phone every time? This is a very happy surprise.
Agreed. But that is relevant to measuring the IQ using MRT-Scans how?
Unfortunately our government doesn't accept the truth. If someone tries to educate people about the vulnerability, they are labelled anti-national.
And when they get big enough, Getty will sue them as well, since this feature was removed as a settlement of a lawsuit.
Even then, they could have batched the requests for IDs on the laptop, and then submitted them daily/weekly by driving the laptop to wherever the internet is.

And of course, each such laptop must have a unique hardware key that would sign these requests, so copying the software wouldn't compromise anything.
Slightly unrelated:

Google Photos is a great product but for me it has one huge drawback. You cannot remove a person from a shared album after adding them. You or anyone an album is shared with can accidentally share the album with any other person and once that happens, only way to stop them from accessing your photos is to delete the whole album. Deleting the album means losing all photos, comments and likes added by others. Also sharing an album always generates a link that can be used by anyone to access the album. I haven't found a way to share only with people without generating the link.
How does Tidelift pay maintainers?
But this is old news and that vulnerability is already fixed, at least in NordVPN. Here's a blog post explaining it: https://nordvpn.com/blog/cve-vulnerability/
Oh cool, that would be worth gold in terms of time saved.

I'm in the midst of a pretty intense commercial job this week (but not intense enough to stop me from commenting on HN ;) ), my email is jacques@mattheij.com (I do not see an email in your profile).

I'd love to verify details like the memory map and anything that you still remember about how the button dispatch worked so I can identify a lot of code or the guts of those two main synth chips would help me tremendously.
It will take quite a bit of time to run this to completion.
The numbers are not generated on the client side. An enrollment packet is, containing biometrics and demographics, for which a number will be generated using biometric deduplication server-side.

The catch: only residents (not citizens) of India are authorised to have a number. Because one person technically cannot have more than one Aadhaar number (reality: ha!), the theory is that a government subsidy database needs one unique Aadhaar number per beneficiary.

This theory breaks down when you enroll an individual who does not need an Aadhaar number because they are not a resident. That number can be misused by another resident to get a second entry into the database, and it's a perfectly legitimate number linked to an Indian phone number that can receive an OTP and behave indistinguishably from a resident.

Fake enrolments are the equivalent of a hack of the US SSN system that would allow anyone anywhere in the world to make an SSN for themselves. What could they possibly do with that?
What dev team read this month – Issue#11
CRM Product Management Is the New Black
(theguardian)"The inconvenient truth about cancer and mobile phones"

"We dismiss claims about mobiles being bad for our health – but is that because studies showing a link to cancer have been cast into doubt by the industry?"

https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2018/jul/14/mobile-ph...
> But it's not uncommon to label someone an asshole for being comfortable saying "That's a bad idea and it won't work; here's why..." rather than beating around the bush.

In my experience, that is rather uncommon. You may be ignored after saying that or not believed, but you get rarely labeled asshole for that alone. Frankly, in my experience, this is stereotype that people who are have hard time expressing themselves constructively and have trouble controlling anger after not getting their way like to throw around so that they sound better.

> On the other hand, someone who is willing to "divert the project to advance some personal goals" all too often, will be very likable and sociable and not considered an asshole. There was a phrase at a company I used to work at "he doesn't need the project to succeed, he just needs it to not fail", and there were a lot of people who would drag a project on long enough to move up; really pleasant, friendly people... who didn't care who got hurt once they moved on to the next project.

Bad management, run away as fast as you can.
So, what is the killer app of faas? To my layman understanding the selling point is easy scale-ability, but it seems to be inherently at odds with serverless being the most expensive computing model?
See. We can rewrite everything in Rust.
SimpleDB still works though.
That's all plausible except the price issue. Say, you keep 10 containers alive, so you make 10x 100ms calls every 5 minutes. That's gonna be $0.20 per month. 20 cents.
>If you know your history, it's the "middle class" that has directed just about every non-marxist revolution.

One can make a strong argument (even from marxist sources) that even the marxist revolutions were mostly directed by the middle class; most of the marxists call it the intelligentsia, but these were mostly educated men at a time when that meant more than it does now. (and even now, I think most people consider a good education enough to make you "middle class" even if you don't make that much scratch.)

I mean, all this depends on your definition of a "revolution" and of "middle class" - if I define "middle class" as "powerful or educated enough to get something done, while not being super rich" and I define revolution as "overthrow of the government by people who aren't already at the top of the power structure" then it almost becomes tautological; if people are powerful enough to start a revolution, by that definition, you are middle class or better, and if an elite starts a revolution, by that definition, it's then a coup.

(I'm not suggesting those are your definitions of revolution and middle class; just that the definition of those two words (and the definition of those two words is kinda fuzzy) makes all the difference in this question)
Because you can't turn off the power, you can't generate inductive spikes, so you can't pull the basic trick that make a switching power supply go

So what's a charge pump? Chopped liver?
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Neat, what is that processor used in?
A systems programming language can run on bare hardware by itself, or nearly so. It is acceptable to require a very small amount of assembly code, for example to implement something like memcpy or bcopy, or to provide atomic operations.

A language is disqualified if it requires an OS or if it requires code written in a different non-assembly language. Cheating, by adding that as a huge (impractical) amount of assembly, also disqualifies a language.

Funny story about gcc: The compiler demands a memcpy, which it sometimes uses for struct assignment. If you implement memcpy in the normal way, gcc will helpfully replace your implementation with a call to memcpy! Despite this, C is still a systems programming language.
Will you fund the research or convince the government to fund it?
"Alibaba Management is somehow increasing the length and content of their 20-F's, yet, incredibly, they seem to disclose and communicate an even smaller snippet of "meaningful" financial information every year. In fact, there's no longer any doubt in my mind, that they actually go out of their way to deliver ever larger bales of content-free financial silliness. They are not "unfamiliar with Western Financial Reporting Conventions" or doing things "the way they do it in China" as some pundits would have us believe. Math is math no matter where you are on the planet. Gravity is the same whether you are in London, New York or Beijing. Alibaba Managers are in fact masters of manipulation, bending the truth brilliantly to suit their needs. Perhaps they are banking on the premise that nobody actually reads their filings/drivel anyway? (The SEC staff doesn't seem all that concerned!)"

"If, by some strange, impossible happenstance, I'm completely, totally wrong.... and Alibaba isn't actually the tip of the spear for the CCP's full frontal assault on the Western Financial System, the only other conclusion I can possibly come to is that Alibaba the goofiest, most convoluted, opaque, mis-managed accounting mess and business structure in history. That, unfortunately, is the "best case" scenario."

"Yet, Alibaba (BABA) continues to trade higher as increasing numbers of shares find their way into US Financial/Custodial Institutions. Because its value, like the RMB, at least for a time, is pegged/driven by the CCP through off-shore mechanisms, the risk of collapse grows larger by the day. At some point it all has to come tumbling down. But when? That's the immediate, multi-trillion-dollar question."

https://deep-throat-ipo.blogspot.com/2018/08/the-baba-20-ffi...
It is hard to believe by relying on just one source. I just checked other news sources in India, and no one has any news about any recent Aadhaar breach.
I think about this a lot, too -- usually using (slightly-insane) poststructuralist thought as a starting point. For example Deleuze and Guattari have written a lot about basically what I'd like to cheekily call "structure as stricture" -- the idea that the structured systems in our society serve mainly to oppress us and repress our affects, Freud/Oedipus-style [1]. (I'm not an anarchist, but nevertheless this thought is a good starting point.)

Japan is an interesting place. I want to think of Japanese corporate employment as basically equivalent to citizenship in other countries. For example they have very little social insurance programs, instead relying on corporations to provide such benefits (社会保険). For better or for worse, in the neoliberal era, this idea of corporate employment as the new citizenship might be being exported overseas.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Oedipus
Legally speaking, wouldn't the guy with allergy be federally protected class here? He has medical reason not directly related to work for why the office is not suitable for him. It seems to fall into legal definition.

Also, dog lovers I know in real life are not assholes to people with allergies or fears. My experience is that most accept allergies as real medical issues and would seek solution.

I also think that you are using the word asshole to liberally as in meaning "anyone who annoyed me mildly". That is not how "asshole" or "asshole culture" terms are normally used. Why being unpleasant is part of being asshole typically, it is not the whole thing. Typically, there are very real negative externalities on top of just being unpleasant (for example other people wasting time dealing with asshole temper tamptrums, people no voicing objections due to them or having to tip toe around him or spending a lot of effort to work around that person peculiarities etc).
I think it’s much more convenient with self-checkout, because I’m not holding up the line. I can take my sweet time and pack my bags as I go. It’s really a lot of trust being placed with the customer, it’d be very easy to shoplift.
Flu plane: are we really ready for a global pandemic?
The number is actually pretty high (around 1800 soldiers deserting every year): https://www.lemonde.fr/societe/article/2018/04/17/le-temps-d...
Have you ever been stuck in a room full of really smart people? It can be a very dangerous place to be. Smart people are EXCEEDINGLY good at rationalizing just about anything.

You can get stuck in a state where your discourse becomes like an Ouruboros, nice and circular, never getting anywhere.

Occasionally you have to question whether or not your fundamental assumptions are still valid.

For most of our country's history, even WITHOUT the post 80's economic zeitgeist to guide us, we did just fine treating worker's with respect, and a fair wage.

We have transformed in the span of 30 years years into a highly polarized, economically fractured, industrially poor nation. Our political discourse has gotten worse and worse, and trust is at such an all-time low that we're doubting not just our government's capacity to lead and protect us, but also each other.

I've met people from just about every side of the socio-economic spectrum, and even a few of the last remnants of the "Greatest Generation", who LIVED through the Great Depression. My thoughts have thus far been convincing to most with sufficient time to elucidate them.

Something is FUNDAMENTALLY wrong. I'm not saying ALL economists and their economics are Quacks. I'm even somewhat fond of Taleb, if only because he is one of the few who had the courage to even DOUBT. The field, however, is due for a reckoning, and a reconciliation with reality,and the Unknown unknowns.

As I stated in a previous post, there are too many structural problems built into the way our system works. No natural system can stay cohesive under conditions demanding continual growth in an environment with finite resources. It doesn't happen. Ever. Computing, biology, physics, mathematics, control theory, chemistry, anthropolgy, politics, logistics, and most importantly HISTORY has shown over and over again that while periods of massive development and growth DO happen, eventually, the inputs required to sustain it or the excessive outputs it generates overwhelms the operating environment's capacity to supply\absorb it/them. Something has to give.

I'm not willing to auction off the only legacy I have worth passing down for the next generation for short term gains. Which is increasingly the direction we as a nation seem to be developing toward economically. It's my opinion, and a verifiable fact to anyone willing to even make a halfway credible attempt at tracing the steps that have led us to where we are now, analyzing the forces that were at play, and taking the time to try to LEARN from the trials and successes of the past. Don't just take my word for it. DO some research. Convince yourself. Don't leave it to someone else. I don't want a damn person to follow me on faith. Convince yourself, and go whatever direction you desire, but for the love of all that's holy, be honest. The info is out there.

I'm willing to entertain my theories are wrong, as they almost certainly are, that's why it's called research. Why should the field of economics not be willing to entertain the same?

Anyway. Certifiable crank signing off.
Also a QR code would be a lot more precise IMO
> The Oberon system writes those low-level components using intrinsic peek/poke functions (like some ancient BASIC!) that are recognised specially by the compiler and turned into direct memory modifications. This is clearly just as unsafe as pointers (probably more so), but it means you don't generally pollute the language to support some very specialised code.

How is "val = PEEK adr" and "POKE adr, val" any less polluting than allowing "val = &adr" and "&adr = val" in select places?
Maybe I'm in the wrong here, but I imagine most civilised countries have a database with biometrics of all of its citizens, at least fingerprints.
Tax who?

The Elite class, who have captured the regulatory bodies?

Or, well, everyone else, are, frankly, fuckin' broke, and in student debt on top of that?
What about just using uMatrix (or similar extensions)? You have more precise control over what gets allowed and what not and you can just temporarily or partially disable protection for logins/payments etc.