skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This.

Most people in developed countries typically don’t know that in poor countries subsistence farmers are the poorest of them all, literally starving for months when their crops are done. Without trade or refrigeration you simply can’t subsist. On the other hand people don’t know that people in cities, even if they live in slums, are much better nourished than people in the country side, who are mostly subsistence farmers. In short, typically cities are rich and the country side is poor, as much as that may go against a romanticised view of older days.

Valid point may be that a dollar value may not be the best way to describe poverty. Nourishment, healthcare access and life expectancy are likely much better indicators.
> POSIX APIs are typically not appropriate for embedded systems.

This is a very broad brush. My Embedded Linux system makes amazingly good use of Linux and its Posix APIs. It’s also way to big to be the target of RIOT, so let’s talk about it’s 3 other embedded MCUs.

> Filesystems are not generally applicatble...You’re never going to need textual filenames

Really? Because I always enjoy talking to my cell radio doing AT+CMOGS=257,FFFFFF^1. That’s open file 257 and write FF.

Maintenance, debugging and robuestness of embedded systems is frequently overlooked. It allows not only a single dev, but a team to work, debug and release a system is a big deal. Embedded systems, esepcially those logging data, holding SSL certs, config data can very much use a filesystem. None of this has to be complex JFFS2 FS.

For example, if it’s an IoT, how do you plan to OTA it without good storage management?

> I would not take POSIX compliance for a system like this as a plus point

As a hirring manager anything that opens my pool of candidates is useful. Teaching someone a whole new environment is a big deal. If there’s similar concept and tools this ia big plus.^2

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1) ok, I can’t remember the right AT command or the right file number, but serisouly how did this make it into a public API in 2019?

2) Mostly true. If it’s too close that it’s almost the same, but not due a laundry list of weird exceptions I’ll skip it. Micropython is my example here, it’s like really close to python, may too close but too different. There’s lots of other embeddedable languages that aren’t too close but weird.
Reading this makes me want to play Shadowrun. :)
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The simplest measures of past wealth do simply look at money. We know what unskilled building day-labor earner in Delhi in 1600, and converting this to calories of the staple diet gives a reasonable measure by which you can compare them to workers in (say) Amsterdam. Because both were paid in cash, and spent most of their income on food.

The countryside is more complicated, but people do work out similar things.
This is just the one they got caught for, probably.
So back in the day you had to know a lot of weird tricks. The goal was usually to make it look the same in every browser so you had to know the differences between them and what caused them. I think that's why I don't find it very hard today, even though I don't do much CSS it usually works. With the changes to CSS since then, that old knowledge might be a lot harder to find for newcomers.
Did they not have access to youtube?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mv69ZxKOFSw
I made a similar open startup list with stories, links and other insights a while ago. I think you will find more startups to pick from that post: https://standuply.com/blog/saas-startups-reveal-their-journe...
They are; it just tends to be a really crappy browser pane that isn't based on (and therefore kept up to date with) any major browser, so writing the HTML and CSS is like being transported back to 2004
Yep. Just checked some corpus data and taking soy milk as an example, "soy milk" is used 76.5% of the time by real people not subject to legal shenanigans imposed by the dairy industry, compared to "soymilk" only 23.5% of the time, in the slice of data I looked at. Not the best data (skewed to a certain US locale home to high tech, cable cars, and some large bridges) but pretty overwhelming. And these are people who are being influenced by commercial labels forced by lawsuits to use "soymilk", yet they still separate the words. Usage ftw.
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> Exercise is anything but relaxing (except for perhaps afterwards).

That's definitely not my experience, although of course "relaxing" is subjective and can differ person to person. I think research supports that endurance exercise is good for calming and similar mental health.
I think you have to understand that posts like this reflect the attitude of Americans much more than they reflect the USA itself (I grew up in the UK but live in the USA).

More concretely: are there places in big cities in the USA where you should be very cautious walking around at night? Absolutely. But the exact same thing applies in London and Manchester too. Robbery is an issue there too.

To some extent, people in the USA just make a bigger deal out of it. You'll also find that when Americans discuss travel abroad they're also very worried about safety. IMO it's a cultural mentality more than the specific realities of specific places.
> What makes you think that day laboring in a field is any easier to do while sick than driving or serving or knowledge work?

The fact that doing work for yourself allows you to structure it to your needs. You may till the garden early in the morning or late at night, when you feel like it, you can make decision on the spot and you don't need to coordinate with others. Or you can switch to home-centered work which you postponed before.
Google, and S.C. as a whole are really the 'Grandchildren' to the 'Grandpa' American Political system.

Changing the status quo in that environment is like steering a barge through honey. They're so resistant to change, it's stunning.

While this is marketed(?) as a anti-hacking tool, this is just a reverse proxy. It's a good step, and it doesn't smell too badly of 'google'. They aren't offering to 'host' political party data, as far I can tell, and they aren't running voting machines. They're just stepping in as the 'kid next door that is good with computers' so that Grandpa stops getting Russian viruses.
I tried Priori as an attorney service provider. After their "screening interview" which asked a bunch of lead gen questions, they set out contacting a bunch of my clients to poach them from me, even though I was one of their "members." Thank goodness my clients tend to be pretty loyal and they alerted me to the unsolicited contact. Shady stuff though.
I feel like a lot of users on HN are producers rather than users of software, and haven't used node-based systems like in blender or nuke. They are extremely productive, and end up being very similar to functional programming while being super easy to pick up. It's a great "inbetween" representation for non-programmers that really need to do domain-specific programming.
the link title and article don't match at all?
> Implementation is confused with invention.

I look at the system as an admission that it's impossible to know, post-hoc, whether something was copied or independently developed.

We wouldn't have a problem with no patents, if we could only determine that.

Agree that it seems like there should be more of an obviousness floor (e.g. "Can a reasonably trained engineer build this in less than a week?").
> You probably mean- I haven't seen any research that tries to associate water impurities as parameters to human behavior as parameters.

That's what I mean, but I put it more succinctly.

> Why do Indians always sound so defensive about their practices?

Um... because I'm a scientist, and I haven't seen any peer-reviewed scientific articles on this subject?

Why do (some) Indians always have a chip on their shoulders? See, both of us can play silly question games.
I agree, a lot of products seem that way.
>They still fought over resources and hunting grounds. They even had slaves.

Western powers fought (and still fight) over resources and zones of interest, so there's that.
Counting work hours by household seems a bit weird.

I'm married, my wife and I work fairly typical 40-45 hour weeks. So, 80-90 for the household.

My son is single. He works the same 40-45 hours. But, by the metric above, my household works twice as much. Sure, we literally do, but we have twice the manpower and twice the income. And still have the same amount of leisure time per person.
The more pertinent question in this kind of situation is to the Lead/Architect. Namely, why have you created an environment in which quality can slip like this, and what are you going to change?
What's even more strange is that the PostgreSQL of GCloud is relatively simple.
It's just a https://cloud.google.com/compute/docs/disks/#repds replicated disk. Probably inside a K8s Cluster.

I mean setting this up is extremly simple, in a High availability setting on K8s. So I would guess that a company in the size of Google can actually find out how to add a way to run pg_upgrade to upgrade a cluster (inject something into the image that runs the task....). Even on AWS it will run pg_upgrade with a downtime (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AmazonRDS/latest/UserGuide/USER_...).
" It is a very feminine point of view to believe that one has intrinsic, objective value."

I think you need to take a while and consider why you believe that statement is true, and how it might be impacting the rest of your view on this topic.

Have you contemplated that you might be in the wrong here, and that your approach on this topic is very, very heavily based on your first person view?

It's extremely hard to control for the success of corporations vs. any single factor, much less "gender balance". For example, more male-founded startups get funded - but it's been shown that's in large part because they're male (not to mention their investors usually are), not because of any inherent merit of their business. Similarly, consumer startups often have an easier time getting funded because they're easier for partners to explain the rest of their firm, but it doesn't actually mean they're better investments than an niche enterprise play that's harder to explain to a layman.

More starts = more exits, more role models => more male founders and more all-male startups. Nothing in that cycle actually proves that that men are better at founding or running tech startups, and say "show me the data" is a poor response, given that we don't have an alternate universe where there's no gender bias feeding into those patterns.
As if it was "refuted" conclusively (as opposed to merely replaced by the opposite myth of monotonic progress)
They claim to have an "industry-leading security profile" and yet they allowed user generated content to be hosted under their primary domain. At least this was an inexpensive way to learn that lesson.
Announcing your plan to leave the country is going to get you arrested and held without bail. Hire a real world criminal defense attorney now and hope the court will let you trade your passport for an ankle monitor.
Christopher Alexander (the architect) wrote a paper called A City Is Not A Tree. I don't know of any paper called A Program Is Not A Tree, but one could be written. Programs are fundamentally messy tangles of references, as far as I can tell! Compile-time structures are utterly different from run-time structures. Some languages have both dynamic and lexical scoping. Etc.
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Having at least some band support is looking promising, but whether Verizon will make it a hassle to BYOP or not... is TBD. They're getting better with that overall so I'm hopeful, but I'll believe it when I see it.
> Sometimes I wonder if I should set up a page with a poll to collect what most people would want as a smartphone

you will get the specs of an high-end kitchen sink for the desired price of a Brondi.
Remote attestation implementations via HSMs will always remain subject to a confused-deputy problem, but they're still leaps and bounds better than pure software solutions. Any threat you can describe that involves a facade hardware UI is much easier to implement in software, meaning that attackers are more likely to invest resources in software attacks (like spraying bad Electrum servers into the pool) than hardware attacks (like modifying hardware wallets and setting up a storefront on eBay).
Not how it works. If you service has that 99.999% availability and you get a single unavailability event in a year, that's already 5 minutes of downtime completely independent from all other events that users may or may not experience, there is almost no chance of overlap between them. Users definitely notice that. And worse, events are going to be even less frequent than that and ever more noticeable and on top of that you are going to underestimate actual unavailability by at least an order.

So, can we get to the level where unavailability is actually an unnoticeable noise? Yes, but definitely not the way Google does things. I'd generalize that Google is absolutely not the place to look for ideas on reliability.
I’m 32, not married, and my net worth is ~$1.3M, all invested in Vanguard index funds.

Started at $0 right after college (no student debt luckily) and got there through savings and frugality and good employment options in the Bay Area.

The cost of living is insane over here, but if you are not pretentious, financially disciplined (and in my case don't want kids), you’re going to be easily saving 6 figures a year, which you probably couldn’t in other more reasonable areas.
I use tcook@apple.com. Full disclosure: so far, it's been one-way correspondence; I've yet to hear back.
Maybe he's not resident in the US (nor a US citizen) and just returned home?
True. I used to race cars. The same logic applies there - you have to have money and free weekends to race cars. Even better if you have flexible work hours so you can practice on Fridays (before weekend events) and fix the car in the evenings (because they break, wear out, and get crashed).
Rich people can trade money for time, example: flying private.
> that’d say nothing about the likelihood

> There's a 0.001% chance of finding a terrorist per random sampling.
Makes sense. Unfortunately I don't have family nor close friends in the U.S. Having been on HN for 8-9 years I figured it's the closest friends I have in U.S. :)

I rather not consult local lawyers (in my current country) unfortunately, as I am not sure of the extent of professional secrecy provided.
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That is a really interesting article, thanks. Through asking good questions about the relationships between the relative and absolute numbers it casts an uncomfortable spotlight onto our current responses to inequality.
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Sounds great!

I think the article is talking about people who do participate in and train for competitions and races.
Learn by Doing [Volume 39]: Docker Images to Lambda Layers
see: https://www.reddit.com/r/apple/comments/77hl5k/i_sent_an_ema...
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you can reduce an individual function to a a directed graph (not a tree). But once you have more than one function? That's graphs referencing graphs. That definitely doesn't reduce to a tree.

The only parts of a program that reduce to a tree are incidental to their functionality - the nesting-block structure of procedural, C-derived languages, and the tree structure of a filesystem.
Gitlab seems to be fairly open with their bits

https://about.gitlab.com/handbook/
Cool idea! It also seems like these brands understand some kind of reckoning is coming and are trying to get out ahead of it. I'm not opposed to the idea of reusable containers, but this model seems to come with a lot of brand lock-in.

Precycle (precyclenyc.com), a bulk grocery store in Brooklyn, is my ideal model. Customers bring in their own containers, weight them on entry, and then pay the difference in weight on their way out. Not do you save the packaging, you can purchase exact amounts of each item.
Wow, what a wasteland of garbage. Hard to believe that any of these are getting investment or making money—-none of them produces anything remotely of value to the human condition.

Where are the startups making actual valuable innovative products and solving real problems?
Googling says they weren't found to be "willful and malicious" and only "breach of contract." I guess this new evidence suggest it was willful and malicious.

Also note that this story doesn't cover the other charges of wire fraud brought against them.
I'm like 99% sure that Carrd makes more than $4k/mo [0]. Those numbers in that tweet would put him at around $12k/mo. I could be wrong though.

[0]: https://twitter.com/ajlkn/status/1080163380990746626
Does anyone know what the decoding performance of AV1 is these days? I'd love to play with it, but back when I last tried my oldish laptop did NOT like decoding it.
My current question is - will there be silicon cases and tempered glass screen protectors available? I've pre-ordered, and I don't expect the sturdiest build quality, so I'd want to have some tools to protect agianst it. I'm not meaning any offense towards Purism and their craftsmanship, it's just that the first iterations of projects like these have more important things to optimize for than hamfist-compatibility.
> is it good design that an unprivileged user who logs in once can consume arbitrary runtime resources uncontrolled, unbounded forever

A unprivileged user can still do this by setting up an intermediary box that keeps a persistent ssh session open. Incidentally, this is exactly what I plan to do if I ever need to ssh into a server with KillUserProcesses=yes.

> other OSes don't really allow this unprivileged either

On Windows, if I remote desktop from a laptop into a desktop, and start a web server, then shut down the laptop, the server stays running. On iOS if I start drafting an email, and reboot my phone, I don't lose my work. On ChromeOS, my tabs will stick around after a system crash. The world is moving toward processes being _more_ persistent, not less.
Yes and no. People can cook, etc. while the TV is on. They certainly get in some time just plain watching.

Also, some of my running time amounted to commuting: knock 45 minutes off the 90 minute run. Running can be a social activity. Those who care to can run listening to their iPods (then, Walkmans). Etc.
It's been available much longer than 11.3, was this a typo for 1.1.3 when it was actually added?
This is China's modus operandi, aquire other people's tech and possibly improve. They have a ton of brilliant engineers and great manufacturing, however it seems like creativity is a bit lacking.

a few (and i mean very few) examples. Aircraft carrier bought from russia to copy, J-20 stole (allegedly) F-22 designs from the US and modified, segway - ninebot, J-11B fighter they copied from the su-27. The list goes on and on. Here is a link with greate examples and Pictures (https://news.usni.org/2015/10/27/chinas-military-built-with-...).

Again this is not knocking the engineers in China, their reverse engineering is second to none. Reminds me of the "Pakled" on Star Trek TNG, they just aquire all technology from other races and make it work.
True under a business administrative view. But maybe not the best economical approach to education?

So ...

> How do you explain the cost of education

... was more of a rhetorical question.
To start, you can ask on reddit.com/r/legaladvice. They're very helpful and can let you know what to expect. It's not a substitute for an attorney but it's a good way to get more informed.
> - Therefore Bob is probably a murderer.

You are mixing logic and probability.

"its not really useful for making judgements about individuals." is not equal to "tells you nothing"
> Let he who has never written software that had a bug throw the first object Object...
I think Visual programming is OK when your control flow is linear, and doesn't have too many branches. However, when your control flow contains primitives like break/continue/try-catch, it can get pretty messy very quickly.
Banks trade with sanctioned countries and only get slapped with large fines. No bank officer has been arrested in trades with Iran or any other sanctioned country.
Their/there/they're confusion is also an expression of the Tao.
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"I don't buy "to expose vulnerability so that users fix it" explanation"

so why did the chrome cast hack include a 'how to fix this' guide?

https://www.veracode.com/blog/security-news/hackers-exploit-...

"the CastHack bug, allegedly disclosed nearly five years ago"

"A spokesperson from Google told TechCrunch, “We have received reports from users who have had an unauthorized video played on their TVs via a Chromecast device. This is not an issue with Chromecast specifically, but is rather the result of router settings that make smart devices, including Chromecast, publicly reachable.”"

google has ignored this bug as it isn't a issue with the chromecast, but the router, so using this hack to teach users to fix the router issue is a legitimate way to help users.

your analogy suck, a better one is how bug hunters work, except this bug was exposed directly to the end-user.

sorry i know colours can be confusing, don't worry about it.

point me to the laws that were broken, just because you hate a YouTuber doesn't make him a bad person.
There's a joint paper (dated 2017, I think) from engineers from Google, Mozilla, Microsoft, and Apple working on WebAssembly [0]

[0] https://blog.acolyer.org/2017/09/18/bringing-the-web-up-to-s...

"Bringing the web up to speed with WebAssembly" [PDF]: https://github.com/WebAssembly/spec/raw/master/papers/pldi20...
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A question regarding the advertisements they show on the home page: https://www.neowin.net/news/firefox-640-is-now-showing-a-boo...

Are these ads introduced with these updates, or does Firefox include a backdoor so the Mozilla Corporation can show whatever they want on your home page?
The endurance sport of poor people is called survival.
I saw an episode of the television show 'Victorian Pharmacy' where they explained the modern and historical medical uses of these creatures, and also demonstrated it live on some poor guy.

Apparently the ones used by hospitals are fed nothing for two whole years so that they are REALLY hangry when put to use. The leech vendor had a bucket of them and says he gets seven dollars apiece!
Yes, you are right. I confused the two.
I have an Apple ID for work that is not tied to a credit card.
No, PWA add to homescreen is since 11.3

https://dockyard.com/blog/2017/09/27/encouraging-pwa-install...

They do even auto-delete the PWA-apps

[Quote]

If the user doesn’t use the app for a few weeks, iOS will free up the app’s files. The icon will still be there on the home screen, and when accessed the app will be downloaded again.

Not very trustworthy for using a PWA on iOS it seems :)
'The piece of paper' matters beyond that. Alumni networks are a thing. And people like to help their Alumni, because they hope to get the same in return.
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I feel like I've been waiting a long time for autoplay blocking - does this keep being pushed back or have I missed a feature cancellation/config setting/extension announcement?
This was a really fun and challenging project. Judit and I paired designed the cross-platform VPN apps, from project inception to delivery. We worked remotely and collaboratively with the Mullvad development team and stakeholders.
Ah you are right, should have experimented with that.
Thank you. I see quite a few additions to the list from the previous HN discussion.
I don't think they are doing just fine. It's likely that they are having subtle issues that they aren't aware of and just accept them as is.