skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is an overview of the new tools and forms of capital enabling founders to build and fund businesses while still maintaining as much flexibility and optionality as possible.
But that is because, for example, many republicans (7/10?)[0] think that the democrats are racist but they are more likely to consider democrats discriminating against whites. A republican is more likely to say that sexism exists, but against men, rather than women. A republican is more likely to say that climate change exists, but isn't anthropogenic -- which is tantamount to climate change denial. The definition of what "properly controlled immigration" means is also unclear; for a republican it may be more likely to mean only let white people in or to reject all muslims. To be clear I'm not saying that all republicans believe these things, it's only that there is at the very least an extremely vocal group of people on the right who would answer these questions in the same way as someone on the left, but for vastly different reasons.

The definitions of what these words actually mean are in dispute between the two groups. Someone on the left may be answering the question as "what do they actually believe, regardless of how they would answer the question." I know that's how I'd reply to a survey like this. I certainly wouldn't have in the moment considered if they would have a warped view of the words.

>[0] https://perceptiongap.us/media/w5xgckq3/fig7d.png
(Am I mischaracterizing this graph with respect to racism?)

side note, I fall into the post-doc group who would say that my colleagues and friends generally agree with me politically. But from my perspective, it's because we are more united on what the right ways to handle the problems actually are rather than because we are politically isolated. I consider myself a libertarian, but I generally vote blue; I've got friends who disagree with my general ideological stances but who understand that particular policies are better than nothing. I think that the story that this [1] graph is telling is that the more educated you become, the more you realize that only one of two parties in the united states is proposing sane solutions to the problems we face; whereas republicans in general are the ones who have a perception gap. Probably because they're more likely to be misinformed by the media they consume. [2]

[1] https://perceptiongap.us/media/pboj2mgp/fig5c.png

[2] https://perceptiongap.us/media/3aaiax5h/fig4c.png
Interesting read addressing something that is certainly a problem, I think.

I would comment on the following, however:

"The proportion of sickness benefit claims made in relation to a mental health problem more than doubled in the period from 1995 to 2014 (from 21% to 46%), while more than 40% of absences among the employed are attributed to mental health problems."

The author uses the cited figures to show how much of an increase we have had in mental health issues, despite the increase in anti-depressants. One facet not mentioned, however, is the changing culture and reduction in stigma in relation to mental health.

The conclusion of the article cited says, in part, this:

"Claimants with other conditions fell by 35%."

Which would lead one to believe that perhaps a significant portion of the "new" mental health related sick leave may always have been mental health, but now instead of having to lie about the reason, people are more willing to admit that they need the time for mental health.
Interestingly, Flickr (Butterfields' other startup) was one of the companies that helped define the Web 2.0 era. It too, was (at least partially) successful by being in the right place at the right time.

That's not meant to be a knock on Butterfield... quite the contrary.
I think what they mean is not that we should not rely on innovation once it has been achieved and is actually working, but that we shouldn't bet our future on forcing very specific innovation in a certain area/metric as that will just incentivize people to cheat.

Similar to Goodhart's Law - "When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure" [1]

1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goodhart%27s_law
I will use my first one to power a hard drive that I leave with family or friends. They'll have a small box (mind the inclusion of an external hard drive, still a relatively small box) with my off site back up, and I could host the same for them.

This is after a failed plan to use it for Android TV (my girlfriend made the mistake of picking a WebOS TV and I made the mistake of thinking it wouldn't be so bad). The old one was just a little too slow and only did full HD (honestly, it's fine, but if you have a 4k TV it feels kinda silly). Now that the pi4 has a bunch more power and can do 4K at 60Hz, there is another chance for this!

I'm also toying with the idea of using it for sensors. Battery powered air quality sensor to see along my walking route (there is a narrow, busy car passage that I'm curious about), or maybe measuring things like electricity or heater usage in realtime. Having a graph showing you when it gets used a lot might help identify some easy wins, since walking to the basement to check the meter is a little cumbersome. But those are just ideas.
I use it to automate my weed garden in my closet. It turns on and off the LED lights everyday and waters my plants with a pump based on the moisture level of the soil. I measure the moisture level through a moisture sensor. Weed is fun.
In term of electricity consumption and maintenance is worth to run so many PIs?
I love it, well done!
Look into Sinclair Broadcasting if you want to see who is abusing their power regarding news and information.

Google is doing everything they can to be neutral - arguably more than they should.
Most of the 3d printer firmwares can detect heat spikes and stop heating the extruder to prevent fire and you can control your printer's power with rpi with a simple relay circuit. You can also setup a bot with camera to alert you via mail/message/telegram if there is a fire risk. These are the common precautions I have seen people take.
The Decentralized Web
> isn't a monopoly, but the way people interact with each other

But it's more than just the way people interact - it's also a company controlling it. E.g. no-one is calling for breaking up IRC or XMPP - because you couldn't.

I'm just not comfortable giving a handful of companies so much soft power over national/global discussion.
Dogs are getting a cancer vaccine, If it works, humans could be next
The planet will be here for a long, long, LONG time after we’re gone, and it will heal itself, it will cleanse itself, ’cause that’s what it does. It’s a self-correcting system. The air and the water will recover, the earth will be renewed. And if it’s true that plastic is not degradable, well, the planet will simply incorporate plastic into a new paradigm: the earth plus plastic. The earth doesn’t share our prejudice toward plastic. Plastic came out of the earth. The earth probably sees plastic as just another one of its children. Could be the only reason the earth allowed us to be spawned from it in the first place. It wanted plastic for itself. Didn’t know how to make it. Needed us. Could be the answer to our age-old egocentric philosophical question, “Why are we here?”

“Plastic… asshole.” -- George Carlin
Nice. I'm looking at a streaming media system of some sort which repurposes existing audio hardware where possible.

This turns out to be ... somewhat frustratingly difficult.

There are numerous Bluetooth-based systems, some WiFi-based ones. The hard part is sorting out the interface to control the system -- there's nothing quite so frictionless as either on-device controls or a remote, though going with an iPad or cheap tablet seems the best option.
What? Are you saying the people that colonized Europe didn't give any practical benefit to humanity?
This is why NASA needs to get rid of their esoteric drug screening practices. Our space program needs more stoners!
I have a RPi2 running as an NFS server.
I have a RPi0W with a camera streaming video to said NFS server.
I have a RPi1(256MB) in the bathroom streaming music from the aforementioned NFS server.
I have a RPi0 attached to the USB port of my router running PiHole.

And then I have a shelf of other Pis doing nothing, but you know, one day I will finish all those projects...
The unlimited free energy part could have happened today but we as humans have collectively decided that letting the planet cook a bit until the fry pan is starting to vaporize is a reasonable trade off in exchange for a little profit. The solutions are obvious and right in front of us: a carbon tax to compensate for the externalities. It might be radical in some people's eyes (it really isn't) but it is guaranteed to work.

Capitalism is just a system to allocate resources fairly. Under some very optimistic circumstances it works amazingly well. But if you forcibly distort the system and don't account for processes that are a net benefit for individuals but produce negative value for society at large then it's nothing but self destructive.
I was thinking that probably played a role as well. The extreme partisans on one side will be exposed to the opinions of the extreme partisans on the other, and ignoring the namecalling for a moment, it would be interesting to see if the extremists are accurate about what the other side's extremists believe.

I don't think that would change very much about this report overall; I'm sure both extremists would still overestimate the size of the extremists groups on both sides quite significantly. But it would be an interesting data point.
I mentioned the funded tip of the iceberg - there were hundreds of vendors in this space eight years ago, many of whom died or were acquired by larger entities keen to have a collaboration offering. It evolved over time and Slack were the winners, mainly I'd say due to great timing around mobile first maturity
And? So, he's not allowed to talk about his experiences?
Then my next question is: If they didn't leak a massive range, then why was it a big problem? I assume if they leaked a bad /24 it surely wouldn't be enough to take down Cloudflare and Google for everyone... no? Did they just leak tons of bad /24s or was it something else?
For what it's worth, I'm in favor of open borders (with customs intact) which would mean no requirement for a visa and unconditional work permits. However, it would have to also be paired with a federal job guarantee. This would help both Americans and exploited people in the global south.

I don't call myself a Democrat though.
Well, I don't think there is much value for consumers in manufacturing instructions, but assembly instructions could be useful to repair the devices.

I am so tired of replacing devices just because you can't fix broken software that I see very few alternatives to forcing the manufacturers by law. Just to give an example:

The Samsung Galaxy S3 was shipped with a firmware bug [1] that killed the memory occasionally (just the layout of some internal table so the hardware was completely okay). Sure, when it happened during the warranty period, it wasn't good for Samsung but afterward, you thought your hardware was broken when in fact just the software was broken (and a factory reset doesn't fix firmware internals).

The reason we even know about that bug is that someone disassembled the firmware years after the device had a relevant market share. If the source code for the firmware would have been available, the bug probably would have been made public much earlier and a lot of broken devices would have been repairable.

So I totally understand that manufacturers want to keep some things secret about their products but as a consumer, I feel betrayed when the devices I buy contain time bombs encoded within their software... And since the manufacturers fail to bring recent updates to the devices even during the warranty period, I think it might be a valid option to enable consumers to care for their devices.

[1]: https://media.ccc.de/v/34c3-8784-emmc_hacking_or_how_i_fixed...
Me too. But it is a mere suspicion. We know that:

- GRU has been stepping up its attacks on the West (anti-doping, chemical weapons, MH17 investigation)

- US, Britain, and Israel attacked Iran with Stuxnet

- Iran retaliated with cyber attacks on banks and electrical grids

- Iran downed a drone

- Number stations go crazy

- US almost goes for military strike, but Trump calls it off and orders US Cyber Command to cyber-attack Iran, with focus on missile systems and spy networks.

- BGP route leak (Allegheny Technologies Inc. caused the leak, and was a target for Titan Rain around 2014).

- Dutch payment - and emergency response network goes down.

Edit: According to a KPN spokesperson: "We have an indication of the cause, but a lot remains unclear. Anyway, this was not the result of a hack."
In which part? We only have a handful of pi's and half belong to my co-founder, he may want them. As for the RFID readers and RFID tags, we could definitely part with those.
Thanks!

> Is there any way to test it without rpi/camera?

Without a Raspberry Pi, yes. It should run on any Unix-like OS. I've tested Linux/arm32, Linux/x86-64, and macOS/x86-64. (For the last, install ffmpeg via homebrew first.)

Without an IP camera...hmm, there are probably some public RTSP live streams somewhere. Not sure offhand.

> If I understand the readme correctly, you store frames individually (as jpegs?) on disk and construct flexible mp4 streams on the fly. Naturally I would have assumed that this would be inefficient so I’m wondering if I got this right, not very familiar with stream/video/codec tech

No, I store the video stream in the compressed form the camera gave it to me. Currently that's H.264; it wouldn't be hard to add H.265 support as well. I break it apart into roughly one-minute segments at convenient locations. The schema design doc talks about that here: https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/master/design...

.mp4 serving will aggregate those together (maybe clipping the start and end segment) to give you a .mp4 segment for any time range of interest. It comes up with a mp4::File struct which knows what video segments to serve and maps byte locations to parts of the .mp4 container format. I don't have a good doc about how this works other than the source code right now. https://github.com/scottlamb/moonfire-nvr/blob/master/src/mp... [edit: and you probably won't be successful in understanding it without having a pdf of the ISO/IEC 14496-12 specification open next to it.] Here's some debug output for generating a five-minute video segment: https://pastebin.com/Wzfz7BF7

Storing individual frames as jpegs would be inefficient I agree in all sorts of ways: recording CPU (you have to decode the H.264 and re-encode it as JPEGs), disk space, disk seeks, playback bandwidth, browser CPU, etc. My understanding is this is how Zoneminder currently works. I imagine it worked better with the cameras Zoneminder was originally designed for: low-resolution, low-qps webcams that didn't do their own H.264 encoding.
I'm having an iPhone XS, emergency alerts enabled and I did not receive a single message. I'm using KPN as my provider and am on the KPN network.

Interestingly all of my coworker and friends did receive a message, but as far as I'm aware they are all on a different network.

I do not like that the supposed 'emergency' messages dit not receive my phone at all. Not even delayed.
And that was KPN as well. Maybe time to give them the boot.
This. Jetson is part of NVIDIA's pipeline to drive customers to their chips. Raspberry Pi is vaguely that for Broadcom but is much more an end in and of itself. RPi is massively supported on the web.

If you're doing stuff that needs the Jetson, it's great, but the Pi is definitely better supported.
Please think about failure modes, and don't take these guys as an example: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10302686
COM is pretty much alive on the Windows world.

After winning the war against the Longhorn team, the Windows team picked up their .NET ideas and reimplemented them in COM.

So since Windows Vista the large majority of new Windows APIs got implemented as COM.

With the Windows 8 release, an improved COM was released as WinRT, which basically picked up on the ideas of COM Runtime before it got redone as CLR.

After that we got UAP with 8.1 release, as the phone, tablet and desktop APIs got a bit closer.

Then with Windows 10, we UWP as the whole set of APIs (IoT, phone, tablet, desktop and XBox) got the same common base.

Every single Windows 10 release has been closing the distance between legacy Win32 and modern UWP, bringing the models together and merging the sandbox models (old style Win32 and UWP).

At BUILD 2019, Microsoft also announced that they will be rewriting React Native for Windows on top of UWP.

Meanwhile C++/CX was deprecated, and thanks to the work lead by Kenny Kerr, it got replaced by C++/WinRT, a C++17 compliant framework for doing UWP programming on Windows (aka Modern COM).

BUILD 2019: "Meet C++/WinRT 2.0: Faster and smarter in the open"

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X41j_gzSwOY
I'm using mine as an X terminal. x2go is too slow (not enough CPU) on version 3, but vnc works.
Building a container and building a release are quite similar in many respects, so if all you want to do to compile your Elixir app during a container build, a release might not give you very much. An Erlang/Elixir release has some goodies that you might be interested in, so I'd read up on those goodies to see if they are attractive to you.
I've yet to try Rust. But Go is the best and worst thing to happen in my career. Best because it's amazing, worst because now I don't like working in other languages.

I'm trying elixir currently, and it makes me want to rip my hair out. No for loops, no typed parameters, implied returns. Who in the world though any of this was a good idea? IO.puts() refuses to print certain objects (list of ints) and just prints a newline, making it useless for debugging.

I'm very very excited to try Rust, and I'm glad I've been able to choose the languages I work with up to this point in my career.
It drains the battery, for one thing. For another, it's one extra additional step that I have to go through to get online on the iPad, and the lack of friction to doing things online that are more substantial than is comfortable on a phone is the primary purpose of the device.

Finally, I very often tether my MBP to my iPad, because the iPad's battery lasts much longer. If my phone battery is low I pretty much need to charge it so I can get calls from family. If my iPad's battery dies I'm merely inconvenienced for a while.
WP Engine acquired Flywheel
I agree with you, but this idea undermines the justification of the free market.
That article -- and the lobbying group "study" it is based on have been pretty roundly condemned even by other journalism organizations e.g. https://www.cjr.org/the_new_gatekeepers/nyt-google-media.php

tl;dr the number is total fabrication
Thanks for the feedback, Fernando. I've transferred the app to the Able organization on Github and pushed a new build that only requests read access to your Github profile info. It should be up in 20 min. It's used soley to pre-populate your Able profile and you can edit/remove this info straight after auth'ing. Didn't realise that the base user scope was that extensive, sorry about that!
Perhaps because in an emergency there may not be enough time for someone to sign up for and install Skype?
But remember, the whole point of the question is "What do you think they are going say in response to this question?"

Part of that is correctly interpreting how they are going to understand the question.

If you can't understand how the other side is going to read the question correctly, it's still a fail.
COM has been a success on Windows.

Plenty of companies live from selling ready made components to integrate into Windows applications.

How many are making a business from selling UNIX pipes?
Any idea how this compares to Daniel Kahnamans research on ego depletion? I only know of it from the laymens book "Thinking: Fast and Slow"
> What that article tells me is that people say they belong to teams they don't actually belong to

I'm not sure that's consistent with the evidence. People are actively getting worse and worse at modeling the other "team", which strongly suggests that polarization is quite real indeed and not just a matter of different labels.
There are a lot of misconceptions like that on the left side of the spectrum. I know people who won't even visit the state of Mississippi because of the abortion law. Not that they were going to go before but they are definitely lumping millions of people into one very simplified bucket that they don't agree with. There's a lot of viciousness on both sides of the aisle at the moment.

As someone who doesn't identify with either group, both major parties seem equally toxic and rife with misconceptions or deliberate misrepresentations of the other side.
If we really hit the end of Moore’s law, I see manufacturers embracing this. “No, that isn’t planned obsolescence; we try to be as green as possible”
Oooh I need to try this. Thanks for the idea!
Ofcourse, I am not advocating for turning the system off. But I would tread more cautiously with something like this if a) it is very easily turned off if perceived as of net negative value in a spur of the moment decision, but difficult to opt back in, b) the security of the system as a whole depends on at least a few people in any given group at any time of day receiving the messages, especially if these technical issues persist with random arrivals of message delivery and c) the scope of the system is expected to expand in the near future.
I have also always wondered what would I do if I have an emergency and I only have access to internet, not to a traditional phone line.

Is there even 911@police.com? or some type of service that can be reached like that? I'm sure this must have happened a lot in the past.

Seems the most reliable would be to ping a friend over internet so he can call the emergency services
I think you bring up very valid points.
Aphantasia
Heh I think based on BGP's track-record, if a state-level actor wanted to mess up everyone's BGP routes they wouldn't have to try very hard...
Photos are another one in the US, with our wealth of diversity, yet ongoing history of biases and marginalizing.

I used to hear in the US that some companies' HR had policies of discarding all resumes with photos or certain other details, to reduce risk of the company appearing to discriminate on basis of ethnicity or family status, for example. Perhaps apocryphal, but I always heard not to include a photo.

And we heard of studies in which resumes with nothing changed but the name, to a "black" one or a female one, were treated differently.

But then the most popular US resume Web sites introduced photos, to appear alongside your resume and your messages.
I'm very excited to read more about the glove-controlled methods employed with their software. It looks familiar to some recent VR audio games and I wonder how similar they are.
Sidewalk Labs (Google) Publishes MIDP Plan for Toronto
不好意思，我们不常用邮箱，我们用微信。另外我们捡到东西一般都送到失物招领中心好吗？yes, I know u maybe hardly understand Chinese, as more than half of People cannot understand English!So why u use ENGLISH as the testing language?And also Use Email as the only valid way??Chinese never use email as a daily contacting tools!!
>>Why does it have to be a competition of loss? The student loan issue is something that should be addressed in and of itself.

Because the money comes out of everyone's pocket. How about free healthcare for more people, free child care so people can go to work etc etc? The govt can't just issue new dollars indefinitely, so there's a cost. I understand that colleges are very expensive and loans have made it even more expensive--just sign here and see you in 4 years. But since the money is coming out of the pooled money we have to think twice and consider everyone's problems.