skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I had an SD card once that would not fail to write (i.e. kernel does not show write errors) but when you read back it gets the old data. Tried it on multiple operating systems with the same behavior.

It was a more expensive SD card because I see more issues with cheap ones.

But it seems to me that SD cards suck at all price brackets. Maybe even some of the expensive ones are counterfeit?
Start a side-side business taking bets on if the plant will be watered today?
I'm simply curious if the protocol was ever brought up in discussion and if there was a conscious decision to not go that route due to product needs.

I'm not going to speculate on what the advantages/disadvantages would have been as I honestly have no idea. I suppose if a competing product comes out that is XMPP-based then maybe we'll have some good comparisons. ;-)
messaging you!
No sadly not. I'd love to write about it but my English is just not good enough to write a compelling story. Writing it in German and then having it translated is always a bit of a hassle. But I may consider it. At the moment I have an offer of the door drive manufacturer for doing a "home story" about the solution. If that will happen, it will definitely be released in English.

I will open source everything once I'm happy with the security and the ability to configure it.
I use it with Elixir - https://github.com/nerves-project

various IOT things - plants, HVAC etc etc

for real world: deployed "kiosk"/touch POS using https://github.com/LeToteTeam/kiosk_system_x86_64
> If the author had explained a real reason for abandoning Python in favor of Go, it would've made a lot more sense to write this article. "Not feeling it right" isn't how engineers choose their tools. He could've said that he wanted to try something other than Python, and I would have respected that.

The sentence immediately following the phrase "it didn’t feel right anymore":

> Well, to be honest, it’s not really at “some totally random point” that it started not to feel right anymore, it was when I started to enjoy programming with a strongly typed language: Elm.
Specifically this statement:

> Google and other social media sites claim to be neutral platforms. This distinction is important because certain protections given to neutral platforms don’t necessarily apply to publishers.

It is false. There is no such "distinction" in terms of protections applied to online platforms.

https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/47/230

Scroll down to section C.

1. No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be treated as the publisher or speaker of any information provided by another information content provider.

2. No provider or user of an interactive computer service shall be held liable on account of—
2.a any action voluntarily taken in good faith to restrict access to or availability of material that the provider or user considers to be obscene, lewd, lascivious, filthy, excessively violent, harassing, or otherwise objectionable, whether or not such material is constitutionally protected; or
2.b any action taken to enable or make available to information content providers or others the technical means to restrict access to material described in paragraph (1).[1]

The law makes no stipulations or caveats regarding supposed "neutrality" of the platform.
Oh, heck. I didn't even see the reply.

Probably right. Depends on the question, I guess.

You know what I mean, use questions straight out of textbooks that have only been in circulation in the last five or ten years.

I've found that it's easier all around if I simply don't hide that I'm over 40. It means a lot fewer responses to inquiries, but also a lot less wasted time. Avoids that crestfallen look when you walk in the door.

Apparently, the industry is crawling with folks that are under 35, but have the judgement and expertise you get from 30 years' of programming.

I'm also puzzled why folks would think they can learn more about me from a twenty-minute test, than by looking at ten years' worth of code in dozens of repos.

I was a hiring manager for many years. I would have drooled to see that kind of background on any one of my candidates. Still, I generally found that I was able to accurately judge their competence after about a half-hour chat (at least, I never seemed to get it wrong), and it was all about cultural fit, after that.

I suppose being an up-to-date engineer, myself, helped.
Could you tell me where is the response to all those similar questions? If the authors don’t reply, it is reasonable to keep asking. 1:Chinese only use email for business issues, the SI data from the paper ignores the fact that most workers in reception do not have email.And they may could understand and speak easy English, but they could not write a email. Why the author do not use local language and multiple communication ways? It could exclude the language and communication variables.(I realize that non-english speaking country have relatively low scores).2:It is a culture thing that we used to leave the wallet in a certain place, just like japan did. But author just excluded japan off the paper? The truth is, there is no countries in this paper contain a Chinese culture-relative country, it is typical double standards. If you could explain those two questions well, I believe there would be no similar comments at all.
The wood and timer building are surprisingly folksy, I agree.

However the awnings will do nothing to prevent windblown snow from accumulating.

I mean if they did, then you'd see Torontonians install all kinds of non IOT awnings for this purpose.

I also hear that they will install special pavers that will be heated to melt ice/snow, but that will be very expensive energy wise.

None of it seems practical.

I appreciate that they are proposing better transit connections, but the TTC has a stranglehold on that kind of thing in this city, and I don't see how they are going to get past that.

Also it's a bit patronizing to the local residents to assume that, just because they are Google, that they will immediately have better insights into solving local problems.

It reminds me a bit of that form for telling people why their anti spam idea would never work.¹ They should have one for IOT projects too.

The core problem with their entire proposal, is that they are proposing technical solutions to political problems.

1: https://craphound.com/spamsolutions.txt
They are! Now people who don't fill out their profiles only get matched with other people who haven't filled theirs out. Of course in theory you could still get someone that pastes in lorem ipsum or something, but I haven't seen that happen yet.
For all of the Eastern bloc's problems, education was phenomenal by global standards.

I suspect that's a natural consequence of good people being held down in poverty by tyrannical government.
This got me thinking, if you're giving $50 to Zig on patreon and they are receiving less than $50 (because fees), and Zig is giving $150 to musl on (whatever funding site) and musl is receiving less than $150 (because fees), why not give your $50 to musl instead? Giving to projects which turn around and give it elsewhere seems wasteful, unless your goal is to also fund sites like patreon.
Show HN: Text-based time-tracking for Slack
To the point about capital mobility, I was just making a point about the phenomenon where Jeff bezos will come into town and demand millions of dollars in subsidies or else he’ll take his warehouse elsewhere. He can do that because capital is mobile and people are not.

The same phenomenon applies in a different way to Mexico; you want to move your factories to where labor is cheap. But if all those Mexicans can just leave, it defeats the purpose of moving your plant to Mexico.
Hold the Phone
I think that's a good analogy. From my hobby neuroscience studies I'd say that what we see in life is more or less a selective hallucination (we filter out, for instance, electromagnetic fields which bees can actually see) -- so it's almost more literal than merely it being similar to seeing. It likely is equivalent to seeing or very close. Dreaming, for instance, creates life-like imagery despite being technically disconnected from incoming light/inputs. Our brains are wild little nodes.
Are you able to comment on how a company like yourself, or the other companies which were affected, can pursue anything with Verizon? Or is Verizon free to continue with bad practices and have a repeat of this issue?
All seem to be used - bummer - looks amazing.
I agree that Schmidt is a good example of someone who's already demonstrated willingness to use his power to bully those he perceives as political opponents, but the principle that access to such an incredibly dangerous power exists, and that existing regulation can barely if at all limit it, is really the problem. Forget any specific individual and ask yourself if we can trust every high level Alphabet exec who could pull some strings and make sure it doesn't get "leaked" that those strings were pulled in decades to come.
You came up with this analogy when Lost was still airing, no?

Although BGP probably makes about the same amount of sense to most people.
I think the public backlash against BP was tremendous. The HBO documentary in 2016 was very popular, six years after the incident occurred.
Startups would need to have sophisticated accounting and tax legal teams to do what large corporations do. Ideally we close these loopholes so it's not a strategic advantage for larger corporations.

https://www.investopedia.com/terms/d/double-irish-with-a-dut...
You may want to read this comment:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20266970
Without changing units to make the numbers seem smaller:

> "up to" 4,500 gallons per day. The two new estimates in the article are 378-1974 gallons per day and 798-4536 gallons per day. A total of 10.5k-29.4k gallons of oil per day might be flowing into the Gulf from various sources, so this is a significant fraction but not a majority.
> Especially now that we live in an IPv6 world, why not just run everything publicly. Push security all the way down to the applications themselves, and rely on the software development lifecycle process to catch security issues.

Yeah, wouldn't it be nice if software just didn't have any bugs?

You got the correlation backwards: Software isn't garbage because we can rely on the band-aids. The band-aids were invented because all software is garbage.
Adding QRL Address to Keybase Profile
amusingly two of those are valid domains
> that's true of human proofs too.

I'm not sure that's right. The peer review process works well (e.g. [0]) precisely because human mathematicians are likely to make (at least somewhat) different mistakes from each other.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Wiles%27s_proof_o...
The internet is huge.
Flashcards/instant answers is a tiny rounding error compared to the information in the searchable web.
DDG uses bing for the actual search and their own stuff for flashcards.
Oh, 1020 access denied means some firewall rule (any combination of rules [0] and `if`/`or` statements) or access controls (such as blocking IP ranges and countries) blocked access to the website. These are always set up by the site operator, so this isn't caused by any CF issues or the earlier routing issues.

I guess best course of action for those who want to access the site is to tweet them https://twitter.com/shadow_official with your Ray ID.

0: https://developers.cloudflare.com/firewall/cf-firewall-rules...
"In some markets, Britain among them, Google offers a male voice for its assistant, though Alexa and Siri are always female."

The default for British English users is male for Siri. To be specific, Siri defaults to a male voice for Arabic, French, Dutch and British English.
$55 once you add a useful amount of memory but all the same it's genuinely functional even for light internet usage. Pretty impressive stuff. Wintel is headed for an inevitable death at the extreme low end because at this point the experience you get for 50 odd bucks and a used monitor, keyboard, and mouse is better on ARM+Linux.
Dallas begs to differ!
I think that may be a little too subtle for the parent, but well done.
Over a decade ago one of my friends was banned from the Sheffield Uni network for playing around with BGP and knocking the whole campus offline. One kind of has to wonder whether Verizon can suffer the same consequences simply by collective action on the part of other affected parties.
That 'appearing to take writes but reverting on restart' thing drove me nuts. Switched to Samsung Evo Plus SD cards. A year later, all good.
Yes, and I read it, but none of it struck me as being remarkable :-)

Please don't misunderstand, I do not intend to knock the project in any way, it seems excellent, just similar to others that already exist.
I work from home in NJ and I knew something was screwy this morning. I wish there was a place I could have checked to see it was this issue. I rebooted pretty much everything in my house.
* A Pi3 running RetroPie. Might upgrade to a 4 if I can find a use for the 3.
* An original Pi that I gave to my brother in law because he was interested in setting up a PiHole (he might have used it for RetroPie, though).
> ... people resort to bit.ly and other URL shortcuts.

Isn't the usage of that on the way out (likely long tail though), due it being a security nightmare?

eg you never know if some url shortener is pointing to malware, bouncing through trackers, (etc).

Even if the same url "seemed ok yesterday".
I've been donating to Zig since long before this announcement. Andrew is free to do what he wishes with the money.
I have two. The main reason I love them is I can leave them on all the time using very little power. Our would be surprised how much u can supercharge your home network by having always-on Linux boxes on it.

One runs nextcloud and serves as a nas. I use freeddns to give my nextcloud instance a legit URL for free. I use letsencrypt to host my cloud over https, again for free.
The other runs emulationstation, deluge (torrent) which only runs when the box is connected to a VPN running on a vps, and serves up my movies and shows via minidlna.

I've also got some cool chron jobs that backup important stuff ((encrypted of course) to Google cloud and do some other things. I also serve up a keepass password database via webdav and do some neat stuff regarding keeping my keyfile separate fr my internet facing box but I won't get into exactly how that works.
Anybody can sue. And it'll still cost Verizon real money to fight those suits, even if they truly don't have liability.
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What I've learned so far in my programming career
I was thinking about the recently revealed 'Troika Laundromat'–smaller than the Russian Laundromat scheme but still a $5B operation–which involved the Lithuanian Ukio Bankas: https://www.occrp.org/en/troikalaundromat/the-troika-laundro...
Ask HN: What Happened to Hessix.com?
3 months ago someone posted [1] about a HN style research discussion site [2]. That site appears to nolonger exist. Does anyone know what happened?

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19278848

[2] https://www.hessix.com/
color is off too... the grey is too light and hard to read.
>On average Diesel cars have higher CO2 emissions per kilometer.

I don't think that's true (in the UK at least) - both in that it's vanishingly rare to find a petrol vehicle that fit into the lowest 5 UK tax brackets (which are g/km of CO2) - and also in terms of real-world fuel use. I've owned probably 70 cars in the last 10 years or so (I buy and sell as a side gig), and all of the diesels have had lower fuel use for equivalent performance. They tend to be 'one size bigger' in terms of engine (so, say a 1.9 instead of a 1.6, or a 1.4 instead of a 1.1), but even taking that into account they will be a 10-20 mpg better on fuel, with a petrol 1.4 focus giving maybe 30 mpg average, and a diesel (1.6) one easily making 45-50 mpg, more on a run. And that means lower CO2 emissions.

Yeah, you might see the occasional stupidly large diesel car/chelsea tractor, but most of them are 1.9D VAG, and 1.6 or 2.0 Peugeot/Citroen/Ford HDI/TDCIs - there are hundreds of thousands of them out there on the roads.
So what's the over/under on Verizon actually picking up?
Playing as devils advocate; does decentralization of that power actually improve the situation of dealing with manipulation from nation states? And if that's not what you're saying, is it a proposal that the government manages our news diet, or what do you view as the solution?

It would seem possible to me that if power was distributed widely over competitors it might be even harder to defend against, as fake news drives clicks which drives market share, everything about combatting fake news has been extremely polarizing (see this thread) and might drive bad PR to companies that take it seriously, a more diverse landscape might lead to a much more complicated regulatory landscape across competing products, and just a basic bystander effect of each executive team being more able to shirk responsibility because other people are too.
> I really want a duel boiler machine, but I'm trying to figure out which ones are good at the moment

Check out the Brewtus (Expobar Minore IV). Double boiler, E61 group head, PID. God shot territory every pull.
> which suggest that there is a difference

you should keep reading:

https://ilt.eff.org/Defamation__CDA_Cases.html#Exercise_of_E...
justin {at} cloudflaredotcom

Thanks!

p.s. I thought it was lobsters, but it doesn't appear to be ...hence I asked. :)
> Which is still super vague as to what people do when they "call to mind" something, or what a visual feel is...

I think it's pretty easy to explain relatively unambiguously though.

When you're looking at an object, let's say an orange, you are experiencing a unique, particular sensation which usually only happens when you're looking at an orange. Being able to visualize things is to be able to create the same sensation wilfully even when you're not looking at an orange (albeit of perhaps a lesser intensity).
There's no need to fear, for seven men with keys, masters of the universe, well versed universal programming linguistically... and if there is a big blackout.. up to 6 of them can back out!

https://youtu.be/Odw9Md9Lm6g?t=164
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This would have been more interesting had you highlighted some of the projects your community built and are showcased on aforementioned blog.
Is this common knowledge? I've lived all over the US and this is the first time I've ever heard of this.
Should be picked up by a PM2.5 sensor.
How does the HDD connect to the pi? just via usb in an separate enclosure?
Wasn’t bad, but they couldn’t compete with the top companies, and the folks they were getting weren’t good enough.
Huh, that's bizarre. We've been using Raspberry Pi in remotely deployed devices for ~2 years now. These devices reboot on a regular basis. So far, not a single one of the cards has failed.
> * One sits on my electronics workbench and runs OpenOCD and allows BlackMagic Probes to export GDB as a service over the network. That lets me debug from anywhere without burning a USB port or adding additional software.

This sounds cool and interesting. Can you elaborate on the setup and some of the ways you've used it?
https://www.icann.org/news/blog/the-problem-with-the-seven-k...
Consider the Cray-1 supercomputer of the early 1980s - 100 MFLOPS for US$10M. A modern Intel processor will do 100 GFLOPS (1000x faster) for a couple of hundred bucks.
Is the fake narrative of Hindu terror meant to whitewash Islamic terror?
Too bad all this work is proprietary.
I know a lot of coffee enthusiasts with Silvias, and they pull awesome shots. It's probably the best entry "prosumer" machine in existence!
Yeah, Split is expensive when it comes to buying stuff, but still cheaper rent than capital city Zagreb. City is really small, so all the services are here. I haven't noticed that I miss anything or that anything is too expensive.

Families that want to save more go live in Solin, Stobreč or similar costal outskirts, and these are 15-20 minutes by car from city center. Roads get congested around historic core, unlike Zagreb where congestion issues are ridiculous (can take you an hour to get to where you want).

According to Numbeo, I'd have to have impossible income to keep the buying power at the same level if I moved to Vienna, Berlin, or other more attractive European towns.

A quality engineer earning 2-2.5k euro in Croatia has no reason to move to Berlin or Vienna if paycheck does not double. An experienced engineer earning more really needs to get insane offers to move.

My SF salary was no where near the current living standards.
Seems to me that this is a great example of how, if I'm the next developer, I will have to go dereference isAbsoluteUrl in order to see that the https:// case hasn't already been handled--whereas it would have been obvious with the inlined version. Maybe isAbsoluteUrl is imported from a module I trust, and I won't think to go look at it for the problem. And "every other place" is a bit of a strawman, since everyone commenting seems to think if you have three cases of a thing, then the abstraction is warranted... so it'd have to be "in the other place".
Small slug throws Japan's high-speed rail into chaos
Biggest in what sense? And why should we care? If great wealth implies great wisdom, then the opinions of Bill Gates should concern us all. Personally, I'm not interested.
You could always send it off for maintenance. Way cheaper than buying a new machine. E61 machines are built like tanks, and should last generations with maintenance.
>.. if the existing founder can't recruit a cofounder from their network?

For immigrants like me, who didn't grow up in the US, the "existing network" is largely absent / non-existent. So we always have difficulty trying to find co-founders as the people you can trust the most in your network are your "butt buddies" (in hindi we call them Chaddi-dost) and they are not here.

And most engineers, esp. technical engineers are introverts and do not like going to networking events.
Constructing an immutable object/value isn't any different than a pure function that outputs that object/value. The difference is just syntax.

That said, I don't know if this library uses the practice of immutable-only objects.
The law in Sweden is pretty clear, they don't extradite for espionage / political crimes.
>The internet is still an open place, and there are plenty of venues

You are absolutely right that putting all the eggs in one basket is a textbook mistake, and one should diversify communication channels & sources of income.

>nor the right to publish using someone else's equipment

Two legal cases come to mind:

the recent decision that POTUS twitter feed is a public space (https://theconversation.com/federal-judge-rules-trumps-twitt...)

and the 1980 decision in Pruneyard Shopping Center v. Robins where, based on Californian law, private property of the shoping mall was deemed open to political speech (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pruneyard_Shopping_Center_v._R...).

It's perfectly fine for FB, Twitter, Google & friends to declare themselves editorial organizations rather than open platforms. However it's worth noting Section 230 protections hinge on being a platform.
People are always more motivated to criticise. I love the idea of the new API for a few reasons, but wouldn't just comment "yay, that's cool" on the previous post. I'm happy it stays as a plugin though.