skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Thank you for calling this out. It was the spirit of what I was trying to go for, because the website use "60GB of RAM (EC2 c3.8xlarge)" which I wouldn't even pay for.

I totally agree with the RasPi suggestion. Though note, the RasPi 3 B+ is actually about as powerful as my 5 year old air, 1.4GHz quadcore vs 1.6GHz quadcore.
Bitcoin Loses to the Cap Theorem
Yup, updated my post. Would you know how to prevent Rust from embedding absolute file paths into the binary?
Sounds like Malaysia and their damn "++" pricing. (Plus GST, plus some other sales tax, end result is around 20-25% extra on the charge).

Well either that or I was fleeced.
It was a command economy, and the entire export surplus of those other items was probably committed to other trade purposes.

We're used to total fungible value of everything, but in the Soviet Union bartering with what you had to hand was far more necessary.
Super Mario 64: Last Impact
An incredible piece of work, thank you Santa Fe Institute!
iDrive is a BMW Brand.
That's exactly my point: what store A does is very clearly misleading, and many people fall for it. People are being manipulated. That makes it not a free, informed market. If it was, store A would have no advantage over store B.
ESR is making an attempt: http://esr.ibiblio.org/?p=8387
Why is enforcing this so much different than enforcing that your cheap Wi-Fi router doesn't interfere with air traffic control radar?
You're aware of what a complete cock up he made of his entire time as Foreign Secretary?

He has correctly calculated that he doesn't have to actually do good work to become prime minister.

It all starts to make sense when you realise he has no morals and very little interest in the outcome for the country or other people, only for himself.
You are missing the subtext of that narrative - Trump did none of those things. People around him and behind him are responsible. I'm not saying that is true (probably is) but it explains how a dullard with his dad's cash can achieve what he has.
Firefox' Enhanced tracking protection doesn't block Google or Instagram from tracking you. Just saying.
You mean like how no one builds medical devices?
Pion WebRTC – Go Implementation of the WebRTC API
video is good for doing demos. blog with pictures would be better for this imo
Two-way links would help. I can't locate the information now but it seems that it was proposed initially.
theres nothing fancy about it. its just a plain ol' copy login page and start phishing with similar looking domain

and the twitter guy makes it sound like its a huge deal...
I know. It's unenforceable.
Cost, range, availability.
That sounds like a great idea! I found a few ORMs and decided to go that route first (for strong TypeScript support), but later dropped that idea to my current interface-MySQL implementation. Now that I see it, this is the perfect use case for Knex and I'll give it a shot. Thanks again!
Strong preference for writing.
Huawei Gear Far More Vulnerable to Hackers Than That of Rivals, Report Says
people.kernel.org is also a full blown ActivityPub instance, so you can see the content posted by subscribing via Mastodon or Pleroma...
Have an ip addressing and redirecting system designed around a Tower of Babel lookup.

https://libraryofbabel.info/search.cgi
One of my favorite tidbits found on the HN was this:

The 'S" in 'IoT' stands for 'Security'

Alas, I do not remember whose comment was that.
I'm not sure what think is wrong with the ad besides making an offer they didn't want to make good on?

The offer bit is a great opportunity to cite Carbolic Smoke Ball https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carlill_v_Carbolic_Smoke_Bal...
Musaceae are (by my surprise, I must admit) one of the most important edible types of plants in the world, but developped countries know only about one single cultivar. Is crazy if we think about it.

Ensete ventricosum is not really hard to find in occident. With its red or mottled red leaves is the main banana tree cultured indoors as ornamental plant, and can be found in most professional gardens. I didn't knew that the root is edible, is very interesting.

Musa velutina is also very ornamental with its minute pink bananas full of seeds. Both species can have >3m long leaves easily. Dwarf forms are more suitable for standard houses
I understand and this makes a lot of sense. For me, Staart was a way to streamline my own build-and-launch process and I designed the Stack to fit my personal needs. Based on other comments, I do want to make it as context-agnostic as possible while keeping the basics, like authentication, authorization, etc.

Perhaps a "Staart builder" is an interesting idea where you pick and choose what features you want for your starter and build from there.
For anyone who was as confused as I was by this, from the root of the site, in the header, click "Reader" to see the actual blogs and posts from the different authors. The navigability of this site needs some work, I would say.
I'd like some "really wrong" examples that aren't 60 years old today.

Even Fukushima was quite clean and it was a total compounded disaster... Three Miles Island is ancient already and limited in impact.

Anything else?

I can look and find examples of improper dust and ash disposal, mining accidents, incorrect filter operations daily, on the other hand. Sometimes fatalities too, every some years.
I think it's hard to predict what a community will be interested in deep-diving to understand. And I'm not sure that HN is super representative of its interests either. The email was aimed at LLVM folks, not HN.

I generally trust the LLVM community to ask for any details they need to reasonably evaluate a proposal like this, and I also trust the folks on my team to work to address those requests to the extent we can.

I don't think it makes sense to try and speculate about what option will make the most sense if LLVM says "nope". Generally, I plan to encourage the team to see if there is a good way for us to address concerns the LLVM community has while still getting the technical things we need. IMO, it would be somewhat surprising if there were no reasonable path where this could both be reasonable for the LLVM community and Google. Doesn't mean it is impossible, but having detailed and precise plans don't seem like a priority. IMO, the priority is finding a good way to work with the LLVM community here.

On a more meta level, I also think it would be good for lots of folks (HN, twitter, etc.) to be a bit less harsh in their criticism of initial posts proposing new efforts/projects. I've seen this several times recently (ranging from this to the V language stuff). I'd suggest folks maybe ask questions and give people a chance to flesh out their thoughts and provide missing context rather than hammering in feedback. In many cases, I think the feedback is actually good, but the method of delivery makes it much harder for people to learn from and respond to constructively.

Anyways, enough meta...
I don't think it's ever acceptable to make an "if I didn't do it, someone else may have done something worse" defense.
Siri, TestFlight, Workflow, Shazam, Beats, FoundationDB, SoundJam ( iTunes ), FileMaker, P.A Semi, PrimeSense, and of course the biggest one that is still going strong, NeXT. ( Well technically it was NeXT acquired Apple and changed its name to Apple /s )

And I don't think they acquired Liquidmetal the company, they only signed a deal for Consumer electronics exclusive use up to a period of time, and my guess was LiquidMetal were too expensive and they could not figure out a way to hit High Volume Production.

Although I generally do agree Apple pays bottom dollar for acquisitions. One reason why I am not hopeful of them buying the Intel Modem business along with all the 3G - 5G Patents.
Really interesting and helpful article. As a 1st year University Student who would like to pursue a degree in Computer Science, this is some great information for me. I wasn't aware of the high need of software engineers in companies. Gives me some relief
You forgot 4) Want a chance to gain a lot of experience and responsibility quickly.
Art Nalls has bought three of them so far, including a trainer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-PHcdn8R4d4

http://artnalls.com/

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Art_Nalls

https://brobible.com/life/article/ret-usmc-art-nalls-harrier...

https://foxtrotalpha.jalopnik.com/he-didnt-retire-he-started...
In the UK I would argue that's already covered by consumer law, if the insecurities can be considered a "manufacturing defect".
Great comparison. I'd really like my wifi-enabled light bulbs to cost $27,499 each.
Why would you expect a site built to report GDPR fines and penalties to report GDPR warnings?

ICO haven't yet released aggregate figures for GDPR, it's too soon. GDPR is a minor update of DPA, and they have released aggregate numbers on that for a while. Fines are levied in a tiny minority of cases. Warnings are far more common, as is steady escalation. The expectation here is the proportions will remain the same under GDPR.

On weed, actually no, because the default action for weed for the vast majority is just a warning. So no, it isn't clear that getting fined without warning first happens quite frequently, because that's also simply not true. You're very unlikely to see a court without a warning first.
What is ergodicity? (2016)
> But that's what would be required to actually set a spending cap on an account.

Nevertheless, that's exactly what people have been asking for several years. See this thread for example (and many others):
https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?threadID=58127&sta...
systemd?
pulseaudio?
Because your wifi router is limited to a minuscule physical range. The rest of the world's wifi routers don't continually threaten to interfere with your local air traffic control radar - if they did, we'd probably have much stronger controls around it than we currently have.
.. But is it a parthenogenetic worm?

I recently read the Shockwave Rider [1] in which the word 'worm' was first coined, thanks to the discussion on HN [2] on Stand on Zanzibar. Can recommend both books for those into SciFi and would like to thank the community.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Shockwave_Rider
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19879830
Bit Preserve: Recreating Vintage Schematics with KiCad
> No vigilante justice required. Just make the companies liable for the damage they cause when their products turn into a botnet.

The hope would be that the former leads to the latter. "Making companies liable for doing a shoddy job" is rarely a thing that happens on its own, without pressure from below that's usually a reaction to incidents that hurt people.
Its not really ad hominem, Android itself us a massive pile of hacks (zygote process, project treble, binder, etc) that while it worked for google in fixing their issues it is far from ideal. Also what API has replaced FCGI and CGI in general? Hopefully not in process modules.
Citation?

Also, why an "uncomfortable" truth? Doesn't bother me in the slightest. I suspect there's an axe being ground here.
>ARM has reported that the majority of their processors are not vulnerable, and published a list of the specific processors that are affected by the Spectre vulnerability: Cortex-R7, Cortex-R8, Cortex-A8, Cortex-A9, Cortex-A15, Cortex-A17, Cortex-A57, Cortex-A72, Cortex-A73 and ARM Cortex-A75 cores.

So, "most not vulnerable", then they proceed to list almost their entire lineup as vulnerable.

These PR guys sure are stretching it.
It is a prove a negative vs prove a positive. "This device cannot broadcast with enough power to interfere with radar" is provable. "This device has no security holes" is often not provable even if they try to secure it.
A complete rewrite of the ownCloud iOS app, now in the app store for free
But you still need a third party to rank the results. I don't just want any page about my error message, I want the best page.
Which is part of what causes tragedies of the commons, yes. I totally get your point, and it's valid, but it's being demonstrated right now that the current appropriate strategies have failed rather spectacularly.

When appropriate measures have massively failed, what are the alternatives? Vigilante actions are one option, as is "watch the whole thing burn down", and probably an infinite variety of stuff in the middle and along different axes. What's your preferred option?

edit: also, it's not quite "may [do] something worse". Insecure IoT things are used as botnets. Frequently. It's not a hypothetical threat at all, it's just a question of scale / frequency.
Ericsson and Nokia
https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/observations/recent-res...
That's harsh, but probably spot on. Better to have the fear instilled while it is more of a PTA than a national catastrophe
IB's commission structure is great if you trade frequently, but not for the average "sock money away in index ETFs for retirement" kind of investor.
> If it is purely private and non-commercial you don't have to.

Unfortunately, this does not include a lot of websites that most people would classify as private. For example, a blog still needs an Impressum.

In addition, you will even be classified as commercial, and therefore require an Impressum, if you don't make any money, for example if you use ads to (try to) pay the hosting cost.

> A P.O. box is not required

In fact, you'll have to pay a fine of usually 5000€ if you use a P.O. box without a summonable address.
Calgary student has been studying decibel levels in hand dryers since age nine
I don't think I quite understand what you mean here, but I think it might be a good point. Is there any way you could rephrase this or clarify the connection to my anecdote?
Thanks, madamelic. Like I said to codingdave, Staart was built as a tool for me, and I published it to see if others might want to use it too.

I agree with you that 2FA, auth rules for teams, etc., may be overkill, but the projects I'm working on (primarily focused as enterprise software alternates) all needed them, which is how Staart was born.

I am more and more pushed in the direction of a "check the features you want to keep and build your Staart package".

Perhaps that last part can be solved with thorough documentation about how to build on top of it. I am currently doing this by only working on project-specific files ("core product") and letting Staart handle auth/etc., but the second these need to be updated to be project-specific too, it will result in merge errors when updating Staart and so on. You're right, it's a problem I need to look into.
All federal government agencies are exempt from state and local taxes, there's nothing particularly special about the USPS in that regard. In fact, state laws don't really apply to them (e.g., postal vehicles don't have state license plates).

This idea of a "huge payout to them from the government" doesn't make any sense. Who exactly is receiving this payout? There are no stockholders who would receive dividends from the profits, if there were any, which there aren't. [0]. There is no stock price going up, because there is no stock.

[0] https://about.usps.com/news/national-releases/2018/pr18_093.... (net loss of $3.9 billion for FY 2018)
Ask them why they don’t buy DIY-kits for furniture, or assemble computers from individual parts.
I don't think it's that far-fetched. The creeping beginnings of populism were detectable in the unusually emotionally-charged election of Obama (Change posters and the like), and that was in 2008.
I think the spirit is that first offenses that aren't extremely outrageous get lower fines.
Ah, good to know. It's been a couple of years since I read the book and I may also have misremembered something about the ad. I definitely had the impression that the guy would have been a very difficult coworker, boss or roommate, and he was all three for parts of the team at various times!
San Francisco becomes first US city to ban e-cigarettes
كلمات اغنية ولعلي الجو يحيى عاكوم
Pratapgad Fort
Raymond Chen wrote about this in his 2014 blog post "Windows is not a Microsoft Visual C/C++ Run-Time delivery channel"

https://devblogs.microsoft.com/oldnewthing/20140411-00/?p=12...

Stable ABIs are good, but the ability to break it and iterate/improve is even more so. GNU platforms are currently stuck with a shitty std::string implementation (32 bytes but only 15 bytes of SSO capacity) because breaking ABI means recompiling your entire Linux distro.
Keen Dreams was $1500 so around that I guess
Your position is that 50% USD inflation overnight would cause 2 USD worth of EUR/GBP/milk/gold/anything bought yesterday to be worth 3 USD today but for some reason 2 USD worth of BTC bought yesterday would continue to be worth only 2 USD?

This is wrong, assuming values of BTC hadn’t also changed overnight. It could only be true if BTC simultaneously dropped in value 33%, but that would be unrelated to USD inflation.
I wrote up a proposal on this, changing the economics to adapt to and account for post-scarce resources like information:

https://hackernoon.com/wealth-a-new-era-of-economics-ce8acd7...
What systems programming projects should I build during my gap year?
I’m currently taking a gap year before junior year undergrad mainly to build my CS portfolio for recruitment.

As I’m interested in systems programming, I have a couple ideas

- build a compiler
- contribute to an OS (FreeBSD or Linux)
- recreate the examples in “500 Lines or Less”
- maybe some full stack projects

What other things do you recommend I learn and build in a year?
What would you do if you had that time dedicated to programming?
>print ... also accepts expressions as arguments

It's true for all perl functions. Unusual part, if I got you right, is that parenthesis are optional in perl. So, this:

foo bar "\n", @baz;

is equivalent to:

foo(bar("\n", @baz));

(unless bar has ($) prototype, anyway; but then it all gets ambiguous)
TBH I trust Boingboing's integrity more than zdnet but I truly appreciate the transparency!
Yeah, pretty peeved about that
I can't speak for the other guy, but from my PoV something being an emergent behaviour doesn't necessarily mean that it is an illusion. Patterns can really exist without being explicitly optimised or programmed for.
Not just that. Health data is considered especially sensitive by the GDPR, so sharing it is a more serious transgression than simply sharing personally identifiable information in general.
My point is that the transactions in a market are always on a few dimensions (price, packaging, utility, etc.) while our daily experience isn't like that.

I agree with you that on a higher-level there's an emergent richness within the markets too (as captured by power laws) but it's less rich than the lived experience.
We're moving in that direction in the UK. There's no legislation around it yet, but the government recently published the snappily named Code of Practice for Consumer IoT Security[1], which if rumours I've heard are correct they've basically published saying manufacturers can either voluntarily comply, or they can deal with it become legislation in the future.

When I first heard about it I was pretty dubious given government's track record on regulating technology, but its actually a really solid document, covering 13 guidelines which are specific enough to be useful, while not going deep into technical detail which will go out of date:

1. No default passwords

2. Implement a vulnerability disclosure policy

3. Keep software updated

4. Securely store credentials and security-sensitive data

5. Communicate securely

6. Minimise exposed attack surfaces

7. Ensure software integrity (this is probably my least favourite guideline, as it basically says you should check signatures on all firmware, by extension shutting down people's ability to control their own hardware with custom firmware)

8. Ensure that personal data is protected

9. Make systems resilient to outages

10. Monitor system telemetry data

11. Make it easy for consumers to delete personal data

12. Make installation and maintenance of devices easy

13. Validate input data

[1] (PDF) https://assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/government/uploads/...
I think PyInstaller does, yes, if you use single file mode. The default mode simply uses an exploded directory. Not pretty, but really not a problem in practice.
Your "free will" is at least mostly an illusion achieved by altering your sense of time.

Hooked up to machines to record microsecond by microsecond we can then watch things happen in order on the playback and see the trick done. First the human does something, then their brain assesses what was done and it constructs a story explanation for what was done. The human comes to believe that they did what they did on purpose for a reason - an exercise of free will, as established in the story, even though we can see that isn't the order in which it happened.

If you're sure you would know about this distortion I've got bad news. Your vision already depends on a similar trick that's been known for decades. Your eyes can't see anywhere near well enough to achieve what you think you can see. Instead a mechanism refreshes the details periodically while not giving you access, your image of the world is a composite assembled from a recent-ish focal image and guesses about what everything else probably still looks like. You feel like it's a live video feed, but it isn't, and it never has been your whole life.

Maybe this trick is only happening a lot of the time for small decisions, and we do have some mysterious free will, exactly the way we think we do but it's just much less often relevant than you intuit. But maybe the fact is that trick is all that was ever happening, we're not special except that we've deluded ourselves and that is sort of special in its own way.
And they don’t mention journalism...
Ehhh then Linux would be considered a manufacturing defect....
Founder here, Build is all about connecting APIs — so it’s producing backend code that connects ecosystems together. Workflows run as serverless APIs. :)
I have a Raspberry Pi 2,3 and 0W. 2 as a media and games center with RetroPi and Kodi. 3 as a Web server using LAMP and Wordpress. And 0W as a server for my non wifi printer.
This reminds me of solving physics problems by getting the units right.

Blah blah ...15 meters per second... blah blah ...after 10 minutes... blah blah ...how far... blah blah => aha! I probably want to multiply 15 by (10 × 60).
Because you can't guarantee that Linux won't be a cesspool of terribleness.
Range is a solved problem.
Modern EVs get over 300 miles and charge 150 miles in 15-30mins.

I'm not sure what you mean by 'availability' - in the context of your comment "I’m surprised we don’t see more plugin hybrids on the market", wherein we're talking about what car manufacturers could be doing, well, they're all available.

A Model X with a Land Rover shell is obviously feasible, it's just that no-one has done it yet. It's probably within the means of a dedicated enthusiast.

I'm surprised that car manufacturers are dragging their feet. ICE's are absolutely dead technology.
Robinhood doesn't have customer service. If you need any kind of service that isn't accessible through the app, you're pretty much out of luck. That's why I only use it for stock picking as a hobby, and not for retirement savings.

Also, you don't get paid interest on uninvested cash balances. Cash in my Schwab checking and brokerage accounts automatically earns interest. Vanguard sweeps cash balances into one of their money market funds. But Robinhood pays nothing, and pockets the money instead.
Mojolicious, Dancer, Catalyst. There's also Plack/PSGI, a Rack/WSGI equivalent, making new frameworks able to pop in more easily.
As annoying as it is, I agree. Brick devices that are known malicious.
That's a keeper, thanks for sharing :)
> It's an API that provides no actual value (you can implement it yourself via signals)

> is a giant minefield if you care about not leaking or deadlocking

Aren't these two in opposition?