skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The raspberry pi occupies a really sad place for me. I know so, so many people who were very well intentioned, and bought a raspberry pi for one of their friends or family members. They've heard of "making", and the good associations that it has, and they see things about the raspberry pi, so they go on amazon and buy some pi-kit thing.

SO many of these things end up sitting in boxes or on shelves. The raspberry pi is pretty cool for a very small niche of things, but really the main thing making it interesting is that it's a cheap desktop computer.

If you already have a computer in your house, then you've already got a much, much more powerful version of a raspberry pi.

If you have a friend or family member who is interested in an introduction to software and hardware engineering, or electronics, then they'll be MUCH MUCH better off with one of these: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Shield-Bot-p-1380.html

and an arduino uno.

Please stop buying these raspberry pi kit things unless you have one of the specific use cases (a small desktop computer) in mind. They seem like so much marketing, and in my opinion, they are actually hurting the movement of people learning to program and build hardware devices.
A long history of troubled relationships requires people who know that history and react to it. Right now we have people who care only about their personal feelings/cockfight than what consequences those actions will have. Just imagine broken Iran (+ other failed nations in that region) with a middle eastern's definition of fascism in Saudi Arabia, Water and Global Warming issues in the future and boy now everyone is going to be in trouble.
I had an ailing Windows 95 Laptop that in its later years stopped functioning entirely unless I wiggled the mouse.

This all makes a lot of sense now.
The New Learn Enough
Not everyone qualifies for Medicaid, and those who do must regularly jump through hoops in most states. It's obvious some states are trying to push people off Medicaid even if they don't have other insurance.
Well, thank you (sarcasm at play here obviously) Germany for pushing Europe towards the top with 67% of all the requests based upon the total given for Europe, Middle East, India, Africa Total. Why they bundle those into one total is equally odd, though maybe some telco regional grouping legacy aspect at play perhaps - thinking https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eurasia

I'd work out the Europe total, but that would only depress me further.

Why does Germany stick out compared to other countries in Europe - some Stazi hangover mentality! Who knows, but some serious questions need to be asked as clearly some major disparity amongst EU countries at play here. But I'm sure they will get their shrills to bury that question, hmmmm.

Germany 12,343 requests
Europe, Middle East, India,Africa Total 18,205
I don't think mySQL/MariaDB is particularly easier than PostgreSQL to setup for someone less familiar with them.

Every single time I've used mySQL, I come across some odd quirk from historical context. Limiting TEXT and creating LONGTEXT instead of increasing the bounds for TEXT. Keeping utf8 as some wierd non-final version of utf that isn't a spec, instead of aliasing it to the actual utf8 spec version in new configurations. Not sure if this is still an issue, not being able to create foreign key relationships with ansi-quoted table names (backticks only here). "BINARY" fields being collated as case invariant by default (led to some really bad bugs on a primary key field).

I can't think of a single time I've used mysql and didn't get odd behavior. I can't think of a single time I've used PostgreSQL, or even MS-SQL that I did. Oracle and DB2 have had some oddities as well, but at least consistent, unlike mysql.
CallRail Loses Large Amount of Customer Data
The Gap Between Rich and Poor Americans' Health Is Widening
Maybe if they already know you have cancer, but just some symptoms? The emergency room typically isn’t going to make a cancer diagnosis.

A lot of healthcare is simply best effort, and you won’t typically get that best effort if you aren’t paying.
No, they do not merge into the same thing. If you already have capital it is to your advantage to create a system where nobody new can compete with those who do - lest someone who doesn't have capital comes along and undercuts you.
Yep. I refused the backscatter scanner when they first came out because of radiation and nude scans, but now that they've changed that I think it's fine.
That is another law, but yes.
Most background radiation comes from Potassium and Radon: I'm not sure how much of an impact this one reactor might have had.
Maybe that's how life on earth began and we would just be continuing the process.
Revenge porn is terrible, but I don't think that's relevant here. Can you think of a plausible scenario where a backscatter machine's data could be used against someone? They didn't save your face; I don't know what someone would look at. And that's if the machines actually saved any data, which was not supposed to happen.
"The truth is Steve Jobs doesn't care about games. [....] He's not a gamer. [....] It's difficult to ask somebody to get behind something they don't really believe in. I mean obviously he believes in the music and the iTunes and that whole side of things, and the media side of things, and he gets it and he pushes it and they do wonderful things with that, but he's not a gamer. That's just the bottom line about it." ~John Carmack (2008)
We're talking about an organization that's existing for 96 years... and a person that's been an adult filer for 55 years. I'm confident the IRS has looked into it by now.

Other than disliking the guy - is there any evidence there's any "criminal activity" here?
I've been using sendinblue with good success. This author could have used sendinblue and still been in the free plan if he spaced out his newsletter (max 300 emails a day for free).

Even the first paid plan at $25 lets you send 40k a month, which is pretty solid. And they have transactional as well as mailing list support.
Quintile graphs obscure absolute magnitudes. Most of the people that have a realistic chance of making it into the upper income/wealth quintiles come from relatively high social strata already (either within the U.S or, if they're an immigrant, within their home countries), but they want that high percentile to mean more in absolute terms.

In other words, if you come from the upper end of the distribution, income inequality is a feature not a bug.
Even bob lutz gave them praise and said there is no panel gap issue
I got so tired with YouTube's recommendation for playing Hindi songs, because it got so repetitive, that I opted to delete my entire viewing history.
This did not help and with-in a few weeks, the 'random' playlist became predictably repetitive again.
I'm having similar experience with YouTube Music as well.
If you have tons of space, how about running a blockchain node? Something like FileCoin node is interesting because you can theoretically made some tokens when you’re doing it.
There are ways to make sure that your GET requests are not cached. For example in the case we're talking about here the server sets that URI to have "Cache-Control: private; max-age=0". Now sure, a proxy could simply ignore HTTP protocol and cache it anyway, but that would break a lot of things and AFAIK is not seen often in the wild. Certainly in the case of the applications I worked on we did not have customers that reported connection difficulties over HTTP.
I don't like that website, it looks almost like a blockchain ICO site. Low on details, high on hype.

I don't see prices listed. Something seems wrong.

This company does something pretty similar minus the blockchain and is much more straightforward: https://www.zerosix.ai/ , same with https://vast.ai/console/create/
Sure - there may be nothing wrong with his IRS tax filings; he may have gains or losses listed under "other" - but what does that mean? He reported them, and that's all that matters, right?

Except for the fact that there was a particular bank lending to him, the only bank in the world that would lend to him, because American banks would not.

And that bank is currently under investigation for money laundering activities for people in a certain other country; and many of those people have cozy relationships with the government of that country. And Trump is particularly cozy as POTUS with the leader of the government of that country.

So - what if the "other" amounts on his tax returns happen to match up in some way with certain amounts on the books with that bank?

I don't know - I'm not an expert in these matters - but something tells me it wouldn't bode well for Trump, and that might be the reason he's so cagey about his tax returns.

After all - if there were nothing there, he shouldn't really care, right? The fact that he isn't "calling their bluff" speaks volumes...
For number of affected devices - yes, but for actual requests - they are 3x higher than the USA

United States of America 4,680 requests
Germany 12,343 requests
Matlab has its quirks, but I've never come across a better IDE for debugging 'scientific' code/scripts. Seeing current values by hovering over variables, the ability to pause and execute some 'testing' code, or overwrite things and carry on, being able to easily edit arrays/matrices in an excel-like table, having matrix arithmetic that doesn't look like shit when written as code... these are things that I find very useful. I use it in my field (structural engineering) for those reason alone, even if it might be slower, or more difficult to accomplish certain tasks.
You've broken the site guidelines in quite a few comments today. We ban accounts that do that. Would you mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and using HN in its intended spirit? We'd be grateful.
What leads you to believe that high pressure could not be reached?
They're implementing their personal data harvesting tools into WhatsApp and the sheer amount of content being pulled from their servers was too much to handle and it crashed

/s but probably true eventually
The weirdest bug you’ve found that left you wondering how computers even worked
> I know about the categorical imperative, but people aren’t saints

It's not about sainthood, it's about ethics.

> The fix is to create incentives that make it easier to behave better, not chastise people for doing what benefits them.

Breaking the rules will always give him more benefit, unless we "chastise" (that is: punish) that behavior. There's little we can do to make not murdering people that stand between him and riches "better" but making him believe that we will punish him.

Clearly, relying on ethics and/or rational acting won't work with that kind of people.

> That said, I fail to see how his behavior is antisocial.

There would be no society if everybody acted like him.

> If he ever moves back, he’ll bring millions of dollars with him and inject it into the local economy.

He will, as he stated, only move back if he gets seriously ill and requires the social net to catch him. He will only come back if he's going to cost money.
And even once they’ve “learned their lesson” what do you propose they purchase instead? The non-DRM alternatives are often no where near as convenient, if they’re available at all.
The is a fatal flaw with the way they measure mobility in these studies because the income quintiles are skewed much higher in the US.

Take this scenario:

1. You go from 1st quintile (10K EUR) to 5th quintile (100K EUR) in Europe.

2. You go from 1st quintile ($10K) to 4th quintile ($110K) in the US.

By this measure, Europe has better mobility, but the person in the US ends up with a higher income.
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> That is to say, I think you can wander around Go code with less context on the whole project and have a better idea on what that tiny piece of code is doing.

Again, what specifically about golang that makes it that way, other than errors vs. exceptions (keeping in mind that any line in golang can panic)? And what's preventing you from writing similar code in another language? I used Scala before and we had Option and Result types, and treated exceptions as panics. The same applies to Rust.

I found that because of golang's verbosity, it actually made it harder to understand what the entire project was doing. e.g. code bases I worked with were littered with one off functions that amounted to what basically was a map or map+filter, where this would have been a one liner in any modern language, including Java, C#, Kotlin, etc.

Basically, I'm agreeing with the rest of your comment. I find that a "denser" language (to a certain extent) allows you to understand the overall project quicker. There's probably a sweet spot somewhere, and I feel that languages like Java and C# are quite close to it. Keeping in mind that you want a high level overview of a project when you start off anyway, there's no magic solution that will give you that.

It's just that I keep seeing the same claims repeated so many times, and it really seems that they're just being repeated without any basis at all, and repeated just because what the golang author's claimed. So far, almost everything I've seen has been hype.
You can still upload content that infringes copyrights via various services, you can also register such content in "contentid". It is a more hassle than a direct upload but not too much and has been happening. E.g. an independent artist uploads his song to YouTube. A thief makes a copy and sends to Spotify etc and then requests take downs of original work.
> healthcare is more or less free if you're poor in the US

If you qualify for Medicaid, you have government-provided insurance available, but that doesn't mean care is free even then, because Medicaid rules allow state plans to incorporate either or both of premiums and beneficiary cost sharing as part of the state Medicaid plans.

Also note that many people (particularly adults) that would meet many definitions of poor are not qualified for Medicaid, because several states don't cover adults (especially non-parents) with Medicaid above a small fraction of the federal poverty level (and sometimes not at all for non-parents).

See, https://www.kff.org/health-reform/state-indicator/medicaid-i...
That's an accessibility feature and has been around for at least a couple of years, I believe.
I was 100% with you until

> Please stop buying these raspberry pi kit things unless you have one of the specific use cases (a small desktop computer) in mind. They seem like so much marketing, and in my opinion, they are actually hurting the movement of people learning to program and build hardware devices.

How does buying one with good intentions that goes unused hurt any other effort? I don't think I'd have even heard of any other devices if it weren't for the attention that the Pi gets.
It’s not documentation no. Some smart people spent a lot of time observing and disassembling and explained a number of things but major aspects are entirely missing, and not all of what is written is accurate. In any case this definitely is not documentation, and certainly not enough information to write not only a compatible implementation, but a compatible implementation with very similar-looking source code.
I am from Portugal, a country that has many people working in richer EU countries, but I don't think this is true.

Romanian or Portuguese nurses and doctors working in France or Germany or any other country will have the same wages as a french nurse or doctor. Or most of the time at least.

My wife is a nurse and we did some research on this a few years ago.
I know it's annoying, but please don't take HN threads on this off-topic tangent. The situation sucks, but we all know how it sucks, all these discussions are the same, and the rule here has been settled for years: if there's a workaround, it's ok. Users usually post workarounds in the thread.

This is in the FAQ at https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html and there's more explanation here:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10178989

https://hn.algolia.com/?sort=byDate&dateRange=all&type=comme...
This doesn't really answer the persons question in my opinion. Are we supposed to assume this person has a BS in Computer Science? In that case it's more like 4.5 years and not 6 months.
Thanks for these. I've been really struggling to learn C++ on my own. I've been considering buying A Tour of C++.
Would be nice if serverless could standardize on webassembly, and webassembly grew tools that check safety properties such as the ones proposed by this paper.
That looks like a clone of most airline sites that I regularly have to endure.
Medicade is full blown health coverage, it's not just for emergency room visits: https://www.medicaid.gov/
Or spend 2-5 hours a year on Ops, and suddenly it looks more attractive again. You get to decide where on the range your personal preference flips, where your available skills probably put you on it and choose accordingly.
I definitely understand this point. Another alternative is Python (with numpy, scipy and matplotlib) using the Pycharm IDE. It has many of the features you're talking about.
Growth on Wall Street isn't growth on main street

Of course it is. Where do you think main streets pensions and 401k are invested? Where do you think main street people work?
...with the corresponding scientific name would be "Brucea Banneriolus".
Nitpicking your nitpick, the difference is whether the random sampling is with replacement or without replacement. Wikipedia's definition of "simple random sample" defines it to include both ways:

[S]ampling is typically done "without replacement", i.e., one deliberately avoids choosing any member of the population more than once. Although simple random sampling can be conducted with replacement instead, this is less common and would normally be described more fully as simple random sampling with replacement.

Ref: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simple_random_sample
The nice thing about a Pi is you’re not worried about flashing it and losing all your data and replacing the microSD or even frying the whole thing. It’s small and cheap. That’s the main draw. Not many people have a spare desktop they’re comfortable playing around with—my parents would have definitely been happier if I had been messing up a Raspberry Pi as a kid rather than the family computer ;)
Yeah, I was more than a little surprised to see his perspective - I thought for sure he was going to rave about Julia, pick on Python a little, and skewer Matlab. My graduate thesis advisor forced me to use Matlab to do all of my master’s thesis work, and I found it to be about the most frustrating environment possible, at least for any actual programming. I’m a little shocked to read that anybody uses Matlab outside of a pure academic environment… I guess I just don’t work on sophisticated enough projects?
Like one time I accidentally dosed my weed wrong. I prepared a bowl with super-high THC strain (I live in a legal state) when I was trying to smoke a 1:1 THC:CBD strain (I wasn't trying to get high, I was trying to medicate against my chronic inflammation problem). I vaped the entire bowl. Continued to watch Portlandia and 30 seconds in, I realized something is wrong and I can barely keep my eyes open. After managing the initial disorientation, I got up to take a shower because my heart was beating at 150 bpm so I wanted to distract myself. When I got up I heard someone talking outside. It sounded like it's my coworker's sound. I got worried for some reason. I was worried that my coworker would see me high and think I'm a "loser stoner" getting high alone. Of course it was just my neighbor talking on his phone outside. Anyway, I never felt like this before or ever since. This was a unique paranoid experience I felt at that moment.
Running a Folding@Home client is a helpful way to contribute spare CPU cycles to science...

https://foldingathome.org/
I wish we'd stop calling bitcoin "currency"— that is not remotely what it is. Currency has a number of important properties that allow it to fill its function, and cryptocurrency has basically none of them.

I wrote about this in 2017, but it is as relevant now as it was then: https://www.bzarg.com/p/what-bitcoin-shows-us-about-how-mone...
Because random is actually "random based on what you've listened to most in your playlist, because we believe that we know the definition of random more than you do"
Why Do Calculators Have a Headphone Jack? [video]
Seems like a Markov Chain approach--considered over artist and genre--would be a good idea.
Because kids get them, don't do anything useful or fun with them, and conclude that engineering is not for them. They also eat up often-tight discretionary budgets for educational tools.
> they support mysql purely to make it easier for their smaller users to setup and manage instances.

That's not a real reason to support mysql, which is no more pleasant for non-DBAs to set up than any other traditional RDBMS. Rather, that's a reason to support sqlite. (See also, the reason sqlite is the default DB in Rails.)
Slight derail

> Because people don't feel like they can make any real impact

I'd say this generalization applies to a lot of topics that we're having with democracy. That people don't feel that it's democratic. I think there's this weird feeling where most believe we're both in a democracy and autocracy (which may not be untrue, but the less we try to fix it with democracy the harder we'll leave to autocracy)
In some cases, you need a car. But there are also many cases where people perceive that they need a car, but really don't. It is indeed a problem that so many are willing to overspend on a car to avoid the horror of sitting on a bus or riding a bicycle.
> You can see specialists for free as well

What specific program are you talking about? Because you're wrong when you state this as an unqualified generality about poor people in the US, but identifying the exact error requires knowing what program you think is involved.

> There are no restrictions on treatment.

There is no program for low income healthcare for which this is true.
> no tune was played twice until all of the tunes were played...

That doesn't sound random.

I use Google Play Music and it "randomizes" things in the way you desire. It takes your playlist and shuffles the entries; you can even press a button to see how it's sorted it. That ordering sticks around forever if you take no further action, though, so it will repeat that random ordering indefinitely unless you press the shuffle button to disable that, then start playing something, then press the shuffle button again.
Digital rights management is the only application I can think of that stands to benefit from blockchain. (Other than money laundering, of course.)
The lesson learned from zero tolerance tolerance policies is that there's no reason to hold back if you're both going to get in trouble.
The reason was that legal briefs needed to be certain lengths with word count maximums. MS Word did not count words in footnotes for the overall word count, WP did.
You consider $400 'low cost'?
If it's meant to be a serious discussion of a topic, why does the video need to start with a visual gag? Moreso why such an asinine gag? I cannot take seriously someone who does not take themselves seriously, it tells me maybe they are not thinking through things as critically as they should.
So, if a Microsoft kernel developer doesn't follow the practice of not reading kernel code with an incompatible license, does that mean we can assume they don't follow it generally? Can we assume they take code from the Linux kernel, violating the GPL?
radio isotope cleaning services, canned fresh air industry, underground bunker manufacturing will definitely see uptick.
It was like the EU.
> If you're making $100,000 at a job in the US your healthcare is being covered - often entirely - by the company you're working for.

Zero deductible, zero copayments for you and your family?

Well, if you have an insurance where the yearly out-of-pocket that you pay in deductibles and copayments is capped in say $3000, it's not a big dent on that $100k.