skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think you are understating the current power of microcontrollers. They can run Python. You get a REPL. The days of 8 bit micros for hobbyists are over; 32 bit micros that are hundreds of times more powerful in terms of CPU, memory, flash, and APIs cost the exact same amount.

https://learn.adafruit.com/welcome-to-circuitpython/what-is-...

Here is a HomeKit device on a nrf52:

https://github.com/adafruit/Adafruit_nRF52_Arduino/blob/mast...

The library situation is pretty good these days. You can talk to TLS-enabled web servers. You can talk to Bluetooth devices. You can integrate sensors with a couple lines of code. It isn't trivial but it isn't hard either.

The advantage of using a microcontroller is that you don't have to stress out about all the other things that a computer is going to be doing. You don't have to write systemd configurations to start your application at boot. You don't have to prevent syslog from ruining your SD card. You don't have to update the Linux kernel when there is a 0day. You don't have to work hard to power the machine from a battery. (I have a Bluetooth-based temperature/humidity/pressure logger + epaper clock that runs off a 100mAh LiPo battery. A Raspberry Pi that isn't even turned on would suck that thing dry in 3 hours, not counting power loss in the boost converter that would be required.)

The advantage of using a Raspberry Pi is that you get a ton more CPU power and all the advantages of a computer. Your GPIO sensors can show their data on 2 4k screens. You can browse the web with Chrome. You can run complex software trivially.

They are both great for different use cases. I think someone that wants to make a tiny robot or blinky light would be better served by an $8 M0-based Arduino clone. I think someone that wants to run image recognition on a video feed would be better served by a Raspberry Pi. The power level of the Pi is greater than a micro. Getting something simple working perfectly without any future maintenance is easier on a micro.
This isn’t about Google. I reject Project Veritas as a source of evidence. I take no public position on Google, not least because I work there and don’t speak for them.

This isn’t a demand for rigor, isolated or otherwise, because I genuinely didn’t know what this was about before your comment. The history of the thread went:

- Some vague statement
- Someone expressing confusion
- Someone else supposing it was a Project Veritas story and discarding it.
- Parent to my comment asking how its parent thought the evidence was flawed.

My comment was that in some cases, including this one, the source should be dismissed out of hand. No reading, no weighing evidence, nothing. In SSC terms, this source defects while wearing a T-shirt that says “I cooperate”. You don’t entertain such sources unless you want to poison your discourse and your ability to trust evidence.

None of this has anything to do with whether PV’s accusation this time around is true.
Matlab is a calculator. It is a really nice calculator for some things, but its definitely a calculator with programming language features bolted on. I strongly believe that Matlab is unsuitable for writing most software. It is nonetheless extremely popular in some engineering fields for write-only scripts.

I'll never forget when I took a controls class and we were given an option to use Python on our own or matlab with guidance and support from the professor and TAs. I chose Python since my background was slightly different that most of the students, but most everyone chose matlab. It was highly amusing to watch the whole lab suffer for days because no one understood matlab's semantics. (The base framework had been written by some expert who retired and made extensive use of both handle and value classes. Problem was, no one still involved with the clas knew what the difference was.

Meanwhile, I spent about 6 seconds longer writing out np.dot a few times.

Matlab is good for math. Most software (even math heavy stuff, EM simulations, etc) has little math (in terms of source, no execution time).
> The government (at various levels) should certainly have a role in ensuring a healthy population.

Lifestyle choices are not a function of government even if those choices result in shortened lifespans, poor health, poverty, or other "negative" outcomes. These are not externalities and are no business of society. You might say that sick people cost the society money. But the answer to that is not that people are sick, it's that someone has decided to spend money on those people. Of course this approach doesn't put more power into the hands of control freaks, so it'll constantly be fought.

> But if nothing else, the government (at all levels) should be sure not to promote and fund profoundly unhealthy habits over healthy ones.

Agreed. Government should not feed false information to the people.
You keep on saying that it doesn't scale without qualifying it. What does this mean? What is acceptable behaviour?

My idea of acceptable behaviour is probably very different to yours (I almost guarantee it).

There is a really good example of this recently. Tim Pool was talking to Jack Dorsey on the Joe Rogan podcast. Near the end of the podcast they were talking about why an individual (can't remember who it was) got banned from Twitter. When Jack's legal counsel (that was what she was really there for) found out via her phone on the show she claimed it was a "threat of violence", I instantly recognised it as a well known internet meme. But because everyone in that room wasn't aware of the meme, it would sound to the outsider as a threat of violence.

So we have a situation where people that don't understand the "lore" (because with some communities there is a lot of in-jokes, history, characters to get your head around) deciding whether something should be on the site because they don't really understand years worth of previous material. How can they possibly make any sort of judgement on whether the material is acceptable?

The answer is they can't.

The only good answer is to just allow anything that is to have some clear and concise rules e.g. no doxing, no harassment and just allow anything that is considered free speech under US law. Sure you will probably get some idiots streaming an animation of a rotating Swastika for 6 hours at a time, but not only will be swamped by other people's worth while content, it is trivial for people to just tell Youtube via clicking the video menu to not show them that channel's content again.

It is a SELF policing system if you let it be.
Similar for me, except I just use Docker for container versions of whatever project I played with on the Pi instead of VMs. Makes simple automated upgrades possible with extremely few lines of scripting too, ideal for home server that I want to setup and forget about. I have a single docker-compose file describing the services I need and its worked great for me for years. Most Pi server-app projects already have an official x86 docker image too.

If nothing else, this has allowed me to use a cheap intel NUC instead of beefier hardware for a VM server. No more SD card failures...
Push-ups and pull-ups are exercises that get you above that "barely acceptable" level of strength that physiotherapy seems to aim to get people to - to perform those movements you need to actually have a level of strength that you can't develop simply with bands. It makes absolute sense that the solution to having a hurt joint is to make that joint significantly stronger.
There is an ongoing lawsuit against Jones. The lawsuits contain unproven claims of harassment.

There is no direct inciting, and the indirect inciting claims are half-baked. There is a class action lawsuit office looking for a pay day, so they benefit by keeping Jones in the news.

All people factually saying that Alex Jones incited harassment against the parents, are parroting a non-concluded court case PR campaign ("OJ did it!"), and much like these behemoth companies, are playing judge, jury, and executioner. They most likely haven't seen a clip of Alex Jones inciting, or when they have, it is taken grossly out of context.

Remember, when CNN was targeting Jones for weeks, going through his hours of video, and noting anything they found controversial. "Alex Jones is transphobic, which is against Youtube TOS, but Youtube does nothing". Alex Jones was talking about "public library drag queen reading hour". He said these drag queens looked demonic and that it is not normal to normalize this for little kids. Now, just recently, someone ("a Trump supporter") showed up with a gun to these reading hours. Two possible conclusions: "Alex Jones is a transphobe and incited his followers to violently get rid of them". "Alex Jones practices unpopular, but legal, free speech, and they try to punish him for what any of his million followers might do that is against the law". I am leaning heavily towards the latter and it is a downright shame that the first conclusion is drawn by many, without doing any deeper research.

Imagine what you could do if you knew that many people would go for the first conclusion, regardless of the facts?
I don't know the rules, I'm not a YouTuber. I don't think anyone has ever accused Google or YouTube of applying their rules equally, though.
When I last had to replace my phone, because it fell out of my pocket exiting my car, I received a new phone, not with a dead pixel, but an entire column of dead pixels. No visible damage, straight up just powered it on after openning the box. Immediately called my phone company to request a replacement and they wanted me to buy a new phone. Said fuck that, I paid full retail for the new phone amd its defective out of the box. Send me a new phone and a prepaid shipping bill for the return.
> i presume it's offered because more tax revenue is more tax revenue.

Most states with these kinds of tax stamp laws passed them explicitly to create a new crime to charge people with, not to actually collect any tax revenue. In some cases it provides an excuse to seize property when state law would otherwise prohibit it (they aren't using civil/criminal forfeiture, just seizing property to payoff a tax debt). If you showed up to buy the stamps they wouldn't sell them - some states didn't even bother printing any.

Eventually this was tested in courts and squashed; the courts ruled you can't create an impossible-to-follow law just to catch people. If the law says you have to buy weed stamps then the state must actually sell them. The state also can't use it to entrap you (eg: by requiring you bring the weed to the tax office, then arresting you for possession).

There's a small cottage industry of folks who collect these tax stamps because they're so rarely issued. Most people don't bother buying them so the law still serves its purpose of giving prosecutors more crimes to charge you with.
I didn't intend for it to be dispassionate. The NAP doesn't work because it would require a suspension of the laws of physics. If you are unwilling to engage in violence on principle then your resources will get taken from you by someone or some thing who is less willing to be bound by principle. It's really that simple. Anarchists and libertarians who subscribe to the NAP are no different from the adherents/victims of Ramtha's School of Enlightenment who think they can use quantum mechanics to cause objects to materialize with the power of their minds. I think the adjectives "adolescent" and "utopian" are quite apt in both cases. (And it doesn't surprise me a bit that I'm getting downvoted. Adolescent utopians and cult leaders rarely react well to being called out. But I care about the truth more than I care about HN karma.)
If you're on Linux, you can set up your compose key map to do the job. here's an example: https://gist.github.com/carlobaldassi/8951743
I moved away from MySQL in 2004 to Postgres and never looked back. Thanks for articulating these things once again for the community.
The last thing we want is control freaks preparing instructions for machines to execute.

Control freaks should be in politics, management, education, nursing and such, and stay the hell out of software.
MATLAB is common at NASA, although Python is starting to be used a lot, too. Julia is really interesting... I'd love for it to become a standard.
And loading apps outside the Play store on Android.
Walmart’s e-commerce biz is reportedly racking up $1B in losses
You make an excellent point, and even if the song goes viral they are still unlikely to make any money from the song itself, regardless of whether they cleared samples. Presumably any physical merchandise they sell is clear of anyone else's copyright.
I'm not overly familiar with OpenBSD (although I do want to try and play with it sometime soon) What filesystem does it use?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q1YENAvOveE
I had a video call interview and I was quite impressed how that woman always seemed to look at the camera, because I really thought she was looking at me and not me on the screen.

I told her, but she answered that she was not really staring at the camera. I guess it makes sense now.
Indeed. Severe cases of hydrocephalus [1], for example, where an otherwise functional individual is missing large portions of their brain may provide partial answers.

[1] https://med.virginia.edu/perceptual-studies/wp-content/uploa...
Never having had access to the NT kernel source, I don't actually know how deep these similarities go. When MS kernel engineers say those are not only superficial, I'm inclined to believe that until ReactOS have at least conducted an investigation.

It's a serious allegation that deserves more than a casual brush-off and some condescending statements about publicly available debug symbols. If MS is really full of shit, as I hope they are, they should be held accountable with more than a shrug and a smile. If ReactOS does contain copied code (and yes, that does include data structures as well as instructions), well then that should have consequences as well.
Mathematica allows non-ASCII variable names. Odd the author didn't mention that, since Mathematica is pretty common in academia.

I learned Mathematica and MATLAB in my math and science courses (Physics) and was going to learn Java before I dropped Computer Science. Interesting I could probably replace all those with Julia now.
Yes! During a time when I lived off of about $10k/year in a HCOL (including renting a room in a shared house) I ate plentiful beans, rice, cheap vegetables and chicken. Lots of cheap and healthy options if one is interested.
I'd like to do this someday (Blu-ray format is awful, compared to DVD VOBs).

I was wondering how to make the system physically retain the discs, to be clear that I'm only building a better cache, and the disc still represents a rights physical token. (Not that this is very practical or necessarily necessary, but it's an interesting exercise.)

I was leaning towards seeing how well I could modify the mechanics of an old consumer electronics 400-CD carousel changer, to make it work with whatever Blu-ray drive I found. That would also let me do some other things. A backup plan would be to combine a drive with an additional simple mechanical mechanism, to divert an ejected disc to a stack that is physically retained.
> The OS doesn't matter as much anymore.

I disagree. Everything described above applies to the Microsoft Windows monopoly. The monopoly was shaken by the web, then by mobile in general, but lots of traditional businesses are still locked into the Windows stack. Non technical businesses in particular are locked into MS Office.

Given that the world basically shrugged and let MS keep their stranglehold over the enterprise market, I don't expect Google to be treated any differently.
Amazon to Hire 2k in U.K. For Latest Technology Ventures
Exactly. I have loved ones who have lived without functioning kitchens, refrigerators, cars, home climate control, etc.

Some folks work ludicrous hours per week at multiple jobs. Telling them to put in more effort in shopping, exercise, cooking, and dishes is missing the problem entirely.
All “try” does is allow you to write those three lines as five characters. In natural languages the more frequent used a word is the shorter that word tends to be. “Check for errors and return” is something that is frequently said in go, following from those principles it should be something that it short to write.
They attract bees. Bees scare people who are not used to it..also kids. Bee stings..bee allergies. Etc.
This paper is misleading IMO. The abstract says - "On the positive side, we prove that TLS 1.3 protects the privacy of its users at least against passive adversaries, contrary to TLS 1.2, and against more powerful ones."

But if you read the summary, it also says "both TLS 1.2 and TLS 1.3 session resumption present serious privacy flaws despite not using concrete authentication elements, such as certificates ... While [PSK-DHE] provides a measure of backward security, it does nothing to improve privacy."

TLS1.3 is awesome, but it's still a layer 4 transport scheme, and there are plenty of ways that a passive adversary can derive privacy sensitive information. I mean it's /trivial/ for a passive adversary to tell that you're visiting an embarrassing website ... to pick just one obvious example.
Deepfakes make fake news look like child's play
No, but their Data Centres may be sharing upstream fibre provider?

Google mentioned a Fiber cut upstream.
Heroku keeps adding features, allows more control, supports bigger companies and have many many plugins (elements I think they call it) you can install.

There's already new PaaS with less features (and cheaper). You push something to a repository and they run it. I saw https://www.netlify.com/ mentioned a few times on HN. And https://render.com/ seems similar. For static websites those are free, I mean hard to compete with free. I'm sure they will add more features in the future, slowly becoming the next Heroku.
I've more often seen the app change from on top of the DB, than the DB change from under the app. Actually I'm not sure I've ever seen the latter happen IRL. App rewrite/replacement but DB remaining? Several times. Network message format/tech change? Several times. DB even going from one SQL server or one NoSQL server to another of the same general sort? Never. I know it does happen but I've stopped bothering to give it so much as a thought when designing a system. DB techs are more likely to be added on and maybe, maybe some earlier one(s) replaced over time alongside rewrites, than to be swapped out from under an app directly.
Exactly. People do this all the time. They project their own experience onto something without taking the time to think if that even applies. Our brain has billions of neurons and trillions of axons, so many that it allows a platform of emergence, not magic. Plants having nothing like this.
There is another example of this occuring, linked from that Wikipedia page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nylon-eating_bacteria
Yes and yet Americans helped save the Jews from extinction and yet they defeated Nazism and imperialism and held off communism and prevented South Korea from being dominated and won two world wars that could have ended in all of the Western hemisphere being conquered.

Of course, there's nothing black and white about history, it's all shades of grey. That goes without saying.
> But in the USA there are no celebrations on April 19th

There certainly are in New England!

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriots%27_Day
SEEKING WORK - UI/UX Designer, Canada, REMOTE

I've been designing products for SaaS startups since 2011. If you're looking for an experienced UI/UX designer, I’d love to help.

Work: http://caleblai.dribbble.com/

References: https://www.alphaio.co/references/

Email: caleb[at]alphaio.co
I was using an Intel 80gb ssd msata
A perfect moment to evangelize my contacts about Telegram...
People went on vacation and left interns running the show?
And when not eating out, your fastest, most affordable option is processed foods, typically high in carbs and low in micronutrients. It's poor quality food.

Regarding weight: it's more practical to limit calorie consumption than "burn" them through exercise. An hour of high-intensity cardio might only burn 200 calories. Eating less calories is easier. To get some volume, generous portions of fibrous vegetable help-- so your stomach doesn't feel empty.
Anonymous working on post-FAANG world?
A couple of links related to these assumptions, which have somehow become truisms in our culture.

Re: 1, the Variability Hypothesis[1] argues that men have a different, "wider" distribution than women in many categories, including intelligence.

Re: 2, this Slate Star Codex article[2] is full of relevant pointers.

Discrimination sucks and we must push back when we see it, but not every difference in representation is automatically a sign of discrimination.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Variability_hypothesis#Modern_...

[2] https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/08/07/contra-grant-on-exagge...
Location: Colorado Springs, CO
Remote: YES!
Willing to relocate: maybe in the future
Technologies: Splunk, Arcsight, SIEM, Qradar, and Azure + more
Resume: Upon request
Email: kaytlyn.matchett@csuglobal.edu
I have one year of experience in cyber security and the cloud. I learn quickly and I am looking for a remote position. If it is not cyber related, I am open to entry level jobs that train.
Don't be evil :) allow only makeup and ultra leftie antifa videos please.
No. Yes.
What is intrinsic in closed source products that makes them less concerning? Could a financially backed open source device have equal quality, safety and review?
"Don't trust the cloud. Don't trust YouTube. Download. Download. Download. UbuWeb is the backup for the internet." [0]

[0] https://mobile.twitter.com/ubuweb/status/1020549542503231488
Yes, install Firefox Mobile.
Gmafia is a better term.
Jump to definition is available on GitHub (Beta)
Physical therapy is evidence-based health practice. This is sort of a "no shit" piece. Doctors want to operate on you - it's what they are trained for, it's how the make money. Hospitals make money off of surgery. Yet physical therapy gets better results.

Lookup washout studies vs knee surgery with results like this [1].

1. https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/study-suggests-co...
It's not a perfect system, and of course cutting edge drugs take longer to get approved for coverage under pharmacare. This is an election issue, and it's very possible that we get national pharmacare coverage over the next few years, and cases like these are the driving force.

The difference is that we as a country are willing to pay more taxes so that every single person gets drug coverage, and it's reasonable to expect that this will happen in the near future, even for expensive cutting edge drugs.
To piggyback your comment and the depth of the analogy: Mein Kampf is still in publication today. Does any otherwise rational person want it stopped and all copies removed from public libraries in the way they seem to expect from Youtube/Facebook et al? Would they want Del Ray Books be held accountable for the content of The Turner Diaries?
No, there was a story here about DIY CPAP about a month ago. None of this is new though efforts do appear to be gaining momentum.

What is new is that the tools and technology (think dirt-cheap microcontrollers that you can easily (re)program, 3D printers etc) are getting to the point where it's becoming more realistic for more people to be successful with less effort/risk along with a means (i.e. the web) for people to collaborate and share information.

That said: yeah, one better do their homework as they are definitely taking their own health (or even life) into their hands.
I don't know if they ever tried that but I play with a yoyo, looping style (2A) and it is a wonderful exercise for the shoulder area.

I broke my collarbone two years ago and couldn't use my right arm for almost two months. After that I picked up yoyo and I'm certain that it helped me recover my strength and flexibility.
Amazon can be held liable for third-party seller products: U.S. appeals court