skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I've gone through all previous iterations of their courses, so have familiarity with using pytorch and the fastai library, but haven't done the best at keeping up with their rapid pace. This course helped me understand the building blocks of the library, which in turn helped me out in a few projects.

For one project, I adopted what Jeremy taught about building code for processes, which our team has then used for a couple other things as well. For another project, I was able to easily put together the code for training on a set of data with a somewhat complex structure.
> A ban on end-to-end-encryption would make it easier for law enforcement and intelligence agents to access suspects' data. But such a measure would also make it easier for hackers and spies to steal Americans' private data, by creating loopholes in encryption that are designed for the government but accessible to anyone who reverse-engineers them. Watering down encryption would also endanger people who rely on scrambled communications to hide from stalkers and abusive ex-spouses.

It does increase the chances that your communications will get out to third parties besides the government, but not for the reasons given in that paragraph.

The way you would actually implement this is not by putting a "loophole" in or "watering down" the encryption between the parties. You'd do it by adding the government as another party. E.g., two party end-to-end encrypted messaging channels become three party end-to-end encrypted chats. N party end-to-end encrypted chat channels becomes N+1 party end-to-end encrypted chat channels.

To a third party, such as a stalker or abusive ex-spouse, who is trying to eavesdrop on your messages these N+1 party systems are as secure as the previous N party version.

The increased risk comes from the risk that the government won't be able to keep its copies of your messages secure after it securely receives them. Presumably they will go into a database somewhere, from with they will be made available to law enforcement and intelligence services. That means that there will be a bureaucracy around operating and accessing the database, and given the number of different jurisdictions involved and the likely frequency of access requests my guess is that this would need to be a large bureaucracy. A large bureaucracy dealing with a large amount of sensitive data is just asking for trouble.
I've never used Go, but why not treat err like a Boolean? One of my favorite patterns in Python is a simple "if item: do x" where item can be a sequence, a string, or even an integer, where certain values are considered False and certain values are considered True.
You can visit these excellent forums:

- https://www.electro-tech-online.com/

- https://www.allaboutcircuits.com/

- https://www.edaboard.com/

The forums are extremely useful because you can submit your work for feedback and they'd point out things you didn't even knew were a thing. For example, suppose you're designing a PCB for your project. You can design your PCB, submit it and ask for feedback. You'll then have a list of things that are wrong in your board. Rinse, repeat. On something like the third board iteration or fourth, you would have a board that is pretty darn good for a beginner because it went under the eyes of really good people. You wouldn't get there on your own on the third iteration and your board would still suck. Your skills will take off pretty fast.

Forums are also good because you can see what people you interact with on a regular basis are working on, their projects as they're building them, etc.

Analog:

There was a good site that had a recommendation for learning analog electronics. It has changed but here's a link to a previous version:

- https://web.archive.org/web/20170521151227/http://wisewartho...

- https://web.archive.org/web/20160225152142/http://www.wisewa...

The site offers recommendation and a "track" as a function of your experience and what you want to do. It also offered review of the materials recommended (application notes, books, etc).

On PCB design:

PCB Design Tutorial, Dave Jones (eevblog): 25 pages of excellent actionable information to make your boards professional looking (routing, tracks, pads, etc.):

- https://alternatezone.com/electronics/files/PCBDesignTutoria...

Also from Dave Jones, check out his soldering tutorial if you want to solder:

- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J5Sb21qbpEQ

On entertaining and informative content:

Dave Jones channel in general is good to acquire culture. He also has in mind that you might not be wanting to spend thousands of dollars and gives you good quality/price ratio tools.

Ben Krasnow's "Applied Science" channel. This one is amazing. https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCivA7_KLKWo43tFcCkFvydw. Ben is concise and I like that a lot. He does not ramble. Technical talking.

Books:

For books, there's a big book by Tony Kuphaldt titled "Lessons in Electric Circuits", available on his website (https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/electricCircuits/) but also on the AllAboutCircuits forums.

Tony Kuphaldt is prolific and has another (3000+ page) book titled "Lessons in Industrial Instrumentation", if you are interested in control and instrumentation, feedback systems, etc:

- https://www.ibiblio.org/kuphaldt/socratic/sinst/book/liii.pd...

There's also "The Art of Electronics" to learn stuff every time you pick it up.
Racist is a now-obsolete term? Um okay...
No, investigation existed way before phones.
the most basic way is to just change "innocent until proven guilty" to "guilty until proven innocent" if encryption is involved. yes this is counter to the constitution (like several other things the government does at the highest level), but it can be achieved de facto by a law that makes it illegal to not surrender encryption keys when asked. So if the cops serve a warrant and find files in your possession that you cannot decrypt, they just charge you with violating the encryption law and ensure the penalties for such are greater than or equal to whatever crime they were originally intending to prosecute.
Oh, I would really like to! Believe me, I'm considering it regularly.

And yet: nobody else comes close in terms of providing me with a complete ecosystem where I can get things done. And I do know: I regularly use both Windows and Linux.

I wish there was a serious competitor to Apple.
> Sure, but that isn't a good reason to remove the option to do so for everyone else.

It didn't. You can still write your init scripts.

I'm not a fan of the monolith here, I dislike the whole concept of binary logs, of tight coupling with udev and journald, but seriously - once you get into how the various systemd service and target files hang together it's a (comparative) delight. And they can still trigger your scripts.
Moon shot. Arguably the right mix of political PR (charismatic leadership, cohesive message) and some sense of large enough external threat. Climate change is already right there as not just a huge external threat, but an existential threat. Politicians have just yet to mobilize the American political machinery necessary to properly react to it. A few good speeches from the right leader could do magic, at least so history tells us.

(It may not be possible in the age of Fox News to rally enough people to the smart causes. But the treasons of that Australian institution against the World are still left to be prosecuted.)
Yeah - we’ve always used the shutters to regulate the temperature inside - my mother has lived here thirty years. As you say, it’s when it starts to get cumulative that it stops working. The days have been touching 40, the nights 30 - I’ve been doing astronomy in shorts and a t-shirt - feels weird. The upshot is that at night, the walls radiate the day’s heat - normally, this is welcome, as it smooths out the daily temperature cycle (and provides an infrared lamp for cold astronomers) - but right now it’s just slowly getting hotter and hotter on the southern end of the house, as it’s absorbing more than it’s radiating.

And yeah, we stumble around in the dark and head out into the anvil of the sun. Even the insects have given up and shut up. Hot in the height of summer is normal here - but this is both early in the year, and those few degrees make a big difference at high humidity - above/below body temperature. I’ve been more comfortable than I am right now in 55 degrees in a desert, as in the bone-dry air, sweating works remarkably well, as long as you stay hydrated.
That doesn’t mean you fill in the blanks yourself and go around pretending that was actually said..
I'm on Google Fi, so theoretically I have redundancy on my phone as well. I have used my phone as a hotspot for work, and I've also gone to other locations to get work done (library, coffee shop, a neighboring company's lobby, etc).

A lot has to go wrong for me to not get work done. If Slack goes down, I use text, email, or Jira comments (in roughly that order of priority). Relying on only one communications method is foolhardy.
I think I pretty clearly posited a thought experiment where mind-reading technology exists.
Edison was ruthless about patents and their reach. There are many stories of him sending men to confiscate camera and film from early directors/film makers arguing he owned the content they created with "his" technology. He also personally claimed the patents for many technologies invented at his firm vs listing the actual inventor but keeping ownership and royalties to his firm like today. He was a titan of inventing for sure and fostered an environment where amazing things were created but would probably be considered incredibly toxic in today's world.
I would pay $300/year just for Linux that has working copy/paste, with consistent shortcuts and behavior across the system.
Tangentially, what I want in a note/todo app is that the first screen will be a list of categories, like "car" and "shower". Under "car" would be a note I made that says "bring new SD card for dash cam".

I'd look in "car" before heading out to the car, and see that note and remember to bring the SD card out to it. I'd habitually check all of these before doing anything, so I didn't keep forgetting things I needed to do like bringing an SD card with me when I head out instead of having to walk back into the house once I'm in the car and remember or bringing the new shampoo bottle into the shower before I get in it. Also useful would be repeatable checklists, for things like putting my xbox controller in my backback before heading out on a frequent long trip.

Is there anything like this?
It also comes with some ugly trade-offs, like giving up the notion of privacy.
Wikipedia says: “Almost all languages have the word classes noun and verb.”
The interesting thing (to me) about the dotcom bubble, pointed out in one of pg's essays, is how much it got right.

It was right about the economic potential of the www. 20 years later and it is as big a deal as 1999 pundits predicted. It was right that the big winners would be very big, very fast. Google, FB Alibaba, amazon... Bigger than any tech company in 99. It was right about winning early and establishing dominant position... letting network effects and the scaling power of software and the web go to work.

Unfortunately for binary outcomes.. getting 4/5 things right is still a wipeout.

The bubble was slightly off about timing. More big winners were founded/determined in the 5 years after the bubble than during it. It slightly overestimated early mover advantage.. closely related to the timing mistake.

If that bubble is the model for this one... interesting times ahead.
Valve Index review: High-powered VR at a high-end price
Almost everyone's complaints are resolved by changing lightning ports to USB-C. Obviously it will take time for that change to make it into the next hardware refresh of the mouse/keyboard/trackpad but it should have been on the iPhone two years ago.
Today's major publicly traded companies have one allegiance and that is creating shareholder value aka profit. So if the company doesn't give an eff about employees in the US, why would they care about supplier ethics or the treatment of workers in China.
CPanel Price Rise: How Will This Massive Increase Impact You?
That is somewhat true but there are some fixed costs that cannot be easily brought down.

1. Optics- especially when you start talking 63x (looking at internal cell structures) color corrected objectives are generally going to run around 10k, there is really no way around that. A microscope like the one shown here (and the GRIN lens miniscopes used in brains recently and the ball lens microscopes) don't require as good optics as they aren't imaging at super high resolution and color misalignment won't hurt them.

2. The camera chip/housing/frame grabber- Generally the actual chip is pretty low cost. But the system to cool and grab a lot of frames really fast is pretty expensive. The rates of commercial cameras-120 FPS at their highest, is completely insufficient for a research machine. Also the sensitivity of an 'off the shelf' camera is not going to be appropriate for a research machine. These costs hold these cameras around 5-10k. This project doesn't require these systems because they are looking at whole cells so they can afford to 'lose' a lot of photons.

3. Lasers- if a microscope has a laser (generally only 2 photons or certain types of confocals), it's going to cost a lot. I don't know what costs go into making a laser but the technology is pretty well established and the power of laser required for these machines seems to consistently run into the 20-50k range.

Other parts that are can be made cheap, but cost more (1-2k) when they need to be long lasting and highly precise. Stages (xyz stepper motors in particular), dichroic mirrors/filters, housing body, LED/fluorescent lighting source. This project got around that by specializing these components and using off the shelf stuff. I think probably many of these components could have their prices dropped a lot.

I think there is a future in bringing some of the costs down, but until we get a cheaper way to grab a lot of frames quickly or make good optics on the cheap, I don't know if research scopes (except the ones currently under patent like STORM) will drop much. Though alternative scopes (like the miniscope- 1k) can sometimes surprise people and replace expensive microscopes (120k two-photon), but that's more about being able to build into the niche and cutting out the need for more expensive components. Though from what I've read/seen microscope companies have a ton of overhead.
I sort of like how brain dead go is, now. It’s not pretty but it’s obvious what the code is doing for the most part.
Or, other possible problems:

the implementation is bungled because it involves 3 parties all not making mistakes instead of 2. Maybe 3+n vendors all being perfect.

Example, The keys the government has are compromised because they or a vendor they used had poor opsec.
Good point. There was recently a podcast with Abby Martin on Joe Rogan and they talked about googles algorithm.
So when a pregnant woman puts somebody in mortal danger, it is somehow the victim's fault for meeting deadly force with deadly force? I don't think that would fly even here in Canada.

The law may differ on duty to retreat and other matters (though in this case the victim retreated after retaliating), but at the end of the day, there is a circumstance where use of deadly force is justified against a person, whether that person is a pregnant woman or not. You're not meant to simply roll over and die when attacked by a pregnant woman so as not to offend the sensibilities of some random HN commenter.
We'll just have to agree to disagree. I just don't buy it.
Kinda and kinda not. They have done well so far but they could conceivably be beat by a dedicated chip. They need make sure they keep up with the research so they build what the community wants.
for passwords you can just use the firefox lockwise app
Apparently some students at Western Washington University have started an analogous project:

https://nuntiilatini.com/

It's interesting to compare the accent of native English speakers and native Finnish speakers in Latin. :-)
Apple still provides security fixes for phones as old as the iphone 5s, which was released almost 6 years ago.

I don't think that's even remotely comparable to the fragmentation problems Android has where you're lucky to get even 2 years of security updates with some providers
How can I pass the cost of SaaS on to my customers?
We are a software consulting agency and order various SaaS solutions on behalf of our customers. At the moment we pay these services with our company credit card and invoice the customer.

This is cumbersome and time intense.

One opportunity would be to query all possible accounts via the API and create an invoice (Lot of Coding). Another possibility would be to allocate each customer a dedicated credit card and simply pass on the costs.

Is there such a SaaS service or a provider that issues virtual credit cards like "Stripe Issuing"?

We are in Europe (Switzerland) so Stripe Issuing isn't currently available to us.

thx
You, like everyone else who has these ideas every few years when this government overreach bubbles up to the surface again, have made the mistake of believing that first the government is responsible enough to manage this kind of program -- they aren't and never will be, and second that engineering can stop engineering.

If you can make it, someone can break it, and will. And companies are not responsible, that's not how this works.

Also, a "weakness of the individual part" is a break, and the entire system collapses. You're essentially arguing for security by obscurity.
Isn't this analogous to IT security policies in pretty much any company?

They get blamed for abridging worker productivity in trade for purported safety.
Pump, insulin, Dexcom sensors and transmitters, pump infusion sets with the tubing separately, pump cartridges, strips and so on. It'll add up quite fast. Depending where you are it can be very expensive or not. In many European countries paid by the insurance.
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I think it is a simple question. There have also been cases where a judge issued a legal warrant that was impossible to enforce because the information was physically destroyed.

Should it be illegal to burn a piece of paper?

The FBI and our police forces have been complaining about the 'going dark' problem for years. But in reality, it is far easier today to spy on or collect data than it has ever been before. If the argument was that our data collection was substantially lessening, maybe we could have a discussion about that.

But data collection is substantially expanding, and the FBI is essentially saying, "yeah, but it's not expanding fast enough." The FBI is phrasing this as a complicated question because they're saying it's a choice between the status quo and "the FBI can't listen in on anything." But in practice, if you look at the direction surveillance capabilities are heading, the real choice is between the status quo and "the FBI can listen in on everything."

And that's a really easy question to answer. Of course we shouldn't give up all of our freedoms just so the police can always access everything they want, all the time. Of course people should be able to exercise personal freedom even if it occasionally means a police investigation is hampered.

The FBI wants to phrase this as a choice between encryption and anarchy, but given the direction government surveillance is headed, encryption is the middle ground position. What the FBI wants is the ability to access anything they can get a warrant for, no matter what, for any reason.

And I guarantee once they got that, the next "complicated question" would be whether or not warrants were hindering their investigations too much.
Think of all the people who support the Drug War and its effects on certain demographics, while simultaneously going above the speed limit and drinking and driving every chance they get.

I don't think most people have the innate sense of wanting it to be possible for everyone to commit crimes; I think it's much more selfish in that they just want themselves and their associates to get away with committing crimes.
Go is successful and popular because it is different from other languages. Most languages have exceptions and from a Go developer's point of view they are terrible.
Just because the ability to hide information has reached unprecedented levels does not suddenly make the principles hard to grasp. Warrants have never been a guarantee of getting evidence. They are only permission to look.

Finding the answer to law enforcement being able to make these warrants useful while also maintaining rights is complex. Seeing a terrible solution as terrible is simple.
See also: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Headlinese
Sure, you can call out their malfeasance, treachery, outright shenanigans, whatever, but is it appropriate to get upset about it when your own side is just as treacherous?

I’m starting to reach the point where, short of outright killing people, I just don’t care because my country of residence is just as bad as the “bad” guys. Worse, nothing will really ever change that.
Oh I have. I used to sell those. I was anti-iPhone back then but I admired the design. Sigh. I hope they release something that cool again. Imagine a 4s expanded to a SE. dreams.
You can just download a trial from MSFT if you want to try it.

https://developer.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/downloads/virt...
You're exactly the problem the commenter is talking about. I got used to it within a month and while I would appreciate better error handling (if that even exists), I don't think the solution should be rushed and I don't think the way Java handles it is right.
4. Spinning in place...
Sounds similar to IT. If it works, nobody knows you are doing anything, but if something happens, you're the first to get blamed.
I am aware of that and have been there. Still, on average (I said "usually") australia is much much drier than europe, even southern europe.
Sadly, we haven't seen nothing yet.
> Then why do you always read stories about the police having a hard time getting into terrorist's phones

Because media are very biased and police loves to cry wolf. Do you expect them to admit when they have too much information or power in general?
This is the real danger of the pattern, isn't it? It fades into the background, lulling your eyes into skipping over what's potentially a major source of bugs.
Keyword being graphical.
Cool, but I was asking about the comments on the Dec. '98 articles that sgentle linked to. I clicked through a few dozen and found no comments. The N64 vs. PlayStation post has a mod edit warning commenters to be civil and not turn it into a flamewar...and no comments.

Were there really zero comments on these articles? Or did they use an older commenting system that wasn't archived, maybe?