skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Think of a bored computer (one that is not used to its maximum capacity). It's like a computer that uses swap memory v.s. one that has a few GBs of free RAM. Which one would you rather use?

A bored computer would just be one that idles more than it schedules work. Memory is not a good anthropomorphism to boredom. Why? Because swap memory can be beneficial to systems even if RAM is un-exhausted, and a system that has a few GBs of free RAM is a newly booted, or a poorly cached system, the extra ram is just unused extra resources -- untouched. Maybe, the system can be bored waiting for IO, but again this is stalled CPU cycles. The glass analogy would fit better to annotate the memory system architecture itself as the glass, a rigid and crafted system, and the water as the actual physical pages, the actual dynamic data that flows through.
> However, I would strongly advise against actually doing this experiment unless you are absolutely certain that your generator is isolated from the ground, and even then I would advise against it.

A safe version of the experiment would be to take a standard incandescent lightbulb and run one wire to an earth ground and one wire to one side of the plug on the generator. My guess is still (although with more doubt based on how many intelligent people here have opined otherwise) that because of the enormous capacitance of the earth, the light bulb would still light up even though no clear circuit is formed.

In my quite possibly flawed mental model, electrons will be pulled and pushed from the earth across the filament, causing it to heat up. Whether this actually works (in my mental model) depends on the frequency and the capacitance of the generator, but I'm guessing that at 60Hz whatever is inside the generator is enough to get an effect. Unless someone has already done this, I guess I'll have to get a generator and try it.
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You have to keep refuting it for each new generation just like you have to teach each new generation the law of conservation of mass despite it having been proven over and over for centuries.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20348648
Things like this make me phrase the following question (which I never see answered): if crypto is so incredibly hard - N.B.: I do think it actually is very hard myself - what is a run-off-the-mill developer to do? Shouldn't I even try to build a secure application using what is out there, even if it has possible attack vectors? If I get it 98% right, isn't this a win for users already?
Just seems like a weird hill to die on that's convenient because HN doesn't like bitcoin and gets to grandstand on saving the environment.

Someone just as judgemental could criticize HNers for all the energy they waste using high powered devices to sit on HN. Or air conditioning their entire house when they could simply sweat a little bit or use a fan in the one room they are in. Or driving to the movies when they could twiddle their thumbs at home for entertainment.

This is why it seems like such a belabored circlejerk.
How is trust recorded for a shortcut?
>> I often tell myself to "just start" rather than to "just get it done," especially when I suspect my anxiety is driving.

Same here, and specifically for tech work: I try to start with a unit test and a random-generator algo. Getting that trivial thing to run is often the activation energy I need to get started on writing the main workhorse functions.
Just came here to say: I cannot recommend the Zachtronics podcast enough. There's currently just 7 episodes, but all filled with game design joy:
http://www.zachtronics.com/podcast/
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I set small and concrete goals. I also disabled my netflix account.
Publicly denouncing a group of specific folks as communists, when they were in fact not communists I believe was illegal even in the McCarthy era (that's libel if posted and slander if spoken publicly).
Wow! I am sure that I would want to integrate some of the ideas from your project especially the servo motors and IR emitters since I don't want to replace the existing hardware in my house.
It works really well with Synology boxes. It also has quite a few Synology-specific tweaks, including support for their weird quirk of rounding up file timestamps to the nearest second and then subtracting a millisecond from it.
Your explanation was likely wrong then, because there's no good reason to install your receptacles that way, unless your faceplates are metal. If they're plastic, then there's no reason for it.
Awesome. It could be used in email signature I guess.
You don't. Make sure you don not get tired at work. Work less. Switch to part time or take a sabbatical.

edit: I quite liked this talk about sabbatical https://www.ted.com/talks/stefan_sagmeister_the_power_of_tim...
Yep. I'm migrating a customer to 5.2 exactly because of that. Rails 6 should be out very soon.
Why scrap the high income cap on insurance contributions? That's going to disincentivize the wealthy to participate in England's economy. I think there's a solution that would help the NHS and restore civic trust - cut immigration for welfare recipients. Fewer immigrants on welfare = better functioning society for Britain.
Also it's an opportunity to put in employer paid continuing education. Lots of shops think that waterfall is a good process.
You don't normally encrypt with ECC. You use it to establish a symmetric key, and encrypt with that. Look for WebCrypto examples for ECDH.

In fact, the ability to encrypt directly with RSA is probably a bug, not a feature. There are too many ways to do it catastrophically wrong, and it almost guarantees cryptosystems without forward secrecy.

(WebCrypto isn't great and I'd avoid it, but this isn't why).
I never observed that shared perspective of hope in Uber drivers I rode with, though. It was always a means to an end, not the means to the end. If people thought they were going to end up with a better life, it was because they were finishing their master's degree, or running a software business, or just wanted to stay in the U.S. while their kids got acculturated and educated. Uber was a way to rack up some extra spending money in the meantime. Nobody I've met was under any illusions about their ability to get rich off Uber, except maybe the Uber employees with stock options.
I believe there is an additional SOS setting for pressing the ON\OFF button five times consecutively that has been around since at least my iPhone SE.
I got here through a RSS link. Would still use XMPP if it there were other users on it.
What is your product, if you don't mind? I'm always eager to hear stories of entrepreneurs that aren't after VC funding or fast growth and are more about the freedom of having your own business and product.
There is definitely too much sensation and information for me these days. When I was a kid and being a natural geek I had so little technical literature in the house that I used to pore over it. I'd read my computer magazines cover to cover until I virtually memorised the whole thing.

These days, I don't even know where to start. It's terrifying! I'm moving to the country soon to get away from the overload.
It doesn't, but I also didn't say it did?
Excellent question!

Stated rhetorically,

"If a GFCI only cares about the current imbalance, and the traditional style breaker opens to due to a big spike in current, why care about what path it takes through the building wiring back to the pole transformer?"

If a sub panel does not have the jumper removed, then the EGC and GSC between that sub panel and the main panel will form a current divider. Let's assume they are the same wire gauge, basically the same resistance, and so essentially split the return current.

This leads to a couple problems:

1. The EGC may no longer able to carry its full rated current load, due to the baseline "normal" current that the EGC is also bearing. You want to bear as much current as possible to quickly trip a conventional breaker in event of a fault to the EGC. This is real, but relatively minor concern.

2. All EGCs "upstream" of the bonding point have been "contaminated" by the normal neutral current that got on to the EGC at the mistaken sub panel bond. This could "put current" on the surfaces of other equipment, exposed ground wires, conductive raceway, etc. This is the more major concern, as these surfaces would have the full voltage potential available to them should there be yet an additional current path.

In the main panel the EGC, GSC, and GEC are all connected at a single point. And from this point there is only one path back to the transformer, via the 0V conductor of the GSC. The transformer side of this 0V potential conductor will match the local Earth voltage, set by the GEC, and wiggle from 0V nominal by the fluctuations caused by current (V=IR) in the GSC conductor between the panel and the pole.

Make sense?
Yes, they're encrypted in transit.
The first number column is "seats per state".
The second number column is "combined percentage of representatives" - PA and OH each have 5 representatives, so combined they have (5+5)/150 = 6.7% of the representation.
The third column is, I presume, the percentage of economic activity (GDP?) totaled among those states.
This sounds similar to one of the best exercises I ever had during a sculpture degree: write about a piece of work I didn't like, and explain why I didn't like it. I ended up liking quite a few of them after that, and those that I still didn't like, I didn't feel the kind of animosity towards them that I did before. I found both of those pleasantly surprising outcomes.
There are 8 billion people in the world. I'm not surprised some of them hold terrible ideas. The idea that some people hold X view so now we need to give the state Y power is insane with our population level because it can justify anything.
IIRC the main one is that it could be confusing inside a list, e.g. [foo: bar] vs [foo:bar()]. Someone also mentioned that `foo. bar()` (with a space after the dot) is legal syntax, but `foo: bar()` wouldn't be.

I guess you can always do `alias :foo, as: Foo`.
What's this supposed to mean? SHA-2, which is an NSA design, is one of the best cryptographic hashes we have. SHA-1 fell, but so did MD4 and MD5, the other mainstream hashes of that era.
When you train a deep convolutional neural network, the first couple of layers appear to take on this role, detecting simple features like edges and textures, which the higher layers build upon to see more complex objects.

For example https://www.researchgate.net/figure/Visualization-of-example..., where you can see (somewhat, if you zoom in) that layer 1 neurons are interested in very simple features, like strong horizontal edges, or particular gradients.
Something can be real (and not fictional) without having the value people imagine it to have.

For example, I don't know if you own any old jewelry with diamonds in it, but if you do, you can probably assume that it is worth less than you paid for it, given that diamonds can now be artificially produced with clarity / hardness / etc that parallels "natural" diamonds, and a big part of a diamond's price has historically been it's relative scarcity in nature.
The article isn't not really on point. A two-prong system still has an earthed neutral. The third prong is purely for redundancy. If neutral happens to be disconnected, there is still a return path. It also protects against mixed up neutral and hot. If the chassis of a device is grounded to the third conductor, and that one is properly routed, then an inadvertent reverse wiring of hot/neutral is mitigated. A third conductor also makes possible ground fault detection: situations when a device is not returning all current through the neutral, because its safety ground has become energized.

How might a neutral end up disconnected? Not just by accident; for instance, someone would incorrectly wire a cold-side switch instead of hot-side (E.g. wall panel switch that controls an outlet) so that when the outlet is off, the neutral has been cut off, but hot is still live. In that situation, the third conductor would still be grounded. Nobody would mistakenly implement the switch on the ground line unless they didn't bother testing it, because the switch then wouldn't work; the ground line is implicitly protected from having switches accidentally planted on it by the fact that interrupting it does nothing, functionally.
How is “creating jobs” pretty much the opposite of the gig economy? Almost across the board, gig economy companies have made it more convenient and cheaper to consume services. Both of these changes result in more demand. As more demand is created, jobs are created. You may argue that automation (like self driving cars) will ultimately destroy these jobs but this shift would occur with or without the gig economy. These new jobs that are being created may be rubbish, but the net difference is still job creation.
After a tiring day take a break, visit with friends and family, exercise go for a bike ride or a walk, then shower and see if you're recharged and ready to learn/work on a side project.

If not, relax and watch some TV enjoy some mindless entertainment or get to bed early.

Try getting an early start instead, some of my most productive time is early morning before the world is up and moving.
On SourceHut it's less language-aware and more generic, which makes it more useful for a wider range of use-cases. However, I could totally see a tool being possible which converts LSIF files into SourceHut annotations.
"could you please" reads a lot like "clean your shit up" whereas please without the preceding could you registers as polite to my eyes.
I expect my devices to uphold the security model they advertise.

My desktop OS (macOS, for what it matters) doesn't ask me to approve permissions for apps, so I assume that anything I install has whatever privileges I have (or root privileges, given the broken must-install-as-root behaviour of many of them).

On the other hand, for example, Firefox asks my permission before allowing sites to use the microphone or camera, and I expect it to enforce that. If sites can get access to my microphone or camera without my giving them permission, then Firefox has failed, even if those sites have got that access through unexpected means.

I agree it's very hard to have a secure but useable general-purpose system—but pretending that you're offering such a system while not actually having the appropriate mechanisms to enforce it is, arguably, an even worse solution than offering an utterly locked-down system.
The standard FCC response to your request would be the MOSH session would run great on existing 802.11 regulated under 47CFR15.247 (probably?) so trying to implement it under 47CRF97 is a paperwork mistake.

A step up from consumer wifi gear, the specific term to google for would be U-NII as in the thingie that WISP wireless ISPs operate under. My understanding of U-NII gear (which might be wrong) is by definition its unlicensed. Its long distance performance crushes anything wifi can do (legally, anyway LOL). My understanding of U-NII is 47CFR15.407 which is a different subsection than consumer wifi.

If you feel really ambitious, FCC Part 101 service is the way to go if you want real distance. A license is a couple hundred bucks new or renewed. Your electric bill for the equipment for part 101 service will cost more than that, I think. Just because a Part 73 renewal costs about a new car per year, doesn't mean ALL the fees are draconian. You can certainly spend more on unlicensed 802.11 gear than on used Part 101 gear as a complete system; its not even remotely unrealistic for a private citizen to do part 101 stuff for fun.

If you're feeling really really really ambitious the cost of a form 442 experimental request was ridiculous like sixty bucks. But thats for really exotic experimentation like we're inventing new hardware and new protocols. And a 442 request is by definition not an existing service so they may well respond with an allocation and temporary license that doesn't work for you.

The point of all this is the FCC already has four services you can operate under, ranging from literally free up to a serious but realistic hobby expense, so changing the rules of an existing fifth service is going to be a very hard sell. Like, seriously, none of the four services they offer fit your needs, not even the $60 experimental request form?

Extensive historical part 97 operation indicates encryption has never been useful or required for the other goals mentioned such as casual conversation or operating portable communications systems, so the FCC is not going to take that subgoal very seriously at all.
Which one can you use to make the second hand tick accurately without having to count at all?
The amateur radio community already has a significant problem with unlicensed users on UHF and VHF, because cheap Chinese handhelds are widely marketed on Amazon and eBay with no mention of the fact that they're amateur-band equipment and require a license to use. If you search for "two-way radio" or "walkie talkie", most of the product listings make no distinction between FRS, MURS, GMRS and amateur band equipment. With wideband SDR devices falling rapidly in price, there is an impending threat to all licensed frequencies - it isn't illegal to buy or sell a HackRF One, but you can do a lot of illegal things with it if you're ignorant of or indifferent to the regulations.

https://www.amazon.com/BaoFeng-BF-F8HP-Two-Way-136-174Mhz-40...

FCC enforcement is light-touch and they don't have infinite investigative capacity, but they are more than willing to throw down a hefty fine if you're a flagrant violator. The encryption ban is essential in allowing amateur radio operators to monitor their own service; a large proportion of FCC enforcement actions are initiated in response to a complaint from another service user.

https://www.fcc.gov/enforcement/orders
The policy is a bit of a misnomer though - as I understand, that's them funding the fight - by donating the money that would otherwise be their profit - not the "morons". But I think that's a very acceptable way to handle the problem.
Over the last few years I've been questioning what it means to have freedom of speech. This quote in particular strikes me:

> Finally, censorship is always bad, for a variety of well understood reasons that we don't need to repeat here. But in the case of some types of content, it has special dangers. When you censor a web site based on the extreme or dangerous views of its creator(s), you haven't stopped those people from thinking that way.

Why? The problem is that I've seen someone who was very close to me repost propaganda on Facebook that looks like it's following the Nazi propaganda playbook. Stuff against immigrants, against religious minorities, ect. Just take some classic Nazi propaganda, swap out "jew", and that's this person reposts.

(Or used to, as this person recently complained that Facebook is blocking their posts.)

Anyway, I don't think that this person really thinks this way; instead I think this person's thinking is manipulated to push a political agenda.
This is well known that UK laws protect people who commit financial crimes in other countries. UK is the destination for all corrupt Indian politicians and businessmen who committed financial crimes.

[0] - https://qz.com/india/1301746/nirav-modi-to-vijay-mallya-high...
I have been using Bvckup 2 to backup primarily to my Synology Nas. It correctly identifies that the destination directory is a SAMBA v3.1 mount, and treats it as NTFS.

I actually love using it for my Synology as it has the ability to do Delta Copying. Some of my folders contain VM's and VeraCrypt drives, and it is very fast when it comes to sending delta copies. It still has to read the file on the destination to determine what to write, but that only becomes apparent on large files. I think you may lose some features since it is a mounted network drive(mainly limitations to SAMBA), but I have had no issues with it.

Scanning remote files is fast, if the contents or timestamps haven't changed I've seen it scan over 600K files in a couple of minuets (duplicacy backup, in the process of moving to a new hard drive and need to store it temporarily on the Nas).
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Check out the marketing page:

https://sourcehut.org

It has a nice summary of what's cool about it. It's very lightweight on the UI but it's actually very featureful, and includes mailing lists, CI service, etc.
asking is not forcing and others may share the same sentiment and may already use the same suggested service, so that was a pretty bad conclusion
I'm going to defer to you on this one, but my hunch is that NTFS being stupid and crusty is a limiting factor? In my experience, it's dog-slow (particularly on small files). Have you tested on ReFS and compared performance?
I have never used Perl 6, though I have made sporadic efforts to learn it.

The development process certainly did not fill me with confidence about practicality, but I had already come to the conclusion that whatever I wanted from Perl, it could not possibly give me while preserving its original character, so (after some detour through Ruby), I switched to Python.
Not sure where you got that idea (link?) but EAs are used in WSL, among other things. Meaning you won't be able to copy WSL file systems properly right now.

As a general rule, you should avoid any information loss regardless of anyone's opinion on the matter. No one is going to think "ah well, Microsoft/etc. doesn't like this feature so it's ok my backup is messed up".
MVB. Minimally Viable Bridge.
Loos like that system also fixes the "steal user location data from pictures metadata" bypass: https://developer.android.com/preview/privacy/scoped-storage...
De nada. It was a good project.

In addition to the LAN gaming over the Internet, the second best thing was pranking people by printing random stuff on their LAN printers.
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Militaries spend a lot of time dicking around like in order to keep everyone well practiced. Maybe they were looking for taps but they were probably just practicing, or training the new guy, or re-certifying the robotic arm, or drawing dicks on a sunken fishing boat or some other mundane task.
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>GFI outlets are $15+, and normal outlets are $2.

Where are you getting your prices? Last time I checked, GFCI outlets were indeed around $15, but the normal ones are less than a dollar when you buy them in bulk packs (which you would for building a house). Otherwise, your point is sound, but the price difference is even greater than you said.

Those standard outlets are really dirt-cheap, and it's annoying that builders are so cheap about installing them. New construction has gotten better though, but really there should be an outlet every 5-6 feet in my opinion, or maybe even less.
I wish I could find it, but a while back there was a post about a web-based vector renderer for 3D objects, possibly a three.js plugin. It has some really nice looking demos.

I don't think it was seen.io, but seen.io appears to do something similar to this post, in JS: http://seenjs.io/