skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That makes a lot of sense! Thanks for elaborating :)

If you don't mind me asking, what are you working on / what is your background? It sounds like you're doing a ton of really interesting engineering, involving a lot of moving parts.
I tried rainbow/semantic coloring for a while, but felt it messed with my pattern recognizion. And when everything is highlighted, nothing is, it felt loud.
Have you checked to see if ec2 isn’t blocked by Disney+? I would expect that to be blocked. I think Google blocks most ec2 IPs. Going thru 10 GB of data per day would have the total cost above $1/day. Not as cheap as the post makes it seem.
It's funny because every defence I've heard about ICANN is "why did you not participate in the governance meetings?".
mmap has some kind of option to immediately make resident.
Many types of technical information are also protected. Not in the "classified" sense but in the sense that there are legal controls around exporting it to certain nations. Especially nations under UN sanctions.
This talks might be interesting to you: https://indico.cern.ch/event/827066/contributions/3590884/at...
(see page 10)

There is hopefully also a DarkLight run at JLAB or something similar at MAMI to test the remaining phase space.
Linux & open source & commodity HW
So 150 paying customers? Nice work, how have you acquired users?
Ah, my first computer! I was gifted this for my sixth birthday back in NZ in a plastic bag full of games and old magazines and it set me on a lifetime of computer obsession.

The pictured Star Jacker game was amazing for the time.

Amongst the memories:
* Finishing every level in Lode Runner bar one (and somehow discovering a cheat allowing you to change to any level)
* spending hours typing out hundreds of lines of code from a magazine to make a basic dynamic curve "screensaver"
* trying to hack into a bank (from a non-connected device, hey I was 7) after discovering the mem command
* Coveting the better games my cousin had, like Sindbad and Yamato, on the SC-1000
* I feel like I finished Flicky at level 40. I can't remember the specifics but from the lens of a near-40 year old, the feeling on that run was the closest to perfect "flow" I could imagine at that age
* So much blowing on the cartridge and other cargo cult behaviour on timings of off-on switches and first actions to not have things break
* having the recorder (Sr-1000?) That never worked meaning everything was a sudden death knockout event. Stakes was high back then!
https://freeross.org/

Even if he did try to order murders (which I disagree that he did), the penalty for conspiracy to commit murder for hire is 10 years. Yet he wasn’t charged with that, and instead has double-life + 40 years.

Ross was made an example of, no question. I see no reason to keep him in jail, nor the hundreds of thousands of other non-violent criminals the US houses in prisons.
Can you tell us about your experience with it?
Yeah, but that's a much lower-level call compared to malloc. Also platform-dependent.
Culture Code is a fantastic book. I'm almost done reading it. My main takeaway: decent cultures are built by good people doing good things. In some ways, it's really as simple as good leadership. (Kindness, empathy, filling people's cups, listening skills, etc.)
Landauer's principle intuitively: the laws of physics are reversible, and therefore two distinct states (1 or 0) always map to two distinct states (1 or 0, evolved). So how can you erase a bit - take a 1 or 0 and map them to a 0? The answer is that you have to send the 0 or 1 to the environment i.e. map 1 or 0 to (system,environment) = (0,1) or (0,0) , which manifests as the dissipation of heat.
The funny thing of this conversation is that the legal BAC limit for driving in the US and Canada is 80mg/100ml. In my country is 50mg/100ml. So at least some of you self-righteous people are happily driving with the same BAC as I do, only within the legal limits, while being mad at me for doing the same. You should all go to jail. :)
> That's when I first heard of Drupal, it wasn't visible at all back then despite I was heavily researching CMSes just then.

As the old saying goes, "luck is when opportunity meets preparedness".

You were prepared for this by evidence of you research into CMS's at the time. This enabled you to see the opportunity Drupal created. You clearly ran with this and your success followed.

How many other people were there that didn't find the type of success you did? They were just as lucky to be at that conference at that time as you. If anything, you were lucky to have had the insight to see the potential an investment in Drupal could make and clearly it went beyond your wildest dreams in terms of financial and professional success. But even then I'd hesitate to call it all luck since you clearly saw that CMS's were becoming an important technology and Drupal in particular must have fused what you knew about CMS's and what could be possible.
Do you have a decent wireless signal? I get much better than that on my hotspots.
I’ve never been to prison and cryptocurrency and blockchain have been my career for the past 4 years. Not sure we should be taking advice from your anecdotes. There is nothing illegal about cryptocurrency - New York even issues a Bit License specifically to allow it. Maybe you should read more about the industry?
The certified version isn’t open source though, is it?
> Why 5%?

I need to make it high enough to 1. make home ownership expensive enough that people who own "too much" pay their fair share 2. to pay for the supplemental basic income that covers this high tax for a modest one bedroom unit so I don't end up killing people who are willing to scale down.

I actually wanted it to be slightly higher than seven percent so you end up paying the sticker price of the house once every about ten years but that seemed a little too extreme.
> The misconception that this could have a practical impact on users (the code being discussed on the thread is all obviously pathological & contrived).

Famous last words?

I mean I'm not an expert in Rust and even less in Pin, but I've seen my share of theoretical bugs thought of not possibly having any impact in the real world because of too theoretical. In other areas, when you debug a triple segfault and you understand the crazy conditions that lead to it, or when you render a piece of C++ code conforming instead of technically UB and it then starts to crash when in its UB form it worked perfectly, you start to consider that everything is possible :)
Copyright law should have a way to allow the content be shared for free if the copyright holder block the distribution themselves with no good reason.
Shenzhen and Yiwu: Supply Chains and Consumerism
Bullet proof glass would add thousands of pounds. This is the same gimmick glass from the Tesla Semi reveal, there the gimmick was that it was nuclear blast proof, which any glass is when far enough away from the blast.
sbrk also just modifies a mapping. All userspace memory management happens through mappings (to files, anonymous or perhaps I/O space).
Not too interested in an old used TV, or a projector really
Do you know what the DPRK is? It commits human-rights violations on a pervasive basis and massive scale (relative to the size of its populace). The US is nowhere near as bad as it.

The only viable options we have for pressuring them to stop their atrocities are sanctions and an actual war. Unless you either support their human-rights violations or actually losing lives in a war, then you should be applauding those sanctions.
They appear to specialize in PC monitors? I see a few commercial-looking LED screens they make but they're super expensive for what they are
Buy nuclear energy from France. That’s the reality.
That's just presence. It's not micro geofencing as for example also done with Zuli or RoomMe.
Chaotic Evil: Teach nothing, but require students to complete assignments that are infeasible without needed technology.

Chaotic Neutral: Nothing, everything good is WYSIWYG.

Chaotic Good: Teach concepts and usage for a potpourri of useful tech.

High school students are idle hands, just make sure that your teaching-flavored interventions cause them to do _something_

Please don't vendor-lock their minds.
What quality evidence exists for a proclaimed benefit of mindfulness that is unique to it, and not standard for relaxation in general?
It's common to use it with RFC1918 addresses, but that still doesn't change the behavior of PAT. PAT will not drop connections, and thus won't provide you with security.
I cannot plug my phone in to charge it up myself obviously

Do you mind if I ask how much precision your conveyance of choice has? I've built docking stations for small mobile robots by mounting qi receiver pads [1] on the robot and compatible phone chargers [2] on walls where the robot can drive up to them to recharge. If you have enough precision you might be able to do the same thing, mount a pair of pads somewhere, run a cable from the pad to your phone, and dock them together to recharge.

Hmm. Not sure what to do if you don't have enough precision to dock a pair of charge pads like that. Maybe... put the one on the wall on a horizontal rail at the correct height and add a motor to run it back and forth until it starts charging? Maybe mount it on a small robot arm?

[1] https://smile.amazon.com/Wireless-Charging-Receiver-Qi-Stand...
[2] https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B07MZPCC7X
As someone who spent a bit too much time on designing and developing live Pi powered dashboards for his home office I can truly appreciate a visualization like this.
"In many of the descriptions below, two communicating parties will be referred to as Alice and Bob; this is the common nomenclature in the crypto field and literature to make it easier to identify the communicating parties. If there is a third and fourth party to the communication, they will be referred to as Carol and Dave, respectively. A malicious party is referred to as Mallory, an eavesdropper as Eve, and a trusted third party as Trent."

I really love this naming system.
> Normal users

Yay it's Black Friday / Cyber Monday! lets keep shopping!

> HN Crowd

Oooh another lava lamp, look at all those live payments! That's cool!

> Tinfoilers

Is it me or is it scary that Shopify can see my live payments in real time?

> Me

Meh. It's a Friday, I'm going to party tonight.
Be sure to check the ones about Paganism/Polytheism! The mind-blowing thing about paganism is that unlike the 3 major religions of today, it didn't start with a holy book (orthodoxy), but with rituals. It's like a caricature of scientific method. We did so and so, and the harvest was good. Therefore, the ritual works. There is little point in learning who exactly the gods are or what they think. The important thing is not offending any of them, knowing which is responsible for what, and making deals with them. As long as the (sacrificial) ritual seemed to work, it would be repeated with the slightest detail. If it didn't, they would experiment. They were very open to change in practice, because with no word of god to rely on they knew they could only take imperfect glimpses into nature of gods.
I may be misunderstanding the author's use of terms here, but this seems wrong (section 3.1):

> A block cipher is so-called because the scheme encrypts one block of data at a time using the same key on each block. In general, the same plaintext block will always encrypt to the same ciphertext when using the same key in a block cipher whereas the same plaintext will encrypt to different ciphertext in a stream cipher.

A block cipher will turn the same plaintext into the same ciphertext only if you're using it with the ECB mode; otherwise, the same plaintext in different places with the same key will encrypt into different ciphertext.

If he means "key" in the sense of "final thing that gets XORed to make the ciphertext", then that's true, but then it's equally true of stream ciphers as well.
> Caesar was said to prefer the company of fat men, with the implied causation that happy -> fat.

From WikiQuote [0]: "It is not the well-fed long-haired man I fear, but the pale and the hungry looking."

And from pg's determination essay [1]: "That's why Julius Caesar thought thin men so dangerous. They weren't tempted by the minor perquisites of power."

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Julius_Caesar
[1] http://www.paulgraham.com/determination.html
How popular was Google Reader really? I don’t think many people I know irl ever used it. There’s a handful of known or referenced RSS readers now. Combined they just aren’t that popular. I have a hard time buying that Google Reader was super popular.

There’s a few bookmarking services now. Some startups like linked in the article. And Pinboard has been around for a long time. Delicious isn’t needed anymore. I use Larder.io and Pinboard.in myself
I see how this could upset some, but whether or not it is either empathetic or disrespectful is arguable.
Mental Health Ted-talk-styled talk
For the past 2 months, we’ve been working on The Unshakable Resilience (http://theunshakeableresilience.com/): 5-day virtual summit with 25+ leading experts teaching people to gain control over their lives.

Our mission is to build a tribe to restore their physical, mental, emotional and spiritual health. Our event is formatted like a TED talk. Each speaker is adding 15-30 mins speech specifically on the topic they chosen and separate session for Q & A (interview).
It's very HN-like to downvote a flamebait comment made without any details, reasoning, or evidence.
Zephyr is quite nice and I've personally contributed some stuff, the general issues with it I think stem from IoT as a whole. People build products and move on to the next one. So sometimes drivers can be broken at times. It's still a RTOS and leads to common RTOS issues. The most frustrating to me is stack sizing. It's very easy to undersize a stack for a thread and not find out for quite awhile until something goes annoyingly wrong.
I run it virtualized. Have not come across any cons ( though I do not direct attach any devices, so don’t deal with configuring pass through yet )
Orc supply logistics is eased somewhat by the ability of the Orc armies to eat the defeated and if required, each other. In the latter case the strong orcs eat the weak, preserving the elite and veteran parts of the army. There is a strong hierarchy within the various Orc subtypes, and an argument could be made that the Orc army marches as its own supply.
Let them go and you have no definitional basis on which to argue, and then how can you engage? I can't see any debate can be at all possible like that.

As a general principle agree your definitions before you lock horns and you'll start getting somewhere, if no further than agreeing to disagree.
What is the client doing with this? Is it just for monitoring, or are there active processes dependent on the system?
Is this why when I create an encrypted RAM drive that Linux shits itself? I assume that it should not fill itself up yet it does almost instantly and brings the system, down to its knees.
How to Build a Healthcare Unicorn?
Xiaomi's 9T Pro[0] has a pop-up selfie camera. If I actually wanted an Android phone then I'd be all over that one in particular.

[0] https://www.gsmarena.com/xiaomi_mi_9t_pro-9791.php
To me "life's not fair" reads as a contradiction to the cited statement.

As I understand it GP's argument was that, yes it may have been luck to meet the right people at the right time, but that a lot of conscious decision and discipline went into being in the right position at the right time beforehand. Reading it that way, life is fair, since it rewarded the work previously put into building up a life's success. Another way to say it would be: If facebook hadn't made Zuckerberg a billionaire, something else would have made him at least a huge success (the stellar kinds of successes that people like Zuckerberg experience are probably still insanely unlikely even in the world of billionaires)
Maybe part of the problem is that luck has connotations that, for better or worse, change the way we perceive the argument. Would it make a difference if we replaced luck with chance or probability?

Lucky sperm for example has some heavy overtones. Our language might be getting in the way.
I thought it provides simple alternative (as asked) with voice commands. But when reading the details the voice processing is not offline (as asked).

---

Note that in the 0.8 gateway release, browser-based voice commands are processed using Google’s voice assistant API, so the audio strings are processed in the cloud. The speech-to-text result is passed back to your gateway. If you instead type a command into the text field of the smart assistant screen, those commands are processed locally and do not require a connection to the Internet.

https://iot.mozilla.org/docs/gateway-user-guide.html

EDIT: But hopefully they will move to something like offline Common Voice in some future release.
Yep and you can create custom ones and color them however you like.

I have BENFIXME and a git hook to prevent ever commiting it, handy for when I want to not forget to come back to something.
https://www.digitalocean.com/community/tutorials/how-to-set-...

Their tutorials will hold your hand all the way to the end.
Yeah that list is pretty comprehensive. I'm gonna add `Indie hackers` and `Beta list` in my list. I think launching at these platforms should be sufficient for most of the founders.
There is also:

-t(STDOUT)

Pulling in the POSIX module uses a lot of memory.
Amazon's cloud unit readies more powerful data center chip – sources
> It matters not that he's in person, or remote.

It matters very much, both legally, and morally (unless, of course, you support the humans rights abuses going on in the DPRK[1]). The law differentiates between words put in a book and the same words said to a criminal in order to further a crime[2], and it's pretty obvious that Griffith was intentionally providing assistance to a country that commits human rights abuses that are crimes under the legal systems of many, many other countries.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea
[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21666553
Which engine(s) that have made Ward's do you have an issue with, from a reliability perspective?
All this shows is why you should use high-anonymity and secure communications systems. Encrypt everything. Use alias for everything. The United States government or any other government is not your friend. They are a threat to your liberty and freedoms.
Plus it's 100Mbit Ethernet. Too bad you can't use the full bandwidth of HDMI as a network interface.
How about this: taking all the user-named symbols in the tree (field names, method names, etc) and assigning them dissimilar colours?
It becomes easy to see where the variable you're looking at is being used and if you have a typo the colour won't match.
I had a contractor and he did all the electrics as well. This meant that the cost for labour wasn’t really much more than getting all the “dumb” electrics done.

Ultimately wiring for KNX doesn’t take a lot more than just running a single extra wire through large sections of rooms since it’s a bus based system.

We worked on an hourly rate + cost of materials, rather than a fixed contract.

All the other home automation people I talked to didn’t really “get it”. This guy opened up to me about the importance of open standards from the first time I talked him and was happy at the concept of me programming the KNX devices myself, so I knew as soon as I met him that he was the right guy for the job.

I worked really closely with him (a daily catchup every day) in order to make sure everything was perfect.

I was really happy with the process, but it relied on getting a guy I could work really well with.
Japanese Complete First Lessons Are Live
Can you clarify what you mean by "conveyance of choice has" please?

Apple has a very very awesome accessibility software, it is seriously the best of the world and I have tried all in the decade since I became a full-time wheelchair driver. I use a chin controller to drive my chair, and I also use the chin controller to access Apple's Switch Control[1] using the Tecla Bluetooth bridge. As soon as funds permit I will be updating to the new Tecla as it is an amazing device, it really is the missing link.

This means that anything you can do on an iPhone I can do the same, it is not some subset of commands like most other mobile platforms. Once a new phone or any of the other Apple offerings is taken out of the box, I can get my designated hands to turn on the accessibility software and from then on I can do it all myself. There is literally no the company where this is true. As far as I know.

If I understand you correctly, it might be cool when my iPhone is connected to my wheelchair to be able to drive up to something while I am working and have it charge. It would have to be pretty robust as I will drive into it at some point!

[1]: https://gettecla.com/blogs/news/15538916-what-is-switch-cont...
[2]: https://gettecla.com/
Do we need a future? If we aren't going to stick to higher density fuels like fossil, nuclear or some sort of interesting synthetic then we are going to struggle to get off the planet earth.

There are two very-long-term futures. One where humanity ends up in space, and one where we get the Chicxulub treatment. One of those paths involves us having so much energy that wasting a bit on holidays is irrelevant, and the other raises the question of how much we need to conserve for future generations anyway given that we're going down the nihilistic path.
I think you can somewhat control your potential for luck, which IIRC Dilbert-creator Scott Adams called: your luck surface. The more you expose yourself to get lucky, the better your chances will be.

Of course it doesn't work much with gambling, so I guess there is a cost function that needs to be considered too.
Luck put him there at the right time. Someone with his abilities in 1930’s Harvard would have had few paths to that kind of wealth.

Further, the path to Harvard if he had been born in say India’s slums is rather tricky especially when compared to having wealthy US parents.
Maybe memset_s?
> Exactly who was harmed, or risked being harmed

Perhaps you should read https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_in_North_Korea
Tracking down the true origin of a font used in many games and shareware titles
I friend of mine always asked during job interviews how many bathrooms the office had.

The reason for this was that he spent a considerable amount of time in an office, where there was one bathroom for somewhere around two hundred people. Madness.
I work on Crux [0], which is also a Java-friendly Datalog database. It sits on top of lazy EAV indexes in RocksDB/LMDB so it's pretty fast and scales well (though technologies like Neo4j/GraphBLAS will be faster!).

We don't have online REPL just yet but Nextjournal is pretty great if you want to play through the tutorials interactively [1]. The other unique angle is that Crux gives you "bitemporal" Datalog queries. Oh and the MIT license :)

[0] https://opencrux.com

[1] https://nextjournal.com/crux-tutorial/
The kind that doesn't try to undermine every successful person born in a developed country ever?

I do believe that luck plays a huge role[0], but I get GP's point and I think it's fair.

[0] I think what really drives it home for me is not knowing successful people, but knowing people for who it didn't work out, despite them seemingly making all the right moves.
Researcher Arrested for Allegedly Teaching North Korea About Ethereum
The book “On Killing” does mention this.

Killing seems to be a lot easier when done to a fleeing enemy. Something about running away makes one a juicy target.
I like the comparison to poker which is a mixture of luck, skill and effort. The thing is also, if you win a lot of times in a row or at least are on top of the game, it is much more comfortable to play. You can continue with calculated risks. I think that's very much a position one wants to be in to feel successful and in control. Switching back from a disastrous round back to this mode is tough...