skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Why? Did ever normal people install electric equipment (wires, fusibles, switches etc) in their homes? The biggest problem here is that most electricians are not keeping up with the tech and, as always, tech is atill young and moving too fast. But in most cases you shouldn't worry about zigbee, z-wave, mqtt etc, you should just tell the electrician what you want to achieve, the basic workflow and that's it. Then you could customize it if you are a bit skilled/interested, or call them again (paying a fee).
that is only true for company specific certifications.

independent organizations providing certifications may either profit from selling training. (which is fine if the training is good) or the profit comes from the fees to take the test.

linux processional institute for example is not profit oriented and provides the LPI certificates for the benefit of the community. and it's one of the better certificates out there
Bitcoin Mixer 2020
Well it is what happens when the item is out of warranty the issue at hand.

I am pretty sure that if my fusers went bad within the warranty period I might have had them replaced under warranty, or at least there are several reports that Brother did that.

My rant was only about the absurd prices of the spares.
The total number of billionaires in the US will drop to zero a week before this is passed into law (or maybe one or two, the remaining being people who have decided that ultra-virtue-signalling-slash-conspicuous-consumption is worth 6%/yr and who have nevertheless squirreled away most of their wealth into various nonprofits and the like), and the number of people with assets over $100m will dropped to maybe 5%. Unless they plan to retroactively tax people fleeing before the law passes, I doubt it will generate one-twentieth that amount. A person with asset of $100m will be paying $1m/year under that system. Uprooting yourself from the US is painful, but $1m/year soothes a whole lot of pain. Even more so for billionaires.

If it does become law, though, I fully expect that $50m ceiling to come down year by year as the economic situation worsens until sub-$1m. Or maybe they keep it the same and hyperinflation will meet it on the way up for the same net result.
I close analogy that more HN readers would understand from the linked article would be imagine a pile of tablets connected to a wifi network, and they want to video conference. Every tablet implements the wifi standards such that they connect quite successfully to the AP at great speeds and range.

However, one mfgr, for the sake of argument, Apple, stuck a MAC address software firewall in their OS 'to ensure a consistent user experience' such that its tablets at the MAC address layer can only communicate with other Apple MAC addressed products.

Older HN readers will recall a vast variety of floppy disk using 80s home computers such that a CP/M Z80 box, a IBM AT 80286, an apple II, a TRS-80 model 4, and a commodore 64, all technically use standards compliant 5 1/4 floppy disks such that any double sided double density disk will work in any drive of all those devices... I assure you the filesystem layer is utterly incompatible and at best you'll need very special utilities.

Somewhat younger HN readers might recall "stupid flash drive tricks" under linux like formatting a USB attached flash drive as ext2 format simply to see if you can do it. And it does work, perfectly. And nothing other than a linux box could mount a ext2 formatted USB flash drive. Technically thats a standards compliant flash drive both at physical interface and firmware layer that will not work on a mac or windows box.

There's essentially an implementation bug in the standards documents for zigbee such that the RF layer will interop but the application layer most certainly does not have to interop and often enough does not, whereas zwave does NOT have the standards document implementation bug and any rando zwave device will mostly pretty much work with any other rando zwave device.

The only technology I'm aware of where 100% of devices will interop is SCADA current loops. Some techs come close like DMX or zwave which never seems to fail. Some semi silo'd tech like insteon is pretty interoperable. Some stuff like zigbee essentially doesn't work IRL unless the mfgr put effort into it, which some do... and some don't.
wealth is not zero-sum, and it's not finite. never has been, never will be. anyone can become rich as demonstrated by all the self made uber rich. if we can't understand this as a group, i don't see how driving away tax income by way of over taxing the rich has anything to do with making the bottom 50% pay their fair share.
Good marketing
Great BBC Audio Version with the music of Can.

https://youtu.be/xWflGtKqe8o
I am mystified as to why this comment was downvoted.
I fully agree, blue iris is a great example of a product updated for over 10 years.
If anyone is interested, this is a project you can use to generate a nice template for a compilable common lisp project for Linux that uses sbcl, which really reduces the initial setup pain for new projects:
https://github.com/triclops200/quickapp/

And this is a project that uses that to make quickapp itself a binary you can install:
https://github.com/triclops200/quickapp-cli

Both of these projects need a little TLC as I haven't touched them in a while, but they should still work.
This talk took some weird directions. It's called "What Unix Cost Us", but to be honest it isn't.

Starts with USB-driver coding in Win, Mac, Linux.

Goes over to colonialism.

Made some good points about Computer-architecture and how they shape programming languages and then some bad/wrong points.

Ends on community cultures and some controversial thoughts about gender equality and then he doesn't take any questions.

Talks off a shitstorm and then isn't ready to face it. Don't know have seen better videos about the same topic.
Market forces have clearly failed to address this issue for an extended period, so this seems to be a situation where statutory regulation is indicated.
Global Skills Index
I’m 29 now. I wonder if I’ll live long enough to be able to use cancellable non-blocking mkdir.
The cartridges are not particularly dangerous, nor does HP recycle them (common misconceptions). The reason they send you a prepaid envelope is so that you mail the cartridge back to them instead selling it to a remanufacturer.

Edit: stop downvoting me, I am a printing industry expert
Each player has his own board side so you wouldn't notice.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bughouse_chess

I assume that's what he meant.
"No, the EU isn’t asking Apple to kill the Lightning cable" : https://www.theverge.com/2020/1/17/21070848/eu-apple-europea...
You can dial your 2400 baud modem if you find another endpoint or operate one yourself, you're not bound to a specific provider. Fax machines still work after all.

You can run norton antivirus for DOS in whatever state it was when it was last sold.
It's not advisable to split code like this. The better way is to use gradle and make it a multi-module build.
First time will take time , but each time it will only compile incrementally. Blazing fast and good management.

All of android now uses this, so this is not new
George Washington's example of the Whiskey Rebellion is a good example too: the government was founded on these wonderfully articulated principles, but it was first and foremost a government and the survival of that came before the principles.
Yes, it has happened to me. For some reason, I totally lost interest and people who knew me were surprised I moved away from technology.

This phase is generally difficult to deal with. Somehow we have a strong identity with our career and leaving that feels bad for whatever reason. And when people are surprised, it almost makes you feel guilty. But when I got over that I realised if we take these temporary emotions out of equation it makes sense to move on and start over. Our analytical mind would always come handy in whatever we do.

In my case what helped me was while I was clear I lost interest in technology I had to do some soul searching to find out on what I wanted to do instead. This took some time for me to figure out. And some more time to figure out on how to monetise it. But the effort is worth it.

But I think it would be difficult for anybody to tell you what direction you need to take. It depends on what actually you want to do.It could be managing, consulting on domain, freelancing, taking up a different route, anything else you always liked but were not thinking as a career choice.It also depends on the compromises you can make.

Some deep introspection helps. Maybe this phase goes away as well. Give it sometime and watch what you think about often. That might give a clue. If it is a new journey, talk to people who have done that, chart out a plan before taking a plunge. All the best.
Drowned world is a psychological treatise that explores the impact of an environmental crisis on our dreams. One of my all time favorites.
Where there's an obvious external difference it's easy to differentiate (number of engines in the case you cite). However most domestic US flights are on single aisle twins that all look alike.
Frankly, just solve an important problem with BNNs in a meaningful way with advantages that only BNNs bring (e.g uncertainty estimation) and you won’t have to write blogposts defending them.
How/Why Data Collection
I have three questions:

1) How is it, and by what all means does all this data gathering technology sync and share all volunteered and collected data, and the second part is how and why does it affect searches, and promote things?

2) What is all that called?

3) Does anyone know of some kind of certificate course possibly from something like Coursera where you could learn about all that?

Thanks!
Why are governments so interested in spying on citizens ? What’s the real motive ?
More realistically how it works in giant mega-corporations is a contractual arrangement with another company works until it doesn't, and after the contract is no longer in force... well... its all over.

There's a subgenre of the above where mega-corporations set up and later dissolve an entire department. So any employee who could unlock those devices was probably downsized months or even years ago when the project was internally cancelled and the shutdown was planned. First, fire the engineers because we're cancelling so no possibility of R+D, whoopsie that means no possibility of unlocking, oh well.
Out of the Box Use Cases for AWS Lambda
Then they get used for freight and military transport and we all fly Airbus.
That is some absolute bullshit. Internet use was the single most important reason I got to learn what I did today.

Let me put it this way: Third world country, absolutely useless professors who are in the job because it simply pays (even random marks), and no actual technical skills to be learned.

If it wasn't for using the internet, I probably wouldn't have succeeded in university nor found a job.
PHP certainly works just fine when used well, but what in particular makes it a great introductory language?

(As for what's (arguably) wrong with it, have a look at this talk[1] by Rasmus Lerdorf about its creation. He intended it as a quick and dirty templating system for C programs. Because it was never designed to be a programming language, but somehow organically grew into one, it lacks (in the eyes of some) the elegance of a purposefully designed language.)

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iGOAQli7tGc
The point of backups is that they still exist after something went wrong. Something went wrong, the backups didn't exist, DO didn't do the job it was paid for.
Pregnancy lasts nine months and for most of that period a woman can very well travel and keep up with work. Then recovery after birth takes a couple of months (lochia, marked by bleeding, lasts a month and a half). So that's less than a yaer overall, let's say a whole year to cover cases that have a more difficult delivery than usual (although there are still outliers that will suffer problems for many years after).

So a year off work, at most. Let's say three if you want to have three children (most women in the Western world today will have one or two).

How does that square up with giving up an entire career, that lasts considerably longer than three years?
The AI Algorithm That Mimics Our Brain’s Dopamine Reward System
This gave me a wildly dumb idea that some startup should try.

This idea, but in the trunks of Ubers (as a side gig for the driver), rather than static locations. You can summon your shit wherever you end up.
The fertility wall explains why women need to take time off to gestate and give birth before they are in their 40's. It does not begin to explain why womeen in their 20s are expected to give up a career that lasts considerably longer than either gestation or giving birth and recovering from it.

That's what the author is failing to discuss. Why do women need to give up their career to _raise_ children when the business of _having_ children takes a tiny portion of the duration of a career in STEM academia.

Do you have an explanation for that?
Scientific materialism is reductionist - it implies we are random bags noise. You can't have life, love, sorrow, consciousness, wisdom etc. from a bunch of atomic lego blocks working together according to some rules.

The very assumption that the universe must be made up of 'laws that act on matter/energy' literally rules out our own existence as sentient beings, because it implies we are just randomness.

It's a paradox because most people who use materialism as their default perspective (most of us do, daily), also believe in their own life, will, consciousness.

The OP did exactly this: he's describing the objective universe has 'having no meaning' because it's just a bag of noise, but then implying that it does have value 'to us'. Well, 'us' the 'observer' is obviously not accounted for in the materialist, reductionist view, and yet it's there and we all know it.

I believe that scientific materialism for this reason, represents a nihilist philosophy, or at least they are closely related.
Do things like "best opening move", "worst handicap placement" or similar make sense if you assume perfect play ?

I would think not, because when you have perfect play, you either win, lose or draw. So you just have "winning opening moves", "losing opening moves", and "draw opening moves". You cannot really rank them.

Maybe the ranking would be the number of different games that lead you to a win, in a monte-carlo tree search fashion. Which could then be useful if you can't play perfectly (highest probability of winning).
> it becomes easier and easier to raise capital to solve problems many others are trying to solve already.

Generally, if you don't have competitors, then you don't have a market.
Chinese processor maker Loongson explains its next-generation products
That would solve "It stopped working when the vendor went out of business" but it wouldn't solve "It stopped getting security updates when the vendor went out of business"
While I agree with your general sentiment, this is also a huge overstatement, especially when it comes to cars.
For really junior people and interns it’s nice. It’s probably not so great for everyone else.
Depends on the printer and manufacturer.

We've had a couple different HP inkjet printers, they would clog all the time when not used frequently. Run the cleaning cycle, still doesn't work, clean the nozzles with steam, repeat next month.

We've had a Brother inkjet, and it has been smooth sailing so far.
>> It cannot be sexism if it is based in fact.

As usual, it's not the facts that are in dispute here, but their interpretation.
In some countries, like Japan and Taiwan, they have big lockers for storing luggage at the airport or MRT (metro) stations.

Is this meant for the same purpose?
Was not there a Russian app 4-5 years ago that did something similar? Its premise, if I recall correctly, was to trawl VK/dating app profiles based on photos of people taken on a street.

If we are to believe the tests journalists did, it was pretty good considering the app authors just pulled some VK/russian dating app photos

Edit: Thanks for downvotes. Here's the article: https://www.theguardian.com/world/2016/apr/14/russian-photog...

The app is called FindFace
Title of original article: Imaging an unsupported metal-metal bond in dirhenium molecules at the atomic scale

Article in entirety:
https://advances.sciencemag.org/content/6/3/eaay5849
Rather than just repeat a political line, can you please go deeper? Areas where you cpuld potentially add to the discussion:

* What are the numbers behind the statement?

* What policy proposals do you favor and how do you expect them to influence these numbers over what timeframe? What do you expect the side effects to be?

* Help put policies and numbers in context. Which policies are useful and which are not?
Personally: because I've been hearing it non-stop throughout my life, in very nearly every single thing I've read about flu or pandemics. So I find a comment that says "I don't understand why (this thing I have never stopped hearing about) is never talked about", without any additional context or commentary, very low-value.
What’s New in Elementary OS 5.1 Hera
So now all I have to do is find someone who keeps a bank of 2400 baud modems and an updated list of virus definition files.

As far as using as it was, what good is virus protection software that only works for viruses created in the 80s?

Sure I can use a standalone gps device that I bought 10 years ago that doesn’t get updated but that doesn’t do me too much good navigating in a suburban area where most of the roads, houses and businesses didn’t even exist then.
> The problem is that normal people no longer have a machine at home that’s always left on.

They do, their router. The better models are half a home server anyway. They have wifi, USB for storage, do voip, have direct internet access (no NAT issues!). They would be an ideal platform for home automation.
I like the concept of individuals being proficient at understanding data the same way they understand language today. Am less sure that this is possible, because each brain has specialized areas (Broca's and Wernicke's) for processing language; we all have pattern recognition built in too; but abstracting the meaning and impact of data is a lot less intuitive.

That said, I don't think "topless computing" is an ideal phrase, because the image many people will get is a woman typing while topless.
The first video of individual atoms bonding and breaking
We were taught about it in history class and it was mentioned in the news during the avaian influenza scare.
>> People aren't being harmed here.

Well, the author is saying that she is considering giving up her career in reearch which she very much wants to pursue to have children because she can't find a way to reconcile the two.

That is clearly harmful and if it is affecting women at a large scale as the author suggests then it is definitely something that should be corrected.
The conviction rate is probably way higher than 100% if you include all of the people imprisoned without any conviction or due process.
If two parties can't decide on the value, I would think it's only natural there would be no transaction.

If I set the value of my photo at $2 million and company X sets it at $0.20, am I forced to sell it at $0.20? If two people can't decide on a valuation it's only fair there's no transaction.
We haven't stopped. We build new cities all the time, we just build them on the closest empty land next to a job, and named them "suburbs".

We don't build new cities way far away in the middle of nowhere, because building new cities is expensive and there's no jobs in the middle of nowhere.
video: https://youtu.be/gr4jLuqrzbw
I stopped school after my undergrad. I have forgotten nearly all of it. Hell, I've forgotten most everything I've ever learned. I don't recall a lot of the early seasons of any of the shows I enjoy. I'm slower to learn new things, slower to implement things, slower working out, and the list goes on. People still consider me smart and highly productive and enjoy working with me. Turns out that while I don't recall specifics often enough, I have developed ways of working that scaffold what I know. "Standard operating procedure." I can still think through systems, debug hard problems, sling code, work great with teams, delegate, ask for help, mentor, mentee, learn new things (albeit slower than before, and it has to provide value, usually quickly), teach, etc.

I'm slower. I'm more experienced. I'm doing great.

You say you feel slow and not as sharp. I'd equate this to typing speed. If you were typing 90wpm and got slow and errored more, would that stop a career in tech? I work with a guy who hunt and pecks when typing with two fingers. He is a fantastic developer and doing great.

If you enjoy it and people enjoy working with you and you are productive, then you will be fine.
I just read your source code a bit, and there are a lot of things wrong.
First, you should ALWAYS clear the carry when using ADC or set the carry when using SBC

For example:
.increase:
adc #1
sta POSITION_MENU

I have no idea if you increment or add two, since the carry is not cleared.

clc
lda CURRENT_RAM_ADDRESS_L
adc #$01
sta CURRENT_RAM_ADDRESS_L
lda CURRENT_RAM_ADDRESS_H
adc #$00
sta CURRENT_RAM_ADDRESS_H

this is done by the usual INC CURRENT_RAM_ADDRESS_L BNE *+2 INC CURRENT_RAM_ADDRESS_H

ldy POSITION_CURSOR
cpy #0

cpy #0 is useless.

lda POSITION_CURSOR
cmp #0
cmp #0 is useless

jsr / rts can be replaced by jmp

clear_ram is super slow
People need to go home sometimes. This would be pretty complicated dealing with issues like someone being late to get their stuff. At least a shop can say come back tomorrow.
Huawei partners with TomTom for its own app to replace Google Maps
This site seems to lock up my phone, but desktop is fine. Anyone else have that issue?
You’ll probably notice a difference in comfort (especially noise) between a 737 and a320, say. And you can tell the difference between a 737 and 757 by the way the 757 is unreasonably long (see also, a321).
I work remotely and was planning on moving to Seattle next year. The more I research about the Cascadia Subduction zone and the overdue M9 earthquake, the more I am hesitant to want to live in Seattle. I honestly don't think it's worth moving to somewhere that is anticipating the worst natural disaster in the history of the USA. I think it's beautiful and a great city but it's not a risk I'm willing to take. Especially since it seems the region is extraodonarily underprepared.
This idea isn't new. Companies in the B2B and industrial space typically contract out to other companies like what you describe to provide 10+ year support plans for products.

The trick is that for a consumer market, the margins are typically much harder to work with -- especially with startups.

In fact, there's a zombieco that took over running Vector's upstream servers when Anki died, so definitely not new.
If someone is smart, they make a small mortgage on a small house and pay it off in 10-15 years minimizing their interest overhead.

Knowing you don't have to come up with hundreds or thousands of dollars every month in order to live is an amazing feeling. You can then set aside that same money every month and upgrade to a better house. Unfortunately, most people decide they can't wait and take out 30-year mortgages that wind up costing them almost twice the value of the house.

With proper maintenance, a house can last with continuous use for a hundred years. With average use, you would be hard-pressed to have a car for more than 15 years before the cost to maintain greatly outstrips the cost to replace.