skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just out of curiosity - is there a viable USB oscilloscope for $35 out there? I'd love to have a scope for a few projects but I'm hesitant to jump right into one of the $300+ ones.
This only holds in convex payoff distributions where risk has a positive expected value.

In concave payoff distributions, where risk has a negative expected value, inaction is favored.
I sometimes have issues with pasting screenshots into Rambox on my work laptop (it works most of the time, but sometimes it'll just inexplicably break, forcing me to paste the screenshot into a paint program first and then copy/paste into Rambox).

Other than that, yeah, copy/paste ain't much of an issue. It's also really nice to be able to select text with my mouse and middle-click to paste (and it works across pretty much every non-game app I've used).
From a cursory glance, this also lists purchasable scores, and I also found some copyrighted full scores that are not in the public domain.
Minneapolis police shoot at, threaten to arrest Deutsche Welle reporter
The official Covid-19 exposure notification app for Germany
I'm amazed your eyes held up from probably at least 20 years of CRTs bombarding you! That's great!
Yes, that was the point ;) Both languages are practically Turing complete so they are equivalent if you're just interested in what you can build with them.
SpaceX Dragon Docking Started with ISS
One could use hollow core fiber, which has much higher limits. Up to 99% of light in a vacuum IIRC.
UK NHS also released theirs: https://github.com/NHSX
Reading a speculative prediction, given been watching progress from up close for 57 years, is interesting.

Any meaningful milestones along the way, that you think are worth noting. Tasks or roles that indicate progress?
Create your own Deno module and GitHub Action
Ask HN: Is your startup using TikTok?
The meme from way back when was that openSUSE was basically "Microsoft Linux", but I don't know what triggered that (maybe YaST making AD domain membership relatively painless?).
No, that is an estimate from forum thread compiled from many articles. Wikipedia claims 1400 victims just in Rotherham.
This sounds just like dithering.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dither
The dangers – and benefits – of a post-pandemic work-from-home revolution
Here are two screenshots from my phone. I don't see an error. I don't see any way to sign up from the navbar. Maybe the problem is user error, but I tried for a bit.

https://i.imgur.com/Fv5YcDq.png

https://i.imgur.com/dpIIQnh.png
He probably mean a heavy focus on type theory. It has been used in formal verification as a prototype tool [1].

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/L4_microkernel_family#High_ass...
What's the money actually spent on? I'd argue that massive American football stadiums for grades 9-12 are perhaps incorrectly prioritized as compared to e.g. teachers.
It's the first ever crewed orbital flight on a privately manufactured rocket or spacecraft, and the first crewed American orbital flight since the Space Shuttle retired in 2011.
They have to be set up somewhere, though.
I always found the IO barrier a good distinction at code level. In fact, I started to work on something to that end for Elixir because of it.

Monads come with their own share of problems that's true. Composability isn't really one of them in my opinion though, we got transformers for that purpose.
Can you re-read my post more closely and actually critique it. You chose one of my points, arguably the weakest (partly because it's an analogy -- analogies are mostly for flavour, they don't make a good argument but they help you to appreciate where I am coming from) and ignored the stronger criticisms I posted after that.
> This doesn't quite disagree with your statement, but I'd like to ensure the correct officers are identified and disciplined.

As if anything would happen to these disgraces on legs. That's the entire point why people are protesting.
Just to be clear, you're comparing actual discriminatory laws to a private company setting compensation on cost of living? No one's forcing people to move out of the valley...

I live in Colorado and have plenty of opportunities, and the perks of living here, for me, far outweigh any salary increase I could get moving to the Bay Area. In fact I don't think you could pay me enough to move there.

Quality of life is far more important to me than doubling my salary.
FTI? FYI? At any rate, thanks for the clarification.
At the end of the day it is a business, and perhaps the customer of the business will also look at a discount.

In a way you are right, you may need to offer a premium.
Do you plan on creating a firefox extension?
Estrangement from the Means of Production
Generally speaking, unless you are a contractor, it's hard to work for a company unless they have an office in the country where you live. So, while it's not an island, a good example of what you are talking about might be Monaco. Basically the entire country (tiny as it is) is filled with super rich people. But you can't easily work from Monaco because high tech companies do not have offices there.

I have essentially the same problem in Japan. I mean, big companies usually have offices in Tokyo, but if I want to work for a startup somewhere, it's always going to be contracting. For a variety of reasons, that's sometimes not desirable (and a lot of companies refuse to hire contractors for lots of other reasons).

So, basically, the only way you're likely to run into this is if you move to SF, which is usually no problem ;-)
But again, that’s not the law (the executive order here). They can’t go enforce things not the law. It’s not like there are armed folks running around that street making exigent circumstances. Why do you feel the need to defend something obviously indefensible?

Edit: just to be clear, given all the huff and puff by police of needing riot gear, armored trucks, giant guns, I haven’t seen any report in Minneapolis of any armed protestors or any cops coming under fire. But that doesn’t stop the cops from shooting (less than lethal) rounds.
Broadly, there are tradeoffs, including organizational risk tolerance, and which margins one is permitted or not permitted to take which risks on.

For example, some software companies are regulated in some jurisdictions. A not-too-hypothetical regulation is "regulatee understands and enthusiastically consents to unannounced site inspections by regulator at any time of our choosing." Thankfully, this doesn't apply to most software companies, but ones who it does apply to have hopefully long-since had a chat with their competent legal professionals about precisely what the definition of a "site" is.

There are many, many issues like this, and they're fractally complicated. Even the basics of "How do I hire a full-time white collar employee with the standard package plus equity?" vary substantially between jurisdictions. Setting up the infrastructure for it in a jurisdiction can take the better part of a year. (It would be an excellent thing, for everyone, if jurisdictions decided to compete on ease to employ their residents.)
Noted. Thanks for your valuable input.
True, we didn't have anywhere near as many opportunities before, but if remote work becomes more and more the norm (especially in the wake of the pandemic), then we will have more opportunities to find work elsewhere, despite living in a region with less in-person job opportunities.
> Continued overcrowding of cities. Continued discrimination between nationalities.

Where do you see your "continued overcrowding of cities" if anyone is free to live wherever they want, provided there is a reliable high-speed internet connection?

And exactly where do you see any discrimination if anyone is free to worke everywhere?
Life expectancy, mortality rates for infants, nutrition, eradication of treatable diseases, ...

Most things we can measure are better.

Individual happiness, that's P = NP.
Calling it 'Barbaric' to reduce the already absurd salaries of Facebook employees to slightly less absurd levels seems hyperbolic to say the least. No one is forcing you to work there, and if you are at Facebook you almost certainly have lots of other options (essentially all of which have the same policy of adjusting compensation based on CoL).
Isn't this exactly the case for private space companies like spacex? Government agencies will always be strapped down with bureaucracy, and so be less efficient than private companies.

I've never seen anyone claim that NASA is incompetent.
It was my primary role. I coded for many hours every day as CEO. It did make for a lot of long days. I can identify as both CEO and programmer. And musician and other things. No need for gatekeeping.
Why this should depend on convexity at all? The study’s premise is marginal benefit, i.e., estimated risk difference is either minimal or perhaps too poorly known to call it out as marginal. If it was known to be positive or negative, action should be obvious. I am not defending this study because authors seem to rely heavily on survey where participants satisfaction measured only after 6 months. Typically, people tend to comfort themselves in short term for making big decisions such as divorce or job change even though in longer run they may higher accumulated regret. Economists need to develop good models instead of just keep doing surveys.
there's nothing new about this norm -- you'll find a ton of accounts like that. often they never make it to the front page, but occasionally a useful gem will surface.

/newest is and always has been a shit show of self promotion
The one thing that comes to mind is to avoid the "hammer looking for a nail" syndrome. I see this all the time, especially in academia. Rather than worry about learning all the latest stuff, concentrate on solving the problem at hand in the simplest and most effective manner. If that requires you to learn new things, then that's a great time to expand your repertoire - working on a specific problem. Of course you have to strike a balance, but mainly concentrate on solving problems rather than being up-to-date on all the latest stuff and trying to find the proverbial nail for your new hammer.
Movie Datasets for Machine Learning
The great leap of faith -- you have to trust in the transformation and that you won't remember who you used to be anyway

Try getting a tattoo for an example of this

Edit; it's very right you can't decide rationally and that's why we're emotional beings but on the other hand given you have already done it once you emerge on the other side chances are you'll be pleased

If you don't want to get a tattoo try wearing professional clothing to work for a month

Those who don't believe in magic will never find it -- Roald Dahl
The main reason stuff is mostly windows compatible is due to the fact that driver management is a mess (different distros with different drivers and/or linux kernel versions). The ABI/API issues that are complained about are not helping this.

Even if there are drivers, most of the time they are developed by external people that only wanted to get it working _to a certain level_. Manufacturers dont care about Linux, most of the times, because its hard to develop an installer that is compatible with _Linux_.

I have a story about a friend of mine that tried to make a led driver for the Beaglebone Black. He looked for the documentation, and there was some stuff about an old, deprecated way of toggling GPIOs (pass pin ID) and a new interface (gpiod, using pinctrl and identifier). The documentation was also talking about ACPI, which was totally unrelated[1]. He tried to use "the right way" (using the latest and gratest API), but it was not clear on how to implement this api, as he was experienced with switching registers manually, the embedded way, and had little experience with the Device Tree.

Eventually he wanted to use iomap to just do the gpio toggle _manually_ because it was better documented (read chip documentation and done). He got this idea from when he went to this Korean school as an exchange student, and it was _common practice_ to do this by teachers!

Small example about the gpio madness, google for "linux gpio kernel":
1. A generated page of the API, but also some implementation documentation. [2]
2. Readme file from the kernel, telling you that this is not the documentation you are looking for (old api). [3]
3. An actual article that explains the old and new interface, but still all userspace [4]
4. LWN docu from 2013 using the old api [5]

[1] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/driver-api/gpio/board....

[2] https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/v4.17/driver-api/gpio/index....
[3] https://www.kernel.org/doc/Documentation/gpio/sysfs.txt
[4] https://embeddedbits.org/new-linux-kernel-gpio-user-space-in...
[5] https://lwn.net/Articles/532714/
Ask HN: What are some dev culture tricks you have in your company?
- How do you maintain teams?
- Tech debt?
- Motivation?
Or any other trick others may not know?
Noted. Will add a section on how we compare against our competitors.
it doesn't appear to be being updated last update was 9 days ago. something that supposed to already be released and working, but is in fact delayed, it doesn't look like much activity on it
Please elaborate, are you saying that resisting arrest is a law that should not exist even in the case where it can be proven?
> Don't forget all the information is in our DNA

I'm not so sure about that (but I'm pretty green on bioinformatics). I mean, for one: https://xkcd.com/1605/. For two, if that was the case we wouldn't need projects like folding@home and such to tell us what the structures described by DNA actually look like. And for three, there is a massive amount of influence on brain development from elsewhere (both from within the fetal body and from the womb). It's a bit like having a compiler's source code but nothing to bootstrap it with...
Amdahl's law.
That just switches to the SSL version of a site if it exists. It does nothing to block an unsecured site.
What exactly does it mean to say that plugins "can then be swapped out"? I assume a binary Go plugin can not in fact be unloaded from memory. So modifying and reloading a Go plugin will result in multiple versions of it to then stay in memory. This is a shortcoming of the current Go implementation. Is my understanding correct?
A 1/48 scale model of the SpaceX Falcon Heavy rocket
They call it a Chimera policy. Goes on all display phones, and the identifiers are logged so they’ll never be able to authenticate an Apple ID.

When I was dealing with a spate of thefts from Apple stores, none of the handsets were showing up again. They just vanished, presumably exported.
That's an interesting thought. If the UI is always blue-ish...and suddenly a bright red triangle appears with an Exclamation Point inside....you might be about to die and should act accordingly.
US Law Enforcement Deliberately Targeting Journalists at George Floyd Protests
Oh. I never knew that. Thanks for the info. Will look into it.
Someone mentioned SPIDR on HN a while back, and it's seems to have a wide range of headlines + viewpoints:

https://spidr.today/

The comments are useless though..
Sneaky Lenovo does more more sneaky stuff like insisting on installing their software on your machine even if you elect to install fresh Windows from other media than the one provided by Lenovo.

https://www.windowscentral.com/some-lenovo-pcs-reload-softwa...
Am I .. missing something? The content seems quite sparse and hacked together. This feels less like a workshop and more of a work in progress.
Feel free to check back in the next time you're looking; our appetite for "remotes in the same city / metro area we have an office in" has been increasing over time, particularly as individual offices mature.
On firefox I just set dom.security.https_only_mode to true. There isn't really a need for an additional extension for me.

The only cases where it becomes somewhat problematic for me is my router page and local jupyter notebooks. Both can
be served through other means.
Show HN: Mini-Spectra
Lightweight small spectrum analyzer for windows.
Is it even possible for a business to pay Google for better service? It seems like they just can't be bothered to fix the info, not even for €1000.
Did I miss a left turn somewhere? The thread is about better pay in cities, vs the pay cut if one leaves the city. Better pay for locals (read Americans) vs pay for remote workers which includes all people living in other countries.

But this is obvious. What is the question?
Definitely. It affects then entire experience to such an extent that you want to go to bed early in order to lie between freshly dried sheets.
Closer to logic. There is a straightforward rewrite into prolog if you want a program. Or one of the proof assistants.

The notation is abused though. Try looking up some of the work by Guy L. Steele in the recent years.
If you are recording during curfew it seems a much better in term of risks, both legal and physically.
Seems like a "throw it over the fence" development model. See also this issue: https://github.com/nhsx/COVID-19-app-Android-BETA/issues/49
I think it was Dayton's drug use that caused the initial situation.
On firefox you can do that anyway by setting dom.security.https_only_mode to true in about:config.

No need for an additional addon unless you need to handle specific exceptions.
Colors and Fonts Extractor

A firefox extension that does just that and exports them as CSS variables

https://addons.mozilla.org/fr/firefox/addon/colors-and-fonts...
What do you mean that they're more similar than is possible by chance?

Instead of reading conspiracy blogs, go read scientific papers. If you don't understand them, then there is really good introductory course material on virology available from several universities.
> some desktop environments now even work with Wayland (as of 2020).

Wayland compositors themselves work. What is a problem is sharing GPU resources between different applications using different APIs.

I.e., you have your compositor using OpenGL and your application using Vulkan. The application renders itself into a buffer and sends it to the compositor, to render the desktop.

If the compositor and application cannot share buffers, the application has to read it from GPU, put into system RAM and share with compositor via SHM. The compositor then writes it back to VRAM. (Obviously, when application renders itself via software-only, this is not an issue.)

When the compositor and application can share buffer, the application just send the buffer handle to compositor, done.

This sharing on Linux is done via dma-buf. AMD and Intel drivers use dma-buf, so it is not a problem. Nvidia proprietary driver doesn't, it uses it's own EGLStreams, so it is incompatible with compositors. It is similar, as if Nvidia drivers for Windows started ignoring WDDM and started doing their own thing, complete with their own display server. It would also become incompatible with the rest of system. For some reason, Nvidia thinks it is fine to do that in Linux something, that they would not dare to do in Windows.
I hazard a guess that there doesn't exist a simple heuristic (such as "number of chunks") that always does the right thing. I think that to achieve better diffs, the diff tool should have some understanding over the structural properties of the language – but that would, of course, mean that the diff tool should be different for each language. (Or more like, there should be a parsing frontend that parses a "labeled tree" structure, and then a generic diffing algorithm over those kinds of trees.)
Ask HN: How do you keep track of events like SpaceX's Crew Dragon launch?
This is the kind of event I enjoy watching live, yet I completely missed it until I heard about it on the evening news. Thankfully I'll still be able to witness the docking part of it in a few minutes.

I know I could probably find a calendar of all SpaceX's missions, but what about other types of events, such as "AlphaGo versus Lee Sedol"? Is there any calendar that aggregates all events that could be considered as humanity milestones?
very naive to think that was a counter flagging POTUS tweet.
> if the records have already been deleted, or indeed are automatically deleted after the request is made, no crime is committed

This isn’t true under US law. No matter where you conduct your work, if you destroy a record without capturing it as required by your records schedule, you have violated the law, whether there is a FOIA request or not. It is your responsibility to migrate record material to an appropriate location.

If you conduct official business on any of these platforms with auto-destruct that seems suspect to me and cause for some sort of censure, just like a stock trading floor doing this would be in breach of regulation.
Plus 4 for security, immigration etc...
The show was a successful transition to television of the Radio 4 classic, "The News Quiz"
Only unethical lawyers? Suppressing evidence can get them disbarred.
Architectural Trends 2020
That sounds easily testable in the data.
Unfortunately, I don't. I'm not using Firefox right now and I don't have enough time to work on it. There's also no marketplace for the extensions. Sorry!
In Ontario, Canada, some condo boards for town house developments (like home-owner associations) didn't like people putting up laundry lines and so prevented them since backyards were considered "common elements" and under group jurisdiction.

So the provincial government had an existing law that prevented the use of "renewable energy" systems from being blocked by local by-laws and such. So they classified clothes lines as a renewable energy system so people could use "solar power" to dry their clothes as a energy conservation mechanism.

> "There's a whole generation of kids growing up today who think a clothesline is a wrestling move," [Premier] McGuinty said during his announcement.

* https://toronto.ctvnews.ca/ontario-premier-lifts-outdoor-clo...

The current Ford government repealed the law that allowed for this, so I'm not sure what the legal status is now exactly.
You (should) do that in other languages too. I'm not a fan of the way Python does it, but 1. it's not like you decide tabs vs spaces anew on each line, and 2. this is simply not a practical issue, unlike weak vs strong typing.
"Google Offers No Help"

Even though I love Google, this is increasingly getting scary. More than hackers getting into my account, I am actually more afraid of getting locked out by Google one day.

An year or so back I created a Google account for my five year old daughter to be used on a Nexus 7 2012 (yes, it still works). Recently, I reset the device and tried logging in with my daughter's account but had forgotten the password. In spite of giving the recovery address correctly and entering the OTP that was sent, Google kept telling me it couldn't confirm if I was the owner of the account.

Since this is a new account I don't have a problem but what if this happened to my main account?
Dragon is now just a few meters away from the ISS (International Space Station)

to follow approach and docking:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bIZsnKGV8TE
So? This is the world we live in. Linux gets no love. Its less performant and less desirable on the desktop/laptop for this reason.
Walmart Employees Are Out to Show Its Anti-Shoplifting AI Doesn't Work
Yes, that's a great summary!
Agreed. I can’t reply to the child comment, but school infrastructure is usually funded with bonds (at least around here).
I've seen some SNES coding tutorials with emulator.
But you don't stop with that, and also make the actual game cartridges.

Certainly very impressive :)
That video wasn't of the national guard it was clearly police of some kind based on the uniforms. Also typically the national guard units they activate for stuff like this are often the MP units so they would be trained on law enforcement specific things. Either way it doesn't excuse or justify that blatant misconduct in the video.
How did you avoid going into "management" ??
Have you ever been "promoted" to project manager?