skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, what an interesting question. Open source first-class accessible tinkerer/maker-oriented hardware design.

That gets me wondering... what would be the ideal here? I don't have much experience with blind-oriented usage but I get the impression blind users only keep screens around for when software/the OS falls apart and orientational cues completely break down... but perhaps sighted assistance is needed less often than I presume, and blind users simply use phones and laptops with screens because that's what dominates the market.

Maybe you could viably get away with having a quick-access mechanism that lets someone use their own device's display whenever assistance is required. I can totally see a device that serves VNC over HTML5 to any web browser via a built-in hotspot, that would be pretty universal.

Which leads me to the question of how useful touchscreen gestures are - since that's all touchscreens are useful for in a blind context - and if there isn't a better input method than that. I get the impression keyboards are pretty much "it". It would be pretty cool if your entire computer was a keyboard with a 3.5mm headphone jack :)

The Pinetab is basically a highish-end ARM system with its own bits of novel hardware added on, so the base question becomes "how usable is the mainline AArch64 Linux experience for blind users?". I suspect it's somewhere between "poor" and "fair"; and bespoke hardware in this device may add a small amount of extra strain on top of that.

Now I'm puzzling over which mechanical keyboards are the thinnest, and if you could cram a power bank and ARM development board into the footprint space underneath.
I do, although these days its connection to the outside world is a SIP trunk via Asterisk. Works just fine as long as I don't need to interact with an IVR which requires asterisks or pound to do stuff (looking at you, Google Meet). Audio quality is better than a cell phone, and I can hear it ring from the back yard.
Awesome. Feature request: show tooltip showing station name/location on hover so that I don't need to change location to get station info.
Leaving aside the question of changing facilities...

Where do the scrubs get washed, then? Do they need to bring a special bag to transport the scrubs so they can wash them at home? Does the bag need to be washed, too? If they leave the scrubs in the lockers if they "aren't too bad" (ha), how are the lockers cleaned to ensure that they are sanitary when they put their street clothes in? How do you ensure they are sanitary when their street clothes are removed? How does all of this adapt to them changing to street clothes to eat lunch, like you suggest? Are you willing to pay for more doctors/nurses/etc. to cover the changing time for lunch?
I finally retired my Enfield No4 MkI last year. It's been used for hunting for 3 generations, but .303 ammo is getting too expensive and hard to come by around here. The rifle really preferred 180gr bullets, and it was pretty rare that any local stores would have any in stock.

It was replaced by a CZ 557 Ranger, which was part of the competition recently to replace the No4 MkI for the Canadian Rangers. It didn't win the competition (Tikka did), but as a result there's a damned fine spirtual Enfield successor available on the civilian market.
I have a working situation where I need to work with Python and Julia. I'd like to say that there are great interoperability between these runtimes, so you can easily call a Python function from Julia and vice versa.

Clearly, if you find Julia more productive and think that's the future, then that's great! There is no reason to hold back given that you can call out to legacy Python code as needed.

The downside, obviously, is that you have two languages to work with, which is not ideal. Depending on the size of your project and how much appetite you want to migrate code in your longer term roadmap, you can make a good judgment how to proceed.

I would have to say the world needs to move forward no matter what. COBOL used to be the best language for business applications and it clearly went out of favor. The recent events with COVID-19 brought up a clear technical debt issue. What I' trying to say is, sooner or later, the code will need to be rewritten.

Google tends to rewrite their software every few years to keep it fresh. That's not a bad model to have for any technology-centric company.
I just sent email to my company's e-staff (which I am on) saying I will not join another Zoom call. As an American free speech above all is my default. I do understand the Chinese governments worry on having social harmony given the fact that their revolution was driven by the disharmony and they worry about another revolution.

Every Communist must grasp the truth, "Political power grows out of the barrel of a gun."
— From Problems of War and Strategy - Mao Zedong
You’re not the target user here. In highly secure environments you can’t just “pip install your-thing”.
> By my personal definition, your second morality must be objective -- you've given it a value, and said it is different to the previous morality -- a fact

At this point we're talking definitions, yes. IMO this is a subjective morality because it is only valid when you value what humans value - it comes from our perspective. Without looking at it through our perspective and values, it has no meaning. Repeat for every individual human and combine to get that more or less "objective/existant" rule set.

> You are saying these are objective facts people agree on

Yes, but stronger. Agreement is not needed. I don't personally find use diving into metaphysical brain in vat scenarios, so I choose to philosophically work under that we can observe the universe, and either it's real or its fake and still matters, for similar reasons of "we still exist and feel" invoked before.

> you will build an objective morality that people can also agree on

Theoretically, but good luck getting that agreement, lol. As to "objective" see above. I think the distinction of "shared subjective" is important here.

> How would this morality differ from the current morality -- or, to what extent is the current morality not based on emergent properties of psychology and human behavior?

It really depends on what morality you ascribe to. This view for example is highly supportive of consequentialism in my experience, while pretty clearly kills deontology where it stands. Generally I think the end results in full won't be all that different, though I will say, politically in the US, lack of responsibility via determinism makes strong arguments for things like socialist and egalitarian policies. Of course, psychological factors can offset those, which is why things like full equality a la communism get so much pushback. I think Rawls and the veil of ignorance become pretty useful ideas as a starting point to figure out the details. [1] Our imperfect knowledge will always make this stuff an estimation at best in practicality though.

> Ah, you are cutting God out of the loop. I don't think this objectively (pun) succeeds...

I've heard enough god arguments that I effectively cut that out of the equation, yes. Similar logic to brain in vat - either its false and we move on, or its true and we can't do anything about it anyways. At the end of the day, there is no god proof that I have seen that justifies a meta-ethical underpinning having to do with god or DCT [2] or the like. Basically, evidence strongly points one direction, and we will never have proof one way or the other, so we do our best, make a choice, and move on.

[1] https://ethicsunwrapped.utexas.edu/glossary/veil-of-ignoranc...
[2] https://www.iep.utm.edu/divine-c/
They're not your rhetorical shield.

That's handy because you're the one who brought them up only to imply that they aren't as worthy of our sympathy as Snowden.

This thread was started by...

...someone with the good sense to ignore your verbal incontinence. Eventually I'll learn the lesson; downvote and move on.
How to Make Requests over Tor?
A bit unrelated, but I discovered "The Woodwrights Shop" has the most recent ten seasons available on pbs.org. Something very satisfying about his approach to woodworking.
Let's run a quick budget for a family of two adults and two kids.

The median home in the US is 2,300 sq ft. To get that in the Bay Area in a good school district will run you about $2.3M. Assuming you put 20% down, you'll need to mortgage $1.84M. At today's rates, that's about $7,360/mo in mortgage, and about $2,100 in property tax.

So we're already at $113,520 a year just for housing.

You'll also need to pay taxes on your total comp, including the RSUs that you vest in, whether you sell them or not. Assuming you make $250K a year in total comp, and let's say you have a ton of deductions to get a crazy low tax rate, you'll still pay about 30% in taxes between Federal and State. So that's 75,000 a year.

So just in housing and income taxes, we've already spent more than the Bay Area salary cap (you've spent $188K).

And we haven't even talked about insurance, cars, food, or daycare.

I can easily see a middle class family spending more than the base salary.
I was using firefox. That's probably it.

Does only Chrome work? Seems to defeat the point of FOSS...
I thought China banned vpn, even for foreign business. This was popped up in HN 8 month ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21241712
If that's the point it seems like a particularly inaccurate and cherry-picky one. Security is not what's introducing the failure modes, the adversarial universe is. The no-security solutions have catastrophically worse usability in that reality. You're comparing the usability of things with security features with the usability of things without security in a hypothetical non-adversarial environment. I can posit a world in which security features never fail or introduce usability friction, that wouldn't be a useful starting point for a comparison either.
I agree, we probably are talking past each other. I was discussing policy, you were discussing current events. It sounded like you were discussing policy but I misunderstood. Judging from the downvotes, the hive mind feels similarly to you. I'll bow out and have the policy discussion elsewhere.
Which operating system are you using? That's impressive. More importantly, our hook doesn't support the new query version so we might want to switch.
> having a large part of you engineering organization operate from within China

Shockingly, Microsoft, Google, Facebook, IBM, Redhat, Cisco all have engineering team in mainland China. Do a job list search please.

> decrypting that packet on a server located in China

In your infrastructure setup, for hostnames in a cluster, how do you separate China servers and non-China servers? Do you put a subdomain or something? And how do you link user's nationality to which server they are supposed to connect to?

What if there's a US hosted meeting, a mainland Chinese user joins the meeting? Is it an ethical thing to happen?

Should the packet decrypting happen in a US server? China server? or server located in a third neutral country instead?

What if a US citizen joins a mainland Chinese hosted meeting? Is it wrong for Zoom to decrypt packets in China?
Woops. Thanks :)
Very large c++/python/cuda application that is packed into various different images (squashfs images, but functionally the same).

We end up having a lot of libraries that are shared across multiple images.
Is this a moratorium on sales, or are they shutting off the service of cops using this? Will this apply to feds and US military, as well?
This is a non-sequitur. Nobody disagrees that no small number of cops have been overstepping their authority. The question is should they have more authority to use force than an average citizen. Our society has answered that question in the affirmative, even if some individuals may disagree.
It's doubtful that the insurance company is paying $500 either. I can't believe the type of scam these drug companies run.

I take a medication whose patent expired before I was born. Over the years the price has actually gotten more and more expensive in the US, though I've purchased it in the EU for around $20 / month.

In the US, using my insurance card, the pharmacy charges me $175. I pay that out of pocket until I hit my deductible of $2K, so it is quite expensive.

However, if I don't use my insurance card, the pharmacy has a 'different' price of $40. WTF? My insurance company is apparently in bed with the pharmacy and manufacturer to rip off their own insured customers.

So I pay for it with cash for $40 without using my card, and then submit it later towards my deductible (which of course they deny 'till I threaten small claims court).

It's absurd and would be a violation of RICO laws for any other industry.

Regardless, if you're paying out of pocket due to a high deductible, use GoodRx at the pharmacy without even mentioning your insurance - just pretend you're completely uninsured - and then submit the receipt later. It will save you a lot cash.

* https://www.goodrx.com/
>>we can’t never go outside again

Somebody needs to tell that to Brooklyn residents. Streets are crowded.
The fact they're worn around so freely should be a hint that they merely look like surgical scrubs, not intended to be used like surgical scrubs.

Realistically, I would think scrubs are common because 1) they've become emblematic of healthcare occupations[1] and 2) they're easier to clean and relatively cheap--they protect the wearer from spills and contamination, not the other way around, and in contrast to traditional nursing uniforms, doctors' white lab coats, etc, they're comparatively disposal, so you can wash them in hot water after every use and then discard them after the fabric wears out.

[1] Undoubtedly because of their association with surgery. I'd bet it all started with some cool surgeon lazily wearing his scrubs around the hospital.
If you want some risk put it all in FB and Google and just hold it for 10 years.

If you want less risk put it all in VFIAX Mutual Fund and hold it for 50 years.

If you want even less risk put it all in a Vanguard Targeted retirement fund and hold it for 50 years.
This deserves state and/or federal investigations...

EDIT:

Contrast: In Washington State, an investigation about the death in Tacoma a couple months ago was just this mentioned in a news conference by the governor. Due to conflicts of interest the state is currently evaluating who can be assigned to lead a fully independent and unbiased investigation, with new announcements expected in the next few days.
My understanding is that if a lead acid battery ends life in the landfill, somebody has seriously messed up. In the US at least, the vast majority of lead from batteries is recycled, usually into fresh batteries, thanks to financial incentives and a very efficient collection system primarily run by auto parts stores. It's unclear to me whether it's actually more efficient to reuse an old lead acid battery, or to recycle its lead into a modern battery with higher capacity, it probably depends on the specific circumstances.
It's time for western companies to stop pretending it's possible to be economically successful in China whilst remaining true to their purported western values.
What if you started a company, grew it and went public and in the ensuing years the markets pushed its value up such that your share was suddenly, and temporarily, worth more than $100m? Are you forced to sell the excess and be forced to pay a capital gains tax and reduce your control over your company?
I've been to resturants in the 80s and 90s and had these variances, it's not just because of online ordering, some kitchens are just bad.
Android 11 Beta Launched with More Controls and More Clutter
> labeled a racist (especially because now a days that is tantamount to being fired and losing your livelihood as well as all the targeting him and his family would endure).

The link literally said the officer faced no consequences.

I mean, if being labeled a racist was a dangerous as you seem to think, you'd really think that people in comfortable positions of power would go out of their way not to act racist. And as links like this show, they don't. So frankly I think that's an existence proof to the contrary.
>What’s to lose? The integrity of Reddit because they put a black man at the helm? Eh. Worth a shot in my opinion.

You have no skin in the game, sell all your possessions and put it all on black in Vegas, worth a shot in my opinion.
I may be wrong about it (because I haven't tried it enough) - Flutter feels kinda "reacty" (I think it is) and "javascriptish" to me. I was made/forced to work on react/javascript/angularjs for few months which started in the guise of "urgent help needed for 2 weeks in another team". It was trauma.

Besides I had never been able to get into anything JS or related. I started coding on C, then Python, then Java (very little Scala) and now Java and Kotlin. I dabbled with Go a little and it was nice.

Recently I had to make some changes to a react native component in one of our Android apps and it was a nightmare even though I was able to make those changes and ship very quickly. These just never made sense to me. As in - "why"? I think I am just averse/allergic to react/js/etc, or maybe I am not able to think deep enough, or something like - I am not wired a particular way :/
This Reddit post is much more informative:

https://www.reddit.com/r/askscience/comments/4t4o3a/do_the_h...
You bring up a good point. There is certainly a line, which, when crossed, will nudge more users to download the app, but also make the site unappealing to the point of avoiding it or clicking away. This might be a long-term, difficult to track&diagnose consequence of the dark pattern.
Don’t you think this depends on the exact process followed? Different countries built the ISS after all. So long as you plan and standardize properly, and write to the spec, you can develop east subsystem independently and still integrate it as a single, cohesive system.
On Windows with the old Zune software (nowadays I think you need to use phone stuff, or maybe Groove?), on Mac with the Windows Phone software.
Oh, I thought this was going to be about Tesla and Edison.
Would the blades being heavier/metal make these fans less efficient?
The Louisville PD and the FBI have both announced investigations and the officers involved are on paid leave. Historically, that hasn't generally produced much in the way of prosecutions. Maybe in the current climate things will be different.
When's the last time you saw a yoga studio the size of an average hospital? Most hospitals have staff numbering into the hundreds or thousands with 24/7 operations [1]. We're talking large locker room facilities all over the place with many departments getting their own, especially after COVID, which themselves become central points for disease spread since shift changes aren't evenly spread out.

I don't think it's a bad idea to make big investments into such infrastructure now but I think it's completely reasonable it wasn't a priority before.

[1] The average hospital with 50 to 99 beds has a FT+PT staff of about 400 ( beckershospitalreview.com/hospital-management-administration/50-things-to-know-about-hospital-staffing.html ) and half of all hospitals in the US have under 100 beds.
The Missing Middle: Urbit stars as a continuum of community norms
If you're trying to live large--which, in the Bay Area, is trying to live like a middle-class American in the midwest--you're obviously going to spend a lot more. A single person without kids is going to obviously spend a lot less (you can get a decent 1BR in Oakland for < $3k/mo and pay no property tax). And a double-income earning family is the norm for married couples, so you might not have to dip into stock if you have enough cash income.

Obviously it depends on your circumstances. But I would not attempt to live like what you describe in the inner Bay Area. That sort of lavishness--which I know is not particularly lavish elsewhere by American standards--is reserved for the truly wealthy here, or someone who bought their home long ago (even 15 years would suffice; less if you bought in Oakland).
Love that guy. Pretty sure he's always high tho.
Streets were crowded in SF's mission tonight too, with many people 1) not wearing masks (or wearing the mask on their chin (!?!)) 2) being in close knit groups.

Fingers crossed I guess, but given that 1) the virus is still around AND 2) we do not have a vaccine AND 3) we do not have herd immunity, I can't say I feel very optimistic about the next month or so.
As someone who has more experience than I care to quantify regarding RAM-starved, swap-abundant systems: no. Well... OK, a subjective measurement on the "death by how many thousand cuts"-scale would be somewhere between 10,000 and 1,000,000 cuts, IMO, depending on what you're trying to do.

You'll also rapidly exhaust the SD card's flash lifetime, and all the spare capacity... which will make the SD return read errors, nicely corrupting the contents of RAM.

You can verify the slowdown/lag/pain factor easily enough: boot Linux on any PC with `mem=2G`, attach an SD card you don't mind nuking :), and go nuts.
Ideally they would get washed at the hospital. Hospitals wash massive amounts of linens anyway, I can't imagine the additional expense being material. Mesh bag + name tag costs what, $1?

And if for some reason the clinic doesn't wash linens, well,
presumably the scrubs are being washed at home now, so that's always an option. The "special bag" you refer to can be gym bag or a disposable plastic bag. That is still miles less gross than the status quo.

If a gym-goer can be expected to not work out in street clothes/shoes, surely similar standards of hygiene can be expected of healthcare practitioners!
Thank you, with: Breonna Taylor FBI I did see some actual news stories. Interesting that none were apparent when just using Federal or State as keywords.
> That's handy because you're the one who brought them up.

There's a difference between bringing up the fact that somebody exists and putting words in their mouths to help your point.

> ...someone with the good sense to ignore your verbal incontinence. Eventually I'll learn the lesson; downvote and move on.

You're getting unreasonably mad right now. Please calm down.
The History of Trackers
AlexeyAB seems to have gotten endorsement from pjreddie: https://github.com/AlexeyAB/darknet/issues/5920#issuecomment...
Thanks! That's new, I haven't used Radio Garden in months and the previous version didn't have that.
This is an all stock deal, so valuations are about as realistic as a televised poker tournament. No one is paying a 27% premium in cash; they're spending their own ridiculously valued stock.

There is no business model in the world that makes grubhub a 7B company. If proven wrong I will gladly eat a hat delivered by them.
PL/0 – Simple Subset of Pascal for Teaching Compiler Writing
And how can one even make money selling an OS these days? They may have a small marketshare from techies wanting it for fun but turning this into an actual business I would think would be very difficult these days.
How does this have anything to do with the linked article?
The one I mentioned works fine with the upstream kernel for everything. It just has an Intel GPU.
Also a slight edit, I wrote name initially. Of course in the books it's "face of his father", but it still sounds similar [1]. To admit to forgetting the face of one's father is to be deeply shameful, to accuse someone of it is insinuating they should be ashamed of themselves.

Can you write it in Chinese?

[1] https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/12991-i-do-not-aim-with-my-...
Retro Programming: fixed point arithmetic in shell
Facebook Helped the FBI Exploit Vulnerability in a Secure Linux Distro
This discourse post seems useful https://discourse.julialang.org/t/writing-a-parser-in-julia/...

Not sure about what kind of parser you're thinking about. If you like to do it in Julia, I suggest that you get on Julia Slack and Julia Discourse and get some help there.

See https://julialang.org/community/#official_channels
Suggest some edits if you want :)