skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think quite the opposite, while Buildroot is really nice for professional use from someone who doesn't know kconfig and advanced makefile usage trying to know how Buildroot builds stuff is somewhat difficult. PTXdist is another great tool and is a bit eaiser to understand as it only uses kconfig and a few bash scripts and simple makefiles. Then there is Yocto / bitbake which is basically based off of Gentoo's ebuilds... But the reason I've spent a lot of time looking at these projects is a bit of a story...

I've been trying to work on getting my own distribution started from scratch myself, while LFS is a great starting point I needed to have multiple architectures. (For now I'm targeting just x86_64, aarch64 and riscv64) Which the current implementation of LFS is only applicable if you have a host with the same arch that your targeting. I've spent about maybe 9 to 15 months scripting, cross compiling, and researching this thing. Even tried looking at other projects that have somewhat simple bootstrapping processes that use musl such as Dragora Linux, Alpine Linux and Ataraxia Linux to bootstrap everything. However I couldn't really get to a good point in the compilation process where I can chroot into it and start building stuff. Might I note a year or so ago I didn't know much about toolchains, embedded buildtools, etc. but I did have a deep love for embedded.

Now with these new LFS news and the changes that there are proposing / have implemented it seems that cross compiling for other archs will be a little easier since you have a good starting point to branch off of for other architectures (Though solely on your own or via lfs-hints if people are inclined to submit their alterations.). As of right now I'm running the first 3rd of the new development book, was able to write up a quick bootstrap script and bootstrap folder structure to get things going. So pretty excited about these new LFS changes and how they will pan out in the coming months.

EDIT: Forgot to add, before anybody makes any assumptions. No, it's not going to be another desktop distro. It's purely focused on server machines (No GUI) with a focus on distributed systems think CoreOS / Clear Linux.
A couple of minor quibbles: The Marine Corps has an absolutely massive investment in the F-35 program, implying a willingness to risk a core mission set (FW CAS) in favor of the things the F-35 is good at.

Also, there's a lot more to stealth than radar absorption--arguably, the cornerstone of the technology is aircraft shaping to reflect radar returns in a direction away from the transmitter.
I moved here about five years ago, learned about the museum about a year ago. I now regret not finding time to visit, I'd assumed it'd always be there.
As someone who has had a modafinil prescription since 2002, you're greatly overselling it. Hardly that fun. It's positively mild in comparison to meth or pretty much all other recreational drugs. Modafinil and recreational drugs aren't even in the same boat.
Can you recommend a good SBC?
Yes. I read the entire thing once, about a year ago, when I was bored one night. I don't want to be overly critical of someone's book draft, so let me just say that:

A) I don't understand why an entire elementary statistics pseudo-textbook is bolted on at the end, forming the entire back half of the text, and

B) the title interested me because it promised concrete information that would improve my own software development, and while I found many things in the first half of the book, I didn't find this.

(To be more precise re: point A, I do understand, because the author offers his reasons. I just disagree strongly.)

Also, the margins are small to the point of being ridiculous, which made the work annoying to read.
> They do. The biggest clue is the difficulty in obtaining what the value of that benefits package is.

Because you can't find the value of the benefits, that's a clue that it's excessive? Teacher pay and benefits are 100% public information. Your earlier claim that teacher health benefits in WA were $36,000 per year is patently absurd. An ACA exchange medical plan available to anyone costs under $500/mo with an annual out-of-pocket maximum of $6000. The state may pay $36,000/year for their benefits (but no, they don't, not even close), but even if that were true, if you're comparing it to market value, that's worth $12,000 at most to the teacher.

> I find it amazing that one can retire comfortably at 42 if you're a schoolteacher. What other job in the private sector offers that?

I shouldn't even have claimed that they can retire comfortably. Quoting from [1]:

> For example, under a system with a 1.5 percent multiplier: A teacher retiring with a final average salary of $60,000 and 20 years of service would collect a pension of $18,000 annually.

Now this is a nice perk if you start at age 42 and live another 40 years, but it's not a comfortable living. It's barely over the poverty line. It's unclear from this example if it's in a state that excludes Social Security benefits, but even if it doesn't exclude them, that's not a lot of money.

From the same article:

> Across the nation, teachers pay on average 16 percent of the plan premiums for individual coverage, lower than the 21 percent average for workers in private industry. But for family coverage, teachers pay a comparable portion of the premium to private-sector workers, according to 2017 data from the Labor Department.

As I stated previously, most teachers already contribute to their health insurance, and as I stated above, the maximum value of that insurance is only $12,000.

Feel free to explore further on your own. I'm tapping out.

[1]: https://www.edweek.org/ew/issues/teacher-pay/index.html
This feels very similar to something I experienced when I was in my 20s.

I started, and found funding for, a progressive/activist media project.

After I had found a financer and quit my job, but while the gears were still spinning up, I was introduced to a well-connected, institutionally-pedigreed woman around my age who was interested in the same subject matter.

I brought her on board, gave her a non-executive title, and we worked together for more than a year.

From the word go, she was dissatisfied with the arrangement and made what I thought were inappropriate requests for autonomy and power sharing. I knew the structure of our deal was fair and if I was ever inclined to give her more responsibility, those thoughts were quelled by the combative way she demanded it. Her delivery was basically “I’m as qualified to run this as you.”

I didn’t cut ties and send her on her way because her presence on our team was helpful in getting our foot in certain doors. But had she threatened to quit, I would have let her go - she wasn’t critical to our success.

After a year of planned work, things were mothballed for a while while I had to take a job, and we parted ways. When I had funds to pick things up again I did it without her, and she wrote angry screeds like the the article this post links to, accusing me of being sexist and dishonest.

When I decided not to include her in the second stage of work, I did it in the belief that she would diminish our chances of success. In the end success was middling but the project did reach a national audience and win awards and propel my career. I used to regret not being able to do that without the drama, but I’ve since become resigned to the fact that with some individuals it’s unavoidable.
> buy an android

> not worry about it.

I’m sorry, but this feels like a lie. I’m not trying to troll here, but most Android IT-level users I know flashed a custom ROM already and actually buy their devices based on whether or not LineageOS has support for it.

Almost all Android devices are non-Google devices, which makes their OEM state bloated with custom sync crap nobody even wants to use but have no choice.

Xiaomi, Motorola, Lenovo, Huawei, HTC ... all force their own shitty half-working synchronization platforms up their users’ phones. And I bet that this happens with major GDPR violations.

As an Android “user” I do not recommend using Android for people that do not want to “worry about it”. And product wise I think that’s a huge quality issue.
I ran Gentoo for about a week a long time ago. On a 400 MHz Powermac G4. By which I mean, I installed Gentoo once and then decided I didn't like it.
Can we get an explanation of the app before we sign in?
You write with such conviction and certainty, and yet I must point out that it's black bloc, not "block".
There’s a history of using local Martian solar time in the past, driven by the need to operate in the Martian daytime for rover safety. They even made special watches that ran “slow” compared to earth times so that they kept correct Martian solar time for some of the missions.

However for “absolute” chronological records you would be looking at using Barycentric Coordinate Time, which is what we get when we do a bunch of corrections to subtract the effects of the sun and earth’s (and the other planets) mass and motion, leaving us with a virtual “clock” that is suitably common for anything in the solar system.

To quote one definition of Barycentric Coordinate Time - ”It is equivalent to the proper time experienced by a clock at rest in a coordinate frame co-moving with the barycentre of the Solar System: that is, a clock that performs exactly the same movements as the Solar system but is outside the system’s gravity well.”

The ELI5 I normally use is roughly: It’s what we get if we take the Solar System in its normal orbit around the Milky Way, with some fancy magic we subtract away all the stuff, sun, planets, moons and all the asteroids and comets we can count, and then with a little more fancy magic, we put a super accurate clock that doesn’t weigh anything at all back at the center of where all the solar system stuff used to be.”
> "But you see, my time is worth $xx, 24/7/365 - so 30 mins saved on task x is a net profit for me" (even though, in fact, they would not be working during those 30 minutes)

You're right. If their leisure time were merely worth as much as their regular wages then they ought to be working those 30 minutes instead. Since in fact they made the opposite choice, they clearly value their leisure time more than what they would have earned by spending that time working.
Moving Data and Computing Closer Together
I'm not sure the crime solving utility is wholly relevant here, police have other duties like maintaining public safety. The obvious utility seems to be monitoring different protest zones for signs that violence is beginning to break out. If x people are suddenly tweeting about a fire or gun shots near an active protest then you know it would probably be wise to at least send a scout over there to evaluate the situation. This method also has the benefit of removing the need to have riot-ready police pre-emptively deployed to zones where everyone is keeping things calm.

Anecdotally, I was able to spectate active looting in my own city's downtown when the protests first came to us via various livestreaming instagrammers and while it was mostly a curiosity for me I imagine it would have been useful to a dispatcher who had to decide where to send officers. I don't see why twitter couldn't serve a similarly useful purpose.
Man this makes me sad. I got a membership about a year ago with the intention of bringing along some friends (after visiting with family), but looks like that won’t be happening.

Playing Oregon Trail on some oooold machines was good.
And "müssen" is "must".
The speed differences between Python, JS, and C++/Rust are well documented. https://www.secondstate.io/articles/performance-rust-wasm/

But, of course, they are not universal and tend to have a large effect in areas where JS is rarely used — a selection bias one might say.
Those are the only two options?
Rwanda’s Covid-19 pool testing
I think that if I were the head of a police department I would want to educate (or indoctrinate, depending on your view) citizens on the amount of money that drug cartels evade from taxation
I've never bought into the ruse of an increasing population implying a higher standard of living. Politicians love this as a stagnating economy can appear to be doing better, by pointing to an increased GDP that usually rises with an increased population. They'll never mention how much per capita adjusted for inflation it is. When inequality rises, they'll pretend it's unrelated. Of course the extra stress on the infrastructure, housing, hospitals and schools are all things that their predecessors will have to worry about. They're the first things that conservatives will conventionally not increase funding for.

We measure GDP as it's traditionally an indicator for a standard of living.
I used to commute from Sydney to Europe every two weeks. So. Yes. I was doing the long hauls.
Edit: Agree to disagree.

/shrug
No, they're meant for other Justices, too, as well as for judges and lawyers beyond the Supreme Court. They're annotations describing the rationale for a decision - the "why" of the verdict - in as much detail as possible, which I reckon to be invaluable to anyone else needing to go back and evaluate that decision and determine its implications.
Minor nitpick, but it's "Samplr" and not "Sampler". Samplr is a fairly well known sampler application for the ipad. When I clicked the link I was wondering if it was Samplr, or someone copying the same idea.

Very awesome idea though. Samplr for iPad is an absolutely amazing app which is both a great musical idea and great demo of using a touch-screen for innovative musical usage. I don't have a touchbar Mac, but have to agree with all the other comments here saying this is the best usage I've seen of the touch bar so far.
The fact that zebra's stripes evolved to avoid getting bit by flies (and specifically, the tsetse fly, which transmits a deadly) has been known since at least the 80s. I wonder why these researchers are doing these experiments now.

In certain parts of Africa zebras have lost most of their stripes, and the map of stripeless zebra is strongly correlated with the map of where the tsetse fly are less active.
In both cases, the Justice decides based on personal preferences or ideological agenda, but in one case the rationalization is based on cherrypicking snippets from contemporaneous sources to speculate about what authors or supporters (of a statue, treaty, constitution, ...) originally meant long ago, and in the other case the rationalization is based on nitpicking the vocabulary and grammar of the document.

Both conveniently allow the Justice to pretend that their opinion is completely neutral/technical with no personal choice involved, even in cases where the justification is tendentious to an absurd extreme, and to attack those who disagree as radical unprincipled activists with no respect for the rule of law. They absolve the Justice from taking responsibility for the consequences of the decision.

Both originalism and textualism are easily shed by their adherents when insufficient originalist/textualist justification can be found for the desired decision, and following the obvious original intent and plain textual meaning of the statute would lead to an outcome the Justice dislikes.
Would you please stop posting flamebait and/or unsubstantive comments to HN? You've been doing it repeatedly, including in this thread, and it's not what HN is for.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
We can start a study group.

"Uncles doing LFS"
This strikes me as remarkably similar to the "crown jewels" problem of API availability.

Simply stated, it's that it's the hardest sell in the world to expect a company to expend money and resources to act against its own interests, and applied to governmental organizations like the police, no appointed official is going to stomach spending money making themselves look bad.

More broadly stated, you can't solve accountability problems by asking people to step up and be more accountable. The only way is to impose rules from above.

And even that won't work if there's actual bad faith involved. Police depts issuing rules on body camera usage will find that the cameras just don't work when they'd make individual officers look bad.

I'm sure CPD had the best of intentions when it created its API. But as soon as a journo ran an article using it to make them look bad, regardless of how right it was, means their access was going to get revoked. Nobody forced them to put out an API, and it just became a political liability. Of course it's going to go away.
There are 270+ CAs out there. All the NSA has to do is compromise the CA cert keys of one of them and they can then generate their own valid certs, completely disconnected from CT. All CT tells you is somebody goofed, was tricked into issuing a cert, or an account was compromised and an attacker generated a cert. In other words, not-super-advanced attacks.

The NSA have plenty of tricks. They intercept devices being shipped around the country/world, they tap cables, they dig into airgapped networks, they compromise satellites, they compromise the internal networks of the world's biggest corporations. They've been doing this for decades. If we don't believe they can compromise one organization out of 270...
It really depends on what architecture you want...
I'm always raving about the ODroid H2s (love em)
Arduino's and PIs are really popular. The there's an nvidia one out now too, if you want something with AI potential.
>What is the just thing to do? Sweep it under the rug and act like it didn't matter?

That has stuck with me and I've been thinking. But I think I got an idea.

Maybe we should educate our young about the past, where we came from (fled state sponsored religious persecution to a land that was free). We could also teach about the mistakes that were made, you know, like how we purchased conquered and displaced refugees from muslim warlords and then tried to treat these people as some kind of property. Maybe even go over the past processes and laws that were used to free these people and become an even better society. Maybe even go further, like make/erect some statues of some of the past heroes that actually purchased some of these conquered people but then saw the light and worked towards freedom for all using the Bible as proof that God made only one kind of "mankind" and no one set is superior to another. Maybe even erect some statues of some of these conquered people to show that we are not ashamed of seeing them as people and not property.

Basically just kind of educate people so they don't grow up questioning the most basic tenets of their own nation and history?

Oh wait...
In case it wasn't clear I will spell it out. That choice was not what was being contended. It was your behavior of bad faith actions that I was contending. You tried to bias the actual argument and paint me in a certain way by quoting me out of context, which I rightfully called out.

I encourage people to read as well and reach their own conclusions without me putting words in their mouth or biasing their reasoning as you did in your shortcircuit post. Because rational and reasoned argument requires each individual to weigh the evidence and then respond with compelling arguments for refuting or accepting them.
What. Its awful. Privacy doesnt need comparisons or analogies. We have the language to describe privacy in native terms. We dont need help of figurative speech mixing and muddying the waters.
> ...internet-printers (Internetausdrucker, a German word for tech illiterates)

Let me guess, this word describes people who print out their emails?
How are ya'll planning to adjust to changes in interest rates? Will prizes become lower, rarer, will the base/worst case interest rate change first, etc?

For this to have the societal impact ya'll seem to want, it's going to need high usage from people who probably have little experience with the changes in the Fed rate and its impact on savings accounts. You obviously need to adjust to this yourself, but I can see changes in lottery odds (or changes in prize value) as being aggravating to users.
Your definition of “solved” is pretty identical to OpenBSD user recommending to “just patch your BIOS”. Demographically this is not a solution, as 99.9999% of the potential audience will never be able to even understand the requirements of that skillset.
fuck fuck fuck.

I had no idea it was being shut down, that place was really one of a kind. I think there are few places where you could see a running Alto. The scope of what was there and the breadth of what was running was simply incredible.

Sounds like it won't make a return which is truly heartbreaking.
Among the very most famous Roman roads is the Via Aemilia (now Via Emilia), a straight-as-an-arrow road running diagonally along the edge of the mountains in Northern Italy, and connecting a string of now-famous towns: Rimini, Cesena, Forli, Imola, Bologna, Modena, Reggio Emilia, Parma, Fidenza, Piacenza. You can still bike the whole road: it's SS 9.

The "Italy" subway style map completely butchered it. For half of it, they put all the towns on an east-west line, then bent the remainder north to Piacenza. What the...? This isn't some little Roman Road: it's one of probably the top three in the world. And it's a straight line visible from space.
I have 2 Dell monitors and I haven't been able to get this to work either on the built-in Intel graphics or with HDMI plugged into an AMD card.
I don't really have the same opinion on this, I consider the obscurity of the platform a security issue by itself. At the end of the day, remote jailbreak exploits are pretty rare nowadays so you need to have a real access to the machine.

To have an idea if an app is sharing your data you need to be jailbroken, to have an idea of what is being sent from your device you need to be jailbroken, to force a stricter control on apps you also need to be jailbroken. I mean, you get the point. Any action you could do regarding security requires you to be jailbroken first.
"Please ignore him whole hearty."

My advice is not about profit.

My "time-to-market is most important" advice (not mine, it is a very sound and well researched strategy) is about making a sustainable project:

A) most passion-only projects are abandoned at some point in order to pay for food and rent. (Yes there are few exceptions among an ocean of failed projects)

B) The other point is that even if you can run this for years before showing traction. Having users mean getting feedback, which will render some of your efforts needless.

Moreover, it was only a small part of what I said. I do think that rust doesn't make sense for other reasons, and doing a rewrite in a real project needs better reasoning otherwise you would keep rewriting forever.

Moreover2, I think you're misinterpreting the original author's intent. I'm not sure if there is interest in building AI in rust as a goal for itself. Seems to me more oriented towards the result than about the love for rust.
You think it’s acceptable for a company to capture two thirds of the value generated by a worker?
In 2013, Warner Brothers hired screenwriter Brian Miller to rewrite the script. Miller was the writer for the film Apollo 18, his most significant writing and production credit at that time. Other than the general concept, Miller did not use Erwin's work as the basis for his script.

Why Hollywood adaptations suck in three sentences.
Ask HN: Best Escapism Books
I need a book to escape the monotony of COVID-19. Thinking of something like a lost at sea story, but open to your suggestions. HN readers always have the best recommendations.
> Those are the only two options?

Do you have another reason a developer 10x better than her peers isn’t promoted to senior, to principal, etc?
Legally they are responsible because they are citizens of the country, and it is their government that made the promise. This is extremely simple.