skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a better way of say this is that the bank is committing libel when they report to a credit bureau that you have defaulted on a loan when you have not. They say you did something that you did not do and the fact of them declaring that lie does you damage. The important thing is that "identity theft" should be a problem for the entity that made the loan to a criminal and not the person that was impersonated. Call it "bank libel" when someones credit score is ruined by a bank that gives a loan to the wrong person and one is closer to describing the truth of the situation.

Edit: mindslight mentions in this thread that: "The 'Fair' Credit Reporting Act explicitly immunizes the surveillance bureaus against the tort of libel". Amazing.
I'm curious to know whether (if you live in the Silicon Valley area) you have gotten access to talk to people who could share the original intent/design of the circuits you study? I.e. to see how close you got it or left out any observations? It would be interesting to learn how they actually intended the design to work and why it looks the way it does, compared to what you found!

Or is the idea really more to see what can be discerned by someone receiving the chip and trying to sleuth out what connections and parts do what?
Didn't know stackexchange made such use of websockets, where are they using them?
> There are few jobs on the planet that pay as well as software development.

Apparently your planet doesn't have doctors and lawyers who get paid orders of magnitude more than you're suggesting software developers should be paid. You're not living in reality. You're spinning a yarn about what you think the world of professional software development should be and not what it actually is. Your claims are the exact opposite of my own personal experience and your entire comment is suspect and I don't believe a word you say.
That's not fraud. The tort you're looking for is libel. The "Fair" Credit Reporting Act explicitly immunizes the surveillance bureaus against the tort of libel. This is actually another instance of regulatory capture.
> your ability to take control effectively depends only on your willingness to discover and explore.

This should be the limiting factor, and this is often the case when a product was designed sensibly and the interface just wasn't documented. Reverse engineering a device like this is relatively straightforward.

But more often, companies deliberately obfuscate, encrypt, or booby-trap their interfaces in order to actively prevent reverse engineering, and this is the reason for the frustration you're seeing in the other comments.
For this build I acquired (from eBay) a bargain-basement second-hand test saddle of the same model I use in competition. Well, it was the alloy-rail version rather than the carbon-rail version, but otherwise identical in form. My butt was happy with it, which is what matters.

Can confirm it was still the single most expensive component of the whole bike build, more than the frame, wheels, or groupset even.

Test saddles aren't supposed to be sold to the public; I believe it was a liquidation sale.
I don't think you need to expand so much on the reason why you're opposed to this business model, it's all understood and well-documented. The usual argument against this sentiment is that it's difficult to establish clear legislation on it. See the very similar debates on planned obsolescence and right to repair.

> Such business model requires the corrupting the law to create completely artificial constraints

So what? As long as no such laws exist that's fine, and a corrupt country will get bigger problems anyway. The problem is that it's not true since constructors can increasingly rely on complexity: reverse-engineering is getting more and more complex (see recent iPhones).
I'm fine with 2 pages on a sheet, and have never thrown out a resume because of its length, but for long resumes I just skim. But I disagree that you need 2 pages.

Here is a perfectly fine resume that can be half a page for a lead role or higher. Let's say this is a role for a webapp developer and the candidate has 10 years experience. With this resume, which is only half a page, you are probably way ahead of the competition. This is all the info a hiring manager needs.

position
Name/email address

Languages: Java, Python, C++, JS

Experience:

Foo Corp: 2017-2020. Lead Engineer to Principal Engineer. Web App developer for Foo Authentication System and other microservices. Used standard LAMP stack and then Spring Boot.

Bar Corp: 2012-2016. Sr. Engineer to Lead Engineer. Worked on backend order fulfillment logic, developed new test infrastructure for WebApps, client side test harnesses, security test suites, and related work.

Baz Consulting: 2010-2012. Engineer. Worked as consultant for primarily B2B clients, primarily in Java. Delivered over 30 successful projects to spec.

Bat Heavy Industries: 2007-2010. Associate Engineer to Engineer. Started as QA hire and migrated to development, responsible for metrics gathering app, qa infrastructure code, worked in python, java, and other languages.

Education: B.S. Chemistry, Foo State University.
Don't be sorry. You taught a native speaker a new word.
Interesting... regardless, I'd love to visit SG someday
Thanks for this awesome submission, so lovely to read.

Personally, I dont seem to have a fear of death like a lot of people do - hearing/reading people talk about how it's a huge fear to be dealt with in life, maybe the biggest, is always weird for me. (It also seems the major factor behind religions - telling you that you don't actually die after death, don't worry about it!)

My maternal grandparents lived on a quiet road in Wales with a large and beautiful cemetery at the end of it, a few houses down. It's very green and lovely, a nice place to go for walks, which I did from before I can remember.

I wonder if the two are connected.

Here's some pics of the cemetery https://www.geograph.org.uk/stuff/list.php?title=The+Mumbles...
The NY Times gets 2/3rd of its revenue from subscribers; advertisers are not their prime customers.

Source: https://www.cnbc.com/2020/05/06/new-york-times-ad-revenue-to...
Keep in mind that they won't be marketing this vaccine at all. They agree to produce the vaccine at no profit.

"To back its claim to forgo profits from the $1.2 billion collaboration in the United States, Astra has even granted the government access to financial accounts related to the venture, according to Dobber."

With no profit at stake, I would bet they sell directly to the governments. I wonder if this means they can make no profit in any country... That would certainly be good news for the world at large but it's not clear to me from the text in the article.
That's exactly what I'm saying. You can't make money making software. Software is worth nothing. Coding doesn't pay.
I'm not sure where you live but technology has been extremely potent where I live. We managed to lower one of the most rapidly growing pandemics from 4 digits a day new infections to one. And we also managed to safely get back into the new normal with no increase in new cases, drive back to the office, open malls, have gatherings.

A lot of this is via communication, daily press conferences, contact tracking, rapidly drafting new laws and emergency procedures. 10 years ago, we wouldn't have been able to effectively work from home. If we were at the tech levels 50 years ago, this would have been a disaster.

And if you think US/Brazil and so on are doing badly, they've still managed to flatten the curve and ramp up mass manufacturing. A lot of that was done via citizen campaigns, weeks before governments started to take action. Twitter may have saved thousands of lives.
Ugh, clickbait title. TL;DW get a dual hose model. Mine was $260 from Craigslist. In the video he even says he uses two portable AC's. He backpedals further in his description:

> Seriously, either we need to get more awareness of how dumb single-hose portable A/C units are, or we need to just use window units whenever possible. While I know that there are times a portable unit is the only option (remember, I’m in that boat), it seems that only very high capacity, premium machines have the facility to use two hoses. Which is frankly stupid but then again that’s what I’m trying to tell you now.

Yes, you "shouldn't like them," unless it's you're only option, like in his case.
The mechanisms of vaccines make them inherently much safer than, say, chemotherapy drugs. I'm not too worried.
> Oh, and by the way, we want you to rush your testing so you don't have the normal time to verify its safety!

This! The public are acutely aware of the predicament that governments have created and most will be very skeptical of a vaccine that's been rushed through like this especially if a regulator says 'sure its totally safe' when we can all see the data to determine that cannot possibly exist in the near future.
Related, this is a great post by patio11 on one of the last large Japanese earthquakes and how it was handled by various systems: https://www.kalzumeus.com/2011/03/13/some-perspective-on-the...
You may have, but not from me.

I've never been big on the government getting involved. In my view, big tech has no problem that the market won't work out.

The privacy problem, (well, I consider it a problem, others may not), happens when big government gets involved with big tech. We actually need less of that, not more.
If they have spare bandwidth they could actually undercut existing providers. And why not? The marginal cost of adding an additional subscriber is effectively zero. So the cost could change by location depending on how much competition for bandwidth there is. All they need to do is make enough money to increase the number of satellites and maintain the network. And as the number increases the footprint can be reduced. The satellite targets a smaller area on the ground. And you add more subscribers using the same logic.

It's an amazing business model really. You have a different price and a direct kind of customer in different places. A satellite starts an orbit over Antarctica and uploads scientific data. Then heads out over the sea and connects a few ships. Over Africa it connects rural 4g masts, schools and thousands of small businesses. Then over the Mediterranean it serves Netflix to cruiseline passengers. Over Europe it connects data for a NATO exercise and rural communities. Then later over London it sends data for high frequency traders. Then heads out over the North Sea to send YouTube to oil rig workers and telemetry for wind turbines. Heading up into the Arctic circle it connects a stream of airline flights to the web. And all you have to do is be slightly cheaper than the competition to win customers.
> The President shouldn't have authority to ban anything at all let alone an app available through privately operated app stores.

China routinely ban anything they don't like. How do you feel about that? Do you make appeal to fair competition to them?
Personally I am not a fan of Go so I can't speak to that.

However, conditioned on Go existing and someone using it, the category of problems he's describing with the tooling are familiar.

To your point about engineers being more aware of the outside world, in my experience this only held for new engineers and the ones that try to bring in new practices tend to get shut down or pushed out. See: https://twitter.com/ThomasBurleson/status/128390216922628096...

Seeing this was so ironic because of all the engineers at Google, Rob actually came and gave a talk to our team about NgRx and he was one of the few engineers I encountered that really got engineering. Having him come give a talk to our team was like a breath of fresh air. I have no doubt there was some insane political BS he was subjected to and forced to leave.

As far as my assertions being "mean" because they are overly broad, the nature of speaking about anything requires some degree of generalization which I've tried to couch (and you're aware that I have). What a silly argument.

Another concrete example I can give you is that the people who run the Angular team also own support for Typescript at Google and they disabled .tsx support for Typescript (literally just a compiler flag that does simple desugaring) despite a ton of protest from a lot of teams using it. They did that to kill off and discourage React (which many people want to use) to consolidate political power. I had many private messages with new engineers that were upset when they got shut down for asking if they could use React. Obviously these people were trying to bring in practices from outside of Google.

The takeaway is whatever people want it to be.
TikTok has been banned by the military since last year.

https://www.military.com/daily-news/2019/12/30/army-follows-...
But then you have to answer the question of what makes you happy. For some people buying an ocean front house and fishing or playing golf all day is the answer. But for the successful entrepreneur type that isn't "enough" usually
Tangentially related, but how do you find portable ACs that work reasonably and reliably? I always found it so hard to search for them because it always seems like the reviews on these are difficult to trust. I've had at least one bad experience with one of them (single-hose) where it would just blow warm humid air sometimes, which was strictly worse than not running it at all. (At least something that might cool the air nearby consistently would be something useful, even if it can't cool the whole room.) I realize single-hose is probably a bad idea but somehow I don't have much faith in dual-hose either.
What station is suitable for trying that? I thought they stopped at every station?
Yes, this is an aspect of secure attachment. Securely attached people prioritize relationships; relationships take time and effort and require reliability.

Insecurely attached people are usually not satisfied with relationships, and consequently don't prioritize them. The (possibly unconscious) expectation of a bad relationship is self-fulfilling.

https://www.attachmentproject.com/blog/four-attachment-style...
I recently did a little research on traveling from the US southwest to the US midwest. I wanted to avoid the hostility of US commercial air travel and was looking at alternatives to driving a car. Driving a car was going to be a two day ordeal with a hotel stop somewhere.

Turns out driving a car across the US is faster than Amtrak, even with an overnight stop at a hotel.

AZ -> IL:

26 hours by car + 8 hour hotel stay

35 hour train ride.

$120-150 gas + $100 hotel

$600 train ticket

Of course a plane ticket is < $200 and just a handful of hours. I wouldn't expect Amtrak to compete with those. But if you can't compete with a Ford Fusion over an 1800 mile journey...
There's still a number of small ISP and telecom infrastructure sites cooled by setups like a pair of Haier consumer grade, ductless split 18000 to 24000btu/h units. Not an uncommon setup for places like small shelters at hilltop and mountaintop radio sites.
0530 = May 30 = launch day
My comment wasn't specific to TikTok, but rather OP's assertion that the U.S. is a hostile actor, whereas China is just being China.

Regarding TikTok, foreign-owned companies must follow U.S. laws, which are subject to due process. Additionally, they must not pose an imminent threat to national security. For better or worse, the government tends to be tight-lipped about matters of national security and isn't compelled to divulge details to the public. Normally, this is acceptable because we trust our government to act responsibility and in our best interest. Is TikTok a legitimate threat to security? I don't know, and with Trump's tendency to make everything look like a publicity stunt, my trust in the government to use its power responsibly is not very high.
Could you use one of these units to many a diy fridge? Freezer? Or are they somewhat tied to reducing the air temperature to only room temperature?
Maybe there is a market opening for an open, hackable aircon unit?

In the US, I think the EPA would not let you...

...not that it stops people all that much, as a YouTube search for "DIY AC" will show.
So far my chips are all sensors powered off USB. Adding relays is next level and I haven't done that.
I've relied on smart plugs that are wall-wart style.
However I want to refill the boiler automatically on an old La Cimbali Junior and when I find an ultrasound sensor that will penetrate my espresso machine's boiler and detect a low water level (risking element burn out) I likely will though. I've tried a Hall sensor and one ultrasound sensor and neither work. I think I need an ultrasound sensor designed for fuel tanks or similar.
> The article asks "why can't we have one?"

Because the geography of the US is quite different from Japan. In Japan you follow the coasts to reach each city: it's a straight line to simplify things. In the US you would need a lot more tracks to cover the territory, and tracks are super expensive to build and maintain.
James Hamilton might be the smartest, coolest cat in enterprise tech
The one thing that bothers me with ANT is that it's supposed to be an "open" protocol, but in reality it's this proprietary thing that Garmin has locked down. In my experience, there are a lot of hoops to jump through just to get a basic app set up (all of their example code appears to be ~5 years old).

It makes me wish there were an open, real-time, fitness data project that had more easily usable SDKs for these kinds of things (along the same lines as Golden Cheetah).
Yes, let’s hope partisan media-backed extortion campaigns get a foothold...
So the argument went from “Apple harmed a spyware developer” to “Apple should have harmed them sooner”.
As bad as it was this was leaked beforehand, once it is posted on Twitter by a news report, I would no longer consider it 'inside information'. Still, the entire scenario is very strange.
You have to make it clear you’re speaking of CPU atomics, because whatever atomic operations are trying to solve, for example mainly “read then write” operations - may still easily cause issues within asynchronous code.
The reasoning here is lost on me. We want independent envs for independent codebases. Why do you have some static base to build off?
What's with the root stuff? Why is any of this taking place outside of the env that actually needs it? You're creating huge amounts of complexity and dependency problems to save yourself a couple of literal ms of download / path lookup per env.

The friction here sounds like a tire fire. I think you are just not aware at the moment of how much less convoluted this can be. You've become used to this complexity.
>Once you’re settled in, 95% of programming isn’t hard. It doesn’t involve algorithms, hard design problems, performance or storage constraints. It isn’t worth blogging about.

Once you're settled in ... having dealt with architectural design in a way that allows you to continue doing something with the code for 20 years or more.

OK, sure, 100% of programming isn't hard. But if you think that the hard part is only 5%, you're not doing the right job.
> every time that someone tries to use JavaScript objects for data, they write a security vulnerability by way of prototype pollution

I would love to hear more on this, as it makes little sense as written. You never touch prototypes when using data objects, is the author talking about constructors pre-ES6? Or the fact you can shadow methods from the Object prototype? I don't remember seeing any exploits based on that (vs "that’s, really often, a problem").
I avoided Go for years because it was from Google until I quite accidentally landed a Go job several years ago, and I haven't looked back. Amusingly, I am now using Go to build a competitor for Google Analytics. Heh.

It was an important lesson in a way, as it taught me that Google – or indeed, any organisation comprised of thousands of people – is not a single monolithic entity.

Also, feel free to drop me a line if you've got problems with a specific error, and I can perhaps point you in the right direction.
> […] almost flat for 2.5 years now. A pure US investment would have fared better.

First: 2.5 years is a ridiculously short investment timeframe. I have sneakers older than that.

Second: perhaps it would have, but there was no way you could have known that ahead of time. Yes, from 2010-2019 the US markets (often measured by the S&P 500) has seen high returns. Now go back to 2000-2009 and see how things faired.

As a Canadian I often see often asking "why invest in Canada at all? why not go all-US?". This is often asked by people younger than 35 or so, who haven't looked up a bit of history, and only know about the last few years (look up the term "recency bias"). There have been times where Canadian equities outperformed the world, and also when international has outperformed the US:

* https://imgbb.com/pnDqKTg

* https://warrenstreetwealth.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/Pe...

You can make a good decision with the information you have available, but the result still be disappointing. See the video "How to Evaluate Your Investment Decisions":

* https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I8gH5bR3clg
Have you compared the users on those submissions? They might be completely different.
So why did India already ban it and why is Australia and Japan in talks to ban it?
Also Kobe was declared as a safe city before 1995, where earthquakes don't happen. They were badly surprised when the Great Hanshin earthquake hit.
Wirecutter has never let me down: https://www.nytimes.com/wirecutter/reviews/the-best-portable...

Interestingly, in their tests, they didn't find dual-hose models to work much better than single-hose, unless it's extremely hot.
They use websockets for notifications (upvotes, comments, etc).
bullet trains are not where groping happens... everyone has a seat in bullet trains, except for rare exceptions like Golden Week or end of the year holidays where Shinkansen sometimes run over capacity.
I kind of disagree. When programming isn't hard, it is because it is not done right, and the coder uses repetition instead of higher level abstraction.

Regardless of the programming task, it is usually hard to find the best way to do it, and not trivial to implement it correctly. This is demonstrated by the fact that most code sucks.
That must be a real buzz. As a kid my biggest thrill was watching the Mallard [0] steam train rush through our small station on the London-Edinburgh main line at about 100 mph.
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/LNER_Class_A4_4468_Mallard
>The result proves quite conclusively that this is a non-crime.

You've just invented a new definition of "non-crime", which appears to be "did not have any apparent impact when decriminalized in a different legal jurisdiction". Most people would take the definition non-crime to simply be "not a crime", which bringing marijuana into Singapore is.
TL;DW: get a window mount unit. The two hose models are still extremely inefficient.
There absolutely needs to be a contractual relationship between two parties in order for one of those parties to to make a successful claim for tortious interference of contract by another party. It's literally Torts 101.

If the followers wanted to have a contractual arrangement with Owen, they were free to do so outside of the bounds of Patreon (including, but not limited to direct donations, Paypal transactions, or Stipe payments), forgoing the controls and protections Patreon offers to patrons. The followers chose not to do so, ergo, it's clear that they did not intend to contract with Owens directly.
>EDIT: I thought iOS PINs should be six digit?

It used to be four digits. The default changed to six, but there is an option to use four.
Why did India already ban it with Japan and Australia about to then?
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