skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Had it manage an Ethernet Phy IC via an MDIO interface, and an FPGA over SPI. The MDIO was bit-banged from micropython, and SPI is a built in feature. This was running on an ESP32 creating a WiFi to Gigabit Fiber bridge (obviously not at gigabit speeds).

I never thought it would be that easy, but it converted the task of writing something that does MDIO, SPI, and WiFi (with a webserver) in C, to basically a day of work.

Also the "feel" of running an interactive python shell on a tiny 1x3cm board as part of the initial bring-up process after manufacturing is just awesome. Controlling every IO "manually" via the interactive shell is so much better than seeing your prepared C code crash and burn, and only then start debugging it.
For me too honestly, but you do tend to find excuses to use it once you've got it lying around. It's a lovely wood finish in any case.
Besides Disney are there any other examples of "futuristic" cities?
Is the implication supposed to be "Microsoft finally given 'okay' to fix zero-day now that it is no longer useful to Intelligence?"
GPT-2: Why Didn't They Release It? (2019) [video]
Due diligence like got us the 2007 collapse?

What limited regulation was added after the crisis has been largely undermined.
This is not a wordpress issue and I think it’s unfair to put your problems at its door. The issues you encountered would affect you with any PHP/MySQL application if you chose to run the setup as you have. The optimum solution that I’ve found is Laravel Valet and SequelPro (Both free); valet is your server and SequelPro is your GUI for MySQL. Everything should “just work”.

The problem most likely stems from the fact that Wordpress tutorials are a very competitive space (ads) due to the widespread adoption of the platform, but many are either (a) not very good or (b) out of date. If you follow one that says to use xampp or similar then you will have an experience similar to your own. If you find one that says “use docker” you will have a needlessly complex experience. Tutorials like this should focus on the simplest way to execute something, but are too often written by inexperienced devs or worse, rehashed from other tutorials by marketeers looking to produce SEO friendly content (efficacy of advice be damned).
Yes, lots of places in California, especially Northern California, are inspired by,or share inspiration with, SF.

Can't think of any place I've known so many people (and not just of any one national background) who live well outside the immediate area go to regularly specifically because of the quality of some particular cuisine (often, people of non-US origin going for their own national cuisine) that is there, though.
> It doesn't seem any more implausible to me that consciousness is an emergent property from our brain bio/chem/physics then that hurricanes and diamonds and stalagmites naturally emerge from their respective environments.

It does to me, but more importantly, no one is able to give a coherent model of how consciousness would emerge from complex arrangements of matter.
The image in the article shows it's measured in Fahrenheit.

For those working with Celsius: its 54,4 degrees.
Living in any place where everything is shut down is a pretty bad deal, but that's the situation we're in now. Sure, you get a lot more room to yourself at lower prices if you move out of the bay area or out into the woods, but it seems pretty short-sighted to uproot your life for something that will be temporary (even if "temporary" means another year).

But I guess some people are only here because they have to be for their job, and haven't cared to put down roots. I won't mourn their disappearance, frankly. Lower cost of living for those of us who actually want to be here would be delightful.
That's more like it. if it was just that letter and PR release I'd be surprised. but even so... I think it's just for show.

remember news Corp is not just an Australian company. this could be part of a bigger game between Google and newscorp, and between newscorp and the aus gov.
Here is key:

> "You are gaining weight, not finishing your work, and you had a car accident last week."

And I have seen this in play. Otherwise smart person coding stupid things, saying stupid things, getting overly emotional and angry over stupid things all the while proudly claiming the 6 hours a night are enough for him.

And blaming everyone and everything for all the problems, just not himself.

And everyone else is unhappy due to consequences. And him unhappy due to constant conflicts he is in that he does not really understands. But like, those were totally not his fault, they were everyone elses fault.
> A prediction systems that doesn't take students prior achievements into account is just obviously defective here.

Doesn't it? What else would how students have been ranked in ability mean?

> And finally, so what if 2020 had had outlier grade average? It's the outlier year.

"Hey, we'll give everyone 40% better grades, because it was a tough year" won't do good. You'll get lots of people into university who will fail miserably, because the grades don't magically improve their skills. Unless, and that's a bad idea as well, you just tighten the criteria so the same number as before can go to uni. Grade inflation won't help anyone either.
Titan the Robot
See also CGP Grey’s 7 Ways to Maximize Misery:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LO1mTELoj6o
Google open sources LIT, a visual, interactive model-understanding tool for NLP
Via https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PEEK_and_POKE:

> One of the earliest references to these commands in BASIC, if not the earliest, is in Altair BASIC[4].

[4] https://archive.org/stream/bitsavers_mitsMITSAl_6669937/MITS...

So, it seems to date back to 1975.
Note that the stock photo in the article is not an accurate depiction of the road this system is being installed on in Utah. The photo is of a long interstate, while BCC is a tight, twisty and technical canyon climb beloved by local bicyclists, car enthusiasts and motorcyclists.
They were developed with different goals. WebAssembly is a stripped down version of asm.js that does not need to be compatible with Javascript semantics and is slightly closer to the hardware. In particular it shares with Javascript a strong security model.
I've been listening to talk radio here in the UK, and it's a constant stream of disappointed kids/teachers/parents phoning in. Some of the stories are horrendous, people expecting AAA getting CCD and similar. It seems unlikely that you'd ever have three teachers predicting you to get top marks, but you end up with that on results day.

But about the algorithm, it seems to be an impossible task. You cannot satisfy the requirement of the gross statistics being roughly the same, ie little grade inflation on average, while also identifying talented individuals.

The outline of the algorithm seems to be that you basically take the gross stats for earlier years from a school, and then you take the teacher's guesses about who will do well, and make up a distribution of grades around that. This is probably what most people would do if forced into such an exercise. And you can add wrinkles to it like a bit of grade inflation, adjustment for overconfident predictions, and so on.

But you can't get that piece of information that you really need, which is a mix of signal and noise about the true distribution of the kid's abilities. If you have a talented year in a low performing school, you'll never know. And vice versa.

The year before I finished the IB, two kids got the top 45/45. That's normally achieved by something like 1/400 kids worldwide, and it was a class of maybe 30 kids. That would never have been awarded without examinations.

In addition the other presumed goal, of having the grades as close to the predictions as possible, give the algo designer an incentive well known from machine learning: guess safely. Squish the distribution on the edges, that way you're not off much. This is bad for people who shoud be getting As, because many will get Bs. And it's good on the other end, though I don't know where the lump ends (C or D?).
You can see and modify the .XCompose file, and you can even put your own strings there like an email address or change the sequence. There are some community XCompose files on GitHub too.
Well... a lot of the bottleneck with kids is how much language their minds can handle at that point.

The analogy isn't perfect and it is open to interpretation. That said, watch your nephew develop over the next three years. Note that there is very little deliberate training or discipline involved. Keep in mind that he could do this for several languages in parallel.

By 5 or 6, his language skills will have progressed much faster than most adults' in a similar period. At 4-6, a few months of immersion (say summer with grandparents) will yield some mind-blowing progress. Again, not impossible for an adult... but rare in practice.

I grew up in a multilingual house. My father was an english speaker. We lived in Israel. He did speak the local language (hebrew), but I spoke it better by 6. I could also handle thick accents (irish) that my mother couldn't understand.

This isn't unusual. Kids translating for parents is a very common phenomenon for immigrant families. It happens because kids learn faster. Adults can make up the difference with discipline, but it's a tough contest.
I guess it would not work as an MSI but would be fine as a JAR.

As far as I can remember, jar is zip and zip has headers at the end of files. Making it possible to append a jar to something and disregard the first part. In this case a signed MSI.

And so you have a code signed JAR from Microsoft. Then what? I don’t know.
Studying at home: how to stop procrastinating and stay organised
> Yes, there’s plenty of homeless around, but that’s just SF, right?

Not most of the city, no. You moved right into its epicenter.
I thought I read some place, which I can't remember, that you would probably not make it past 800 yrs or so. Accidents happen.

Unless you just hole up someplace and never do anything, and even then something could happen.
So if I get this right, the attack vector here is

1) Take signed .MSI

2) Add my JAR of malware to the end of it

3) Send file to target

4) Target's computer recognizes the file as a signed MSI, ignoring the extra stuff at the end that's not part of the MSI

5) Target computer calls the JRE to launch the JAR

6) JRE ignores the MSI parts at the beginning of the file because compressed JAR files are loaded back-to-front

Obviously a major bug that signature validation ignores "extra" parts of the file, but a signature validation bug that (1) only affects specific types of files executed by a third-party runtime and (2) doesn't threaten system files (or any native executables at all) isn't an obviously critical vulnerability like an arbitrary "signature validation is totally broken" bug.
> you can be uncounscious

Uncounsciousness is often taken to mean the absence of consciousness, but it could just as well be the absence of objects in consciousness. After all, by definition, no one has ever had first-hand experience of their consciousness disappearing, so we don't even know that consciousness can disappear. Likewise for consciousness appearing.
> "Low-performing students at private schools are having their estimated Cs and Ds bumped up to As"

Do you have an example of this happening? It seems basically impossible from my understanding of the process.

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Edit: I think I understand how it can happen. A school with a cohort that is small, but large enough to get the algorithm, and a previously exemplary results, has an unusually bad pupil. I can see this happening in a subject like Further Maths where only good students take it
Conspiracy theory time: that's what this is really about. Murdoch (Fox etc) know that they are next after Facebook gets done banning qanon nonsense. If Google audited the accuracy of Murdoch owned sources, it would have good reason to start delisting them. Murdoch knows he can't afford that. So this isn't about getting 1p per 1000 views or something. It's about being assured a high search result placement for his disinformation.
Kinda frustrating that in 2020 people complain about a library targetting a 3 years old standard as being "too recent". I'm sure some guys in your company update their node_modules daily and don't get any flak so why not just do the same and use recent tools ? Recent compilers are available for every platform. If you can compile c++17 for commodore 64 and MS-DOS you can for everything else too.
If you're interested in seeing a (toy) example project in Nerves, I implemented my own version of an old Finnish reaction speed game [0]. It runs on an RPi0W that I had lying around and has a live score display over WiFi (using Phoenix LiveView [1]). I've still yet to implement a memory game mode, currently it only has the classic speed game (and pro version where you start at score 100, with the corresponding speed).

You can find the source on GitLab [2] with the interesting part being in the lib folder. The game folder there contains the game part, while web contains the score UI. It's somewhat messy as I was learning both Nerves and LiveView and just trying out different things.

The hardware is still in prototype stage and the LED lights aren't even inside the buttons. I have to say, for me the implementation of the game logic in Elixir was much easier than planning and soldering the electronics! [3]

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C8gbcYwmpvU

[1] https://github.com/phoenixframework/phoenix_live_view

[2] https://gitlab.com/Nicd/ex_speed_game/

[3] https://drive.google.com/file/d/1zc_HlcMH3QfayqxRqWYN9M-duCN...
> The law would force us to give an unfair advantage to one group of businesses - news media businesses - over everyone else

They already give unfair advantage to mainstream news media over other sources of news and commentary. They artificially boost "credible sources" or "reliable sources" or whatever they call them; and also refrain entirely from recommending some sources which they disapprove of (right-wing, left-wing, world states which oppose the US etc.). On YouTube this has been very apparent in the list of recommended videos (at least if you're reading about US and world news). On the search engine itself it may be less pronounced, but they are actively doing that as well to some extent; see:

https://www.wsj.com/articles/how-google-interferes-with-its-...

or if you can't get past the Paywall, see:

https://www.wsws.org/en/articles/2019/11/18/pers-n18.html
> I feel that most people would benefit from knowing more about how to get a good night's sleep, but have a hard time figuring out what to do exactly.

I personally don't agree. For pretty much all the people I know who won't sleep enough (that is, most of the people I known), it falls into the more general problem of health hygiene denial:

- knowing that one should sleep more, but for <any reason> one doesn't,
- having anxiety problems (eg. waking up early and not falling back asleep due to "mind rush").

While the second is certainly a serious problem that needs a medical (in a broad sense) approach, I'm very skeptical about dealing effectively with the first.

The negative effects of eating junk and smoking are extremely well known, and still, there's a large amount of people who do it.

Sleep deprivation on the other hand has obvious negative effects, buy they're not documented/perceived, in common culture, as being catastrophic (eg. you risk to die); it has also the perception of being a time waste, which conflicts with the busy requirements of a modern life.

Call me pessimistic, but I can hardly see a way to realistically (I stress "reastically") improve the situation on large scale (like smoke campaigns decrease smokers).
I'd argue that the question isn't well-defined - same as asking whether your experience of counting to five is the same as mine. There is no "experience" of seeing red beyond the simple fact of perceiving 700nm-wavelength light.

It is no more possible for me to experience as blue what you experience as red, and vice versa, as for me to experience as 3 what you experience as 2. If I experienced it as 3, that is, one less than 4, it would actually be 3. When I dream of three objects, I experience them just like you would. I don't see why dreaming of a red object would be any different.
Brasilia, the capital of Brazil, springs to mind. The 1930s World Fairs held in New York and San Francisco. I’ll probably have a facepalm-why-didn’t-that-other-one-occur-to-me moment after I hit ‘submit’, but that’s what’s come to mind so far. I’m a bit addled this morning.
The task is called 'forced alignment', take a look at aeneas and other projects at https://www.readbeyond.it/ :) IIRC, Aeneas has some features for handling extra text and the beginning/end of the book, while abridgement etc. isn't handled.
I think he is referring to brain plasticity differences between adults and children. Also, your rebuttal does not consider the fraction of those adults who learned those languages when they were young. I would guess that adults who already know more than one language can learn another more quickly than adults who only know one language.
They edited embryos:

we determined whether a TDO-selective inhibitor (680C91) impeded pigmentation in developing embryos. The development of D. pealeii has been divided into 30 stages and eye pigmentation appears at ∼stage 25, while chromatophore pigmentation starts at stage 26 [21]. We added 680C91 to developing embryos at stage 20
> Google evil etc etc aside, they have been decent custodians of their users data.

They've been decent custodians to data they force users to give. It's like complimenting whoever stole my bike last year for taking good care of it.
The latter. You download an MSI from some file hosting mirror, who cares, because you then diligently look and see that it has been signed correctly by the company that made the software.

But the vulnerability makes it rather trivial to have appended arbitrary content, even executable code, to it, without impacting the supposed validity of the signature.

This is really bad.
Yep, I agree with you on both points.
Wondered if someone was going to call this out. Could've namechecked many other places but picked a Paris outer suburb.
It sounds very interesting but I don't understand the obsession of the smalltalk community with videos, it makes it impractical to get more info.
So, use Python instead of MicroPython.
Sigh. You're right.
You could have looked at past performance of those schools.

https://twitter.com/queenofswords6/status/129447148835198566...

> A levels...short thread

> If anyone doubts who the winners are this year, here's a random selection of independent schools and the % of A*-A grades this year.

> 2019 figures follow in brackets.

Mayfield Girls' 66% (55%)
Sherfield School 70% (37%)
Leweston School 51% (37%)
Farlington School 62% (48%)
The Marist School 55% (52%)
Godolphin School 50% (29.2%)
St Mary's Cambridge 54% (51%)
St George's Ascot 63% (35%)
Rye St Anthony 48.1% (18.3%)
> but they behave much better than the Australian government, who recently admitted they spy on their citizens [0], can coerce citizens and companies to install backdoors into their companies software [1].

But Google has exactly this. First, it collects and saves all its users' data, and can build very detailed profiles of probably each of us. Second, and perhaps more importantly, all the information going through their systems is also piped to the NSA, i.e. spying by the US government. This is what Edward Snowden revealed.

Murdoch may have illegally wiretapped celebrities, but Google legally "wiretaps", well, everyone - on their "wires".
To be fair, native speakers often act like "you slightly mispronounced that word in the sentence, so I have literally zero idea what any of it meant and am doubting your intelligience"

It's very frustrating in Polish, for example, when I forget to roll my R's (difficult with my lisp!) and somehow I'm talking alien nonsense.
It isn't clear what you mean by a 'dead weight loss', but I'll guess.

All systems have losses. Free markets will create more wealth than any of the alternatives.
There's a GUI redshift for Windows: https://github.com/maoserr/redshiftgui/downloads
Really? I was living in a nice not-rent-controlled ~800sqft 1BR in a decent part of the western addition in 2010, for $1700/mo.

$3k might have been common at the high end, but I don't think that was typical.
I'm not surprised that you're downvoted and may be into oblivion. But you actually make a very valid point.

That said I also believe that the current UK government is far beyond any benefit of a doubt in terms of competence and maliciousnes.
Maybe it's placebo, but after installing flux I fall asleep at 22:00-23:00. Before I often stayed up till 01:00.

I still read a lot on computer in the evening, but I get sleepy much earlier.
You are describing yourself without realising it.
Someone else will step in to take their place. The only reason News Corp is even in this position is because they completely overstepped their bounds with Murdoch's political fuckery. There's no reason you can't have a professional conservative news company that plays by the rules, and if there's a market for it, someone will fill it, just like anything else.
Be that as it may, News Corp doesn't pay tax in Australia either, and I don't see why Google should have to pay what is effectively a tax to them!

Make them pay tax by all means, but why should it go straight to news corp?
hehehe. yeah the due diligence document room. and lots of minified JavaScript UI code.

I love how companies can say complying with legislation would be overly burdensome. and how governments can make laws that have no technical reality. the interface between tech and law is pretty leaky and inefficient.
I was also confused by the lack of focus on the article. It felt like it was an article of two halves:

1. An example of the how printing isn’t simple and how different languages hide that complexity in different places (though even there it gets weirdly hung up on the difference between “scripting” and systems languages despite the examples clearly showing the same kind of abstractions hiding the same kind of complexities)

2. A low level dive into the Zig programming language. This felt more like promo piece, which is perfectly fine, but where the article stated it’s not about Zig specifically is clearly a misrepresentation when more than 50% of the article specifically covered the Zig compiler.

I think this would have made more sense as two articles. One as a high level overview of how different languages handle builtins / core libraries like ‘println’, and another that is unashamedly a Zig promo piece (and there isn’t any shame in promo pieces here because languages that aren’t sponsored by big corps need such articles to garner developer interest).
You can downvote me all you want

@yjftsjthsd-h can't downvote you at all, HN doesn't allow you to downvote replies to your own posts.
I suppose it would require a custom browser extension or some kind of data miner that reads from the underlying sqlite database.
+1 nostalgia points for selecting that game.

FYI, [3] doesn't work (access denied)
IIRC it's a big deal because this is the first crack at cephalopod DNA - I don't recall where I read this. Anyone has a source?
That's a relatively recent change, no?
Yeah, ok fair call - there must be some who want this. “None” was too bold.
Right, I think the parent was quoting an absurdly low rate to point out that even with unrealistically ideal financing, the monthly payment would still be higher than the grandparent's claim.