skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Energy efficiency is also important. Otherwise, you will lose galaxies worth of energy without even an opportunity to use.
Similar to combine.fm, though Songwhip supports more services and isn't open source. https://github.com/kudos/combine.fm
> Firearms are safety equipment, nothing more.

The first half is at least arguably true, the second half is...not.
Is there some empirical metric where this can be demonstrated as true?
One reason is that you end up using a lot of raw materials if you aren't recycling when you build out solar electricity at a scale that matters for deeply decarbonizing the world.
You shouldn’t trust developing world surveys, including the one I did
I do it all the time.
And if you've written a CHIP-8 interpreter, I recommend playing around with Octo[0] and then participating in the Octojam[1] this October!

[0] https://github.com/JohnEarnest/Octo

[1] http://octojam.com
Can you do straightforward JSON download and processing in bash?
what do you think about rubber bullets and other "less than lethal" weapons that kill people sometimes?
Context: https://blog.thunderbird.net/2019/10/thunderbird-enigmail-an...

> "It has always been my goal to have OpenPGP support included in the core Thunderbird product."
I feel like learning to safely land whatever plane I'm flying in is just due diligence. I wish each seat had a simulator for the current aircraft available as an entertainment option, for me to brush up on in case everyone else who could fly it chooses the wrong entree for dinner. You know the toy steering wheels that children play with in cars? Like that.
*White, middle-class men who speak English as a first language have more rights in the USA than almost every country on earth.

As you deviate from that list, the list of "rights" rapidly peters out.
I'm cautiously in favour of UBI, but this is such a flimsy study and there's absolutely no reason to think these results generalize to an entire country of people being offered UBI permanently.

These sorts of articles where they claim to have scientific evidence that UBI helps just feels sleezy and disingenuous. I doubt something like this would ever change the mind of someone who is skeptical of the idea, and might actually have the opposite effect.
Use a dot after the trailing slash and there is less confusion. "Blabla/." means "(everything) in the Blabla directory". Fairly self-explanatory/un-confusing and no need for "*"
I had a couple of questions. The first was about the blown up region on the right in this photo:

http://static.righto.com/images/8086-alu/die-labeled-alu.jpg

Those silicon shapes are pretty fascinating and each seem unique with respect to the other? How do they come up with these? Are these just the product of signal routing and minimal surface area needed for the circuit? Almost like a reverse puzzle?

My second question was about the right side of this photo:

http://static.righto.com/images/8086-alu/inverter-diagram.jp...

What are the purple lines and green regions here?
The project management triad doesn’t tell you what is scientifically possible — it tells you what is economically impossible.

Adding money won’t shorten the timeframe here, but shortening the timeframe adds potential risks (and risk=dollars)
Getting part-time help in sales is going to be hard. It will depend on how long your sales cycle is too.

Sales reps will happily work on commission only if they see a huge market for your product. Which might be difficult to show with a new product.

The commission rate is negotiable at the hiring point. If they are great at sales and know there is a big market they will want a lower base with a higher commission. You should also set a commission cap at some point as your variable costs increase your profit will drop and you could end up at a point where the sales team is making more than the company.
I am the hackaday types on here! If someone has a sample of one of those remotes I'd love to rev-eng it.
See RTIC (real time interrupt-driven concurrency) formerly known as RTFM (real time for the masses - renamed due to confusion with a similar acronym about reading manuals).

https://rtic.rs

This library gets a lot of attention in the embedded rust community and is designed for tiny devices like an arm M0 mcu.
Has Elon Musk's Tesla already won?
Ah, I had remembered it written as a story. Presumed it took some dramatic liberties / based on a true story.
It depends on how it’s disposed, doesn’t it? Uranium and mercury are naturally occurring elements.
> I kind of see you point about non-secret chats.

I don't really make that distinction, I think it's harmful to have E2E as optional, and only use platforms than have either mandatory E2E encryption (Signal, WhatsApp), or no E2E encryption (SMS, email).

If you have an in-person conversation with me in confidence, that doesn't grant you any additional powers to make me forget details of the conversation.

> Personally: what I tell you at the coffee machine, in confidence or not, is ephemeral. I would probably not talk to you at all if you where taperecording all conversations, as you want to do with messages...

What if I have a very good memory, and follow conversations by writing up their details in personal memos that you can't delete? (e.g. Comey's contemporary memos of conversations he had with Trump.)

> so I think both.parties.should be able to delete text conversations. And privacy should be on by default.

The problem for you is that I'm not going to agree to that - if you won't use Signal, I'm going to force a downgrade to SMS or email, and then you get even worse security and privacy.

If you want to have a conversation that can't be recorded in an automated way, you basically need to meet in a sauna.
That is of course terrible and should never happen, but I think it's also erroneous or illegal, not something the law permits.

I'm not defending BP or ICE practice. I was just wondering if the law actually permits the authorities to search electronic equipment of U.S citizens for no other reason than being within 100 miles of the border. That I would find truly astonishing.
Perhaps someone can design an FPGA and have it fabbed by Google for free! See: [1]

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23755693
IMHO this type of learning can be work as long as it aligns with what the company needs. Dicking around with Rust because you think it might be useful one day doesn't count. There's a grey area for sure.

I also think that it's healthier to strive for setting+hitting ambitious outcomes, and thinking less about literal hours that you're working.

(My blog co-author wrote a post about a very closely related topic - the TLDR is that it's really a manager's job to look for ways to train their team by aligning learning areas with what the business needs. Without that alignment, you'll always have the tension that you called out where it can feel like you're not doing "real work" while learning: https://staysaasy.com/management/2020/08/01/Growth-Paths.htm...)
Fossil makes wastelands via climate change. We get 80% of our energy from fossil. The nuclear wasteland thing is largely a myth propagated by those who say that even natural background levels of radiation are deadly. Nevermind that there are places in the world (e.g. in Iran, Brazil, and India) with ~50x higher natural background with lots of people living there who are just fine.

https://thoughtscapism.com/2019/05/08/what-about-radioactive...
I understand that you're coming from a good place, but speculation on how to "hack" fascism is fundamentally misplaced energy. Nobody will have to worry about overloading the CBP's hard drives if we live in a country where our right to privacy & protections against unlawful search & seizure are respected.

I realise that this is not the exact argument that i was originally making, but technical people are unlikely to rethink technical solutions without them understanding the technical barriers that limit a "solution's" effectiveness.
Taking Notes with Markdown and LaTeX
I think the issue here is the context... Paragon has had a rocky relationship with the Linux community in the past, for example their whiny reaction to exFAT being proposed for mainline a few months ago, so I think in the eyes of The Register there is a certain amount of inherent mistrust in Paragon proposing their NTFS driver for the kernel---shortly after going on the offensive against another formerly-commercial FS going mainline.

That said, I think the tension is more imagined than real, as the LKML doesn't really seem to have responded any more negatively than they do to most other patches.

example: https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2020/03/the-e...
I read the article, and looked at his bio. He is not a nuclear scientist nor a analytics professional. His previous articles are pro nuke, which is fine, but to take his words wholesale with no bibliography or links is asking too much for this reader.

Most of all, he quantifies stress and exhaustion as a primary cause of death for those evacuated. How did he figure that out?
RIP to a legend. Miss him. I was sick for a week when he died. I was so sad.
The author cites "concern about binary size" bloat as a valid concern his colleagues have about generics. He explains that they normally would write distinct implementations. Am I wrong for thinking that generics shouldn't result in more bloat than the equivalent hand-duplicated code. And conceivably the compiler would be able to recognize that a List<&Foo> and a List<&Bar> are parameterized by equivalently-sized types and thus can share a single copy of the same generated code (although this might break inlining optimizations)?
UDF looks a lot like that file system on paper, but my understanding is that it practically falls apart because there are too many bugs and too much variation in which features are really supported among the various implementations. Everyone agrees on the DVD-ROM subset, but beyond that it seems like a crapshoot.
The plant was designed for Kansas, where they'd be safe in the basement from tornados. But in Japan they should have been moved to higher ground.
This is similar to Nuitka in that it generates code that binds with the Python C API, so it's easy to get compatibility/interoperability.

I have an old, abandoned project that translates Python to C++ "from scratch", with no runtime dependencies beyond the STL[0]. It's very incomplete, and probably has plenty of bugs, but might be interesting for anybody looking for something more self-contained/embeddable. It has its own implementations of lists, dicts, etc., and a basic garbage collector.

[0] https://github.com/zwegner/pythonc
Who enforces GDPR? Can you file a formal complaint, or do you just have to complain about it on the internet and hope that the offender complies?
3D virtual rooms from Ann Arbor startup provide safe meeting places
Not necessarily... this rests on the assumption that God does not exist. And not everyone believes that assumption is true.
>There's no need for anonymity. I don't understand why that's relevant.

A US wealth tax would obviously apply to BTC holdings too.
Tell that to fossil fuel and renewable biomass, which cause 8 million deaths/yr from air pollution and also cause climate change. Compared to that, nuclear is astronomically cheaper in the externality dept.
As a single founder, I agree. The only advice I give anyone, ever, when starting a company is to not do it alone.

Think about how much of a disadvantage you are, early on, when you have to switch between tech and business. Longer term vision vs short term. Running a product vs running a company. It's almost impossible.

That being said, you mentioned "how that would compound the difficulty involved in finding an investor." The good news is after you get a bit of success, this goes away. You can hire the things you're missing. Some things, like having a cofounder, are an early signal that goes away once things go well.

(If you ever need to talk, my email is in my bio)
I guess that makes sense. However, it seems like perhaps the interjection is paramedics since the top level article is about police (mid)use of k.
Not standardising means being able to distinguish yourself easier, it's just that for anything that integrates with third-party stuff, standardisation is way cheaper.
Apple doesn't make monitors or flash drives, so making their own specs for those wouldn't be beneficial to them and would increase prices of compatible products.
But a filesystem is something they do make and being able to do whatever they want with it is quite beneficial, with no downsides as there are no third parties (that they care about) integrating with it that would have to put in extra work to support it (besides their direct competitors, which is a nice bonus).
I think you may find the inspiration predates 2008 a fair bit. For instance there was the similar bitgold in 1998 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nick_Szabo#Bit_gold
It also affects U.S. citizens who don’t even have a valid passport and no intention to leave the country. According to the CBP being in the extended border zone is enough to be crossing a border and therefore be subject to a warrantless search.
I've used Python for so long that it's hard for me to see its flaws; what (aside from the behavior of import which we're discussing here) seems most worryingly "magical" to you?
How would code signing be helpful? How would the key end up being trusted?

I do think that content pinning/notarization of web apps could be powerful. We are building some of those ideas here but and I have an interest in how this could be used to pin critical apps to an audited/approved version: https://transparencylog.com
75% of all electricity consumption is too low to be a "valid option" for decarbonizing electricity? We have different ideas of what's valid.

If you want a US example of a nuclear plant construction, you can take the Diablo Canyon plant [1]. This is not only built in the US recently, but also in an earthquake prone area and thus needed more robust construction. It cost 13.8 billion in 2018 dollars. ... You're picking an individual plant to inflate the cost of nuclear dramatically.

Diablo Canyon unit 1 construction began in 1968 and unit 2 in 1970 according to the page you linked. That's hardly recent. I was actually trying to be charitable to American nuclear by talking about the new Vogtle units without mentioning the billions spent at V.C. Summer on two incomplete AP1000 reactors that will not enter service at all.

I agree that 1970s era nuclear plants cost less. Part of that was that there was more experience with building them, so the average was lower. Another reason is that when we look at nuclear plants running today and tabulate cost by year of construction, we're cherry picking the projects that went well.

I count 41 American reactors that were cancelled while under construction on this page:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_cancelled_nuclear_reac...

37 of them started construction in the 1970s. That's a high project failure rate compared to any other generation source.
> Basically, a modern fighter plane is a flying CIWS, if it has the software to do so.

No, it's not, because it can't change targeting axis fast enough; you'd have to have a turret mounted gun plus software, which is simply not feasible for a fighter.

Also, a major surface warship can afford to expend a lot more weight of ordnance defending against a single missile than a fighter can without sacrificing whatever mission it was protecting itself to accomplish.
With management resistance overcome, working from home may be here to stay
and UFOs don't exist, correct? If the video shows and numerous search results of Google corroborate, then it is most certainly evidence.
I'm dubious about rooftop solar in suburban/urban areas. I think the gain is mostly from tax write offs and arbitrage. Compare hand installing solar panels on a roof with mechanized installation of a large scale solar array.

Just isn't going to compete with stuff like this.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xk21aAaJL_s
The Moore Documentary got lots of flack but does raise some pretty good points, particularly about combustion of biofuel.

You can see the whole thing here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zk11vI-7czE

I disagree with the movie's conclusion, which seems identical to yours. We can use tech to keep quality of life high by using responsible and sustainable energy systems like nuclear/wind/solar/hydro.

PoTH hardly even mentioned nuclear, which tears their whole "we must depopulate" narrative apart easily.
Nope. There are several reasons why individual secondhand bookshops are on the way out, but Oxfam is not a particularly significant one.

I am honestly puzzled by the author citing the Oxfam shop on St Giles as an exemplar, because it's a poor shop full of tat and tired old guidebooks to Greece in the 1960s. Even the Oxfam bookshop 15 miles up the road in little Chipping Norton has more interesting stock. But it's interesting that he cites an Oxford example, because independent retail in Oxford generally has been on the decline for 20+ years, and I suspect the woes of the secondhand bookshops in Oxford are the same as those of small retailers generally.

Abebooks and Amazon, eBay etc. are a more significant cause. You can now order the rare book you want from a dealer somewhere in the countryside without them needing to pay for retail premises. One of my favourite secondhand bookshops, Sedgeberrow Books in Pershore, has recently gone that way - the shop has closed but the operation lives on as an Abebooks dealer. Pershore still has a secondhand bookshop, which is a lovely relic that doesn't even take debit/credit cards. Many of the survivals seem to fit that mould: intentionally arcane dealers who've chosen not to move with the times.
FDA issues emergency use authorization for convalescent plasma
I don’t know if it’s just because I’m largely on Mac and Apple’s drivers suck, but I have run into lots of data corruption issues with exFAT on large drives (1TB+). More than enough for me to stop using it.

(Now I use NTFS and Tuxera’s commercial Mac driver, because I don’t know how else to have a cross-platform filesystem without a stupidly-low file-size limit.)
Nodejs has require too
The more simple your MVP can be, the more indicative it is that you have a market.

If you need to build for years to release something [1], it's less likely that you're addressing a real need. The best products can start dead simple, even ugly, but still solve the problem.

[1] Deep tech is the obvious exception here.
Five VCs discuss how no-code is going horizontal across the world’s industries
The first business I started out of college was enabled solely by the fact I couldn’t find a full-time job. Like, at all really, for any pay. Was the business I started modestly successful? Sure. But did I move on when far better opportunities came about? Yes, I did. Opportunity cost is very much a real thing that dictates who actually starts a business or goes to work for one for under market rates.

I have met some people who implicitly or even explicitly claimed they were above being an employee but I think they weren’t being honest about their actual employment prospects.
Three's also the fact house prices are generally set to be barely affordable by a high earning couple, which prices many single people out of the market and puts them at a huge economic disadvantage. Not sure how you'd fix that either.
I've had several beta users of PhotoStructure share with me how they got all their slides and prints digitized. It's seems like there's really only two ways:

1. Do it yourself. One of my beta testers has had good results with the Epson Perfection V600 Photo Scanner. It handles both prints and slides.

2. Pay someone to do it. Scan Cafe https://www.scancafe.com/ has good reviews.

In either case:

1. Make sure you scan at a reasonable resolution. Don't scan higher than the native resolution of the scanner. Film grain on slides seldom exceeds 2500-3200dpi, and prints seldom resolve higher than 250-300 dpi. Save scans as high-quality JPEG (85-95%) unless you can scan higher than 24-bit color, then use TIFF.

2. Consider scanning the back of prints if they have anything written on them.

3. Try to capture the date the image was taken. Some software (like PhotoStructure) will infer captured-at from the filename or parent directory if it's missing from EXIF headers. yyyy-mm-dd is a good format.

4. Have a reliable way to store all this work. I had a number of beta users ask me about this so I wrote it up on my blog: https://photostructure.com/faq/how-do-i-safely-store-files/
It's not any one of these reasons, it's likely all of them.
A Dataset Has Been Passing Its Bias to Algorithms for Almost Two Decades
Agreed. The previous article posted to HN was better IMO.

I feel it’s relevant that Revelon’s loan hadn’t actually come due yet.

I think it’s also relevant that Citigroup didn’t send Revelon’s money, they sent Citigroup’s money. “Somebody at Citigroup owes us, so any money coming from that general direction is ours” feels pretty flimsy to me.

It’s also relevant that Revelon is not looking so healthy, and is widely expected to go into bankruptcy protection before repaying Brigade.

But I think Brigade’s math is pretty easy here - gambling a 15 million on lawyers for even a small chance to (effectively) make 175,000 million might be a good bet.
The attack scenario with current https is "get a file on the server". That's all you have to do in order to get full permissions because we're gating features behind https.

If features require combination of https + code signing, you now need to not only get a file on the server, but you need to sign it. For high privilege APIs you would likely also want to do certificate approval like Windows does, where it shows you the certificate and asks whether you want to approve and whether you want to trust the signer. In many cases websites are loading code off a CDN, so the domain name of the website isn't actually important: the identity of the code's author is important and its integrity is important.

You could also configure your server to pin a given code signing certificate or set of certificates, and thus even if someone manages to get code onto your server that they signed, it wouldn't run.

Modern web platform APIs do have a way to specify expected hashes when loading external resources, so you can protect yourself against a third party (like a CDN) being compromised - but this does nothing if your server gets compromised, because they can just change the hash.
I'll take a moron/demented over a pedophile/demented any day!
In that rare instance charges were filed, but there is yet to be a conviction. There is a vast system in place to protect police officers in these situations, up to and including federal law.
Sweden isn’t doing better than France according to the “official” numbers. Of course actual excess mortality would be better to look at.

Deaths per 100k:

Norway: 4.9
Finland: 6

...

France: 46.8
Sweden: 57.6
Italy 58.6
U.K.: 61.1
Spain: 61.7

https://studylib.net/coronavirus
"assume that a public key cryptosystem exists"
All of my plants this year have gotten blossom rot, pretty much too late to fix too. No tomatoes for me this year.
I got burnt by an unfortunate combination of ActivePerl registering script execution as the default handler for .pl files, and some random file transfer application's "view file" dispatching to the Windows default file handler once. Wanted to view the source of a remote perl script; it ended up downloading and immediately executing the script locally with no warning. Boom!
The ZFS driver is still early in development and quite unstable! I’ve used it in read-only mode just so I could have some access to my ZFS pool while booted into Windows, and although it kind of worked in that use case it was would still do weird things like randomly refuse to open certain files.
The cynicism isn’t fully appreciated, if the optimistic scenario is assumed.

Security is hard, and exposing more by default (or making it defacto required) is simply asking for trouble.
The most secure biolabs routinely make errors that could cause a pandemic (2019)