skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"Reference applications including media player, tuner, navigation, web browser, Bluetooth, WiFi, HVAC control, audio mixer and vehicle controls"

It is nice to have a alternative to Google's car spy software, but I am suspicious of any ECU containing malloc. If ECUs gets so complicated that they require Linux maybe there just is a fundamental design issue.

(EDIT: ECU as in Electric control unit, not only the Engine control unit.)
Place boundaries are much easier for me for the same reasons.

Turns out it's really just different strokes for different folks and everyone's inner world operates in a way that they absolutely require certain things and absolutely should avoid certain others. It's just different for everyone.

I worked out I needed to stop listening to other peoples advice before I became aware of any executive dysfunction, because I realized that other people's advice barely matched up with my personal experience and was largely useless, so I should simply stick to trying things and seeing what works for me vs what doesn't.

I get the feeling the range of inner world's is much more vast and varied than people truly realize. Wish there was a good way to calibrate for that.
The 1) is simply transliteration of English into Russian/Cyrillic and it does look weird to me but it is easier to read than 2).

(Russian is my native language)
> additionally, I highly doubt that the author has replicated this functionality by using his new turbolinky framework.

Which functionality?

> a bunch of UI requirements

So your point is that you don't really know, but let's blame them for trying, or what?
IncPy: An auto-memoizing Python interpreter with incremental recomputation
Wait. Minature flags are controversial?
Extraordinary claims require extraordinary evidence.™

I was about to ask you to provide some evidence to support this claim. But I guess I have to do all the work for you huh [0].

From [1]

"Hashed Media Access Control (MAC) address: a cryptographically (SHA256) anonymous and unique ID for a machine."

Perhaps this is what sent you to raise the privacy alarm bells? Now it's time for you to prove how this 'Hashed Media Access Control (MAC) address' is a GDPR violation.

[0] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry...

[1] https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/dotnet/core/tools/telemetry...
>> you have to invest time and effort to get the necessary documentation

you have to invest time and energy into everything in life (including voting itself), this is not a valid argument at all in my opinion.

If you can not invest the very small amount of time and energy needed to get an ID, then you certainly are not investing the time and energy to research and understand the people you are voting for and/or the initiatives that appear on the ballot

>But let's take Iowa's planned voter ID law of 2007

I am not sure what the "planned" law in 2007 was, nor do I really care what is was since you use the terminology of "planned" I assume it did not actually pass. Looking at the actual law of Iowa[1] any voter that does not have a Drivers License is automatically mailed a voter ID card when they Register to vote, and Iowa also allows for Election Day Registration for which you can use an Existing ID or Proof of Residency [2] such as Residential lease, Utility bill (including a cell phone bill), Bank statement, Paycheck, Government check or other government document

So again I do not find this law, that is actually on the books to be burdensome

Can you point to an Actual law, on the books today and activity enforced, that has the burdens you claim to be sure deterrents to raise to the level of suppression or are you just reading too many NYTimes stories about the evils of Voter ID to actually research the topic yourself?

>>You seem to think that voter impersonation seems to be a problem

Point to any statement I have made that says or even implies that? Every other interaction I have with the government requires ID I fail to see why Voting should be exempt from this requirement.

[1] https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/voterinformation/voterIDfaq.h...

[2] https://sos.iowa.gov/elections/voterinformation/edr.html
The only industry GPT-3 might help is bullshit production
One of the other things that bugs the hell out of me is when in the late 90's during the boom of irc, here in Bulgaria everyone was writing in Bulgarian with latin script. And to make matters worse:

4 = ch

6 = sh

And some people keep on doing it. I can understand it when you have to switch between scripts every 2 seconds but most commonly that isn't the case and you are either having a conversation with someone or leaving it for later when you have time or when you feel like it...
Terrible perspectives.

The whole infosec sector begins to be a stain on all things tech and in my opinion a main driver for luddism that is a far greater threat than those some cameras allegedly protect you from. The industry is in dire need of strong regulation and some perspective.

> European Commission revealed it is considering a ban on the use of facial recognition in public areas for up to five years owing to evidence of inherent racial biases

This tells you the European commission is bunch of sleazy bureaucrats that are very much in favor of surveillance like this. By elevating this "problem of racism" in a first step, you can deploy the tech without any further justification if these "issues" are resolved. Surprising that people fall for this shit.
Show HN: API for Hong Kong public data
> Except if they have a time and date, and IP, your ISP will know who that IP belonged to at that time. No fingerprinting necessary.

As I wrote IN MY POST:

> If anyone wants to track me they have to do browser fingerprinting or talk to my ISP about getting the PPPoE login logs for the IP in question.

If I really want to hide my activities I will use Tor, but for the day-to-day stuff of avoiding ad trackers a daily reboot and cookies-off setting is Good Enough™ (for me).
Imagine the cost of providing fiber is $50/month, and Company A has wired up a town and charges customers $100/month.

You're the CEO of Company B, and you have two choices:

You can wire up the same town, charge $60/month, Company A will drop their prices to match, and you get to make a profit of $10/month from half the town.

Or you can wire up a different town, and charge $100/month - giving you a profit of $50/month from the entire town.

Which one would you do first?
> Anyway the alternative proposed here is replacing lucky question guesses with luck via a lottery.

Yes, this proposal is more transparent and honest about the factor luck plays in the outcomes. It doesn't try to launder luck through some test numbers and essays to pretend it's purely meritocratic.
Probably the rewriting is only done on the program loaded into RAM?
The measures that the UK government put in place are impressive, but they’ve pushed the nation’s debt to more than £2trillion. There’s no escaping the fact that we’ll be paying for these measures for generations.

This is the problem with a socialist solution. We can make things ‘fair’ now, but SOMEONE, at some point in the future, has to pay. Is it really fair that the bill for this falls on future generations? They‘re likely to still be paying off OUR debt in 50 years time. What happens if they have their own ‘Covid‘ before the bill is paid? They’ll already be on the back foot financially.

I don’t resent us helping folks now. But I do resent what it means for my kids, and their kids, and so on.
How much longer until the US economy is back to normal?
So youb are saying that React makes it easier to do bad things than good things? Would you mind extending on that?
you are SO right... but web developers have decided to go for complexity over simplicity and elegance.

IMHO this happened just because complexity and fads generate so much more money, in the long run.
ECU can mean both engine control unit and electric control unit.

The former is a safety critical hard real-time system, the latter can be anything including the widely open "infotainment" system.

My understanding is that AGL currently mostly targets infotainment systems.
Thanks to saasify.sh for providing the front-end and API gateway. I used scrapy on scrapinghub, singer.io and getdbt.com for the data pipeline.
RE: jQuery.animate() - that was around before CSS animations were. Animations were not in the CSS spec until v3 which only saw widespread support this side of 2010.

Before then you could only do animations with Javascript, and frankly jQuery's `animate()` was a god-send.
I've tried many of the options, and Croc [0] has always worked best for me. I tried Firefox Send, but the downsides were that the entire file had to finish uploading first and a lack of auto-resume.
[0] https://github.com/schollz/croc
> I'm just not sure if it's possible to reconcile thought-control in one sphere, and not in another.

On Slate Star Codex, there is an interesting article about this topic:

https://slatestarcodex.com/2017/10/23/kolmogorov-complicity-...
Hmm, possibly, though that wouldn't really make sense, why not just execute itself at that point?
Living in Rotterdam it does appear that way.
Lots of announcements over the years but no actual fiber availability
Becoming the world's first full-fledged cyborg
Trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rYkuLcK2KG4
I‘m working for a blockchain-backed secure timestamping service

https://documents.originstamp.com/

Also wrote a CLI:

https://github.com/dennis-tra/originstamp-cli
> Government never cuts projects because they're too expensive

'never'? Rising costs is a common factor in numerous cancelled projects, at least in the UK defence market that I'm familiar with.
"As governments only have a limited amount of money to spend on all the services they provide, this means that there are not infinite funds to be spent responding to a nuclear accident; £1 spent on evacuating residents is £1 less that is spent on schools, hospitals and roads."

Which is of course completely flawed. Firstly it is in monetary terms, when there is a dynamic amount of money. Pulling the furlough pay rabbit out of the hat put the myth of a fixed amount of money to bed forever. Money is an endogenous concept designed to allow all the resources of a currency area to be engaged usefully.

Secondly even if you reassess it in the correct real resource terms, it assumes that there are no unemployed resources and that all current uses of resources are the most socially advantageous uses.

The one thing we have learned from the Covid crisis is exactly how few people we need working to maintain the population, and how much of what we call work is an activity that is somewhat less important than your average football match.
This is pretty much the same story Woz has in his autobiography 'iWoz'. Really funny to read, especially for engineers who cannot make that much sense of the whole management thing.
I disagree. There are other ways to observe and learn cause and effect than by physical interaction. We learn new causes and effect of many things each day by reading or watching. There are also most likely examples of humans who never had control over their physical world (through disability or whatnot) that came to understand cause and effect.
> * Having a relatively big number of tabs (~600 in multiple tab groups)

I have found this extension[0] useful, for saving my machine when I leave too many tabs open.
Just make sure to whitelist things you don't want unloaded. Like infinite-scroll webpages.

[0]: https://github.com/rNeomy/auto-tab-discard
Seems to me if people had required similar trials before establishing public pensions and public healtcare then it would never have been established.
FYI, when a site has had significant attention (like yours did last month in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23947659), folks are asked to wait a year before re-submitting. Here’s more: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. Otherwise we’d be reading the same stuff over and over :)

Instead of submitting your own site again, maybe submit the most interesting or useful other sites you encounter while working on it.
I'm absolutely with you on deepening knowledge from books rather than googling.
Of course, no one book has it all, but one you might check out is - "TCP/IP Illustrated, Volume 1: The Protocols, 2nd Edition" from Addison-Wesley Professional Computing Series. It's a great series, by the way, worth checking every book out.
Agree, this is so true. I will give it a few years before we are all back on server rendered web apps.
From my time in the industry, AGL is not even close to considering targeting Engine Control Units. The primary target is infotainment systems.

At the time I never heard anyone - not infotainment guys, not ECU, not the Linux geeks - seriously proposing to put Linux there.
Berlin has some parts that resemble the dystopian visions that you mention, in particular some parts of Lichtenberg [1] and Gropiusstadt [2].

[1] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=lichtenberg+berlin&t=hx&iar=images...
[2] https://duckduckgo.com/?q=gropiusstadt+berlin&t=hx&iax=image...
[3]
What do you mean "defaults to GNOME"? Server defaults to no DE at all I thought (been a year or two since I've used it) and Fedora defaults to GNOME anyway.

If it by default doesn't install email client and music players I don't use that might be nice though.
I don't think it's at all surprising that there is no relation between tech stack and business success. End-users don't care if you use a single PHP file or a Go binary, they never get to see that anyway. So I don't really see "it was all a single PHP file" as a gotcha. The whole thing could've been coded in Assembly, the difference is in the effort required for development, ease of maintenance/scaling up and how well-guarded you are against vulnerabilities.
It's supposed to work on sentence long audio (4 - 5 seconds), they suggest chunking your audio first: https://discourse.mozilla.org/t/longer-audio-files-with-deep...
6-12 months from now another article will be warranted, the author will have changed their mind again. That's the pattern you see throughout the entire thing, non-stop jumping. It's a solid bet as an indicator of the lack of maturity as a developer, incessant tech hopping.
So your idea is to always gives malicious actors additional information for account take overs so you can use an account with a non zero post count (not just non-zero, but only 1 or 2 as you insinuated)? Do you not see how naive that is?
Levels is quite transparent about how to build and monetize communities. I 'd expect he 'll receive a lot of hate if blogs like this make him a posterchild about "making money without a degree". He is talented, which the blog fails to mention, not everyone with or without a CS degree is talented. I also like his opinionated approach of not engagint with haters.
At my old company we did this approach for some of our pages. We were transitioning away from our old codebase page by page but rewriting the codebase took longer.

New features were still desired so we built/repurposed react/redux components into what we called “hybrid” pages. It worked great for us!
Nah man python powered ECU is the way it's going to go.

The engine stalling whenever the GC runs is a bonus feature.
Oh no, another thread that will bring the nationalists out (see the hundreds of Wikipedia fights about nationality and naming of famous people). The Wikipedia page of Curie had it's share.

As if it is important from what nation a person is who gifted humanity with a piece of art, an invention or scientific breakthrough. I wonder why people are so eager to associate their nation with the results of individuals. I never felt the urge or understood the reasoning.
Ok, then let's go with a negative income tax instead. Other than avoiding welfare traps there is not much merit to the idea of a UBI anyway. People have always worked, the only ones that really need a UBI are those that cannot do work or are in the process of seeking better work but are trapped in their existing one. A negative income tax serves them just as well but people won't associate it with "free money for everyone".

I know a friend who would love to work as a software developer but can't afford even the relatively small tuition that a German university charges its students with his current job. A negative income tax would help him out.
IBM Master the Mainframe 2020 – Student Competition
I never understand comments like these. Why do you have to twist this to be about "ignorant fan boys"?

Not enough drama in the world already?
It would help if there was some objective way of measuring "elegance" in software.

Some people think hammer factory factories are elegant.... ;-)
Delivering HTTP/2 upload speed improvements
I know they market this product for security researchers, and I've read all sorts of good reviews about the "anonymous" version. May everyone expand on this concept:

https://usbkill.com
Hey Vishnu, Congrats for your progress with your product. And also best of luck for all things ahead! Noticed the name is "ente" couldn't notice the similarity with Malayalam "ente" meaning mine.
>>> A thing that they are good at however, is lowering temperatures in cities

Plants are not magical, so if they get the same solar light influx then: (choose at least one)

a) They are actually not good keeping the temperature down?

b) The have more reflectivity, i.e. they are more white?
(but I think they are darker)

c) The complex structure provides some air flow that keep the plant and soil cooler? (like the isolation of fur in animals, but in the other direction)

d) The specific heat of plants is greater than concrete? (plants have more water, and water has a big heat capacity)

e) The big heat capacity is due not to the water in the plant, but to the water in the soil?

f) The difference of temperature is caused by transpiration of the plant? (water has a huge heat of vaporization, plants try not to loos too much water in transpiration anyway)

g) Most of the evaporation is water that was in the soil?

For f) and g) two you need irrigation. Perhaps not daily because plants and soil are better storing water than concrete, but it is the same amount of water.

For d) and e), you need less irrigation, but perhaps it is better to have some kind of water tank of pipes, to avoid water lose.

For c) you can try with artificial grass. Does it work? Is it easier to maintain?

For b) it is probably better to use and aluminium foil cover (they are popular here it rooftop to avoid rain leaks)
>If so, what has prevented you from saving all the excess money beyond minimum salary and retiring

I don't see what this has to do with UBI, other than maybe you're trying to counter the presented hypothetical by asking if the parent poster would actually be happy to live frugally.

Not only are there plenty of people with professional success that save aggressively or have other goals (e.g. skiiers that makes six figures and still live like skibums), but they're a different category than people that would be willing to coast by minimally if given the opportunity.
The Rise of Slow Feeds
Interesting. Just now I was checking out the paper [0] from Uni of East Anglia on the effects of angiotension inhibitors on COVID-19 survival rates and noticed that it is embargoed until ... 31/12/99. Hmmm.

[0] https://people.uea.ac.uk/en/publications/effect-of-reninangi...
Well-deserved in my opinion. His no-nonsense and unpretentious way of building products, often out in the open, should be a source of motivation for others who can come up with a dozen reasons why they shouldn't attempt to do X. His blog-posts and Tweets are not hustle-porn but just straight-up "works for me, I honestly don't care what you say". A quote that I recently read applies to him very much: "Pessimists sound smart, optimists make money". Pieter doesn't try to sound smart, after all what could possibly sound smarter than making this amount of revenue as a solo founder.
I was really hoping Boothby (Pagnell) would have a pub called "The Hyperbola" but it appears not... :(
Computación en la nube: la tendencia a la que Microsoft no llega tarde
When people are discussing one's article (I assume it's yours based on your profile) I know it's easy to go into defense. People may criticize, and that hurts. But before lashing out as you do in some comments here, consider that the readers don't have the same background and context as you, and we all discuss based on those. Throwing out React is a huge step for most projects, it may have been good for you, is probably not right for many, and is certainly a discussion worth having.
There are a lot of dismissive comments in this thread about “Mewing”. Not because studies disproved his theory but because no study proves it yet, which I find ignorant. It reminds me of the critics of Semelweiss that laughed about the idea that hand washing would save patients lives. I’m not saying Mew is right, I simply think dismissing a plausible theory outright is dumb.
Emacs xwidget-webkit enhancement suite
Thank you for this. I got the link in the TLDR newsletter (in case you don't know you've been featured there, which I doubt).

It's refreshing to discover similar patterns at other people who've been / who are going through similar paths. Repeat solo founder here, who's currently working from home for another company now, for more than 3 years.

As an aside, this approach is not only useful when you're taking on a greater responsibility, like being a solo founder, but also while battling pandemic induced social distancing, working from home for prolonged amounts of time (years) or just difficult emotional situations in your life.

Cheers!
Why does is handling state on the backend better than handling it on the frontend? You will always have the cost of waiting for the server to return the full html every time you want something to happend and still you will have cases where you are handling state on the frontend
Fwiw, it’s significantly easier to read on the actual site than on Hacker News. Something about the font.

HN’s title should probably be changed.
It's the nature of our existence that work has to be done. At minimum, we die if we don't gather food and water, find and maintain shelter, and prepare to defend ourselves against a variety of dangers.

Social advances and technological progress haven't eliminated that burden, they've increased it. Now we also need to maintain complex infrastructure, educate the young, care for the elderly and disabled, and create entertainment to ease the psychological stress of a life so far removed from our basic instincts.

And at this time, very little of that work is done by robots and AI. Asking not to work is just expecting other people to provide all that for you.
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> So it's basically a matter of fixing various software to work nicely with btrfs as well as any similar filesystem. I do wonder why it isn't more supported by upstream software (postgres, VM things, etc).

The concept of an application 'supporting a (specific) file system' sounds slightly ridiculous to me.

Why is Btrfs so special that apps should be rewritten for it? The always-compared ZFS seems to work just fine without alterations being necessary, so what make Btrfs worthy of extra considerations?

At most perhaps copy-on-write (COW) file systems as a general class could perhaps be considered, as that may help with things like shingled drives and SSDs (i.e., zoned drives may be aligned with COW FSes).
All programming is programming, it could be in C and I d be fine with it
Half the battle is hardware, who's going to make the computers that will run in Alaska, and Mexico, for 20+ years?
Fortnite Apple row: Microsoft backs Epic in court filing
>> Consider a potential suspect who can’t prove where they were at 11 pm on a Thursday, because they live alone.

And they're fast asleep because 11 pm is not the time to be awake for them. How will the speaker save them? By recording snoring noises and storing that?
You'll almost nothing a month, as the price races to the bottom - it'll likely be worse than $10 a month