skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Moral framings like this are pointless. That's a scenario that's never going to happen, so why worry about it? Instead, we have a real question to ask:

Which of these would you choose?

A. Have children and be less happy, more stressed, and have less money and less free time for your a ~25 year stretch somewhere between ages 20 and 60.

B. Don't have children, be less happy, poorer, much busier, and more stressed during those years, but potentially more happy in your old age.
Context: ex-early-twitch engineer.

The economics on this are confusing to me; if they’re hosting a “repeater”, they’re paying for bandwidth in/out, and that’s expensive.

If the streaming software is sending to multiple locations; the stability will be low (assuming folks become outbound b/w limited from their home conn).

Am I missing something obvious here?

At twitch we needed a heck of a lot of interconnecting with various providers to make our service viable.

Edit: https://restream.io/blog/restream-series-a-funding/ - goes someway toward answering my q.
I crossed my eyes and stared for ages, still could not see the snake, I hate these magic eye things
Unfortunately, building a case in FBI terms often means entrapping someone in a crime related to the investigation itself, when they can't get any proof of the actual crime they are supposed to be investigating.
My current company is the same and it’s definitely a nice change. After 12 years I know how to do my job well.
Wouldn't it be the opposite? Less commuting means less roads are needed.
Roam Research - This note taking app did things to my mind that no app has done before
> It does sound similar to Mongolian and Manchurian.

Mongolian phonology doesn't sound like any other East Asian language I've heard: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OkU9Zd0LQjg
Well that's honestly what happens (in my experience) with any major DVD/BluRay release. Once they get pressed and given to retailers, they leak.
The provided link is doesn't give credit to the channel it was taken from. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=25GjijODWoI
It sort of colloquially gets used as "subsystem" or "library" as well. Tends to refer to a piece that can be treated more or less as a black box and imported with well defined semantics.
> I get he's ranting about imprecise terminology, but really, what does this knowledge gain the end user?

Reminds me of an experience I had in college. I was working phones over the summer at a call center and had this software developer call in. This was during the runup to Y2K, and I mentioned the "Y2K bug" and he starts ranting about how it's not a bug.

And I'm like, yes I understand it's not technically a bug, but most non-technical people don't know the difference.

I've never understood why people are like this with non-technical folks. If you're having a technical discussion with another technical person, then yes, the distinction absolutely matters. But to non-technical people? Who exactly benefits from that?
that's a K&R style function definition.

modern syntax is:

char *Combine(char *S, char *T) {

...
}

which means the Combine function returns a string (char pointer), and takes as arguments two strings, S and T.
I think FF recently deployed a change so that it no longer silently truncates inputs that are too long. It won’t solve the problem in all cases but hopefully in some.
People do volunteer time and materials for guerilla road repair.
Let me introduce you to this story:

https://nypost.com/2017/09/23/how-curb-your-enthusiasm-saved...

Nevermind that it had a good end. Recognize that even though there was reasonable doubt as a near impossibility of this man being guilty, the prosecutor still desperately tried to throw him in prison, despite him obviously being the wrong person and the prosecutor almost succeeded!
William Blake's Four-Fold Imagination (2020)
> I ignore it because I know the other option is living offline and maybe off grid.

Better option is using simple privacy tools. VPN, incognito browsing, vetting apps and permissions and avoid Google services.
>with a PowerVR off to the side that you can just ignore if you want.

The problem is that I can't, and most people who care about freedom and thus could be interested in a slower, more expensive board... can't either.
The blog post earned them a lot of ridicule for poor technical management, and didn't promote their business.
I didn't see anything forbidding DRM.
Even if DRM itself wasn't permitted, there's nothing stopping the manufacturers patenting some aspect of the battery system.

At a guess, the connector would be the cheapest and easiest place to come up with some patentable novelty that doesn't actually matter. It could be physical OR an electronic interface of some kind. Then it's a case of "Well, yes, you can license the connector design... for $xxx per unit"
https://youtube.com/watch?v=iOBXVOAbpdY this is a 8-minute study on how rust is safe comparing to C, the summary is that, there is a long way to go, many rust code is still unsafe today.
I think it's an accurate summary of the arguments in favor of a wealth tax. But I would really like to hear if there are other arguments that can't be characterized that way. But it's hard to be persuaded when no-one actually presents the argument, and instead just criticizes the tone.
> I'm OK with no graphics as an alternative

Then you'll be fine with the first version of this, since it's exactly that.
>We're better off with policy that limits how wealth can be leveraged into political power

Has there ever been a case in history where a society has successfully limited the political impact with those of disproportionately immense wealth?

edit:
>There's a compelling argument that growth (that accounts for human rights and protecting the environment) is the best way to help the most people the fastest:

I'd prefer to be an average or below person in most of Europe (free healthcare, free education, 6 weeks of paid vacation, various other benefits, low crime, etc.) rather than America. Yet America values growth a lot more than Europe.
Rust is not that safer than C just yet
Thank you for the clarification. In the context of our discussion, your nick begs the question.... Peter?!
There's that word again,heavy. Why are things so heavy in the future is there a problem with the Earth's gravitational pull?
Data leads to control (in the extreme case, the government knowing all your thoughts can pretty much control your life). Sometimes this control is warranted, like using anonymized data to prevent crimes, with a panel of independent citizens auditing the access to make sure it is benefiting the society at large as opposed to a minority. But sometimes it can be used nefariously. For example the state can push propaganda based on the private data of the citizens, making the government less democratic over time to promote the agenda of a minority. My position is we don’t trust that use is legitimate, and don’t assume that states access to private data is in the benefit of the citizens. The government is always assumed guilty until proven innocent.
Pretty unconvinced that (the lack of) revokable authorization is the problem with email. But for the sake of argument, lets say it was.

DKIM+whitelist solves that problem, so dkim would still be solving the right problem.
If you invent the modern short story, I sure as heck expect you to use it.
Was hoping for whirly birds.
Huh? They're not streaming to thousands of viewers - they're just forwarding to a few services. That's nothing.
The Mongolian Cyrillic one is quite a trip. As a native Russian speaker, it just looks so odd. Like a broken website encoding from early days of the internet.
See also https://www.seeedstudio.com/Sipeed-Maix-Cube-p-4553.html

This is RISC-V, with a neural co-processor (runs YOLO), camera, GPIOs, leds etc. For $25.

It runs MicroPython out of the box, but someone has Linux booting on the board equivalent.

I have one, and there are teething pains but the platform seems pretty capable.
If this was Reddit, I would give you Gold for this post.
This app appears to be dedicated to incrementing counters in a database.

I don't even understand why they need a VPS at all. It seems simple to run off of firebase and cloudflare for the UI.
It's true that most of my managers have been terrible, which I think is honestly par for the course (statistically at least).

I have had good managers, but for them, the performance review process actually tends to hamper them. A good manager who knows all the people under them are amazing and then has to stack rank them is going to make someone mad. Your manager only has so much power. Then it's their manager, and their manager. Managers don't have infinite amount of social capital, or even the amount they deserve. Some have too much.

I agree, performance reviews can be a time to get feedback and make changes, but in general, I find the continuous feedback (from standup/team, customers, daily work, incoming types of bugs) much more useful. If anything, I feel that my written reviews have had a lot of dissonance with the financial results or lack of promotion. Many times I can have glowing written reviews, but due to stack ranking, budget, or whatever other excuse they want to use, many times it just doesn't line up with results from management. And it's impossible to hold management to account in general, which is why HR is there.

So when you're doing bad, performance reviews are a stick. And when you're doing good, they dangle the carrot, but many times you can't grab it. Then they force everyone to do mandatory training about how objective the process is, even though it really isn't. And that level of gaslighting has spelled the end for many good employee/employer relationships IMHO.
Right now, x86 needs one set of instructions for each SIMD data size.

If you look at the encodings, many of them are actually the same opcodes as the original MMX, but with prefixes.

In the proposed RISCV design, you wouldn’t have to. It would just work on all sizes.

That doesn't make sense --- how would the code know how much to increment pointers by, how many times to loop, alignment, etc. ? Unless they added some really un-RISC instructions to do automatic vectored operations (like if x86 had a REP ADDSB), I don't see how you wouldn't need to change software for changing SIMD widths.
I find it to be clear to have the * with the type. Otherwise it can be confused (not by the compiler but the reader) that you are dereferencing the variable a or b.
Thanks for this detail. Was there any goal setting at the start of the review period so you understood what you were going to be evaluated against?
I wish there was a Julia IDE like wing for Python.
Agreed on pandemic-from-home making things hard for parents suddenly trying to work from home and homeschool at the same time. And here is another aspect the article author may not be aware of:
"How our housing choices make adult friendships more difficult"
https://www.vox.com/2015/10/28/9622920/housing-adult-friends...
"Our ability to form and maintain friendships is shaped in crucial ways by the physical spaces in which we live. "Land use," as it's rather aridly known, shapes behavior and sociality. And in America we have settled on patterns of land use that might as well have been designed to prevent spontaneous encounters, the kind out of which rich social ties are built."
All changes are trends. Assuming that the trend will extrapolate to its logical extreme without supporting evidence is unreasonable, however.
Most of the noise in Rust's emitted assembly is just panic code. Without that Rust's assembly looks a lot like C++'s and more like C's.
I hate that there still hasn't been a thorough security / plausibility review on Nano; at least I haven't seen one. No one seems to take it very seriously. Maybe it's too good to be true.
What's your proposed solution to the PKI-is-hard if your not an org problem?
It usually means "untrue" here as well, but it's often used as a synonym for "extremely ridiculous".
>Poor people in those societies are the richest poor people in the world.

I suspect the average poor person in much of Europe is much better off than the average poor person in America. Yet Europe incentives wealth creation a lot less than America.
But you're talking about cryptographic hashes which are by design difficult/impossible to reverse. Their unidirectional nature is what makes them cryptographic hashes instead of just plain hashes.
Not really. Stone was already a suspect, this was a fishing expedition to confirm their suspicions.
It’s very different. Sure I can still use Winamp but it’s not like my friends and I are exchanging skins. The market is now an enthusiast’s one.
This is perhaps the most useful comment with actual solutions in a thread with a mostly hopeless vibe.

Thanks for sharing your wisdom, I may be referencing it in the coming year.
Image in the article says TSMC 28nm.

https://www.cnx-software.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/09/Pico...
I hadn't heard of the tech before - but looks like it would solve some of the constraints on glass electrodes. I'm curious now too.
You might be right. What I might buy for say $50 or so is something that tests my water and tells me what to do. It’s need to be ready to go, not make it myself. This saves booking time to get the water tested at a shop. I don’t want to test using a kit as I don’t trust myself to sue it properly.
Money is a societal construct and as such it belongs to exactly the person society says it belongs to. That may not be the billionaire depending on the society.
https://youtu.be/aHaBH4LqGsI
That is definitely part of the problem, they should have forced a multi cloud solution. Bring at least two vendors in, and make them compete and keep eachother honest. Either way, you need to keep the around for years, so you have time to get things set up to meet the security standards, migrate apps to the cloud(s), and all that. A 10 year contract does make sense as far as not having to keep redoing things. But as it is, that will end up a much longer contract due to vendor lock in.
Instead of abstract arguments and unrelated parallels let's get back on track with the specifics here.

Why/why not will scope increase in this particular way? What temptations are there? What safeguards are there?
I think WFH is particularly difficult for young people, not because they don't have access to seniors (or any other such drivel), but because they often don't have the discipline necessary for it.

For example, I've been doing freelance work for well over 10 years now and I eventually started insisting on having an extra office with a strict policy of the room is for work only (even if not paying work). The thing is, a lot of people will recommend things like dressing up as if you're going into work, taking a walk around the block as a transition, and so forth. But for me I can literally walk into that room completely naked straight from bed and have no issues.

But the thing is, what works for me doesn't work for you (and vice versa). But I've had over 10 years to figure out what works for me, young people haven't.

That's where their challenge is at, not in trying to learn from mentors, which can still happen even remote.

And some people just can't do it because they don't have the discipline and never will. Those people will fail, but that's on them.
I had this happen recently with such incredibly strong coincidental timing (a few hours after years of no contact) that I had to do some research. One word is "synchronicity", but it's a somewhat disparaging term that does not really allow for a possible physical explanation.

Skipping over any quantum entangle-y coolness, my personal guess is that since we are strongly cyclical creatures, if two people have experienced a strong memory together (or some unity of mind/spirit), their minds likely re-process those memories on similar receding timelines. It's well known that the brain has a forgetfulness curve, and I'm sure it has a "remembering curve" just as well.

It'd be interesting to do a study where you pair up random people and have them experience some really unique memory together and then for 5-10 years have them write down the date/time(s) they re-experience it. That of course might mess with the curve since it would aid in memory, but I'm not the scientist here...
I got the impression that Restream is mostly used for talks / podcasts.

I know of DJs who use the service to hit YouTube, Facebook, Twitch, and maybe Mixcloud all at the same time. In that case, they're not trying to grow a platform-based audience (like gamers). They're simply trying to reach their existing audience through the available channels.

I don't think anyone is taking exclusivity seriously, except maybe well-paid gamers. It's too early to act like Apple. Maybe once live streaming matures...?
inexploitability, not risk aversion. Human systems behave in ways that are inexploitable, otherwise they are exploited.
>These aren't ancient lint checkers, they're ridiculously priced enterprise tools. It worries me that they're giving a false sense of security that is going to get lots of implementations burned.

But no one is going to get fired or held back for choosing those 'enterprise' tools. They've spent a lot of money, everyone has a checklist, and people move on, even if there's a breach. And some jr might have pointed out "hey, this open source toolset does this, but is kept up to date and has found 47 things our scanner didn't find" and this jr will likely be ignored.
Aka the important thing is not to be right, but to guess when most people will also decide you're right.
> Here’s what non-evil thing to do with this information

You do remember that Google is an Ad company, and information is the product, right?
Show HN: Linux sysadmin course, eight years on
Almost eight years ago I launched an online “Linux sysadmin course for newbies” here at HN.

It was a side-project that went well, but never generated enough money to allow me to fully commit to leaving the Day Job. After surviving the Big C, and getting made redundant I thought I might improve and relaunch it commercially – but my doctors are a pessimistic bunch, so it looked like I didn’t have the time.

Instead, I rejigged/relaunched it via a Reddit forum this February as free and open - and have now gathered a team of helpers to ensure that it keeps going each month even after I can’t be involved any longer.

It’s a month-long course which restarts each month, so “Day 1” of September is this coming Monday.

It would be great if you could pass the word on to anyone you know who may be the target market of those who: “...aspire to get Linux-related jobs in industry - junior Linux sysadmin, devops-related work and similar”.

[0] http://www.linuxupskillchallenge.org/

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/linuxupskillchallenge/

[2] http://snori74.blogspot.com/2020/04/health-status.html
They may have beaten the average compiler in x86 code density, but compilers aren't normally optimising for size and, as someone who has been writing x86 Asm for a long time, I can safely say that compiler output in general, even at max size opts, is far from the theoretical limit for x86 --- there is plenty of room for improvement there. On the other hand, RISCs are far more constrained in size optimisation. For an example of what I mean by x86 having a very high limit on code density, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15720923
The Chinese characters in Korean are absolutely just Chinese, the old Korean dynasties modeled many things after the chinese imperial court, including the writing system. However chinese letters are largely inaccessible to the common folks, that's why Sejong invented Hangul, a phonetic writing system that's easier to learn.
Cool! - I thought it was a pretty good summary of a lot of the details.

Thanks for writing it.
Microcontroller vs microprocessor. Also I don't know anyone who pays RRP on Arduinos. If I need one for a project I get a Pro Mini (same specs, much smaller) for $2 shipped from China.
A security audit of Nano was completed by Red4Sec in July of 2019. You can find an overview of the audit here[1] and the full Red4Sec report here[2]. "Red4Sec has been able to determine that the overall security level of the asset is optimal."

[1]https://medium.com/nanocurrency/nano-protocol-security-audit...
[2]https://content.nano.org/Nano_Final_Security_Audit_v3.pdf
> An engineer should be willing to tell his boss "No, because I would go to jail"

I guess we just fundamentally don't agree on how power dynamics effect these types of scenarios.
Now I’m curious: what kinds of insurance would such a company have?
Nvidia at one point used one of their home grown Falcon cores (which looks like it could be around the same gate approximate gate count) to baby sit the USB3 phy as well. They're probably going to switch to RISC-V for that if they haven't already.
I think this is insightful.

Interestingly, in an immunology class I just took, the instructor suggested that allergies come from our immune system doing the same thing. If the environment is too sterile, it will come up with things to worry about even if the danger isn't really there.
'Cerf-Ing' the Internet
We need to make this a widespread meme. See

https://livestream.com/accounts/2754207/cerf/videos/183169812
This recent video has a very watchable overview of several interpretations https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XQ25E9gu4qI
It's for sale on Amazon. 48% of reviewers have given it 5 stars: https://www.amazon.com/Mastering-Pointers-Tools-Programming-...
Any reference to the original cookbook (translated or not)?
I'm hoping for a further pull back and oppurtunity to buy. I did not deploy all the capital I would have liked in March/April. Market came back way stronger and quicker than I expected. And the "dead cat bounce" didn't happen, seems we know why now!
That's not completely true. Hangul characters are based off of Chinese characters.
[Gradio](gradio.app) can save a lot of time to serve the same purpose - making it super easy to serve any python based ML. It provides dozens of interface components, including text, image, audio, files, and dataframes to support many different types of predictions.
And when the government finds out that they can't conduct investigations, they'll just pass regulations that require collection of data.

Take private owner gun sales. You have to collect the information of the person you're selling it to. You can't not collect it, and if you take the attitude that you won't, you yourself can be held criminally liable.

If we had cryptoanarchy -- unbreakable encryption, with everything on device, anonymous, and any server services using some future form of fully homomorphic encryption, and with financial transactions done with pseudo-anonymous cryptocoin, you'd find this to be a very unstable situation, and most world governments, even European governments, would quickly pass laws to require the ability to track identity, de-anonymize, and subpoena logs.

There is no way any of the Western democracies are going to move to a system where all records of activity are ephemeral and un-subpoenable.
Roasting coffee beans, grind, Maillard reactions, Storage 2020
> An eight-person online multiplayer game in which each player controls one leg of an octopus

This could be fun. Depends on the controls and lag. Offline mode please!
Regardless of intent, or if manipulation is happening in this case, or whether or not it is currently legal, this type of activity potentially allows for someone to artificially manipulate prices to their advantage at the cost of other market participants. Hence, why shouldn't we make such activity illegal for this reason alone? Why leave a now obvious loophole in our financial system, that could be potentially be abused? We made wash sales trading illegal. Why shouldn't this pattern of activity also be made illegal - when wash sales trading is deemed illegal?

If your argument is abuse will happen anyways - why even bother having any financial laws?
That's not even close to true.