skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Browsing on Amazon was not encrypted until quite recently. Add To Cart wasn't encrypted.

What do you mean by this? HTTPS has always been supported for browsing and adding to cart.
I don't think this is true in the slightest.

I happily plunk down for a one-time purchase of software, because it's a simple question: is this worth $n bucks?

A lot of it just sits there for months on end, and then I have the task which I bought it for again, and I use it.

But a subscription? Now I have to ask if it's worth $n bucks a month on an ongoing basis. It's a whole different question, and I feel like if I'm not going to use it for a few months, I'm just bleeding money I'd rather keep in my wallet.

I'm especially wary of products which want $n a month to lock my creative output up in a proprietary format, such that I can only retain access to it if I keep shelling out. That... sucks, and it baffles me why it's so popular.

When I see a subscription I always ask: what's five years of this going to cost me? Why five? I dunno, that's just the multiple that makes sense to me.

Very few subscriptions on offer make sense on that basis. I'd have dropped Netflix a year or two ago, but my Mom likes it. I keep almost dropping Apple Arcade, a piddly five bucks a month, but there's this one game I want to finish and never get around to it... and there it is: a lot of subscriptions are sticky, in a bad way. As far as I know, there's no way for me to pay full price for that one game, and keep my save point, and ditch the rest of the subscription.

Now if I'm making money with it, that's a whole different ballgame. Sure, sign me up. But if I'm not? Likely as not, it's gonna be a pass.
Historically one way people got into these was eg from learning how to program a Commodore 64 and other constrained hardware.

I doubt that's the most efficient route these days, but it can still be fun. And there's lots of material on the likes of the Commodore 64.

Oh, and of course there's always Google: 'but how do you learn to work/program for microcontrollers?' gets lots of hits, I bet some of them are even good.
> were media capable

Still are. I watch nearly all my TV through my PS4.
What is bad about deviating?

Nothing. These concepts were developed for the web. Not APIs on the web, but HTTP itself. A vast, global, decentralized network of heterogeneous machines. Fielding's dissertation doesn't argue that REST is good for all protocols and use cases, only ones that share those qualities.

From Fielding's dissertation:

Some architectural styles are often portrayed as “silver bullet” solutions for all forms of software. However, a good designer should select a style that matches the needs of a particular problem being solved.

Also...

REST is designed to be efficient for large-grain hypermedia data transfer, optimizing for the common case of the Web, but resulting in an interface that is not optimal for other forms of architectural interaction

This prescription that every API needs to have these qualities is pure cargo culting.
You could try https://archive.org/about/jobs.php
The body count is currently higher from the left wing militias so...
It’s not about conspiracy theories and tin foil hats. It’s about drawing lines of separations between church and state, government and corporations.

The fact that so many people like yourself accept these moral failings as the new normal is honestly mind blowing.

It’s like we’ve completely forgotten the iniquity of a conflict of interest...
On Hacking MicroSD Cards (2013)
didn't see that feature, makes sense now :)
Totally agree, this looks like it'll be missing everything that's weird and wonderful about Dune.

Lynch's Dune can be bewildering coming at it without the context of the book, but that aspect of it is frankly just something you get used to with Lynch's works, and like you said its filled with so much oddness and detail. The hulking Heighliner spacecrafts, the mutated ghoulish guild navigator, the fascinating cave-like imperial palace set, the manic cyst-covered Harkonnens. I've never understood why it gets a bad rap, I think it's a hugely underrated film that did a wonderful job capturing the strange universe of Dune.
You mean like the guy who murdered an opposing protestor in cold blood? Oh wait, that was a self-proclaimed antifacist. What's more fascist than using violence to force your belief on others?
You can start with a cheap ESP8266 dev board, which I believe is LUA. I made a button that just posts to a backend when we are low on milk in the kitchen for the office at work but you can do some crazy stuff. im sure there are some great books out there but a lot of people just learn by messing around and looking at other peoples tutorials online.
The real solution for better aligning corporate incentives with long term investing is to reform the public company board structure. The problem is current public boards are controlled by insiders, both C suite execs and entrenched board members, which leads to insular self dealing. Every CEO over time pollutes the board with their cronies to maintain their power base.

The solution is simple, allow shareholders to propose board slates. That guts the power of insiders to control the company, but the SEC has never had cajones to make it happen.
Not op but I’m not sure hot living there changes the fact that it will be struck down as unconstitutional
I think something like this might be more useful outside the USA.

Publicly traded companies in the USA already re-invest quite a large chunk of their profits for future growth, where companies in other countries would tend to pay out larger dividends.
We must live near each other. For privacy I won't say where, but I am within two miles of downtown East of the river. The neighborhood has changed for the worse in the past 6 months by an insane amount. I don't feel safe and I'm a fit young male.
FYI for Windows users, no Unicode

https://github.com/elves/elvish/issues/1124
>neither are Julia gpu libraries

Wrong. Julia can call out to Cuda kernels, but it also does codegen for custom ops and types. Technically with enough engineering time, someone could rewrite all those C cuda kernels in julia, and julia would just generate low level machine GPU code on the fly.
I'm not, like, a fan of IFTTT, but it's likely that you just aren't the target market for the product; it might be valuable to you, but "people like you" might be a small enough niche that the product can't be made sustainable at a price point you'll swallow. This happens a lot, right?
A lot of bushy-tailed entrepreneurs don't realize that you don't need to give one flying fuck about compliance until you're in the billion dollar valuation territory.
Wrong. Julia can call out to Cuda kernels, but it also does codegen for custom ops and types. Technically with enough engineering time, someone could rewrite all those C cuda kernels in julia, and julia would just generate low level machine GPU code on the fly.

Pytorch on the other hand HAS to glue together c and c++ cuda code.
Seconding everything here. It's also worth nothing MoltenVK development was sponsored by Valve (that's how they get Dota 2 on macOS.)
>AWS started because they already had the servers for holiday surge capacity.

That's a myth. Source - worked at AWS for four years, but also common sense. If you rent out all your surge capacity to customers then what happens when the holiday season comes? You kick all your customers off and shut down their business for a while? Not a business model for happy customers and not what happened in real life.
> Call this a victory if you want, but we need bigger victories than this.

Fair enough! And thank you for the thoughtful replies — they definitely have me thinking about my own biases and assumptions.
Hmm, I even skimmed the rule filings and I can’t find any reference to this. Are you sure this is a rule they have in place?
Thanks, I think you're right to identify 'predictability' as a key feature here. It's not so much that I need my every message offline (for which, as you point out, I can just Mail.app) it's that I'd like to have some idea of what I can expect offline if the client says it works offline. If the client doesn't offer any predictable offline features it's not really an offline client.
No "erratic blasting" intended :) this is NOT like a strong WiFi.

We are using a strictly point to point collimated beam that is expected to meet nothing but clear air. It shuts down if/when any transient object is about to enter the beam path.

Also, don't forget that the important figure you should be looking at is power density rather than total power
I asked this question in a thread on a different story, then when I saw this thread I immediately thought you would be the perfect person to ask this question:

Have you ever found a way to correlate or list rural areas in the USA that already have high-speed FTTH? A lot of people here would be interested in that information, since they plan to move out of big 1st, 2nd, or 3rd tier cities and will be working from home indefinitely.
It's always a captivating read for me! I find most discussions about the tradeoffs of GC vs reference counting versus manual memory management are loaded with bias.
In this case yes. Bad corporate/engineering culture. Massive and annoying advertising campaigns. Typically handwavy response to problems.
The arsenal v1 looks like it's a Linux-based system [1] running on an Allwinner CPU [2].

It seems like (at least in the past) they were using gphoto 2.0 for the actual camera-control parts.

They don't seem to be taking licence compliance very seriously as there's nothing I can find that lists the various software components they're using.

[1] http://witharsenal.com/blog/february-2020-update/
[2] https://fccid.io/2AOYX-NOYP1/Internal-Photos/Internal-Photos...
I'm not saying it's a good way to do this. But they clearly state so. 'By scrolling, you are agreeing to use of cookies for marketing ' .

They give you a good,easy way to opt out too.
Have you tried medication?

See eg https://www.gwern.net/Nicotine
Banksy is indeed a gimick but it is highly reflective of the era we live in. Rothko on the other hand was an experience which made me feel stupid for judging the work before I understood what it was about. If any of you have the chance to see his work go and spend a few minutes in front of each of his paintings. You’ll be surprised
There was never any presentation of evidence.
That is what I was wondering, if you could grant it access to read/write to a specific folder.
Having people pay for "Secret" might be all that's required (but not necessary) to turn it into something that's not a cesspool.
>"Flash memory is really cheap. So cheap, in fact, that it’s too good to be true. In reality, all flash memory is riddled with defects — without exception. The illusion of a contiguous, reliable storage media is crafted through sophisticated error correction and bad block management functions. This is the result of a constant arms race between the engineers and mother nature; with every fabrication process shrink, memory becomes cheaper but more unreliable. Likewise, with every generation, the engineers come up with more sophisticated and complicated algorithms to compensate for mother nature’s propensity for entropy and randomness at the atomic scale.

These algorithms are too complicated and too device-specific to be run at the application or OS level, and so it turns out that every flash memory disk ships with a reasonably powerful microcontroller to run a custom set of disk abstraction algorithms. Even the diminutive microSD card contains not one, but at least two chips — a controller, and at least one flash chip (high density cards will stack multiple flash die)."

[...]

>"The embedded microcontroller is typically a heavily modified 8051 or ARM CPU. In modern implementations, the microcontroller will approach 100 MHz performance levels, and also have several hardware accelerators on-die.

Amazingly, the cost of adding these controllers to the device is probably on the order of $0.15-$0.30,

particularly for companies that can fab both the flash memory and the controllers within the same business unit. It’s probably cheaper to add these microcontrollers than to thoroughly test and characterize each flash memory chip, which explains why managed flash devices can be cheaper per bit than raw flash chips, despite the inclusion of a microcontroller.

The downside of all this complexity is that there can be bugs in the hardware abstraction layer, especially since every flash implementation has unique algorithmic requirements, leading to an explosion in the number of hardware abstraction layers that a microcontroller has to potentially handle. The inevitable firmware bugs are now a reality of the flash memory business, and as a result it’s not feasible, particularly for third party controllers, to indelibly burn a static body of code into on-chip ROM."

[...]

>"From the DIY and hacker perspective, our findings indicate a

potentially interesting source of cheap and powerful microcontrollers for use in simple projects.

An Arduino, with its 8-bit 16 MHz microcontroller, will set you back around $20.

A microSD card with several gigabytes of memory and a microcontroller with several times the performance could be purchased for a fraction of the price.

While SD cards are admittedly I/O-limited, some clever hacking of the microcontroller in an SD card could make for a very economical and compact data logging solution for I2C or SPI-based sensors."
"flawed masterpiece"? Even David Lynch himself hates his Dune. This (God) emperor has no clothes.
Covid vaccine: 8k jumbo jets needed to deliver doses globally, says IATA
"in every home." - only morons homes.
Exactly. Just look at the search suggestions on google when you search 2FA. The first suggestion is not for important accounts like Google, FB. It's for fortnite.
I live in Portland. Have my whole life. We need more police. We need enforcement of basic laws like larceny and grand theft auto. We need to enforce the laws we have. We need more police.

I called 911 to report an assault in progress. I was on hold for four minutes, and the police took over an hour to arrive.
Arguably, Apple didn't just learn a lesson, but actually overcorrected. A majority of the complaints I've seen about Apple's computers in the x86 era and especially in the past several years have an underlying dissatisfaction with Apple simply not offering machines for various major market segments.

Apple's lack of a traditional consumer desktop PC means the Mac Pro is always getting complaints from consumers who don't understand the difference between the desktop and workstation market segments. The trashcan Mac Pro was a pretty niche product even among workstations. The MacBook Pro is less of a swiss army knife than it once was, and their other notebooks are even less willing to prioritize anything over being thin and light. Apple's never even attempted to entice gamers (much to their vocal dismay and derision), even though no other major PC vendor has cared as much about ensuring every machine has a decent GPU.
That huge blowback helped make GOT the most popular cable show of all time. I’ll bet they’d love similar blowback over Dune.
These things are little more than simplified Turing machines, so learn about them.
I live in a place where power distribution is separated from power generation. There are multiple power producers, but they using delivery network of other companies. And thats by design to prevent power monopoly.
I found the first few examples very sad. How miserable of a person do you have to be if you’ve been given a death sentence (illness probably) and spend the little time and energy you have left plotting drama at your own funeral, so that a third party can shame and expose the people who are attending your funeral??

I also think it’s unfair of the second example to come out as gay and also name his lover at the funeral. I’m guessing this was a secret because that particular bike club wasn’t very open minded, the deceased doesn’t care because now he’s gone but his lover probably does very much care but now he’s burned.

I really hope that if I’m ever in this situation i can focus on being grateful and spend my time on much more positive things as I’m dying rather than revenge beyond the grave.

I also just finished reading Eugene o’kelly’s book (chasing daylight) on his last 100 days between when he finds out he has terminal brain cancer and only three months left to live, and how he is doing everything he can to have the beat time of his life while also making it easier for his whole family and friends to deal with his death. Quite a contrast from the story in the article and much much more positive.
The impeachment trial is not a trial.
My experience of breaking the claim of most secure OS, Apple macOS
I put a bunch of scripts together, accept webhooks and run scripts based on them or timed scripts after set intervals. Combined with a Telegram bot for notifications, and Ive replaced IFTTT with a messy. but more extensible solution.
I'm not sure if this tool is any good, I'll be playing w/it tomorrow - but the company behind it just got $50 from me so I can check their whole thing out- seems neat.
Why not just create a template for corporate bylaws that you can certify, like a B-Corp? An LT-Corp, if you will.

If you aren’t implementing any exchange-level mechanisms, why does this need to be an exchange at all?
> Maybe one day all FAANG companies will open data centres on Earth orbit.

I know you are joking, but the weight, power, and heat dissipation all make this impractical. They tried similar ideas with cargo containers and underwater enclosures, which were a lot more practical than outer space, but they didn't stick with it.
I used to be part of the system that built machines that auto traded on arbitrage opportunities due to millsec/nanosec differences in reported prices in different exchanges.

Although probably not popular I would suggest that long term stocks needs to incorporate features that actively block certain trading patterns: limit price changes, limit buy/ sell frequency, & disallow shorting.

I have been heavily involved in the gamification of the stock market and the above are used to maximise immediate returns to day traders and auto-trading machines. By fixing a price for the day, then there is less incentive to 'rush' to get to the price. Also, limit how quickly someone can buy and then sell a trade, rather than milliseconds (or smaller). I would strongly urge disallowing the buying of a stock by the same person, if they'd sold in the previous week. Shorting is never a long-term game and should be banned, as it never does the company any favours.

But what I see on this LTSE is nothing of what would actually constitute long term ownership of stocks. What I actually see with this LTSE.com is the opposite of value for a stock, as it is only driving increased gamification of the metrics mentioned above.

That is, if I were an automated machine trader, I would add LTSE and their slow price changes and compare them to NYSE and make zillions.

I don't see how this encourages any kind of long term investment, nor stability for a stock.
I stopped using Slack because they use Electron, and I want native apps because they don't drain my battery the way Slack does.
Nice! I tried building a way dumber version of this for myself, but based on ~realtime data. This looks better.
Orrrrr... they could just provide the list of the vaccine’s ingredients and instructions on how to make it ...?
They're going for a different kind of performance. Memory safety eliminates entire classes of problems, freeing the programmer to focus on other things. For the vast majority of software projects, the performance is more than adequate, and the benefits are well worth the costs.
The rate of obsolescence of knowledge in software engineering
I understand and now you know why exactly this is bad. I for example have option to choose to buy electricity from any provider in my country and that electricity is delivered to me over wires of yet another company which handles only distribution. And that company is government ovned. If one elctricity manufacturer decides that im bad customer or gets greedy, i can swith to better supplier.
That might even be an interesting next step: allow users to chip in for review, right on the AMO page.
You need a compiler/IDE, a programmer (device that you slot the chip into to to upload the code), and the datasheet. Past that googling starter tutorials and reading the datasheet will take you far!
The original thread is just as incoherent. Did anything ever come of this / did the op ever post any substantial information? I don't even see where in the, presumably somewhat large and structured, data dump they want to have found this. Is it supposed to be some malicious clipboard monitoring? Did they post their clipboard content, creating a draft document somewhere?

https://www.reddit.com/r/privacy/comments/fdo494/facebook_kn...
Cost / density. You quite literally want the cheapest dead weight.

Cost of lead/tonne : USD 1900 (approx)
Cost of Uranium/tonne: At least USD 60000 (approx regular uranium) even if you are able to source it.. and then you still have to build containment for this, get permits etc..

For that price, you could get much higher efficiencies if you went for a cheaper metal - even something like Tungsten which is extremely dense will be much cheaper.
> I don't understand. There's no satisfaction in it if you're dead.

Why not? People gain satisfaction from eg knowing that their work will endure after them, or that there offspring will live on etc. Why should this be different?

Of course, whether or not the 'coffin confessor' follows through for any one specific persons funeral doesn't make a different to that specific person: they are dead.

But following through is still essential, because for the next client to get satisfaction out of the service while they are still living requires the 'coffin confessor' to have a reputation for following through.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Side_lobe
There's a specific exception for social media applications:

> 34.10.040 Exceptions.

> The prohibition in this Chapter does not apply to use of Face Recognition Technologies:

> A. To the extent necessary for a Private Entity to comply with federal, state, or local
laws;

> B. For user verification purposes by an individual to access the individual’s own
personal or employer issued communication and electronic devices; or

> C. In automatic face detection services in social media applications. [1]

That seems like it would include what Facebook is doing -- but the ordinance never defines a "social media application" and also uses face detection and face recognition interchangeably in some places, so it's hard to say for sure what it allows.

[1] https://static1.squarespace.com/static/5967c18bff7c50a0244ff...
> Elvish is a more minimalist language influenced by the Lisp tradition, whereas PowerShell is a much larger language with its own distinct "flavor" (in a good way; the language has some quirks but seems decent overall).

Could you expand on what you mean by this? It sounds like you're conflating the size of the language with some measure of lispiness, but Common Lisp for example is huge.
Who are we to tell people what they should and should not do?
> as well as a long tail of small publishers that don't use simple/common mechanisms like OAI-PMH and the `citation_pdf_url` HTML meta tag to identify fulltext content. The OAI-PMH ecosystem sadly is not very complete or helpful for the use case of mirroring.

Most of orgs/journals/conferences in this group just don't have the resources to be able do this, nor maintain something like this.

It was funny last year when a rep from google was doing a teleconference talk from Mountain View in Jakarta, covering things like this in front of a room full of like the top 200 journal managers in Indonesia (there are like tens of thousands of journals) and their eyes were glossing over when the rep was trying to address fixing some of the issues they encounter when crawling than hamper just indexing.

Might as well be coming from a different planet…