skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Lots of things. The original design for this chip was to have a serial to WiFi bridge. I use one of these as exactly that: a WiFi connected serial console for one of my home servers so I can get into it even if for some reason it isn’t on the network.

But you can also do so much more: these chips have lots of GPIO pins so you could control anything that an Arduino or another microcontroller can control such as relays, displays, temperature/humidity/proximity/etc. sensors, LED strips, motors, heaters, and so on. But the kicker is that with built in WiFi so you can natively get it online. A lot of smart lights now have these chips in them for example and you could make your own. Or your own internet connected green house with vents you can open/close and sensor readings for temperature and humidity in the air and the soil. Or an RC car you control from your phone. Or shades that open and close based on time of day. Or a garage door opener. Basically if you need a gadget you control over a network, these probably should be your first potential solution. They are low power and physically small compared to something like Raspberry Pi’s or other single board computers and more powerful than Arduinos.
It says that we're part predators, part prey animals and as such are more interested in defending our territory and possibly gaining some new territory than we are in gazing at the skies for some purpose which neither the predator nor the prey would recognise. Hard science is a new thing in evolutionary terms, the purpose for which those KH satellites were launched is as old as our species.
Our government decided to make our internet infrastructure political rather than choosing what was best for the nation. The right-wing party saw no need for fiber internet, and our left-wing party wanted a proper fiber infrastructure. Australia is massive, and was in dire need of a national infrastructure upgrade.

Rupert Murdoch (who owns Foxtel and a large number of newspapers) is highly right-wing and heavily supported the right-wing government. That government has been changed out since then, but we're left with the lasting effects of their decisions.
Chrome eats a lot more memory for me than Firefox.
That's a straw man argument, just because an employee isn't allowed to bring politics to work doesn't mean they can't be politically active on their own time.
Have you tried turning off some of the columns in the message list and using Vertical view? There's an absurd number of them that you really don't need all the time.
Ah fun, that probably means I have to use this in Windows because I don't think Apple will let me build from source.

Just to check if any Mac developers wander into the comments - is it possible to build and run software on Mojave without an Apple Developer subscription, or is that now an absolute requirement due to the notarization system?
Super Castlevania is quite highly regarded by the Castlevania community. It's not the best Castlevania (Rondo of Blood is), but it's up there.
No, he says he doesn’t believe in the “self-correcting character of American Democracy.” That doesn’t just mean that people need to fix it, it means he thinks they need to operate outside the Democratic process to fix it.
You mean something like this? https://www.dofactory.com/net/design-patterns
Is that to say, it's less of a problem in companies where there are no open floor plans? Or where everyone is working remotely?
Lions' Commentary on UNIX is available in print, and has excellent explanations (though it covers v6 UNIX, not v1)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lions%27_Commentary_on_UNIX_6t...
what makes you assume he owns a home in Palo Alto? what makes you assume he owns a home at all?
Argument ad hominem.
Comparing my TikTok "For You" page on an account that doesn't follow any other accounts with my YouTube Home on an account with tons of subscribed channels that are relevant to my interests I'm astonished at how fucking terrible the YouTube recommendations are. Absolute dogshit. Awful.
I hazard that this is one of those places where everyone is anecdata, and doing the maths (well.. statistics) underpinning this, is going to be the main problem for choosing rational paths out. At 5-15% of the population, its got significant economic consequences. The investment of dollars in education and child psychology, research, teaching, will pay back. So it should be a no-brainer, but people are going to get tied up in knots on the anecdata, instead of the underlying trends.

I also think that like "headache" its a symptom label, not an underlying causative statement. There are many fake cures of headaches, and some which work, some of the time, for some specific causes of headaches. If you label it migraine, it doesn't get any better because again, its a symptom label more than an actual specific thing much of the time.

Dyslexia not having a single root cause won't admit of a single fix.

I don't doubt reading difficulties exist. I'm a bibliophile, and live surrounded by books since childhood, but now read almost exclusively my kindle and my reading behaviours have changed, and not entirely for the better. I skim read since childhood, and re-read books frequently, discovering new meaning missed in the previous skims. This has upsides, (the pleasure of re-reading is enhanced: new things!) and downsides (it infuriates the authors of detailed, dense writing of substance who need me to read it properly and recall it to engage with them in work)

Anecdata!
Don't sell yourself that cheap, ask for 600k. Once you get it, your doubts will disappear just like by magic.
> Every person that has ever starved to death under capitalism should be counted

You can count, but I can tell you right now, you wouldn't like the comparison. :-)
Node.js – v14.11.0
Fully agree. SolveSpace is awesome for daily engineering![0]

> make sure to check out some of the other awesome projects by @whiteshark

Typo Fix: @whitequark[1]

[0] https://github.com/Symbian9/SolveSpace-Daily-Engineering

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=whitequark
Thanks for the link; that seems like a nice summary. I appreciated the warnings about "loose talk" "despite a lack of evidence to justify such", but this lampshade is the size of a tent and swallows the whole article. Jack Cable described real things that could be verified and don't contradict facts we already know. That was good stuff, but everything else seems exactly like loose talk without justifying evidence. Basing the argument for "Russians hacked Hillary's campaign" on the Podesta emails, for one thing, is problematic. Although we're warned "the Russians have grown adept at tailoring bespoke messages that could ensnare even the most vigilant target. Emails arrive from a phony address that looks as if it belongs to a friend or colleague, but has one letter omitted.", in reality the phish that got Podesta was totally generic. [0] There are probably a million people around the world who could have executed this phish. I think I could have done it, if I'd had the inclination.

That's about the extent of the claims that can actually be checked by the reader. Of the rest, I certainly agree with the warnings about poor security for voting machines and other election infrastructure, but that's been a commonplace on HN for a decade, and the most salient if by no means the most egregious example this cycle, the Iowa Primary, is totally dismissed. Also in other parts of the article we're assured without any sort of proof that no one hacked a voting machine in 2016. Can we be so sure? The narrative walks a narrow path. The Russians did bad things but not catastrophically terrible things (i.e. they prepared to discredit the election on social media but didn't change the results). Voting machines should be more secure but let's not even mention requirements for open code and hardware audits (about which I've been writing my legislators for many years). Federal efforts on election security since Trump took office have been paltry but everything before that was great. Did Goldilocks write this? Was she the confidential source who provided most of the information without attribution?

I'm glad that normal neoliberal Democrats will finally distance themselves from the Maddow noise, but I would have preferred actual progress by this date rather than just "yeah sorry we went loopy for 3.5 years". I'd also like some indication that the next president, whether he takes office in January or four years later, will do anything at all to make voting more secure and more accessible to citizens. As it is, I just expect more attacks on the First Amendment. News media firms won't complain; as you observe they're banking fat stacks with Trump to kick around. The concern that keeps me up at night is that they're cooking up a new Russia effigy with which to torment the public now that Covid-19 seems likely to remove Trump himself from public office.

[0] https://www.cbsnews.com/news/the-phishing-email-that-hacked-...
This. Could it be just as simple for the Broadcast app? Because I use my RX5600XT for games, and my older GTX1060 for streaming/recording/RTX Voice.
How much less would you make working at another, less evil company?
> What's the point of a recommendation system if it doesn't even recommend new video of the same category I like?

Because YouTube doesn't care what you want--YouTube cares what it can monetize.

I suspect that YouTube gets very little money from showing you classical performances but gets lots from showing you the latest "Funny Cat Video".

You are the product, not the customer.

Once you internalize that, stuff that Google does makes sense.
OpenSSL is a good example of something that was essential everywhere that had few eyeballs on it for a number of years.
> This hypothetical archaeologist has it easy

I am not so sure of that. Even time stamps cannot be trusted very much.

For example, a lot of photo cameras, audio recorders and other such devices still don’t have a small extra battery for keeping track of time. So every time you run out of battery, or in the case of wall-connected devices you unplug them from the wall, the clock is reset and time is set to some date that the device manufacturer decided to use as the epoch for their device.

And most of these devices don’t have a GPS receiver in them either, so you need to manually set the time. And only some of them will prompt you for it directly while for others you need to remember this and go in the settings menu and adjust the time.

So I routinely get time stamps that are things like 1st of January 2008, or 2015 or what have you. And sure if you notice right away you can correct it. But even when you know you sometimes get tired of that kind of stuff so you just leave it like it is.

And that’s just at the recording stage. Then you transfer files between systems and sometimes you get the original time on your files and sometimes you don’t, and even if you did they might be wrong in the first place as per above.

And all of this is for someone who knows how this stuff works and who tries as good as they can to have proper dates on files and to keep them that way. Then you have people who don’t know and don’t notice.

And then you have people who willfully modify metadata.

And then there is the data itself. We live in a post-truth age they say.

How do you know in a thousand years that the data is from when it says it was from and furthermore that there is even a grain of truth in the data itself?

I am sure there will be competent historians that are able to learn a bit of our time from our data. But I don’t think they will have it easy.

And on top of that I don’t think data can really tell the future what life today is like. It’s hard to put in words what I mean by this last point so I won’t try to say any more about that.
> that they typically feed a family of four

That's true of some things at American sit-down restaurants.

But hardly true for a cold sandwich at a sandwich shop. Even a Subway "footlong" club sandwich is just 620 calories. Assuming a 2,000 cal/day diet, that's a little under a third of what you need. Or, in other words, exactly the right size for a balanced lunch if your calorie requirements are on the lesser side.

How exactly does 620 calories feed a family of four? Or how is it excessive at all?

Obviously it goes without saying the sandwich is the complete meal (no adding soda or chips).
Sorry, complete noob here. How did nvdia control if CAD uses the gpu or not. Did the gpu know the type of application acting it?
I've done by the hour, fixed price, and with a friend of mine recently I just said pay me what you think its worth when you want. All of them have worked out pretty reasonable. Only time I haven't thought it was worth it if the job was too small.
Yes and the cost models are being driven down even more by Cat-M and NB-IoT.

I've been working in the IoT space for some time and there's now a real shift into these technologies for large scale telemetry deployments like you described. The shutdown of 2G networks across the world have ruled out a lot of the cheaper modems.

There are other benefits, such as enabling a larger set of solutions to be battery powered and for an increased lifespan.

High density, sparse traffic solutions like you described are often termed as mMTC (Massive Machine Type Communications). The main benefits to 5G in these regards focus on the mobile network and their ability to manage a higher volume of subscribers and therefore lower their costs to the end customer.
> GoDaddy gave me no recourse to dispute. He had server access because I trusted him. He wasn't supposed to have access to my domain account, and I didn't share my credentials.

Seems pretty clear that although they had server credentials, they were never given any account credentials, but they were able to get into the account and transfer ownership anyway.
No clearer way to express that when you are at work you do not live in a democratic society. That is for "outside" of work. When you are at work you are subject to authoritarian principles and your time is not yours.
It's very confusing. The README there says:

> This project repository has no relation with the service at https://transfer.sh that's managed by https://storj.io. So far we cannot address any issue related to the service at https://transfer.sh.

But the popup on transfer.sh suggests emailing hello@dutchcoders.io.
> Think about how much political influence Twitter has based solely on which tweets they show the President and corporate press. Consider how much untraced in-kind donations these companies can make by tweaking which news stories you see.

I hope you take this as kindly as I intend it, but what you're proposing is a conspiracy theory. This is a relatively nice attribute for a theory to have, because it gives you a nice heuristic for deciding whether the theory is true!

The likelihood of a conspiracy being true decreases as the number of people with knowledge of the theory and an incentive to report on it increases.

To take an extreme example, if the moon landing was faked, tens of thousands of people have somehow held on to that secret. Tens of thousands of people who could gain overnight notoriety by telling their story, and hundreds would have the proof required to gain even more popularity. The fact that nobody has ever broken ranks is a strong sign that the moon landing was not faked.

"Twitter and Facebook are secretly tweaking which news stories Trump and the rest of us are seeing" isn't a conspiracy on nearly the same scale as a faked moon landing. It requires some pretty incredible things to be true though.

- Maybe every employee knows, and none of them have decided to say anything, despite the large incentives to reveal the secret and win their moment in the limelight.

- Maybe not every employee knows, just enough employees know to implement it and hide that implementation from the others. Maybe every employee on the Algorithmic News Feed team knows. I don't know how Twitter and Facebook are structured, the team probably isn't called Algorithmic News Feed, but as one of the more important systems both Facebook and Twitter must dedicate at least a hundred engineers. So, 200 people were quietly chosen for their ideological purity and ability to keep a secret from their peers. These 200 people write code in secret. Somehow they commit lies to the monorepo and apply private patches to the code before deploys. The SREs must also be in on it, because those private patches will still show up in traces and their bugs will show up as errors. All of this happens inside Facebook, a company notorious for employees who speak up and expect transparency. It also happens inside Twitter, a company with such lax controls that until just recently thousands of people could use the internal admin tool to take over any account.

I don't know, I guess it's possible? Maybe you have a better idea for how it could be happening, but it just doesn't seem very likely at all.
Highly recommended, it's great hardware.
ALB Ingress Controller didn't cause a hard outage, lack of monitoring on critical infrastructure caused a hard outage. The ALB Ingress Controller was already critical infrastructure beforehand, because the NodePort method still relies on it adding and removing instances from the targetgroup - It just takes longer for that to become an issue. The fact that it's hours instead of days hurts, but also makes it much easier to diagnose.
Unknown. No other company has recruited me and made me an offer.
Honestly, they've been doing this for a decade or more. The good news is they usually only stay registered for a few days.
If it works and you have experience with MongoDB, just keep it like that. Your use case seems pretty simple and it is unlikely that you encounter any architectural or performance limitations.
Right, so go check the thread that you were linked to. It's clearly going to be a more holistic treatment than you're going to get in this thread on hacker news, a site for programmers and software entrepreneurs, not historians.
I am personally fine with my current phone speeds. I even use my phone as a hotspot for my laptop when I do coding at the park.

Curious what the bottlenecks for people are that make them want 5G so urgently?
I use Namecheap and I'm happy. However, this is known behavior from GoDaddy. You can't really say a lot because you're a competitor, but I can because I've seen them do it and many other shady things to customers.
When you make most of the money, you pay most of the taxes. You can't squeeze blood from a stone. 10% of a billion dollars is a lot more money than 50% of $100,000.
In newer LTE standards there is LTE-M, which is a special lower power mode. So while they are not big data users they do benefit from lower power usage.
Even without LTE-M, devices that will use LTE will be more power efficient
You can use archive.org to bypass the Cloudflare blocklist, especially considering the save page feature.
I think the reason is natural selection.

Since the beginning of computer software (and computer hardware) the solutions that were not reliable enough for practical purposes were discarded.
Remember, when you say 'LinkedIn' you're really saying 'Microsoft'. That's most of the answer to your question.
Wait... so you think Cloudflare's master plan is to roll this new thing out to get people to accept it as normal, and then suddenly make a big shift to.... what they currently have?

Why don't they skip this step and just keep what they have now, then? No one seems to be up in arms that they currently provide their customers offline caching...
So other road users' safety is reliant on jerky and panicky responses to perceived danger as well as real emergencies.

That sounds like a nice safe system.

For the record, I don't agree. I feel that the average person who would choose to use a self-driving will tend to be overly relaxed and trusting, not what I'd call a backseat driver.

The kind of person who is a backseat driver wouldn't trust the car's driving and would prefer to control it themselves, and thus wouldn't be using the self-driving feature in the first place.
Literally "consultant affair" so consultant-gate isn't a bad translation
Can cosign. Hobsbawn was widely regarded as the greatest British historian (as opposed to historian of Britain) by his death.

No shade to Howard Zinn, but he, like pretty much every other historian, didn't nearly have that level of respect.
Can caffeine cause anxiety? for some people yes, but 2020
I mean, I don't want to say it, but this just sounds like Facebook (and most companies) have a fragility problem. A bunch of middle classy and upper middle class people that have never had to feel uncomfortable due to their place in a highly inequitable system.
Because you see your politics as the truth. What more needs to be said?
They were expanding heavily on a bet that the economy would grow. COVID19 hit, they were forced to shut, their primary income streams were in places where they counted on office workers (who now stayed home). They were one of the earliest COVID casualties.
Yeah, that would be totally expected but the paper isn't even saying that. It's specifically about someone buried as a viking in a settlement in Scotland being non-Scandinavian.
You're overfocusing on the "American Democracy" part and missing what he means about self-correction. Being an active and engaged citizen does mean being engaged beyond the ballot box. What specifically do you believe he was advocating that you find immoral or distasteful?
A Bot Bought Dozens of RTX 3080 Units Before Consumers Could Grab Them
I was recently informed by a friend in Shanghai that a lot of KFCs have closed down, presumably due to covid-related business slowing. (There used to be about 1 KFC per city block.)

That seemed understandable, until I learned a lot of them had been replaced with other fried chicken places.
I always read the name as “Pet a Manager” which makes me never want to step inside one.
That sounds exactly like the submission we're (supposed to be) discussing.
I personally don't see the benefit of 5G. I have fiber at home, 4G speeds on mobile are really good (where I get good signal).

Why would I care about 5G if my internet speed is already ok? Also 5G requires a lot of infrastructure, so it's only the developed countries only can get the improvements, not like it's starlink (bringing internet to remote areas).
Russian Planet
Headphones don't work for alarms iirc
7-Eleven in Japan is totally different. Food there was totally serviceable and sometimes good. I'm talking about the US variant.
I don't think I've ever seen someone so confidently attempt to refute data via personal anecdote, so bravo for that.

The median home is not always "crap, run down with a crappy school district". Yes, there exists a quality distribution, and the bottom quintile often has the worst quality, but that's true in every State and every Country.

This data isn't groundbreaking either, Zillow shows a comparable median home value in Pittsburgh: https://www.zillow.com/pittsburgh-pa/home-values/

Just eyeballing some CURRENT listings, you'll find:

On Zillow: A 3BR house in a top 10 Pittsburgh school district (Greater Latrobe School District) for $179K https://www.zillow.com/homedetails/34-Loretta-St-Latrobe-PA-...

On Redfin: A 2BR house in a top 5 school district (Hampton Township district) for $130K https://www.redfin.com/PA/Allison-Park/2695-Ginger-Ln-15101/...

These are perfectly good homes in perfectly good school districts.

Again, single data points only get you so far in an argument — but most importantly, the aggregate data corroborates it. Nobody claims that outliers don't exist, but we're talking about medians here.