skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IoT terrifies me and I'd never buy one of these internet-connected gizmos but let me play devil's advocate: you could be coming home from work and, as you know you're about 6 or 7 minutes away, you instruct the machine to make a cup of coffee so that it has time to cool, and maybe you also turn the AC on, etc. It's the exact fantasy being sold to people who buy them and it does, in a way, save time.

Although, personally, I'd question anyone buying these, much less taking out their phone while they're driving to tell a "smart" coffee maker to brew a cup.
> in 2020 a Cortex-M0 chip is probably at least as cost effective as an 8-bit micro

In many cases, more so. Economies of scale are such that there are many 32-bit MCUs that are cheaper than 8-bit ones with fewer resources.
In practice, an immediate mode API is clearly the way to go.

We've all seen "smarter" approaches failing more than a few times, obviously on the simplicity side but also, sadly, on the performance side, even with all the caching and retained structures.

This is the strange beauty of brute force algorithms, they may look dumb and ugly for our refined human minds, but they tend to map very well to the capacities of computers.

It is often faster to not bother and blindly render something instead of running complex logic to decide if you really need to render or not.

And if you're not satisfied with the performances of a "dumb" imgui, you can always add some smarter caching without touching the API.

Altough I bet this approach would only get you marginal benefits.
You understand the technology.

The average person does not.

The coffee maker can be programmed to tell the user they have to pay or XYZ will happen.

Some will believe them and pay.
It's my impression that Europe has been a little bit more relaxed than "only idiots are traveling". It's only now that the numbers are rising again that they're again putting increased measures in place.
https://thumbs.gfycat.com/CoarsePepperyAsianelephant-max-1mb...
My personal choices are IPython and Jupyter, depending on whether I'm making plots. If you choose Jupyter, though, I caution that you should be careful you don't switch entirely away from modules and test suites. Jupyter can be too easy in a way.
Show HN: Fastimage – fast image info for go
America has two sets of values, urban and rural. I just finished a 3 hour drive between Indiana and Ohio and you will go 30 minutes seeing only trump signs in rural yards then see it slowly swap to Biden and blm when you get into more dense areas then slowly phase back into trump signs as you get back into rural towns and farmland. Very rarely do you see two different signs in the same area, though wihh how polarizing politics is now that could just be to avoid antagonism.
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But it would be a time when the HD dies. Are you able to re-install? If no, you should try to backup/virtualize.
i've been hearing their commercials in the bay area for years
Complexity No Bar to AI
That's not my dream. I don't care in the slightest about everything being interconnected. I have only known one person who wanted that, and he worked with home-automation.
Websocket is definitely a superior abstraction, but the main problem with it is that a lot of corporate firewalls/network proxies don't know how to handle the upgrade request and drop the connection. We took a dependency on Websockets a few years back and while everything worked fine in the US, a lot of our customers in Asia/Europe simply couldn't access some of the core functionality of our site.

The Server-sent-events/EventSource API _seems_ like a better fit for GraphQL subscriptions because it's one-directional traffic anyway, but in addition to the issues you mentioned above, you'll also run into the 2000-character limit most browsers have for URLs [1]. The browser's EventSource constructor does not let you specify request bodies so you're forced to put everything in the URL, which is _not_ suited for the graphql queries which tend to get pretty large. I ended up writing an alternate EventSource parser using the fetch() api [2] to get around this limitation.

Happily, there seems to be two alternate approaches in the pipeline that seem more robust/better supported:

1. The proposed @defer graphql directive [3] recommends using multi-part HTTP as the standard transport layer, so hopefully all the tooling like GraphQL Playground will support a single-request-multiple-response scenario over plain HTTP

2. For scenarios where we need interactive, bidirectional communication, the proposed WebTransport API [4] seems to solve some of the issues with websockets.

[1] https://stackoverflow.com/a/417184

[2] https://github.com/Azure/fetch-event-source

[3] https://www.apollographql.com/docs/react/v2.4/features/defer...

[4] https://github.com/WICG/web-transport
> Pushing back is not your (our) job

Please tell me more about my job internet stranger.

You’re making the same arguments without adding substance, just emotional rhetoric and unnecessary personalizing.

> Imagine your power steering goes out on left hand turns going north downhill.

Imagine that steering wheel stopped working depending on the highway you’re driving on (software & hardware platform). Why didn’t they test this on every single highway? Because that would be was combinatorially explosive.

I’m glad you’re making a physical world analogy. Comparable physical world projects have orders of magnitude less moving parts that need to interfit, and assembly gives immediate feedback whether they can fit. They also have orders of magnitude less inputs they are expected to operate on, which makes it easier to exhaustively test their function.

“Shut up and just make it work” might have been popularized by certain tech personas, but unless you have Steve Jobs levels of clout, pulling that stuff in most dev shops will quickly make you very unpopular whether you’re a IC, a manager or a product manager.
> People not being selfish idiots would help one hell of a lot to speed the process and lower risks, deaths, and costs, however.

The only endgame is herd immunity. Whether that's delayed or not doesn't really matter to corona.
How do you plan to address accessibility using imgui? As I argue in the post, the model of an imgui-like API for clear expression of app logic, backed by a more traditional retained render object tree, has the potential to give you the best of both worlds.
The possible reason for crashes and instabilities of the Nvidia GeForce RTX 30xx
https://www.cpomagazine.com/cyber-security/iot-based-ddos-at...
while you make some other good points, between

> "Smart TVs are different..."

and

> " think it is only a matter of time before people realize that they aren't gaining anything from complicating things that used to be simple."

you're making the same mistake of overgeneralizing, assuming that every (other) smart appliance can't have usefulness outside of its core, dumb functionality, based on one example of that being true.

hopefully we can agree that some smartened appliances benefit the consumer, though not all (as in the case of a coffee maker), even if manufacturers are incentivized to break out of the commodity box by smartifying all the things, consequences and functionality be damned.
Yeah, Radiohead has stayed in my playlist from a long time. While they are known for 'Creep' mostly for some reason, the constant experimentation they did with their albums created some really nice records.
Closest thing I can think of is probably J-Pod, by Douglas Coupland.

https://www.amazon.com/JPod-Douglas-Coupland/dp/1596911050
Having a bored and well-funded cop on every street corner, looking for crimes, is not the best thing for a free society. "Make sure everyone pays their fair share" seems reasonable, but all too often degenerates into "spend years harassing a single mother over the EITC tax credit, then chalk it up as a win when she folds."

I've seen those return-on-investment studies saying "for every $1 allocated to the IRS, they collect $10 in unpaid taxes," but how much of that comes from harassing people who end up paying because they can't afford to spend years litigating in tax court, versus people who were actually hiding income?
Tool to compress jpg images online
You must be a Java programmer.
A lot of Boomer garbage falling off the list, which is good, but this list is obviously cursed if Superunknown isn't even in the top 500.

The math seems a little dodgy. I can't view the formulae but some new-for-2020 albums show up as having fallen into their new positions. For example Little Earthquakes (a great album!) is at position 233 with a change of -233.
> Covid operates on its own schedule, not ours.

We do have some tuning knobs though, including vertical risk-stratification, which has collected dust around the world.

It is possible to have a much more acute and accelerated course among the least vulnerable populations while isolating the more vulnerable populations.

Whether Iceland and New Zealand will be viewed as successes depends in part on how much misery is inflicted during the long period it will take to finally reach herd immunity in those places, and how many people in vulnerable sub-populations are infected along the way.
My impression was that the iTunes stunt was not received well because they had already lost popularity. The iTunes stunt didn't help, but I doubt it materially hurt their popularity either.
Numbers do not add up. Maybe Windows is more like 90%?
I'm pumped to check this out, Raph has been doing really good work on the Rust UI front.

You should join the xi channel on zulip https://xi.zulipchat.com/, there's a dedicated Crotchet subchannel.
I guess my point was, our devices are simple because making coffee is simple. I mean, technically you can just make cowboy coffee with no tools at all, but our methods get the grinds out. I never understood the need for most people to have electric machines, but I definitely will never understand the need for them to be network connected!
That’s great to hear; that’s a huge value add if it’s effective!
Isn't that because crypto is not considered currency by the US? You only get to not do this if you are paying debts in USD, even though the value of USD could fluctuate in the same way theoretically, that is ignored.
Frankly the article reads like a wet dream of some wishful thinker.
Reminded me of AvE’s Juicero teardown: https://youtu.be/_Cp-BGQfpHQ

Possibly one of the most ridiculous teardowns I’ve ever seen
> Linux finally wins the desktop wars

ChromeOS is storming along - best desktop version of linux around. If I could easily run IntellJ on it I would switch.
In the UK we make instant coffee by putting water in an electric kettle, letting it boil, putting the instant coffee in a mug, adding the boiled water, optionally adding milk and sugar. (For ground coffee, we use a cafetiere.) But I've read that Americans don't have kettles.
> the newly revealed texts ... date from the 4th to the 12th century

So we shouldn't expect to find any Voynichese, I suppose.
I wonder if this is why the online versions of Word, Excel, and PowerPoint remain so terrible. Online Word can't even grok some very simple types of formatting done in native Word.
That's one way of looking at it. Another is asking whether firms which eventually would employ this tech have a competitive advantage over those that don't. If the incentive exists it only takes complicity to allow the system to naturally run its course. Most bosses may not be stupid enough, but are they complicit enough?
The Decent Espresso machines [0] are the only smart coffee makers that seem to be doing something exceptional with their interfaces. Control over temperature, flow, and pressure in real time with pretty graphs seem almost worth the sticker price. Of course knobs and heater indicator lights are usually all you need.

[0]https://decentespresso.com/overview
Not really, because you would have paid for that paper. I get the criticisms about paywalls and pop ups and all that, but let’s acknowledge that they have to make money somehow or they won’t last.
Immediate rendering consumes an insane amount of CPU.
Wow, that drop for the Beetles is really surprising. I didn't care much for the Beatles in my teen years in the 90's, but I found a great appreciation for them in my 20's. It seems odd to me that they would stay #1 through 2012 and then abruptly drop. Some of that is likely other works finally being appreciated, but 22 spots?

I'm also kind of wondering how much of this is meme driven. What's Going On is amazing, but it's also immediately recognizable by title and main song chorus, and as such used to evoke the song through that alone to great effect to this day. Does that effect it's ranking here? Should it?

Edit: While a few Beatles albums on this list saw large drops, there are also a couple others that gained ground. Interesting.
By that logic also:

"If I'm God, and we agree that I will kill everyone with my God powers, but it turns out (unbeknownst to either of us) that I'm not God, that's still conspiracy to commit murder."

Promising impossibility is not a conspiracy.

https://www.reddit.com/r/legaladviceofftopic/comments/6le3hy...
That seems like it sails very closely to entrapment.
It's simply cheaper that way.

A standard, more powerful part is usually much cheaper than having to do more customization, and these CPUs are so cheap that making it cheaper simply doesn't matter anymore.

For projects made in small quantities, as soon as you need a touch display, throwing an Android phone at the problem is often the right solution, even if you just need something extremely trivial. Sure, I could do it with an 8-bit microcontroller and physical buttons, but by the time I've designed a custom board for it, the time I spent was worth more than the phone.
So, 2020 might be the year of Linux on the Desktop after all.
I have to agree - with GraphQL subscriptions you don’t need full duplex. You are just subscribing.
> which were taken from Apache Harmony, an open-source cleanroom Java implementation developed by the Apache Software Foundation (ASF)

> - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Google_v._Oracle_America

In what world does Oracle own the copyright to this code?

It might (if you buy Oracle's api argument) be an illegal derivative work of Oracle's api, but even that doesn't make them own it.

I'm also very curious to see a source that this is the same code as in Java SE, that seems highly unlikely...
I've operated a bunch of button-equipped microwaves in my life and while changing the clock is a nuisance (and arguably, neither the microwave nor the electric oven should have clocks in the first place!), it's a great interface for its day-to-day use, i.e. heating stuff up.

The tactile and audio feedback, coupled with low modality and high reliability, means you can operate it without looking. On the microwaves I owned, I'd start keying in times with one hand while the other hand was still putting the food in, and closing the lid doors would coincide with me pressing <Start>.

That's not an experience you can replicate with an app. Phones themselves aren't ergonomic enough, and even if they were, app creators generally don't know how to design ergonomic user interfaces.
Microsoft has always been about making devs happy so they will sell software to users. If devs are happy with Linux, WSL will make it easier for them to sell those apps to Windows users. The community of people who develop software is small compared to the audience that runs software, and those people are mostly on Windows. MS is doing this to keep devs happy and keep them shipping apps for Windows, even if the devs live entirely in Linux land.
To me, it exposed U2 to a bunch of people that had never heard of them, in a very bad light. Killing off any chance of new fans. Not that they would have grown in popularity, but that the trail off got much steeper.
A while ago, I asked here: "Ask HN: What do you use for SSH key management of teams?" (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24157180)

And in this blog entry I am summarizing what I learned and what I think is a very good approach now.
Anne Helen Petersen Talks Millennial Burnout
What happens when the Oracle staff doesn't perform to your expectations and the contract?
Black licorice is one of those foods that is polarizing. People either absolutely love it or think it’s vile and shouldn’t be legal. I don’t think I’ve ever encountered someone who is ambivalent about it.
Yeah, but Windows never had the money problem Android has. Windows had at least the same amount of money spinning on top of it, due to the sheer amount of enterprise apps, especially financial ones, running on top of it.

Android is basically a loss leader for Google ads :-)
That's because it's a very simple program, much like the stimulus check sent out this year. Works well for things that are the same everywhere ("everybody needs to eat"), but it won't when you need to look at local circumstances. Sending each community money to help the homeless is great, but will also be very inefficient because homelessness is not at all evenly distributed.

I understand the hope in UBI in that regard, it would make a lot simpler by giving people money and then praying that they'll use it wisely.
I think if you are tracking or getting the IP address from a UDP packet, hacker can fake it. But if it is TCP, they cannot fake it since TCP handshake need to communicate back and forth with origin of the connection which in this case is the hacker.

IP address are cheap these days with IPv6 available. Are those IPv4 or IPv6?
whataboutism
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noun BRITISH
the technique or practice of responding to an accusation or difficult question by making a counter-accusation or raising a different issue.
while someone else takes care of the security

It's a shame that isn't true, however. Expecting a magical toolkit to ensure security, just means the application will have vulnerabilities.
I'm a fairly serious Assange supporter, but there are clearly lots of children here who don't understand how much intent matters.
My experience is that the smarter the device, the worse the UX. Smart UIs are laggy and less buttons/knobs usually means more fumbling in order to do anything.

Also, touchscreens assume reasonably clean, dry and ungloved hands. This mixes poorly with kitchens.
I suspect the reason is much more simple: it is more profitable for Microsoft to be platform agnostic. If that means supporting Linux, so be it. That does not mean they are going to abandon Windows, nor does it mean that they are going to reinvent Windows as a layer on top of Linux. It just means that they aren't picky about what their revenues are derived from.
That isn't really about mathematics anymore. With the meanings of the words/symbols that koheripbal intended, 1+1=2 is definitely true, and similarly, with the meaning koheripbal intended, 1+1=3 is definitely false.

If we can't agree on what the words mean, we can't really have a conversation.
Did you read the article? There is clearly a process in place where a ship can request a permit to dock and the Germans used it
> Is the minutes save per month worth the security risk it’s exposing me?

Agree with that. Especially if a hard problem stumps me, it's very refreshing to actually focus on making coffee for a few minutes. It clears the head to so something simple and different for a few minutes.
You're referring to the Brochet experiment? That wasn't a blind test: the white wine was dyed red with a flavourless dye, so there was an element of deception involved.
More importantly, stop showing me "Sign Up" buttons if I'm already logged in! And when I'm logged out, don't hide the "Sign In" button from me!

I can never remember if it's https://www.google.com/drive/ or https://drive.google.com/. For the longest time, the first link was just a splash advertisement for Drive with a big "Sign Up" button, and no clear way to actually get to my drive folder. GitHub has a similar issue, as do countless other websites that I use on a daily basis.
There is a difference between a government ran enterprise and a for-profit enterprise that has it's risk behaviors subsidized by the government.
> assuming that every (other) smart appliance can't have usefulness outside of its core, dumb functionality,

I'm not assuming that at all and it has nothing to do with smart TVs. Smart TVs are a place where having a computer inside is something people want.

I'm saying other appliances are different, not because there can't be a benefit, but because the benefits are much smaller and complexity to usefulness ratio is much smaller. Also operating most appliances remotely or with a more elaborate interface doesn't give much benefit. Thermostats might be somewhere in the middle since there is a lot of room for improvement, not just in setting up a schedule or setting them remotely, but in the information they give back to you (how many btus are you leaking out of your house over time, etc.)
Another fascinating thing is human’s perceived comprehension of aliens. Hollywood and popular literature has always conveyed the notion of someone from other planets, so much so that we have forgotten the others among us. The nature on this planet earth is still as unknown to us as any external planet. Come to think of it, humans are not that great in comprehending themselves and the nature that surrounds them. Our ability to be self-aware is technically relative and not absolute.
Nice reference. I've always wanted to read more of his work. What do you think about his All Families Are Psychotic?
Population x Fatality Rate will tell you how much it "costs" to achieve herd immunity.

That also doesn't take into account long term impacts that are not fatal.
Is there a brand of this you’d recommend. I love black licorice and salty foods, so naturally I’m curious to try this (in moderation).
The problem with the analogy is that committing a murder is a crime for everyone everywhere. For a US citizen who has been given classified information it may be illegal and treasonous to leak classified US information to some one who doesn't have the clearance to get access to it.

But a journalist, should have the right to ask people to come forward if they have information with a public interest, even if it is classified. If someone comes forward, they may break the law, but not the journalist.

Further more, Assange is not a US citizen, and is there for under no obligation to be loyal to or protect US interests or secrets. He cant by definition be treasonous again any country besides his own.

If he on the other hand, provides material support to someone committing a crime, (like helping to crack a password), then he can be tried as an accomplice. This evidence seems to imply he did not.
Mr. Wymer has a new job, as the chief executive of the Boys & Girls Clubs of Silicon Valley

Let's see who else is on that board...

Eddie Garcia - Chief of Police - San Jose Police Department
How A Pledge to Dismantle the Minneapolis Police Collapsed
The set of people who have that specific coffee machine is pretty small. The set of people who have that specific machine, will be able to send you the money without calling someone more competent first, yet are not smart enough to unplug it, is simply not worth the criminal's time.

What would you make "XYZ" to convince a reasonable number of users to pay you, instead of unplugging the machine and optionally removing it from their house through the nearest window?
I use smarthome based stuff for doing that when needed (I don't drink it myself, but have a maker for guests). I set it up the night before and have it go on with whatever alarms are going to happen so that the coffee is started when people are just waking up and half awake.