skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
One thing non-Sonos owners might not realize about their business model is that it is the opposite of subscriptions. Because the software is so cool (creating an infinite jukebox out of all your music sources and subscriptions, both local and online), you are inclined to buy their boxes.

Sonos doesn't charge anyone for using the software and there are no ads introduced into your listening experience by Sonos. Their idea (and I think it's a great one) is to make the listening experience so great and so unique on their hardware that you are simply compelled to buy more of it and to recommend it.

I started out with a Play:5 and upgraded a year later to a second one to make a stereo pair. I've also used these units in business with 5-7 Play:3s and multiple employees controlling them from their phones. There is simply nothing like this in the Bluetooth or other "smart speaker" worlds.

My house could support two Play:5s in four rooms + outside. Sonos setups offer "Disney-like" sound control where you decide what music plays in what room(s) and at what volume. Were they to convince me to part with that much money, they could sell me $5K worth of speakers just based on the software experience (and the great sound quality, which no one disputes).
Am i the only one to see a parallèle between inductive reasoning and diffeqs ?
It's even worse. Half the "open source" projects are mixed license these days. All the useful and interesting bits are paid up extras which involve navigating half assed vendors with sales teams that don't even understand their own product line. I've spoken to two major well known players in CNCF and they were a total shit show of incompetence. I'm not sure if they have a maturity index but I think it probably comes from tarot cards, a crystal ball or the bottom of a tea cup.

What happened is we traded one vendor lock in for management of a hundred different vendors all pushing incompatible bits of junk that cost a lot of money to stick together and everyone points fingers at the other vendors. At least when I worked at an MSFT only shop there was only one vendor to fight.

I'm considerably older than you and the definition of "getting too old for our sector" is actually probably the tiresome experience we have. You see the forest not the trees and you realise the forest floor is made of the death of a thousand stupid ideas and mistakes remarketed in a different way.
Support for VirtFS/9p in bhyve hypervisor has landed in FreeBSD
We use rancher (actually just rke wrapped in some simple ansible) for this and it works really well.

They have a whole guide for running airgapped [0] however, we found that our security requirements (extremely heavily regulated, think nation state and identity) only come into play once the data is ON the systems. So we can happily build a new cluster/environment with internet connections to docker hub or helm.io or whatever, and then as soon as we have data coming in we kill the connectivity -- usually you can wrangle something like this.

In either case though, rancher makes running on-prem a really nice experience for us, vs the clusterfsck of kubespray and openshift it replaced.

YMMV but I would reccommend giving it a shot.

ps -- I would probably avoid K3S if you actually need some redundancy -- unless you're happy managing some kind of distributed mysql setup for it.

0: https://rancher.com/docs/rancher/v2.x/en/installation/other-...
Well if they were unfixable, the company surely wouldn't have been able to re-sell them, would it?

A refurbishing company whose phones die within a few months wouldn't survive for long, and that's generally not how hardware defects work anyways. Things you can "patch up" only temporarily are very uncommon, so these devices would probably get an extra year of life at the very least, offsetting any possible shipping "cost".

And even those that can't be repaired in the Archimede's ship sense, would go to shops like Rossman Repair Group that would use them for parts in fixing other damaged devices. Even if they only use one dead phone to fix one damaged one, that is still a net positive than if the damaged one would've had to be fully replaced.
Read my comment again.
Thanks for your reply! I definitely can see the gaps in my understanding of the subject now.
We can't afford doing it anymore. The Highway Trust Fund is not self-funding anymore. No one wants to raise gas taxes or put tolls on roads because it's political suicide. ASCE says we have a $836B backlog.
Ketamine is being studied as a treatment for depression and bipolar.
Here's Article 35: https://www.privacy-regulation.eu/en/article-35-data-protect...

> Where a type of processing in particular using new technologies, and taking into account the nature, scope, context and purposes of the processing, is likely to result in a high risk to the rights and freedoms of natural persons...

I find it strange that you didn't quote the important part of the text here (high risk to natural persons).

Like, this doesn't apply to almost anyone. This applies to things like facial recognition or automated systems that track people's health data, not almost anything that one does in most CRUD/tech applications.

If you are subject to this requirement, then you almost certainly have both a legal team, and a data protection officer. Can you give me an example of what you think would be high risk but should not be?

Secondly, you're missing something here. I'm going to assume that you are US-based, based on your theory of regulation.

The US and EU differ wildly on how regulation works. What you would normally do, if your legal team/DPO says that what you're doing is high risk, is write an assessment (which your legal team has already done) and run it by your regulator. They'll say this works, or you'll need to do something different, you'll comply and get on with your life.

In any case, the whole process is really, really slow before any fines are administered. As an example, the ECJ basically said recently that data transfers from the EU to the US are illegal because of the NSA. The Irish regulator has just sent a letter to FB asking them to comply. FB are fighting this in court (with some ludicrous arguments), but as of yet their processing has not been impacted at all.

This legal fight has been going since 2011, and yet FB are still sending data to the US. I'm not sure if that fits the model of crazy regulators.

And let's be clear, as of yet there have been no GDPR cases fining companies for anything less than absurd violations. Ad tech still exists in Europe (and it's arguable that it shouldn't), FB and Google have continued on their merry way.

The second part is pretty much consult your lawyers/DPO and be able to make a case for whatever you're doing. In that sense, it's very similar to HIPAA, which doesn't seem to cause the same level of upset here.

I still stand by my original statement. If you have consent for your data processing, all will be OK (as long as it's not forced consent). If you don't have consent, or a legitimate interest in the data analysis/processing then maybe you shouldn't be doing the analysis or processing?

As an example, Facebook turned off automatic facial recognition in photos in the EU following an outcry. They re-introduced it when GDPR came in, because they asked for consent. You'll note that there have been no court cases on this, because it's totally fine.

tl;dr - get consent for your data processing, make it easy for people to get their data, and GDPR compliance is pretty easy. If you're in an industry where this is difficult/impossible, then lawyer up and be prepared to spend a bunch of money (and probably lose eventually).
Ooh but we always war in nature, we can never change. Greed? thats just nature, f the weaklings who cant protect themselves. Whos fault is it they can protect themselves? /s

It sounds like we pick whatever is most convenient for us of the day. Everything disguised in 'its just nature'. We made change and we have left nature behind, we can continue in changing our uglier parts, but it sure as shit isn't convenient when most of our congress needs to be tried for war crimes, held responsible. That is too inconvenient, so let's all marvel at this study that says War War War!
Launched my SaaS product [0] about two years ago and was able to quit my job last December to focus on it full time.

Threads like this were very motivating to me when I was getting started, and I encourage anyone looking for inspiration to read through HN's previous "side project" discussions! [1]

[0] https://omnieq.com

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?q=side+project
ELVM uses a modified version of 8cc to compile C into some utterly weird targets. Brainfuck, sed, TeX, whitespace...

https://github.com/shinh/elvm
Yeah, and it makes perfect sense for these big tech cos to run all or some of one root letter. But it violates the spirit of resilience to have one company participate in multiple letters.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share these resources and thoughts! Yes, I think the thing I was most worried about is that people look at me differently and think I’m not capable, even though nothing has really changed. Will read a bit more about my rights and wait till I’m better adjusted to treatment before making a decision. Thanks again!
> A prof doesn’t care about athletic admissions (those are undergrads anyways?).

This gets into a tangential issue but I wouldn't be so dismissive of the consequences.

Where I went to undergrad the university had invested a lot of money in bringing their basketball team to NCAA Division I.

The program ended up doing a lot of shady stuff to recruit good basketball players, many of them which were discarded from other universities due to their inability to meet academic standards at their institutions.

Guess what happened?

Softball courses created for the athletes (someone has to teach them).

This was followed by rumoured intimidation of instructors by coaches who had the immediate backing of the university's president (who has the power to make your job/life miserable).

In practice, most of those who took the grunt were lecturers but this wasn't a household even name for sports, just some ego driven project for the president of a public university.

Having been a student during that team and paying attention to the reports that came out, I wouldn't discard the possibility of a professor being caught up in major politics as a result of the athletic admissions, so I wouldn't be so quick to dismiss it as a downside.

For the record, and not that it even matters, I was an academic.
I have tried to use various similar applications and the experience was overwhelmingly negative (due to limitations of mouse-based control). Thus, I'm considering getting an inexpensive graphics drawing tablet purely for ideation, note making, document annotation, and IT architectural diagramming (not for graphics design or digital painting!). A brief research narrowed down my choices to XP-Pen Deco 01 V2, Huion H610 Pro V2 and GAOMON M10K 2018 models (GAOMON and Huion are reported to be using the same [Huion's] driver).

One thing that I'd like to know is whether one of these models has any significant advantages versus the two others? For example, I suspect that a touch ring on GAOMON might be much easier / more natural / more reliable to use than two-button zoom design on Huion and even more so than assignable buttons on XP-Pen. Another - and much more important - question is security and privacy. My concern is whether these (or any other similar devices, for that matter) send any private user information to their manufacturers (would denying relevant firewall prompts be enough? if so, would that be a problem from the driver update and/or other functionality perspective?). Finally, I'm curious about potential differences between these models in terms of their support for non-mainstream applications, e.g., Miro and ArchiMate. I would appreciate sharing your thoughts on this.
In NYC, the labor law requires paying "prevailing wage", which NYC decided is $100k+/year. See https://comptroller.nyc.gov/services/for-the-public/nyc-wage... No wonder that all public projects are so expensive.
It seems like I was missing the fact that the resistance caused by a ferrite bead is imposed on the sum of currents going through the bead. That means opposite currents on a pair of wires are unaffected, as long as both the wires go through the bead.
move left, move right, read, write, delete, halt.
Yes? The postwar economy of the 1950s was one of the most prosperous the US has ever seen. Large swaths of the population and the economy were moved pretty directly from the war machine to infrastructure and homebuilding. The scale of the nation, in terms of population, urban area, and commerce rapidly expanded in the late '40s through the '50s. Entire cities were basically born in that decade. This didn't entirely trail off until the '70s and especially in the West it is very common to see that nearly everything in terms of infrastructure was built between 1945 and 1975 or so.

The US population shows a trend of "aging out" right now due to the population boom of the mid-century... infrastructure shows the same effect much more strongly.
When I did industrial stuff I dealt a lot with engineers and techs that were happy doing maintenance. That's probably not something Vonnegut as a writer had any experience with.
This is simply untrue, and it's enough to look at budgets of most places to see that.
As someone who recently used `ameliorate` in an abstract(!), let me make the case for it.

`Target` sounds active and vigorous, but it is quite vague in that context. You can target a diseased brain region (for stimulation, surgical removal, etc) or a mutated gene for deletion, but it's not clear to me what "targeting" something abstract like a disease would mean.

`Ameliorate` means "to make something better". It has the added implication that the situation is quite bad, but the intervention won't totally restore things to normality. This is exactly what I meant: we don't think this intervention is a silver bullet that will reverse the disease, but it seems like it should help--and our proposal is cheap and easy, so...consider it.

This also keeps Reviewer #2 from busting your chops over how effective the proposed strategies might be, which you'd be inviting with a stronger word like "cure."

Here, you could also use `treat`, which feels like an intermediate-strength claim. "Manage" might work too though that comes with implications of its own too: to me, managing a disease suggests that it is temporarily being held at bay, or the negative consequences are averted without fixing the underlying problem.

I learned `ameliorate` in junior high--and was writing for people with PhDs--so I went for it.
You’ve just described The Alamo Drafthouse. A chain of movie theaters based in Austin, TX and now making it’s way across the continental US. If you’re in an American metro area there’s a strong chance that there may be one in your city.

The culture of cinema appreciation and improved experience that they’re fostering is such a significant improvement over the sterile feel of Regal or AMC-type cinemas that I will always favor The Drafthouse over them whenever I can.

They have my strongest recommendation.
Why a comment like that gets downvoted? he is just saying his opinion.
Grad student here. I recently did the obvious NDSolve thing but Mathematica kept beachballing, and after heating up my computer tremendously returned an empty set. Turns out, my problem was really simple and I could solve it by hand.
From one point of view, nothing is necessary. Life is not necessary, planets are not necessary, matter is not necessary.

From another, thinking is as necessary as anything can be. We observe thinking, therefore it exists. Anthropic principle.
I used the Sonos app to set my speakers up once. Since then I just use whatever device (usually phone or TV) is nearby to control them via spotify. Works excellently.
Of note is also that at the highest Z point, most of the Z is coming from the R; X has dropped to almost zero.
No, the full algorithm is actually fascinating in how utterly absurd it is. I'll use the example from the primary source, https://scrappy-do.blogspot.com/2004/08/little-rant-about-mi... .

1. Start with some random string: 6db6ec49efd278cd0bc92d1e5e072d68

2. Pad the end of the string with zeroes until the length is a multiple of 3: 6db6ec49efd278cd0bc92d1e5e072d680

3. Split the string into equal thirds: 6db6ec49efd, 278cd0bc92d, 1e5e072d680

4. Counting from the end (?!) of each third, truncate to eight (??) characters: 6ec49efd, cd0bc92d, e072d680

5. Counting from the beginning of each segment, truncate to two characters: 6e, cd, e0

And that's how a string like "6db6ec49efd278cd0bc92d1e5e072d68" turns, unbelievably, into a hex value of "#6ecde0".
I saw this on Twitter today (mushroom related) by Dr. Inés Dawson.

Why do mushrooms always have double-barrelled surnames? They're hyphae-nated!
No, I would have taught them the valuable lesson of not trying to invent the wheel. These students are obviously smarter than the average student, and therefore I would expect more of them, like inventing new OS concepts instead of mimicking age-old designs.
That makes sense. I’ve just started with the medication and while everything feels better, it’s still different. Might be beat not to make any big decisions till I’ve got to grips with it all.

Thank you!
Working and learning from home is only effective if you don't need physical access to specialized equipment.
I apologize for not knowing this, but what is ASS?
Eclipse Dirigible 5.3.0
And I think it is valid to not agree with that narrative or to think my argument weak (as I admitted, my observation was casual and lacked citation).

However, gender bias and lack of representation are, from anecdotal observation, the most cited reason in academic journals for the lack of women in STEM. Take that for what you will.

And by all means make a counter argument, edify me, cite sources, but burying a comment for even the nascent mention of a connection between gender bias and the lack of women in STEM seems to demonstrate a lack of willingness of some on HN to even engage with the idea, which, funnily enough, could give credence to the existence of gender bias against women in STEM.
Lockdown is destroying a year's worth of education across the world.

That's how many lives? I'd say a million?

Anyone bothered to work it out?

It's complex, there is total loss. There are delays. It'll be over the next 3 years, give or take a year. International students might never come back.
Adding on to this, I personally have improved versions of open source software projects that I just forked for personal use because pushing the improvements upstream would mean having to sign a CLA which is something I am completely unwilling to do.

It is possible that the lack of useful contributions is due, in part, to a CLA being required.
I'd say it's ultimately hard to argue if these more random constraints (compared to Conway's game of life) are more _helpful_ or _harmful_ towards the ability to produce life or life-like structures.
It depends on the field, but yes. Many optics researchers really only do presentations and they 'count' as paper publications. The pressure is still intense though.
People repurposed New York factories and lofts in earlier eras to some of the coolest living spaces we have. Don’t under estimate creative people’s adaptation of infrastructure.
BeagleBoard is similar to RaspberryPi, but focused on embedded robotics vs desktop PC alternative. The PocketBeagle is similar to a Pi Zero. Fully open source hardware. Smaller community though, so harder to find examples/capes.
http://beagleboard.org/boards

Artemis seems to be Sparkfun’s new line of Feather-compatible boards. They target a pro-level audience vs Feather’s edu audience. The OpenLog Artemis looks interesting for logging telemetry.
https://www.sparkfun.com/news/tags/artemis
This is similar to the many proposals to replace the notation for numerals, or hexadecimal, or other math notation.
I understand and agree that the set of squiggles we use is completely arbitrary, but the sets of squiggles known as "latin alphabet", "greek alphabet", and "arabic numerals" are the set of squiggles I grew up with. And using them has some advantages, for example, my proficiency with those particular sets of squiggles allowed me to notice in short order that the Y combinator is not, in fact, the one reported in the linked article.
Back in high school. I had a Thinkpad running windows (I'm in my early 30s today), and 2 days before an assignment was due, my brother knocked it off a table, it hit every step down to the ground floor. The board was pretty much done (it was an old Thinkpad) and I had to figure out a way to salvage some of the data, so I did some research online.

I ended up downloading Ubuntu, created a bootable USB and managed to fish out my documents from the disks. Fast forward to today, and I'm part of an Ops team running and developing software to manage around 10K Ubuntu servers across several colocations.

I don't have children (yet), but for the parents out there - push your kids to tinker with technology, don't just buy a new one when it breaks.
For me it started out with breaking and assembling back almost every toy my parents bought me, to understand its internals. Please nurture this instinct.
Is this reported anywhere in a more major publication? This lacks so many details.
Not an alternative to full dark mode but when someone popular among tech ppl dies the site get a black bar
Various reports show that the federal government picks up about a third of the tab for infrastructure spending, although it varies widely by state and type of infrastructure. This seems quite significant.
I imagine it's doing the SwiftShader fallback, and the JIT tends to have a few specializations for "quick" shaders. Would be curious what's going on, though.
Hmm, in experimental particle physics I don't feel like there is as much of a pressure to publish. Probably helps that most work is done as part of collaborations, so there are always papers coming out with your name on them even if you only write a couple a year.

But you really have to love what you do, otherwise there's no point.
In situ has an actual meaning--and it would look decidedly weird if you called it (say) "in-place hybridization."

`Elucidate` is an basically a fancy weasel word: I read it as "I don't actually have a strong prediction about what will happen--but I expect something obviously cool will happen when I do this experiment."
How does the bankruptcy of NYC, the densest city in the US, support Strongtowns argument that sprawl bankrupts cities?
How about having their business model as selling solid wireless speakers without all this extra value-added smart crap

Their current business model is not worth defending. There is no reason a smart speaker needs location access, network access, an account, or even a privacy policy. I wish someone would bring these folks to heel
What were the causes if you don’t mind me asking?
Yea that's called Darwinism because they are dumbass drug addicts with no self control. OVERDOSE means you took more than you were supposed to. They all knew what they were doing. Nobody shoved it down their throats. It's only their loved ones who make excuses to try and rationalize it. Stop encouraging that behavior. Encourage personal responsibility.
How ironic that you say this on Hacker News.

That is one of the ideas at the very heart of hacker culture—doing things just because you can.