skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Be careful as you read: that whole listing is dubious.

The listing is actually covering three completely different products: firstly, an HDMI-to-USB-2.0 capture card (HDMI female, USB-A male). And secondly and thirdly, red USB-C– and Lightning-to-HDMI cables (USB-C/Lightning male, HDMI male, plus USB-A male for a power source), which I will call broadcast cards for the rest of this comment, for want of a better name. Leastways, I’m pretty sure they’re broadcast cards, though the text doesn’t mention anything at all about them (except possibly for one line, discussed below), and the images and single line description in the “Item” dropdown are hardly conclusive.

The listing conveniently blurs the lines about what it’s talking about.

The capture card claims to support 4K 30fps input. Not output.

In the text, it says “Video Output Resolution: Max output can be 1080p (lightning cable)/ 4K (Type C cable)”. The mentions of Lightning and USB-C imply that this line is talking about the broadcast card… even though everything else in the listing is talking about the capture card (I think). I know the saying, “never attribute to malice what can be adequately explained by incompetence”, but I can’t explain this with incompetence. I’ve got to attribute this to malice, >99% they’re flat-out lying to make the product sound better. Adding a USB-to-Lightning or USB-A–to–USB-C adapter can’t improve a product that’s limited to USB 2.0. There is certainly no 4K output on the capture card. So by this point, we know nothing about its output, save that they lied. 1080p seems the most likely reconstruction and reconciliation of the lie.

One of the images (probably talking about the capture card) says “1920x 1080@30Hz”, but frankly I don’t believe this represents reality—even if it is mostly true, it’s certainly lying by omission. USB 2.0 simply isn’t capable of channelling full-quality video at that level (1920×1080, 3×8-bit channels, 30fps), so the only way they could hit that frame rate is by compression, meaning lowering the quality of the signal markedly.

From my research, many report USB 2.0 HDMI capture cards having terrible image quality and not even hitting 30fps consistently. I have not actually purchased any myself to verify this one way or another, but I have found quite a few reports of these sorts of thing, some in reasonable technical depth, whereas I have not found a single technically-detailed review that looks favourably upon these units. So I say avoid USB 2.0 ones like the plague, because there’s simply not enough bandwidth for them to be good products. You’ll have better luck with USB 3.0 ones, and make sure that they explicitly say 1080p/60fps output. (There are 1080p/30fps USB 3.0 ones, but they seem to be commonly associated with complaints as well, so that I imagine they’ve been cutting corners severely; so even if 30fps is all you want, I suggest getting one that advertises 60fps output—that’s what I’ll be doing when I get one.)
So, will a solution be implemented for future possible scenarios like this, or will we have to pray no collision happens?
Of course they ought to be allowed to affect the political system. The whole point of the First Amendment is to ensure that private citizens can act to change the government—the fundamental concept behind the design of the U.S. federal government.

News organizations have wielded this power for at least a century. Their decisions on what stories to publish obviously have political implications, and in some cases their editorial boards even explicitly endorse one candidate.

Facebook and Twitter are private entities, just like The NY Times or Fox News.
And no source code!
I worked there from 2012 for 5 years. The query by humming was pretty amazing to me which is why I joined. And I'm pretty terrible at humming... Unfortunately though the database wasn't as extensive as the direct music match database. Perhaps you were trying songs that weren't included?

Fun anecdote: I witnessed one user sing a song into SH so pitch perfect that (from the results) it had made a direct music match!

We often heard that Google were attempting to replicate this technology. They even hired key employees involved in this part of the app. Still we maintained that particular technical moat for 12 years!
It wasn’t hacked. It was left at a computer repair shop then never picked up or paid for.
Here you go. [1]

[1] https://theintercept.com/2019/01/20/beyond-buzzfeed-the-10-w...
Of course it is.

So is a 'for-profit business' is a perfectly fine thing.
But having a for-profit business using tax code for a non-profit charity -- would be criminal.

So why does 230 or other shields apply to Twitter or HN or FB?

My point I think more that a social networking company can apply crowdsourced or individual editorialization to political speech. And that application can also be biased, selective and therefore unfair.

It is ok that these companies might do that, but not OK to hide under shields meant for the companies that do not do that (like ISPs)
great thread. in success stories like these I find they often skip the long hard slog of the 0 to 1 phase. how exactly did the guy attract comedians to perform in this unknown basement? what were the low points and how did he keep going? that's where most people fail and give up.
I’ll die on it with you over this.

It clearly doesn’t apply to OP because Dropbox are shifting to WFH, but so many of the arguments I’ve seen for offices returning are a variant of “I miss the social aspect”.

Fine, say that, I often miss it myself too, but realise you’re also arguing to compel people in the near term into a situation that could lead to them contracting a disease that could kill them.

Even beyond that, while many people might miss the meetings, I guarantee there are at least some people in that room getting stressed out because it’s actively blocking them from doing their job for no reason.

This is anecdotal too but I’ve worked on new projects, with new people, since this started. I’ve not met any of these people face-to-face, but we get along great thanks to being able to video/audio call whenever we want or need to. Every conversation I now have contains exclusively willing pariticipants. It’s great.
I wonder if these self driving cars would recognise those 3D crossings as the same as the normal thing. I could see it looking quite different to a neural network or something looking for features and a bit overfitted.
I am an administrator on a forum that was attacked heavily by these "residential proxy services"; most of the time the users have agreed to a hidden EULA somewhere like at installation time of the extension buried deep within.

But almost everyone "a reasonable person" would not recognise or understand the technical words used in the disclaimer, nor even read all the way down where it's buried several links in.
> It's not like your passing those variables to functions right there

Yes it did. Case blocks had several lines.

>So what if they're different types?

It makes it hard to read and destroys expectation of what possible cases there are. It makes it hard to test as a lot of test preparation/mocking is necessary.

>Except the recursive function bit. Why bother if its always false...

Yea, that the point! Because there was no test for it
That is likely, if the fake street sign were to resemble a real one both in appearance and context.

If it were a stop sign in a billboard ad, humans would ignore it, though.
Is there any usecase that justifies a jq-style tool for HTML? There are plenty of usecases involving getting a specific element from the DOM, but I see no case involving extracting and transforming subtrees.
On Sonoff devices: https://tasmota.github.io/docs/Sonoff-DIY/#compatible-device...

Also notable is that you can get Tasmota-capable Wifi power sockets for about 10€ if you are willing and able to use some electronics tools. I have three of them with Tasmota. The first took about two hours to flash with some trial and error, the other two about an hour for both.
The boxes have the ability to try to DHCP-release-renew your IP to get a new one after being banned for spam/fraud/DDoS/etc.

However, this is not how these residential proxies are sold- mass market ones with millions of IPs are generally botnet/hacked/malware/extension malicious author sellout/etc./ There are not actually millions of botnet user, they just try to make themselves look big. Like they say AT&T has a /8? So they get 1 botnet hacked PC on AT&T broadband and say "wow we have a /8 worth of proxies!!"). Criminals not known for their truthfulness.

The ones that ask you $20-50/m and to plug something into your network is generally used for fraud, account hijackings and maintenance (getting a stable IP for stuff like a credit card checkout or paypal account to use for more than a few days for fraud, long term social media abuse, similar) instead of mass market ban evasion.
The left has been far worse this time.

Also the "fine folks on both sides" seems to be about the people demonstrating for or against monuments, not the violent ones on either side.
I use Linux since 1994 for servers (more now than then). It works great.

I try about every day to use Linux on a desktop for day to day work. It is dreadful when you install it, and then a pain if you want to use office files to a greater extend, connect to Exchange etc.

I constantly have problems with my cursor.

So I give up and I go back to Windows 10. They work consistently for me, are fast enough and I have all the software I need.

The choice is simple, but still I diligently try on Linux.

As for servers, I never use Windows because I do not feel they ate made for servers
But others do it successfully so why not.

The only thing I really miss from the MS world on Linux is their Active Directory that manages users, computers etc. and is so tighly bound with the OS.
This is why I often append "reddit" to google searches. I find that opinions/help on Reddit is often far more useful because it's not motivated by personal gain.
Very good article !

Could all of the "claims" or "awards" better be seen if the person (doing the awarding or admiration) were only to ask - the critical question:

"How likely is this data (purposed solution) ?"

Not to side track the post, but I've seen time and time again in my daily life, how valuable this question is, even if you know nothing about the domain.

Example:
S.O buying an android phone for the first time and trying to move her "contacts and Apple life" to Android device.

The "only solution" she found was some "app for $50".
I simply stated (long time android user) , I can't believe that over the years that an APP of $50 is the only way to move from Phone-System1(Apple) to Phone-System2(Android)

Turns it it's not, there are many "free" ways todo it.
What kind of guy devotes this much time to worrying about people who doesn't agree with him? Doesn't he have any hobby or passion in his life?
Nothing ground-breaking in this overly long article, and in fact it misses the most important issues with the CDC:

- Despite SARS (2003) and MERS, no funding or effort was made by the CDC to create a coronavirus vaccine. An older vaccine could be used as a template for COVID-19, if it existed. They have thousands of staff. What exactly do they do all day?

- China has around 40 military virus labs, yet no vaccine has emerged from those labs, and the CDC knew that. Hmm.

- There's 3 virus labs in Wuhan, the city which is the joint command location for the PLA. The more I read about Wuhan, the more certain I am that COVID-19 is a bioweapon.

Possible Patient Zero in Sept. 2019, several deaths in Oct.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7MigSx5zIDM
The submitted title ("Classic Paper: The Unix Time-Sharing System. Highly Readable and Relevant") broke the site guideline against editorializing. If you'd please review https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and follow the rules, we'd appreciate it.

"Please use the original title, unless it is misleading or linkbait; don't editorialize."
Indeed, there is no plausible deniability in someone viewing child porn using your connection, in the same way you are responsible for securing your wifi connection.

This is no different than that shady p2p VPN product that was shipped as a browser extension.
There are a lot more technical details on the project README page here!: https://github.com/freepn/fpnd/blob/master/README.rst
Check out his github profile, it exists in another repo
Is the following statement legal or illegal? "Man, nothing ends the day like a nice cold beer."

Clearly, that's legal. But if I'm running a platform, I should be able to hide/downrank/shadowban/censor it based on what sort of community I'm trying to build. In a kid-oriented venue, it's inappropriate. In a recovering alcoholics group it's harmful/malicious. In a tech forum, it's low value.

If you went to a school, an AA meeting, or a tech conference and talked about beer overbearingly, you'd be asked to leave the venue, and that would be their right.

As onerous as it is to have legitimate, authentic speech banned from a popular platform, the alternative of allowing all speech effectively creates a worthless noise chamber dominated by bad actors.
As far as our manual testing goes, there was no bug in it. But also there were no tests for it. Writing tests for it is horrible. You need to prepare test for each switch/case branch and it adds a lot of mocking, faking data, setting up variables...
It looks like the author was trying to crowd-fund open-sourcing this project: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/c-smile/open-source-sci...

I think we'd be better off trying to slim down Chromium or reviving the idea of using the built-in OS WebView control (which is mostly Chromium nowadays anyway), at least that would be a standard web environment.
I mean, the ash part is kind of inevitable.
I opened a can of soda once and decided to drink out of a glass with ice, which I sometimes did, but not usually. I poured it into the glass and the normally brown soda came out a transparent golden yellow. Then a dark brown muck slowly poured out of the can. None of it was carbonated and it looked like it hadn’t been mixed at all, and maybe had also gone bad. Anyway, I was really glad I decided to use a glass that day. I threw out the rest of the 12-pack and didn’t drink soda for at least a month.

I also once bit into a chicken nugget from a national brand and nearly chipped a tooth on a bone. I’ve eaten a quarter of a sandwich only to discover the far corner of the slice of bread was moldy. I’ve bitten into a nearly raw chicken tender at a restaurant. I’ve had a mouth full of curdled milk. And I’ve eaten from a bowl of cereal and then realized those little red things on my milk weren’t crumbs, they were mites.
What I find very interesting here is the QuickJS engine used in this. Developed by none other than Fabrice Bellard!
> Joining open source software projects to help synthetic biologists will non-trivially affect the future of the field (they don't know how to program)

Can you share some projects?
> this material was hacked

False. Laptop became the property of the repair shop when nobody paid the bill or turned up to pick it up.
Just a small follow up: in your repo home I tapped the link for humming guru, but the SSL certificate is for another domain and the browser complains.
If someone asks you the same question 50 times you ignore the person asking.

If 50 different people ask you the same question you put out a press release.

If 5000 ask you put out a news conference.

Responding to anything implies many things not r
No, it doesn't, they're using GitHub to store binary builds of this closed-source project.
That's a collosal red flag.
If you consider the Snowden leaks the result of "hacking" but the current leaks not, what exactly is your definition of "hacking"?
Nope -- I think it's brilliant. So many 'unrealized revenue' sources to dip into for any Q.
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No catch! We're genuinely trying to build a product that will help protect user privacy online :)
Reminds me of the time I bit into a big juicy overripe peach I'd just picked from the tree in our back yard. What seemed like hundreds of earwigs poured out, crawling all over my hand with some in my mouth.
Ask HN: Questions for Engineering Managers
Hey ya'll. The title mentions q's for EM's but would love input from anyone who has experience or an opinion.
Q: Did you get hired in a new company / team as an EM, or transition within the same team?

Q: Do you keep on building your technical knowledge? In your experience, is there a need for doing that or does experience gained in people management skills remove that requirement

Q: How good of an engineer would you rate yourself when you made the transition? Did you ever think 'I don't know enough eng yet'?

Q: Do you manage teams in the same technical domain you worked in before? Have you been an EM for teams in different domains? Did that have some effect / no effect / needed tech ramp up?

Q: Have you moved back to an eng role? Was that easy? Difficult? Have you ping-ponged between the two?

Context: I'm a senior (whatever that means) engineer, and casually considering moving more towards the management side (currently a tech lead for a team). Enjoy / have some people skills so this kind of work is attractive to some extent
So is the universe.
The FBI had Hunter Biden's laptop (or really repair shop owner's, since he didn't pick it up or pay the $85 repair bill) since December of last year. This should be fairly easy to corroborate. That's why we aren't hearing on-the-record denials. There's a lot more where that came from, and it's likely real.
Exactly. There is no "hiding in the masses", there is no "plausible deniability" going on here. If someone downloads CP or terrorist manuals using your connection, try explaining that to the dumb cops that you were using a p2p distributed VPN and that it "honestly wasn't me officer".
agree. no more jacking off
This wouldn’t work well with moving obstacles. The road could be clear until a person enters the road within your full-stopping distance.
> Social media sites are legally entitled to censure things they disagree with

That's right. But when they do that, can they claim that they are a 'platform' and not a 'publisher' ?

If paulX is a for-profit-business can he claim that his business a non profit and apply tax code designed for non-profit charities ?
Arguments like these are a lot more compelling when they include some specific features that are missing. Too often, "includes everything you need for free!" translates to "weighs down your binary with a hundred megabytes of functionality no one actually uses."
Fox News isn't in the business of censoring free speech. But nice try.
The one major reason i fully support remote work is, its effect on "age bias". You may be in your 20's and you may not feel the pressure. Once you hit 35+, you see age-bias everywhere. Its better to have job opportunities based on skill rather than how you look.
As I understand it, it's a tuple of lists of cubes, i.e. a slot stores a head of a linked list of cubes.
Hackernews? :p
That is neither the letter nor the spirit of the law. Section 230 shields “website operators” (since “platform” seems to be a loaded word) from liability for third-party content, even if they use discretion in moderating that content. There is no requirement of “neutrality”.
I can say that the quality of some of my professors completely affected my strengths today. Orthogonal to how they believed in me (which also plays a role imo). I had a very good analytics professor and to this day I can remember most theorems and I’m still fairly good there. My number theory teachers were shit though, and I’m still being affected by it today.
Good thing that literally their first sentence says police aren't there to protect you, which I literally cited in my post, and not some strawman argument about what is in the heart of each and every cop.

> If you genuinely believed the police are there to protect you, and not to ensure the status quo is enforced and continues, you are naive, or you are not part of a marginalized group.
Or maybe this is the root cause? Seems like these stupidity concentrators would just yieldorw stupidity and make their consumers stupider, feeding back into more concentration of stupidity, etc.
Very cool! Here is a bit more context about the idea/need:

https://github.com/LLK/scratch-gui/issues/1907
Right, but can you guess why stopping in the middle of traffic for a fake stop sign is bad?

Walk before you run is the essence of the argument here.
Anything with software sadly becomes a weapon. Especially when its heavy bulky and potentially deadly.

There will be a lot of money thrown on adversarial attack mitigation. But how much is too much? At some point it might become so expensive, that it will be cheaper to switch to guiderail-based self driving, which can be overseen and secured centrally. And self-driving planes are probably going to be a nonstarter
This is one of my biggest pet peeves, the worst offender is companies that have a github logo on their page, you click through, and their only repos are binaries, or documentation. It's hard not to see it as intentionally misleading.
Not sure how roads are one-dimensional. If that was the case, then collision always happens when two points are on the same distance from beginning of the road. But I somehow manage to make it from A to B on a highway together with other cars.

Roads are two-dimensional for collision calculations. Air is three-dimensional: you can be at the same latitude and longitude, but separated by elevation.
Social media are specifically not publishers, so no they're not "just like" the NYT/Fox.

They don't create content as an organization and only facilitate communication, which is exactly why section 230 is being contested.
> I have no idea what happened during the early 2010s.

Web monopolies happened.

The more a platform has members (including HN) the harder it gets to have meaningful conversations.

Then come the rules.
Is there any evidence the computer is legit? The only indisputable thing is the photos right? And those could have been hacked from anywhere. Or am I missing something? (I haven’t studied it much)
You seem upset. The Atlantic slave trade was awful. No one said it wasn't.

It's also exaggerated as somehow "more awful" than other kinds of slavery, which even if true, I suspect is cold comfort to the hereditary slaves of Mauritania, Dubai, Haiti and Sudan, among others. It's a kind of weird American culture imperialism: no, the shameful period of American and European slavery is not "worse" than the suffering of slaves today.

"...as people ALWAYS like to bring up "

All benighted degenerates, slavers, shall be beaten by their moral betters one day, as the Kroomen did, as the British Navy did, as the Union Army did. Let no one be ashamed to talk about slavery and name slavers until the shameful, evil practice is ended for all time
> The modern United States is about 2% Jewish. Hungary in 1900 was about 5%. The most Jewish city in America, New York, is about 15% Jewish. Budapest in 1900 was 25%. It was one of the most Jewish large cities anywhere in history, excepting only Israel itself. According to Wikipedia, the city’s late 19th-century nickname was “Judapest”.
I don't actually think that's quite right. Doing your own research into subjects where you're not an expert, at least for most people I think, is just as likely to lead you astray as listening to non-experts. (Most conspiracy theorists do a great deal of research.) I think the real key skill is differentiating between trustworthy and untrustworthy sources of information (on any given subject), and learning to logically estimate probabilities when multiple trustworthy sources differ.

It's just not feasible to follow the proofs of everything back to first principles for yourself, so at some point you need to trust an authority, at least to form a prior. The key is doing that in a logical manner.