skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I didn’t think he was wearing a tinfoil hat. I agreed with RMS back then insofar as he saw things like TPM coming. However, he did not understand then and still does not understand that by using any device as complex as a computer, the user must trust _somebody_. His free software ideals lead him to think that if the user can read the source and modify it, he can trust it. But this is true of no one, regardless of his technical acumen. The software is too large, too complex for any one user to audit.

So the user must trust someone. Typically this is going to be at a minimum his OS vendor. He might also have to trust other software vendors, and maybe hardware vendors and network operators. That the vendor provides Free Software makes no difference. I have a machine running Debian. I still have to trust Debian.

What TPM does is give the OS vendor another tool so I can be assured that I’m running what the vendor provided. Of course the vendor can abuse this. But if he does, I have bigger problems. I want the vendor to be able to provide me with what I asked for and therefore I welcome technologies like TPM.

I don’t disagree with RMS because he’s paranoid. I disagree with him because he thinks Freedom is an elixir.
Monkey Island on an Apple II? Not quite there, but could be
How long have you been using it? I find random ESP32s off of Amazon to be a bit of a crapshoot, and I’ve taken to just sticking to big microcontroller integrators that I’ve used before.
You're correct on all points, though this kind of implementation (with variable-length output) is fairly rare AFAIK. Having a fixed-length output lets you reliably define for example a database field length.

I'd love to see a practical implementation of that though, if you know where to find that kind of project off-hand!
Bird wings act as a suspension system that rejects gusts
Ah. That makes sense, then.
Pure hyperbole. If you think any of these items are even remotely close to happening you are living in a fantasy land. Biden and the rest of the DNC can’t even admit that a terrorist group (Antifa) exists despite being responsible for multiple murders, arson, and countless beatings. It’s just an idea, man!
Let me give you something else to wonder about:

Given that things ranging from toothbrushes through shoes to headsets are broadcasting or reflecting radio waves, how many receivers hidden in plants, furniture, and garden gnomes does it nowadays take to construct with entirely passive surveillance a model of the goings-on within an average house or office building? (-:
A pleasant, informative, and painfully incomplete article about him can be found here:

https://web.archive.org/web/20110726063943/http://www.freear...

No mention of his secret sauce other than, well, things bore him and he moves on.
How do you authenticate that timestamps are accurate?
Nobody's met a pollster but everyone has faith in the polls... Usually for Science people need evidence that is well-cited. It seems strange people forego this requirement when it comes to election "science"
> Feminism has the same PR problem as veganism: They're granfalloons.

Are feminism and veganism granfalloons?

I'm not sure the definition of granfalloon even makes sense. I get the humour and the wisdom of granfalloonery... but where does it leave us?

How is the clustering of people who share a common characteristic, such as an interest or an origin, "meaningless"? It depends on what you mean by meaninglessness. If we defer to the notion of Shannon information, the association of people who share an ideal or a belief is not random, is it? So it must have meaning?

Maybe yes and maybe no. It depends on what you measure, and what you consider to be meaningful.

A room full of feminists, like a room full of vegans, do have at least one thing in common. Getting these people together in a room increases the possibility that they might organise to act in a way that furthers the advancement of their group interest. That seems like it could fit the definition of meaningfulness, does it not?

Still, the insight of labelling these as granfalloons serves to highlight that on any other measure or criteria, the same people might have nothing in common, and might well be adversarial or counterproductively affiliated.

So, a roomful of vegans might also comprise half a roomful of Democrats, and half a roomful of Republicans, right? On diet, they reinforce. But on politics, they cancel out. Is that the wisdom of granfalloonery? I'm not entirely sure, but in the matter of feminism, post Beauvoir, we can see fragmentation, which is the classical dilemma of the movement as a political force. All feminists are not all alike on all measures, and just being feminists is not enough to get a roomful of them to agree to agree on anything.

At the Super Bowl, one of them might root for the Patriots, and the other for the Giants, right? That's the absurdist dimension of the meaninglessness of their clustering. But is that the most salient aspect of their interests?

Amy Coney Barret is not the same as Ruth Bader Ginsberg. The notion that humans of their gender are entitled to serve on the supreme court bench is an ideal of feminism. It does not follow that one woman is substitutable for another woman, just because of her gender. But to exclude people from the supreme court on the basis of gender is to throw out an entire class of people that cuts across all categories of ideology, interest, aesthetics, dietary practice, race, religion and culture. That we can see that now is testament to the work that Beauvoir did to open up our understanding of classifications of people to the nuance of gender.
The biggest use would be for Automated Clearing House (ACH) funds transfers. Right now, banks receive and send money by sending flat files through a distributed processing system with no database transactions, verification, or transfer history. Some big bank robberies were committed a few years ago by compromising the banking systems that create and process these files. Once the file is sent to the ACH network, reversing transactions is a manual process and is nearly impossible after the funds leave the destination to a 3rd party.
Xi Jinping has a constituency and to a degree opaque to the West, that constituency provides his mandate. Discomfit the constituency, the princes and princelings, in their pockets, and that mandate might be withdrawn.

That revolution will be messy, but it's needed.
Right, that probably should have been:

> > that would constitute a GPL violation on the part of the government [if the government were the ones distributing it] [...]

It would be nice to close this loophole (prevent or at least disincentivise the goverment from making such laws), but it's not clear how that could be accomplished.
You have to afford birth control, which isn't always an easy feat. I've lived plenty of places where, being poor, I couldn't afford to travel to planned parenthood.

Lots of folks get pregnant on these: Most folks can't take birth control pills perfectly. (I Personally cannot use hormonal birth control at all without major side effects, and wanted to be sterilized - but that's not generally an option for childless women)

Abortion is legal, sure: But it isn't free either and in some states, it takes travel and things to get there.

Expecting folks to put their child up for adoption is simply cruel. Besides, we should look at more than financial viability for folks. I'd rather help folks raise whatever children they have than sell children off (taxpayer funded is the way to go) and I'd much rather foster homes and adoption of older children be encouraged.
Pythagoreanism, Math and Philosophy
People typically write small, short scripts in bash, not web applications. The same goes for JavaScript, but in reverse. They were designed for different things.
The Logic of Counting Votes
Pet Owners Are Diverse, but Veterinarians Are Overwhelmingly White
Interestingly bureaucracy has many cracks.
Also QuickJS only gets security research done on it for fun: https://twitter.com/qwertyoruiopz/status/1150490648275034112
We share a common ancestor with Neanderthals but they're not some sort of precursor to Homo sapiens. They're actually just as far evolved as homo sapiens. If you visualize it as a family tree, Sapiens and Neanderthals are siblings with the same parents.
I live in a small town. America used to have a lot of thriving small towns with lively downtown areas. I am interested in seeing more support for that sort of thing.

Not everyone lives in the big city. Not everyone needs to. Even within the big city, there is lots of room for improvement.

And making it possible for more people to run some of their errands on foot doesn't mean "You aren't allowed to leave this 5 square kilometer area and can never drive or use public transit." It just means some of the things you do normally can be reached on foot (for a greater percentage of people than is true currently).
All the timestamp implementations seem oddly complicated for an append only filesystem. We’ve had write once media for thousands of years haven’t we?
The twitter discussion leading for the new domain and name of the project https://twitter.com/sebmck/status/1319870764435316736
Try qBittorrent. I have been very happy with it as a uTorrent replacement for the past few years.
At least in the US, I think it varies massively depending on the culture of a given city and school (the way the parents in the district make their living definitely impacts the values of the kids), and maybe less so generationally.
It depends on your paranoia about attack vectors. From photo EXIF data you can figure out what phones and cameras you use, where you took the pictures, and dates and times you've traveled. With AI or looking at the photos you can ID people and other personal details. I sometimes take photos of personal documents that can be OCRed.

Sure, techies tend to be more paranoid than the average person, but I do think people undervalue the long tail of data. Years ago I was talking to my wife about avoiding sensitive info in email with our tax preparer. I mentioned that we could send an email and a decade later he could get compromised and it would be trivial to scan old emails for specific data like w2s, social security numbers, or bank accounts.
Customers haven't been given the choice
So, bear with me. I think I've got a similar problem with music. I have a good ability to improvise, and play tunes that come into my head. And I've got a decent grasp of music theory. But I find relating improv to the theory(and making deeper sense of music that's written down) really hard.

I've got a collection of texts that I can go through, and I've found lately that starting on a random key of the day I roll a dice - has really helped me on both sides - in that I've got a bunch of kinds of exercises I do for practice, but the piece of randomness helps me with finding things to practice, that help me broaden my existing knowledge and practice.

What does this mean for you? Well maybe you need to pick a random page of a suitable book each day, find the start of the section for that page, go through it and then see if you can think of any exercises or things you need to do to help you with your knowledge consolidation from that.
yeah I have a similar thing - I’m trying to read a computational geometry textbook (for a code project) and I end up skipping the equations and trying to glean the meaning from the prose... it’s a slow process. There must be a resource out there for decoding unfamiliar equations but I don’t know what it is
Binwalk: Firmware Analysis Tool
There's also a 2006 documentary titled "the bridge" about the same topic. The real footage is not for the faint of heart, though.
I understand how technology works, but this understanding, and understanding of the incentives and inner workings of most IT companies, just makes me trust it less. Nothing is reliable, almost nothing caters to the needs of the users, everything actively discourages any kind of education unless it's for monetary benefit. I miss the times when it was expected that people actually learn how stuff works to make most of it. Now we have someone else's trusted public keys burned into OTP ROMs in our personal devices, and not many people are even aware of that.
Ubuntu dropped Qt4 from their repos, there is still plenty of third party software that uses that
Not positive but my toothbrush has interchangeable heads and applies different settings based on what head is being used: ie some heads are gentle, some are whitening, some are gum care, etc.
Assuming that we achieve immortality in our current state I would assume this means a cure for natural death. e.g no more death from old age. That still leaves death from murder, accidents, etc.

Given that reality, I still don't see the second part as solvable. Because at the root of it, what we would have to solve is man's inhumanity to man (greed, envy, hate). Because the reality is people you know and love are still going to die, maybe they live longer but there is still going to be death. At a certain point when you lose enough people it makes one tired in the soul. I am of the opinion that you have to eliminate all suffering for an eternal existence to be worth living and we as humans have been pondering that subject probably longer than any other human problem that has existed.

Now if we are talking about another form of reality say a simulation where none of that stuff ever exist and we upload our minds into it we are really no longer talking about eternal life in this existence. Rather we are talking about heaven, enlightenment whatever we want to call it just by a different name and the reality is, even though it may be a instantaneous upload, we still have to die to get there. If not we just exist in two realities one where we are immortal and a wholly different being and one we are still very mortal and still suffer from the imperfections of this existence.

I just don't see how it is solvable by making what we are now, live forever.
Watch some lectures or pick up an undergrad book on Real Analysis. You don't have to become an expert in it by any means, but the motivation and logic underlying most of the math you will encounter will become much clearer. It's hard, but don't give up on it. It will be worth it. Before delving into analysis I felt like I was just memorizing and following formulas. It really is like the fundamentals of Math.
Ask HN: How do I deploy a backend?
Hey guys, I'm kind of inexperienced in backend web stuff.

How do I deploy a backend that will eventually be scalable and easy to maintain? Or, where should I go to learn?

I want to:
- deploy a REST API, with WebSockets that should be able to handle potentially many concurrent connections
- be able to store user sessions in Redis
- store data in a scalable SQL database
- be able to continuously deploy as I push code

I'm confused by the number of services and options I have.
- I'm not interested in Firebase, or similar services, because I don't want to be locked in.
- I'm not interested in cloud functions, or lambda functions, I don't want to deal with cold starts
- I'm not sure about Heroku, I don't want everything done for me. I feel like this will inhibit learning and growth rather than encourage it.

Do I:
- Use Amazon EC2, or some other container service? I'm not sure if this is what they're even for. Would these services help me spread connections and requests across multiple containers?
- Use a managed SQL database like RDS, or DigitalOcean managed databases? Will this be cost-effective in the long run? What other ways do I have to handle my database?
- Use something like Elasticache for Redis? Is there something else I can do here too?
- How can I implement a CI/CD pipeline along with all this?

Any advice would be greatly appreciated. Any recommendations for books or other resources to learn what to learn would also be appreciated.
Tiny houses make an impact in today's market
Forensics work mostly comprises of people doing criminal or civil things.

Network intrusions, someone sending a fucked up email at work would require you to retrieve data whether it be some logs, or a full hard disk copy.

The idea is that I do analysis and can prove that what I started with (hash1) is the same as when I ended (hash2). If the hash changed, either there was a hardware failure (on write blockers) or a mistake was made when analysing the dataa.
https://archive.vn/UkoH6
I'd like to do that, but it would make sense if he reserves it so that he can sell prints
This car is more about rebranding GM as an electric vehicle company. Even if they only break even, it's an extremely inexpensive PR campaign to change what people are talking about when they talk about GM.
I don't actually generate clients. I generate data types for requests and responses, which I then use with regular HTTP clients.

I'm sure there are some client generators out there that work well and create lean code, but it's easy enough to use off-the-shelf HTTP clients with some additional type guards.

This is the tool I use most often for TypeScript: https://github.com/horiuchi/dtsgenerator
Yeah, I do wonder if the tooling to cause a full MD5 hash collision across the file system will come in the future.
Isn't this a never-ending discussion? There is no natural when you go past the naked eye. Any camera has a "filter", a development technique is a "filter"
Amen. Thanks for sharing. As a cancer survivor, this resonates.
We don't know how many say no preference and how many do have positive one. Which is part of the issue I'm trying to raise. We don't have that data.

Also, my quote is from the paper itself. It doesn't include your quote. The article seems to change the claim a bit.
Any time I've had any sort of opioid the only thing it did for me is make me feel extremely sick.
Hacker News users are customers.
The projects sound really interesting. I'm a Rust programmer, and I clicked through to their careers page.

When is this going to end? Why do we think that creating a better world requires plastering our communications with these meaningless word-salads of business speak mixed with faint touches of academic cultural theory? Why do we think that the under-represented groups we rightly seek to encourage to the workplace would be attracted by such shit?

> Diversity and inclusion

> We believe that fostering an equitable environment where people feel a sense of belonging as their authentic selves creates a culture for people to do their best work. Diverse teams, when supported by this culture, produce more creative solutions, innovative products, and inclusive experiences.
Why can't you just sign the image of the odometer?
Amen. Thanks for sharing. As a cancer survivor this resonates.
During lockdown, if allowed, a walk can be really nice. Some fresh air. Not sitting. Its a complimentary reason to get a dog (I don't like dogs, do like walking, so don't opt for one). Also, you can combine it with an audiobook, podcast, meditation (I got taught a mindfulness technique focussed on walking), music, or just the sounds of nature or the city. Or combine it with public transport, or an errand. My daughter is almost 3, she loves walking outside.
For .NET, it's best to write the spec as annotations on your controllers and request/response classes using NSwag[1].

The situation is similar in the Java world. It's better to annotate, rather than start with your own spec.

For TypeScript, I mostly use a CLI tool[2] that generates type definitions, which I then use in my routing system and controllers to make sure that any changes to paths, requests, and responses are going to cause compiler errors until they're fixed.

1. https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/aspnet/core/tutorials/getti...

2. https://github.com/horiuchi/dtsgenerator/
Meh. Everyone pushes their favorite calculus book but I think better is to just try to push yourself to gain an intuition for your subject. Try to visualize what it is the text is saying, try to apply the problem etc.

When I took calculus there were three things that really helped me with this:

1) A study partner that's competitive. when you have an intuition you're more likely to get the correct answer first because you can check what's going on quickly without having to recalculate things. Also when they get stuck you'll be expected to explain how you figured it out. Studying with someone like this will force you to grow an intuition.

2) Writing programs that use what you've learned. At least for me this helped a lot. I learned to program before I learned any interesting math so being able to rewrite what are often implicit ideas in an explicit language can really help you think things through. Like many people here I gained an intuition for integration early on by writing physics engines for games.

3) Just meditate on the ideas.
Delete Facebook and You'll Lose All Oculus Games for Good
“Biblical allusions and other cross-references appear in parentheses at the end of definitions. Idiomatic phrases are handled as separate definitions at the end of the headword entry. Where relevant, sense plays, word plays, and figurative usages are marked in bracketed notes, as in definition B of the headword alphabet”

This is super cool. The number of times I don’t follow something as deeply as I wish I could is because I am missing the broader context of items like this.

Thank you!
This is horrendous, China is a frightening place
What is the source for that, please?

I'm not doubting, I just found it hard to find drill down info, including my own (not American) country.

after all expenses

To clarify - does it include all reasonable expenses for recreation, culture, food, commuting, etc, basically any normal (neither profligate or frugal) expenses for a balanced life?
Don't forget that for trade purposes (customs!) every item that is crossing borders already need to declare COO and that documentation and rules exist how to assign it based on value-added manufacturing steps.
Yeah, I'm not understanding it. And I don't think useful information should be hard to understand, so I hope someone can clarify.

Here's what I figure:

- If I caught it a week ago, I would be sick by now

- So, I didn't have it a week ago

- I haven't had contact with anyone outside my house for a week

And it's the same for my spouse. We can't catch it from each other if we don't have it.

So, the payoff for distancing and masks inside the house seems very low for a very high cost. I can only stand 6 months and counting of lockdown because my best friend (spouse) is locked down with me.

We did have a scare once, and did a 2-week quarantine within the house. I just don't see any point doing that all the time when neither of us have it right now.
Awesome. Is that picture taken with a regular DSLR type camera?