skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
There's a really complex/perverse thing here which I'm going to fumble with, so I hope the dear reader forgives.

This information is not available to the black community. Now, obviously, any black person is technically capable of tuning into the Fox News channel where Dave Ramsey has a show, or dial their radio to conservative radio stations where Dave Ramsey is broadcast. But in practical terms, Dave Ramsey is unavailable to black people. And they are actively discouraged by our culture from even finding out that he exists.

I became aware of this in a discussion with a black friend i which she believed something that was "sort of" untrue. It was something approximately like she believed that white people grow up in homes where certain concepts like basic personal finance are taught. This was so bizarre sounding to me, because my actual life experience was so different. I grew up in a poor "white trash" household. My parents were/are buried in debt up to their necks. Basic personal finance, the Ramsey flavor or otherwise, was simply not in the ether. I didn't grow up with Fox on the TV either, or anything even pretending to be news. I still don't generally watch Fox News, but am a Ramsey fan.

I believe my friend was technically wrong, but maybe directionally right. She was directionally right in the sense that even though Dave Ramsey wasn't in my household, it was culturally at least acceptable. If you're far enough left wing to where you can't bring yourself to listen to Fox News/conservative radio, you can maybe get by with Clark Howard combined with Planet Money. Still extremely white in culture and audience.

I hope we figure out some way to get past this. Because even the pitiful tools that are available aren't available to everyone.
I said this below but I like to distinguish technical debt as having metaphorical "interest" - specifically, it becomes more expensive to pay back the longer you leave it, the ball of debt grows over time. It's stuff that gets baked into a product, and then is difficult (or impossible) to un-bake, and gets more difficult the more the product grows around it.

Aside from the initial increase in cost when you forget how the original code worked, tests are no more expensive to write in a year as they are today. Not significantly, at least. So I'd just class them as incomplete product - the effects are negative and can be expensive, but it doesn't dig you into a hole.
How it feels like to style things in 2020?
We had issues with Simcom modem chips as well as Telit. The newer Simcom chips are better and quite competitive, pre Sim800 it was riddled with bugs. If then Telit was an option, now it isn't because it's considerably more expensive and the IoT market is very competitive. 3G chips were the worst pricewise because they had to include royalties to Qualcomm, that's why most chipmakers pushed for 4G.

The ESP family is absolutely amazing in terms of price and features, not so much efficeincy wise. It would have been great if RTOS support was better. The ESP-IDF is based on FreeRTOS, NuttX has some preliminary support, RiotOS doesn't do FPU, BT, crypto acceleration and uses one core only. NodeMCU is maker/hobby garde, not an OS and so is Arduino. To be fair, the whole ESP chip family is rather hobby grade but if it works and you're not power constrained or you use it as a secondary MCU and put it to sleep, it should be fine.
There are no underlying concepts; they switch the whole thing up every so often. Say in 8 years time the government decides to swap income tax & sales tax out and replace them with a wealth & land tax. What fundamentals were the students meant to be taught to deal with that?
Windows has a built in "project" functionality where you can use any other windows device as a secondary screen - not only it's super easy to use(press win+p, select the device, done) it's also very very smooth, and the other device appears as a native secondary screen in all settings panels.

The only limitation here is that it's WiFi only, and only on devices with an Intel CPU as it's using Miracast underneath. But I use a £29 Tesco tablet with a crappy Atom CPU for this and it's fantastic as a portable secondary screen that works without any cables and literally takes 2 seconds to set up.
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Well, as far as I'm concern, if they only provide content with DRM, then piracy is fair game. I pondered for a time if I should buy the content on abusive platforms and then download it illegally without DRMs, but I decided that respect must go both way. Just to be clear, I pay for a lot of music every week and I even give a lot every months to charities, this is not about money and my difficulty to part with it. Ultimately, I very rarely use piracy anyway because when I have to, I lose respect for artists and don't want to listen to them anymore (it's not me making it political, it's just a feeling that happens when I realize the artist will force spyware on me). The only content I download through piracy is from long dead artists, mostly (they didn't chose to only be available with DRM).

That being said, I've been surprised how common it is to find albums on Bandcamp or bands' own sites. It may be the music I listen to (I try to never limit me to a few "genres", but I very commonly listen to music with small audience). I guess fees asked by platforms have something to do with it too.
He wasn't a fraud at the time, he was a postdoc at Cambridge (which is a pretty well-respected university).

He gave the data to Cambridge Analytica without permission, though.
I was responding to this:

> The private sphere -- family, close friends, personal intimacy, etc -- is where people are at their best. We can be honest there. We can show weakness, we can apologize, we can compromise and we can forgive.

It family where publicly charizmatic people stop trying to be charizmatic and start being abusive. Also, it is not rare, both private part and abuse part went up during lockdowns.

Aristotle and Marx have zero to do with it and the way people on HN bring super old classics in completely unrelated context is getting obnoxious.
I don't think the problem is people not understanding tools for managing money, I think people have a vastly different ideas about what money _is_ and what its _for_.

This is largely an ethical / moral / social issue. (not sure the correct word).

I've been thinking about it a bit lately because I have 2 young kids at home just starting to earn pocket money. For them money is to spend on treats. Sometimes I can convince them to save up for something larger, but fundamentally it's something for them to spend.

It's not until later in life, when you start selling your time that some people start to see money a little differently. No "treats" are really worth that time you invested earning the money to buy them. Money is not for spending on treats, it's for surviving. (and every cent counts.) Food, shelter, clothing, tools, then as little as possible on entertainment / culture / travel.

Then even later, when you have children, you start to realize that when you spend money, you are not only selling your time, but also the time of your children, because if you can just put enough away for them to start life without debt, they'll have to sell a hell of a lot less of their time to just survive.

err, but the point I was trying to make was that not many people are taught that money is not for spending on treats, but I don't thin that's something that you can be taught in school, (would even agree with).
> When there is zero wind and zero sun then it doesn't matter how much over provisioning there is: your output will be zero.

That does not really happen over large geographic regions, within which one can distribute energy via the electrical grid. In Germany, there has been a lot of research put into that before the non-nuclear strategy was decided. It was a political decision, but it has been prepared by many, many engineers and researchers.

In fact, there are times where Germany exports needed energy to France, in spite of that France has much more nuclear power. Sometimes that happens in hot sommers, when rivers have to little water and they become hot. Then, nuclear plants need to be shut down because otherwise they would cause environmental damage.

Other times, it happens in winter, because a lot of heating in France is electrical to accomodate for nuclear energy. But sometimes there is a shortfall, and it turns out that on windy winter days there is an excess of wind energy in western and northern Europe.

Another thing, storing energy is not necessarily expensive. A lot of energy use is things like room heating, room cooling, or hot water. Now, heat can be stored efficiently for many hours. (In larger tanks or earth installations, it can even be stored efficiently for months).
Relevant - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18342042\

JPEG image of Shakespeare which is also a zip file containing his complete works
I agree that it's unlikely to happen, but not for any of those reasons.

* Rust is no harder to learn well than C, as someone else has already commented.

* Rust compiling too slowly is just an attribute of its current implementation — there's nothing about the language itself that makes it any slower at compilation than, say, C++.

* C interop isn't hard at all in my experience. Do you have any particular complaints?

* it's no less safe than VM-based languages. In fact, given the guarantees it gives you wrt parallelism, I'd say it's more safe than most VM-based languages.
Technically, even streaming is making a copy.
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Out of all the 1s and 0s that I want backed up in the cloud for an indefinite period of time, nothing is as irreplaceable as a photo/video that will make me smile 2/5/10/20+ years from now. I'd argue that the threat of "X is shutting down" or worse, "X has shut down" but it landed in my spam 3 months ago is worse than any benefits that a non-FAANG co can offer me. At least with keeping backups on icloud/Gphotos, I know that both co's would kill those services abrubtly as their last dying wish.
This whole case in general is absolutely crazy. Literally decades of people telling various authorities about Raniere, and nothing. Even the Dalai Lama got duped into supporting Nxivm!

If anyone is interested in this, HBO has a docuseries called "The Vow" out. It focuses on Edmonson's story, as well as on some other people she worked with to get the info out. The whole thing is absolutely nuts -- the rabbit hole just keeps going deeper.
I paid for 1 and 2, but switched to Barrier a few months back. It’s been great. Like the older version, it just works.

Definitely give Barrier a swing.
For things to be said here.

First, Ben Bagdikian's media monopoly highlights how we now have very concentrated media companies and almost every company that calls itself "the mainstream media" is actually part of 4 or 5 companies that are I think are best deemed an oligopoly of influence brokers in the US. Much of the reason those companies have been targeting the current incumbent president for the past 4 years with a ferver that the Bushes, Clinton, or Obama never were attacked with is largely because when a rich person is threatened with losing their money, they'll simply spend it all to stop it from being taken away. Great example of how that works is here:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aGIYU2Xznb4

(This is older, we're down to 5 now).
https://producertales.files.wordpress.com/2011/08/mediamogul...

Second, you make more money as a "news" org if you foster an unquestioning, guillable audience that doesn't question what you're putting forward much. Hence, the use of naming and shaming, guilt tripping, heckling and otherwise berating their own audience through innuendo and sleight of hand. The MSM has repeatedly crossed the line in the last year of attempting to incite their audience to violence. A great majority of americans at this point, by polls, consider those orgs to be trash news and tabloids; what these large news orgs are attempting to do is to stop competition from taking root. Some of that is supported by the US Government; psyops are a real thing and having media control is an effective means to stopping them. Much of that is revenue assurance. The problem today is, people are turning off the TV and Cable news broadcasts and are going to 3rd parties because they've gotten wise to big media pissing in the soup.

Finally, 8chan has been, for a long long time, targeted by social engineering groups including spooks from the US government. The internet has this funny issue where unregulated, anonymous boards tend to get targeted by social engineering threat groups in foreign governments and that has been pretty well documented. Even HN gets targeted. The problem with psychological warfare is, much like any WMD, it doesn't differentiate between target or target audiences, and as a spook org, you have no idea who really uses 4chan or 8chan. So you end up with these platforms being used to attract and radicalize certain broad audiences, then SHTF such as e.g. Anders Behring Breivik, the courts and governments are left to pick up the pieces and save face.

Pretty much at this point there's no more face to save, and the burden of proof is now a hell of a lot higher for audiences going forward. The game of building trust in an org then using people is prooving less and less effective.

Krebs did an excellent job at following the money down on what looks like a fairly sophisticated psyop. Interesting to me he'd do that.
Microsoft Bashes Slack Complaint in European Antitrust Filing
Why do chips like these not have 5 GHz Wifi?

Living in a city, the 2.4 GHz band is crowded, and a lot of devices require you to play with your router settings to set them up [1] e.g., some Mill heaters must be set up on a 2.4 GHz network using a channel below 10 [2]

[1] https://millheat.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/213305665-My-...

[2] https://millheat.zendesk.com/hc/en-us/articles/213310805-WiF...
the author of gittorrent recommends https://radicle.xyz/
Update, FYI, I've just found some links about the matter and posted them above. These describe an experiment where an electron was seen transiting smoothly between two energy states whilst being in two places at once.
This quote came to my mind after your comment: "It is necessary to light it up so that it shines. (Inscription on Kubachi lamps)".

Yesterday I extended the README file so you can start using information from this section: https://github.com/egorsmkv/openapi3-generator#how-to-use

As I said before the project isn't related to business logic of your APIs but I can show you an example how you could use it. It's an example about how to create an API in Go.

After generating an api.yaml file go to api-spec-converter [1] and convert content of API spec in OpenAPI 3 format to Swagger 2.

Then download an executable file of go-swagger [2] and run this command to generate all boilerplate code for your server:

swagger generate server -f ./swagger.json -A pet-api

This way you can firstly prototype (describe all paths, schemes, and requests) of your API and only then to start to write code. It's hugely simplifying the process of coding in my opinion.

[1]: https://lucybot-inc.github.io/api-spec-converter/

[2]: https://github.com/go-swagger/go-swagger
> From what I understand this makes grid management much simpler and reduces storage, transmission, and conversion losses.

That's not so simple. Demand for energy is fluctuating hugely, and nuclear power cannot be freely switched on and off. This is also the case for large coal plants. So, with using renewable energy, grids need to become more agile, and a somewhat larger amount of freely controllable power sources is needed. Another strategy is to average out fluctuations over large areas.
I think that's why I'm being downvoted too, but frankly if the codebase is so bad that something is being copy/pasted hundreds of times to the point of unmaintainability, the abstractions that same team would build would probably also be disastrous, and much harder to deal with. Is that preferable?

But tbh, I'm skeptical of the premise to begin with. It's still easier to gradually consolidate 100 slightly different uses of a pattern than blindly create an abstraction that adequately covers those 100 uses. If your team is useless, it's better that their code be fragmented and atomic anyway, because big mistakes are inevitable. You don't want to make it hard to touch those mistakes. You want that code to be uncoupled & disposable.

But at that point the argument is getting pretty abstract. Depends on the specific codebase.
Many, most popular ones these days even, YouTube videos are uploaded in an authorised manner. Music videos by VEVO, etc.
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Just a month after raising prices...
Google Meet Security and Privacy for users
> When there is zero wind and zero sun then it doesn't matter how much over provisioning there is: your output will be zero.

A lot of energy use is room heating. But nobody wants their bedroom and living room in the night warmer than during the day.
“Polls notwithstanding” what data do you use to justify your statement regarding the outcome of the election in Texas and California?

Because if you look at the polls that’s ridiculous (probability of Biden winning Texas is orders of magnitude larger than Trump winning California).
> by a research university with an IRB

Let's not forget that Facebook is a company that tormented an employee so severely he killed himself at the office [1].

[1] https://www.vice.com/en/article/qvgn9q/do-not-discuss-the-in...
Telegram's official dev account is 'Telegram FZ-LLC'.

https://play.google.com/store/apps/developer?id=Telegram+FZ-...

Telegram X is not the official version.It is an unofficial client for testing design and app speed. It has a different UI
Not even on their github, blog or privacy policy you can find any names or addresses..
The technical term for that is "theory of mind". Without it you've basically lost the ability to have and participate in civil society.
While others could have a backup of a Git repository, I need to find them first — so discoverability is a problem. Next thing is integrity - how do I know that the git history I receive has not been tampered with?
> I loathe whenever these articles pop up on HN because they embrace an almost puerile approach to a wide range of complex issues...and conclude their critics as histrionic environmentalists

> finally, we have no competent architectural, structural, or societal plan to alert or inform anyone 20,000 years from now of the vast areas of nuclear contamination we will have left buried in the earth in the desperate hope of staving off irreversible climate change. The idea that we would so foolheartedly blaze a trail of atomic poison

Frankly your comment here is extraordinarily unhelpful in the grand scheme of things because it begins with preemptive insults and grievances and devolves quickly into breathless fearmongering and insult-laden tirade that is exactly the kind of thing that gets labeled as histrionics.

And the fact that you end here:

> Nuclear is the dullards flex-tape solution

These insults are just not helpful. It's exactly the kind of comment that makes these discussions so unruly, tiring, and turn people off.
> You're still running it at a 100% duty cycle, you're just shifting the generation times.

While you can do an emergency shut-down quickly, normally adapting the power output of a nuclear plant takes many hours:

https://www.quora.com/How-long-does-it-take-to-shut-down-a-n...
The tinnitus masking video I used to sleep is now in my liked playlist.
This recent takedown will only make more people know about YouTube-Dl and hopefully create more forks. When will these big companies learn!?
Ahhh. I don't see ads using Firefox anyway, as I use uBlock Origin.
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I am not a physicist, but the experiment does not seem convincing to me.

The Larmor clock doesn’t measure a proper time as in spacetime distance between two events. Instead it measures the rotation of a dipole in an electromagnetic field.

The experimenters apply a combination of an electrostatic field (the barrier) and a magnetic field (the timer driving Larmor precession).
In the frame of reference of the spinning particle, this is exhibited as a sum of two electrostatic fields. The barrier is a locally uniform repulsive electrostatic field, while the the timer is a radially varying axial electrostatic field. The particle is a dipole, tilted from the timer axis by the precession angle. When the particle tunnels through the barrier, it also tunnels through the timer field, without precessing over the tunneled distance just as the particle is not exhibiting repulsion from the barrier over the same distance.

This is experimentally verifiable as the amount of missed precession has a lower bound proportional to the sine of the angle between the magnetic field and the barrier.
What Divides Us Is Class, Not Race
> it seems like those are anomalous and your comment is shot through with historical survivorship bias.

Fair point. Maybe. Maybe not. What I mean is: it's hard to compare the outcome of democracies and non-democracies, because in my view the only country that has ever existed to come close to the concept of democracy in the history of humanity is Switzerland. And even that one has plenty of non-democratic aspects. Sample size: 1...

Other countries don't come close IMO. I don't agree that your examples where anything close enough to democracy. Not even Greece (where only the upper caste of society was allowed to vote, forget slaves etc).

And that's not even considering the fact that we essentially have sample size 0 if we want to compare large true democracies to large totalitarian states.

> but I disagree that that results in quality of life improvement.

Improvement compared to what? Tribal societies? Anarchy? Democracy? It is a fact that many societies that fell into dictatorship had an undeniable improvement in quality of life for the masses (compared to whatever previous society they had), but then also a massive decrease in quality of life eventually (or the other way around or in cycles, etc). And it can happen relatively quickly within years/decades. That was kind of my previous point: totalitarian regimes are efficient in ramping up, but such a system has no way to be stable, because the entire power pyramid depends on 1 person at the top (and a whoooooole lot of manipulative butt-licking corruption down the chain). Nice competent person = instant nice society. Evil/crazy/sick person (possibly the same person that started out nice) = instant hell.

> I don't think any of those examples lifted anywhere close to the same proportion of their population out of poverty. China lifted 880 million out of poverty.

China, the very same political/military system, also got those same people into poverty in the first place in a matter of years/decades (killing up to some 60 million people in the process) through Mao. Again, my point exactly: totalitarian regimes are good at ramping up quickly and messing up equally quickly.

They've quickly gone into poverty before, they can do it again. There's only 1 person between China being "great" and China being nothing in a matter of years/decades. And that's the point I was trying to make before.
Clearly such a course can be taught in different ways. One could be pure uncritical acceptance and one could be like a philosophy class with real discussion and debate. Which was it? One is most certainly teaching how the doctrine is supposed to work, but may fail to teach you anything of worth about how the system you're living with is actually working.
That's not DRM, and not encryption as you originally said. DRM would be something like https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encrypted_Media_Extensions.