skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is seriously cool. Yes it is "early" and I expect it to evolve but I like where they are going.

A number of boards I've done recently were essentially PCB wiring harnesses for a bunch of breakout boards. Why? Because it was easy and quick and I could get from idea to something that could be shown to work quickly. Also for a lot of things most of the circuits are already out there and its just a matter of putting things together.

Things I would like to see in the future:

1) A "box" form factor so that things could easily be put into a chassis. Ideally the box would be an STL file so you could print it to the height as needed.

2) A "ui" mode which is basically the board design tools but with all indicators and controls, and a constraint that once you have everything laid out the way you want it has a single wiring harness between it and that "main" board.

This is also something that Crowd Supply could knock out I suspect if they were inclined to do so.
> Perhaps some lawyers would offer to assist in representing NYU pro bono should Facebook file a complaint.

Look at the list of signatories. Mozilla Foundation, EFF, etc....there is no shortage of lawyers involved in this.
As someone who learned on python (many years ago), I think the balance of being allowed to shoot myself in the foot, while only having to learn complexity when complex concepts came up, was a good combination rather than a bad one. Trying to learn C++ and Java before, having to type everything was an impedement. On python, you find out that types still matter when you try to add a string to an integer, for example. The moment the type matters to you is when you need to dig into those details. I'm not sure I would have the career I do if it hadn't been around to be the one language that fit my 16-year old brain.
Yes, getting very large tanks of medical grade nitrous oxide for parties worked like that, for me.
Jeez I’m wondering what the going price would be for that today.
If spotify stops taking my money I and millions others will go buy music somewhere else. Spotify is not exactly popular with non-superstar musicians either.
Why Leveling the Horizon Isn’t Easy
Agree. It doesn't. We think about investment (of any type - including reinvesting revenue) in pretty simple terms: As a means to support our goal of making Artifact available to people who can benefit from our service.

If a "VC case" ends up supporting that goal, great. If not, so be it.
The disabled aside, no, I do not believe people who are withdrawing more from their society than they are depositing should be given a say in the governance of that society.
> The first is Minecraft, AMD has atrocious abandoned OpenGL drivers and Minecraft regularly fails to reach 60 fps on AMD cards where it can get to 500+ on Nvidia, its one of the most played games on the planet.

I'm really not finding anything that supports this claim, can you substantiate it? I see scattered sub-60fps reports in Minecraft for both Nvidia & AMD. It seems to just be a "minecraft's engine is shit" thing, not an AMD thing?

But I'm not seeing any actual comparisons or head-to-heads or anything showing AMD in particular is struggling with Minecraft in particular. This unknown quality benchmark is the only thing I'm finding for Minecraft: https://www.gpucheck.com/game-gpu/minecraft/amd-radeon-rx-57... and it's definitely not struggling to hit 500 fps numbers at 1080p, either.

And other OpenGL games & apps are not showing any severe AMD issues, although the only significant sample of those are on Linux so that also has
a different OS, so there certainly doesn't appear to be anything systemically wrong with AMD's OpenGL as you're claiming. Unless for some reason they just never brought over the way better Linux OpenGL driver to Windows, which would be highly unexpected & definitely something that needs evidence to support.

> zero acknowledgement that people play games other than the latest AAA games

This is just completely false and seems to just be because your pet peeve is Minecraft in particular? Both Nvidia & AMD discuss popular games not just the latest AAA games. Usually in their latency section, since that's where it comes up as more relevant (esports games), but it's definitely not an ignored category entirely.
DAI is stable(ish), so there's no effective tax liabilities since your cost basis will always market price.

The tax issues come up if you're storing BTC (or other alts), not DAI.
Yes, it is. Do they still require a minimum of two officers?

(Spam warning: if you form a company at your home address, you will be inundated with paper spam for office equipment. Especially from Dell.)
Google discontinues Nest Secure alarm system
Brought this to mind, which I first saw in redacted form in The Best of Creative Computing:

http://www.mit.edu/people/dmredish/wwwMLRF/links/Humor/The_E...
From their graphs, aren't they double counting? e.g., search would also find search engineer?
Good. Will drop you an email.
let threshold = (0 &- range) % range

> It is somewhat inconvenient that Swift forces us to write so much code, but we must admit that the result is probably less likely to confuse a good programmer.

Oh come on, it's basically just one extra character.
Yes, and I don't want to switch to a pure stack from _any_ desktop environment. I want all these things to easily mix and match. And for all these things outside the pure wayland protocol (and some supposedly inside it), they don't.
So, basically they found the encryption key. Now microcode updates can be analyzed. We are still far away from modifying them since we lack the private key to sign a modified one. But perhaps there is a vulnerability that can be used to bypass this.
How about EICAR ANTIVIRUS TEST FILE? Or the DeCSS key?
The trend for now is to use remote desktops instead. VNC, RDP, that sort of thing. Use Xvnc or Xrdp on the remote machine, so the apps on that machine have something to connect to.

Although X was remote-capable from early on, it was never especially well designed for remote uses. For example you can't easily detach from a display and move an app to a different display. And it's not very good at latency on a high-latency network. Partly that's because of how it assigned XIDs in the protocol; they should have been client-assigned. It would still be possible to make that change (as an extension) but it hasn't been done.

It would be great if there was a modern remote desktop application protocol, that works well over all kinds of networks and allows application windows be moved between different display clients easily (e.g. from your laptop to your desktop at work). Or even better, let the application move as well, for ideal responsiveness everywhere.

I think we will get that eventually, because it's such a natural evolution of all the distributed things we're building. But I think it will be a long time coming.
It's amazing what the threat of bankruptcy can make people do.
This is just an another payment method on top of Bitcoin. It doesn't have any effect on the properties of the underlying currency.
What the Edtech Industry Should Know About the Worst Parts of Remote Learning
"The The" was a pretty notable band in the 80s/90s.
Yeah, I think you're right about being candid when talking with a stranger + the professional interviewer knowing what they are doing.

The taxi driver analogy is awesome, btw!
Previous article from the FBI director on this subject[1].

Basically "Operation Fox Hunt" is China saying to people overseas who say things China doesn't like, "Come to China to be jailed, or commit suicide. If you don't, your family will suffer in your place."

Threatening family members is very not-good. China just doesn't have the same kind of ethical system as Western nations, they hold the collective above the individual, and they expect everyone to know their place. So it makes perfect sense from a Chinese perspective for criticizing the government to be regarded as especially despicable (you don't know your place), and to hold one member of a family responsible for another's conduct (the collective is above the individual). But from a Western perspective, it's a special kind of evil for a government to threaten its critics' innocent family members.

I hope these Chinese agents are prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.

I hope Washington sends China a bill for the costs of investigating, prosecuting, and jailing their agents. And if China refuses to pay, China has lots of US Treasury securities; interest and principal payments to those Treasuries could presumably be seized before leaving the US banking system.

I hope Justice Department lawyers are assigned to help victims file multi-million dollar civil cases against China for infliction of emotional distress. Medical bills and disability compensation if injured; wrongful death if their relative was killed.

And while we're billing China for the costs imposed by its actions, let's throw in a lifetime security detail to protect the victims from future harrassment by China's next batch of agents.

The only thing that surprises me is that they restrained themselves to mere stalking and verbal threats.

If the ethics of China's decision makers are so twisted that threatening family members is okay, it seems like they're pretty twisted, and only a little more twisting will get them to the point where they declare uncooperative targets ought to be receiving mailed packages of their loved ones' fingers and toes, escalating to eyeballs and other body parts that are increasingly unpleasant to lose.

[1] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-usa-china-wray/fbi-chief-...
why 293? this fda approved product for example uses 311 (https://www.amazon.com/Angel-Kiss-Portable-Phototherapy-Fluo...)
Hire, we have money for that specific reason.

> why bother creating open source software at all.

I create features for myself, I share it for free, that's gift, not pleasing.
Positively identifying people was very difficult before fingerprinting came along. The police used all kinds of schemes of erratic accuracy.
I have a similar medical condition in its effects, access to really frightening levels of painkillers, and I have often -- in the less pleasant moments -- had similar impractical "daydreams."
They probably don't have general code that spam any form, it's more likely that they have code specific to GitLab CE instances that knows to post snippets. If GitLab changes their default configuration so that those snippets are no longer indexed by Google, the spammer are likely to stop using that GitLab CE spamming script, after a while.
Reading it bought back memories if reading "Bad Paper: Chasing Debt from Wall Street to the Underworld" [1] and surprisingly Buffalo features prominently in that book too ;) Anyone who is in the USA and has debt of any kind (i.e. they are still breathing) should read the book.

I was generally left with a fairly positive impression of debt collectors as scrappy but out on the fringe individuals who were making a living cleaning up the financial ecosystem. The companies who sell their debt to these collectors came off poorly which is basically every corporate in the country. Mind blowing.

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Bad-Paper-Chasing-Street-Underworld/d...
People set up projects in the US because that's where the users are. And for that matter, where the people setting up the projects are.
I always liked to imagine filing "The The" under "The, The".
What other side? The ESP-believers? Because Randi made it hard for 'legitimate' researchers to get funding, he's somehow bad? Are you kidding me?

Fraudsters and criminal con men were exposed by Randi. I have no sympathy for them, as they had no sympathy for those they bilked.
Maybe they reverse-engineered China's hardware backdoors and don't need additional backdoors now.
Flutter Web does it's own rendering via canvas, so accessibility is off the table for now and there is no easy path to get there.

That alone should kill it for most production use unless it's an internal tool.

("should" because many apps sadly just don't care)

edit: I was wrong, see below.
Glad to be wrong actually, because Flutter is great.
My brother is a Public Defender. He tells me that this wouldn't work in California because it requires a court appearance here.
It’s actually the other way around surprisingly. The big fish tend to have resources to fight the IRS in court; which becomes expensive for the IRS. Hence the IRS goes after the not so rich since they rarely put up a fight.

e.g.
https://www.propublica.org/article/irs-sorry-but-its-just-ea...
Sweden and Belarus handled pandemic by not doing lockdowns. In Sweden for the last 3 months only 0-3 people a day die with covid-19. There is no second wave of deaths like in other European countries.
https://covid19.who.int/region/euro/country/se
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/COVID-19_pandemic_in_Sweden
Then how come Twitter doesn't support it? Who's controlling it?
You can make a world of pain in any language.

But you don't have to. If you are trafficking in unique_ptr customizations, you are coding The Hard Way. std::unique_ptr is convenient mechanism, not an organizing principle. Make a named class or class template with a member that is a unique_ptr, and traffic in instances of that class, by value.

If you are working with FILE pointers, you are doing things the hard way. Do you have some library that demands you give it a FILE pointer? Otherwise you probably want a std::filebuf. Likely on the stack, or a member of class that provides a more useful abstraction than a raw file.
Is this another "Classic Google" move? I was considering a Nest security system a few years ago, and wasn't sure whether it was a plus or a minus that they're part of Google. I guess now it's shown to be a minus. It's nice that they're offering support, but buying Nest Secure means you're buying into the ecosystem and this is a big proclamation that the ecosystem is not growing.
What's clear and unbiased journalism!
I see utility in reading scientific literature produced with a vastly different outlook. What old scientists emphasized back then is worth investigating today to understand how and why they arrived at their conclusions (you know, that whole "study history to avoid repeating mistakes" spiel). Could they simply not observe the world with fine-enough detail? Where did their views derive from?

Asimov's broad strokes in here are correct, even if specific details aren't. His presentation of biological principles is lucid to a degree few can match.
Thanks, great to see some numbers as well.

My initial draft of this stated that we are using Prometheus/Grafana + ELK across the company, although its still being standardised and turned from individuals creating their own deployments to a proper managed, strategic system with SLAs/documentation.

We're looking at the feature lists of SaaS offerings like Datadog, Logz.io, but I think we're too big to get a sensible price. That said, I don't think we're big enough to justify something like Thanos that turns Prometheus from a really simple application, into a big time investment.

Out of interest, are you storing 2TB of Prometheus data in a single instance? Or spread across multiple?
If you can do server side great: do it. The difficulty is accurately predicting how much JavaScript you'll end up writing. If your client-side JavaScript is comparable in complexity to your SSR you'll eventually end up with the worst of both worlds.
Spikes do, though. But like I said, there are certainly limits for most people.

But most people probably consider a grey sky, where some rain drops may fall, their limit.
I was almost hesitant to click on this because of some of the not-so-helpful stuff I’ve read in the past on this topic. But I think the author really hit the nail on the head here.

If you’re someone who’s thinking about making the move into management.. I strongly recommend giving this a read. It’ll give you a sense of some of the responsibilities, dynamics, and challenges you’ll be likely to face. They all ring very true from my experience.
I had indeed first confused them but they are likely to run into similar issues (depending on the regulatory environment).
Hey - I don't take that as snarky at all! Totally fair point. See my comment above about how our team is thinking about investment.
Free of charge != Free Software :)

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_software
Appreciate the response - I'll look into now
I just went from a linux laptop to a dual boot laptop

I already have enough trouble with an unencrypted file system

Not sure where to keep my user files. On NTFS, they are hard to reach from linux. On ext, they are hard to reach from Windows. On exFAT, there is no journaling

Now I put them all on NTFS.
Spatial Audio Designer + it's virtual sound card. As heard in Red Tails by Lucasfilm, for example. Or the Expendables 3 bluray.

LAWO hardware mixing desks are Linux based, so the broadcast world demands Linux tools.

But the whole thing started out as an Apple exclusive app to be used together with Pro Tools. Ironically, Pro Tools has also had lots of problems with new macOS releases, so when their Windows presence grew, we observed our most important customers jumping ship and decided to follow them.

The C++ framework is JUCE. I'm a big fan of its visual editor and how easily you can extend that to support your own GUI components.
>we need some sort of poll test to make sure people are educated on issues before voting.

Okay, now start thinking about what happens when the political party you like least takes power and starts rewriting the poll test questions to advantage themselves. Then perhaps you'll see why this would be a catastrophically bad policy.
Everything I care about is on vcpkg.
I tried to do this manually over Zoom with my parents at the start of the pandemic.

My mom focused on walking through the family tree and dad keeps putting it off.

This will for sure be a Christmas gift. Amazing idea.
platform != common carrier
A RISKS Digest classic:

A prisoner was wrongly released after a fax was received from a grocery store stating that the Kentucky Supreme Court had demanded his release

http://catless.ncl.ac.uk/Risks/24/65#subj7.1

https://web.archive.org/web/20070426034707/http://www.cnn.co...

There are numerous examples in news reports.

"Who are you?" is the most expensive question in information technology. No matter how you get it wrong, you're fucked.
Thanks. Can't believe sites still do the 'we're unable to show you a page because ... GDPR'.
> Moving stuff to Gitlab will probably increase the number of volunteer contributions, at least i'm more interested in contributing more now.

Is there a project out there that originally used something like Gerrit, Phabricator, Reviewboard, or a mailing list that moved to Gitlab or Github where the number of contributions increased after the change?
Assembla update introduces P4Admin capabilities for your Perforce Cloud depot
Sorry but too many paragraphs before getting to the point. I closed the page after the first 400 words, I think.
I wonder, how many people consider Google products for something and go with another provider because you can't count on the product to exist long term?
And when you look at death per 1 Million population, Sweden is at 585 and France at 539, so France is doing better than Sweden… So, yeah, you can talk in absolute numbers (0-3 people a day), but sometimes it's also good to look at the percentages.
Nvidia drivers were once responsible for 30% of all Windows Vista crashes.

https://www.engadget.com/2008-03-27-nvidia-drivers-responsib...
My chief problem with carbon capture as policy is that it's even less politically viable than carbon tax or any other government subsidies.

Carbon capture doesn't generate money in itself. You have to pay someone to do this, and since it's more expensive to capture CO2 than not emitting it in the first place, someone has to pay more money than, say, reducing US fossil fuel usage by 10%, to achieve the same CO2 reduction.

We can't even muster enough political willpower to shut down coal plants. Imagine going to these same people and saying "Good news, you can keep your coal plants, we will just tax you more than how much it would cost to shut them down!"
This is unrelated to my parent comment: perhaps I wasn't clear that being outside (in the sun) has a larger impact on your Vitamin D levels than supplementation.

Therefore the study's conclusion is invalid if the two groups studied were measured one before and one after lockdown kept them inside - since we would expect Vitamin D levels to drop, for this reason.
My grandfather was a young man in Ireland around then. His job was to hold un-anesthetized surgical patients still.

When he was old and in the U.S. (late 1960s?) he chose suicide over surgery.
I program complex color displays, wifi on devices with 1GHz clock. Still on batteries; still slow and speed/latency matter. A lot. Embedded is always the smallest device possible for the application. Else the designer made a mistake. So its always critical speed/space.
> incompatibilities, etc

But it's compatible. It's a drop-in replacement.
It depends on your trust model. If you believe in fancy cryptography then shielded zcash is even better than monero. Monero keeps increasing the size of the anonymity set as it becomes more clear to them that modern deanonymization techniques are quite good: https://mudit.blog/mixers-are-insufficient/

Though, of course, neither are perfect, we're going to keep finding attacks on these things for a while: https://crypto.stanford.edu/timings/
Taskcluster's DB (Part 1) – Azure to Postgres
Does ROCm even support Navi yet?

For the amount invested in the hardware development, the amount AMD have been investing in the software side has been shocking.
Unless you're sufficiently large. The RIAA, Tobacco industry, ExxonMobile, POTUS.
An actual app? I’d love for container-sandboxed native apps to make their “comeback”.
Hyundai/Genesis have limited hands-off lane keep. I did a road trip across SD with minimal intervention. No need to use the pedals, and only the system-required steering wheel nudges.
There were, and they worked very well. I used them for a while.

You could sit down at any of the terminals on campus, select the server you wanted to log into, and log into your own account.

It would bring up a fresh instance of your desktop, much like when you boot up your own computer. Except all the files and configuration were on a shared server.

The experience was almost as good as running applications locally, with the added benefit that the applications ran on a big, shared, beefy computer somewhere else, much more powerful than could be placed at each desk.

And you could sit down wherever was convenient to do your work, and have all your files and familiar configuration available.

Back then, most people didn't have their own laptop to work with so that wasn't an option. Those that did, their laptop would be much slower and have a poorer quality screen.
> but the beauty of this game is that it's about judging tradeoffs in a constantly changing environment.

Exactly! It's even dynamic by the standards of early Williams games which typically had a surprising amount happening at once.
You use the word "need" a lot, but need is relative. We need to do X in order to get Y. What's Y and what's its value? Is it greater than the cost of X? If not, then not only do we not need to do X, but we also should not do X.
That's right. We'll always provide a download option.

We'll also be rolling out accounts for Artifact listeners, so they can login to listen to Artifacts that are relevant to them going forward.