skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
And their participation in PRISM https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PRISM_%28surveillance_program%...
Rose tinted glasses
It's the same electricity, given two times the current, at half the voltage your kettle will boil in exactly the same time, because P = V*I
Having domain names under my control are a big reason for my excitement for Handshake's/Namebase's existence.
>Of course the vagueness is deliberate in this case

Which is why I Hate a vast majority of these types of “viral math” problems. There’s enough math-anxiety that these problems, with their intentionally poor notation really don’t do anything but add noise.
It’s ok if you think it’s ok.

If you don’t, you don’t have to use their products.
I am definitely guilty of chasing some fusion of prestige and money, with no greater goal. It has recently become a concern to me that I really can't pick out anything more worthwhile than my current FAANG role as a "thing to do with my life"... and yet observing from the inside has shown how underwhelming and borderline dysfunctional these companies can be.
My personal opinion is it started with Polk (He is my personal vote for worst president ever, Wilson is second for me), Manifest Destiny and the idea of expansionism, it ebbed and flowed from there until Wilson but the seeds where set when Polk saw that he could use the federal government to expand the influence of the United States. But even with that there where the inclinations from the beginning. I mean the current state of America would have been a dream of Hamilton's, while it would have been Franklin's and Jefferson's worst nightmare of the dystopia, they were trying to prevent. The reality is we got it wrong, the federalist voices were too strong, while I will give that the articles of confederation were too weak, the compromise towards the federalist was too strong. We need to get back to something closer to a confederated republic and away from a federal empire.
I am genuinely curious why anybody would think Crispr has any potential in mass-usage. We as a society already determined the highly-less invasive tactics of mass-Eugenics to be highly unethical, why would a clinical/basal attempt at the same idea resolve differently?
Ah, but can it run on a pregnancy test?

https://twitter.com/Foone/status/1302820468819288066
Beat me in posting this!
Any idea what became of them?
The problem with this is how you measure it. In dollars? Inflation adjusted dollars? How to measure that inflation?
Tech's Bizarre Beginnings and Lucrative Pivots
An idea I've been mulling is getting a baremetal server from Exoscale (based in Switzerland) and running a mailserver on it. Haven't done it yet for many reasons, least of which is laziness...and I want to try and create a JMAP server with an IMAP bridge but that's another story.
Appearances only. It's more of a mismanagement system. It'd be better if they didn't even pretend to try.

I'd be ecstatic if there were exposed tines and I could just wrap the power cord. Like a typical vacuum cleaner.

But it's a recessed wind up area, and you really have to force the cable in, precisely to fully hide the cable. If you don't, there's a pig tail remainder. In which case, why bother at all?
It keeps inching closer. You now have a unified arch between mobile and desktop. You were never officially able to cross compile before and now there’s yet another barrier.

Phoned signing verification is another thing that is a precursor to distribution to Apple-only distribution.
Considering I have heard, and regularly hear of Facebook and Google account bans, my sample size seems large enough to conclude that either amazon account bans don’t happen, or nobody cares enough to make angry posts about it.

It’s still a concern because of the mechanics of the thing, but it appears less applicable for amazon at the moment.
They're the obvious tariff required in every "free trade" treaty.
>Large ships with bulbous bows generally have twelve to fifteen percent better fuel efficiency than similar vessels without them.

Wow, that's a much larger effect than I expected.
This is a related issue but not the same.

The previous discussion was about how Big Sur has some built-in exceptions for Apple software.

The current discussion is about the discovery that these built-in exceptions can also be abused by non-Apple software, rendering the firewall completely ineffective.
LOL, I almost thought you were serious for a moment.

The DMV is a revenue source for most states. Same with traffic cops. They both only have a tenuous link to traffic safety.
A airplane's wings allows flight not because of a negative pressure over the foil but because of repulsive electromagnetic charges in the air below foil (same force that allows capillary upward movement of water in tree trunks). Can an electrocharged hull repel electrocharged bubbles?
And the aforementioned turf war.... then it just corroded over political battles.

I'm no longer surprised, but I'm still always amazed when this happens. It is really crazy how groups within organizations are often unable to see that collaboration is massively more in their interests than minor empire building. It's like they're trying to building a wooden fort a moat filled with mudaround it when they could be building Camelot.

(Well, Camelot minus the whole thing with Lancelot giving it to Guinevere, Arthur to his sister, and his estranged son coming back to kill him. Not quite that Camelot.)
This does seem like a situation where a CRL would be a better fit than OCSP. On the other hand, CRLs have been pretty thoroughly deprecated for browser usage, so Apple probably just reached for the first tool that was already available to them.
I don't trust a damn bit of code Apple sends me. Thankfully for them, that's only marginally worse than other operating systems with functional drivers and I am addicted to usable interfaces.
Of course I have conservative (and pretty reasonable) friends who have made a declaration on FB that they're moving to Parler because they're concerned about "big tech's" controls on free speech.

I checked it out and I'm pretty sure a big issue will be that it's going to attract an audience and subsequent content that national brands aren't going to consider brand safe. So if they find a model, I can't imagine it's going to be advertising unless it's My Pillow guy and gold sellers. That probably isn't going to float the development of the platform.

I do think there's something to be said for censorship (regardless of whether it's a private platform) and the control of misinformation as well. My point is that I don't think it's sustainable unless they find a subscription model. But given the zeal of the (far) right, it doesn't seem outlandish.
I thought you just ended up in PRISM you don't "join" it? Just like Google found out from the Snowden leaks and then encrypted all their DC to DC fiber.
To be fair, Parler views itself as a town square, certainly more free speech than Twitter, but less free than Gab and 8Kun. Having minimal standards on free expression is probably a good thing, lest they get kicked off all the app stores.

When I tried Parler there were plenty of accounts that exist solely to troll Trump and his supporters, none of which were banned. Perhaps that Cow account was banned for reasons other than its speech.
Ah, good one. I’d forgotten about that.
# Microwave oven

- Default to no clock until time is set.

Yes. Nothing is more passive-aggressive than a flashing "12:00" Just be blank, it's fine.

- Quality-feel dial for function, or possibly buttons for this.

Stick with buttons for the functions, but make them real buttons that move, not membrane switches with no tactile feel. There can still be a membrane cover over it for ease of cleaning

- Dial could be pushed for start or other feature. Push again for pause. Push and hold for reset.

This must be done right, though. I hate a lot of multi-function dials that both spin and depress, because they often make it too easy to accidentally twist the knob a bit as you're depressing it. Detents should be solid and deep to avoid this.

- Door opens downward, horizontally mounted.

Heh, I'd rather it swing upward, so it's not in my way as I load or unload the oven.
It's not an accident that that's an unlicensed band and it's the responsibility of your wifi set up to deal with it.
That doesn't conflict with anything I said.
Are you serious? They censor the President's tweets.
Isn't that showing?
Now that we're 2 weeks after the election, zero states have reported final results, and all of our understanding is based on TV networks calling the results, have you changed your tune on this?
further IRC etc did not host the media files directly.

I mean, if synapse got actually working blob storage (S3, etc) support for media, that would make it a far less balooning problem. There is some option there for it and it all ends up on disk still so I assume its a backup strategy
Aren't narcissists supposed to have really good social skills but lack empathy? That makes me think the two aren't neccesarily connected.
Is MeetLeet[1] a spinoff of TheLadders[2][3]? TheLadders have been having the resume makeover service[4]

[1] https://www.meetleet.com/#team

[2] https://www.theladders.com/about-us

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TheLadders.com

[4] https://www.theladders.com/resume-reviewer

Disclaimer: I used to work with Marc 17 years ago when TheLadders was at pre-A round. Good times.
From the Western viewpoint the answer is clearly no, but Austria will keep walking down that path regardless of whether it's morally right.
I'm a little wary of OwnCloud, and generally of any software written in PHP. PHP invites problems. That said, I find this page reassuring: https://owncloud.com/security/. It does seem like they took security pretty seriously a few years ago, and only a few issues have been discovered since then.
I think Group Policy "Allow Telemetry = Disabled" doesn't do what you think it does. Here's the description given in the group policy editor:

"By configuring this setting in Windows 10, end users will not be able to opt into a higher level of telemetry collection than you have set for your organization." (Plus some clarification of how broadly this applies.)

That doesn't disable telemetry. It just stops individuals enabling more telemetry than you already had enabled.
But increased leverage doesn't mean your risk-adjusted returns are any better.
Transparency is important for trust, this is a good step towards it.
In some ways the dangers are different, perhaps more manageable in some cases. For wet markets, it's the unknown from nature. In the case of Domesticated markets, it is more typically an issue either from failures in procedure (i.e. e.coli/listeria/salmonella) or because of over-industrialization (Mad Cow Disease)
We already have general rules against fraud and other kinds of crime which apply to software just like any other product.

Only a very small set of products have special regulations, generally those which we deem unsafe for consumers unless regulated.

“Seatbelts. Stoplights. Nutrition labeling on packaging. etc.”

A good set of examples. Every one of them is about consumer health and safety. This is consistent with liberal democracy - people should be free to do what they want unless it hurts someone else. That is why all product related regulations are related to safety.

It seems reasonable to assume you are arguing for rules which prevent the installation of unsafe software on computers which are sold to consumers.

Apple would be the most compliant company with such rules, and would benefit greatly.
> introducing air bubbles into the stream along the hull

Placing air bubbles into the stream along the iron/steel hull in seawater... This is the worst idea as it would drastically increase oxidation.[0]

[0] https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/es0109242
I'm pretty lousy at asking people what they feel, my job role, thankfully, has an optional people management component, I've opted out. However a mandatory (welcome) part of my role is mentoring, coaching, call it what you will. I need to listen to junior members of staff sharing their woes and it's a two way flow of ideas, they often share, or overshare their difficult life moments, and at that point, I hang up my "mentor" role and just listen, I'm not their manager, I'm just their colleage, in fact, their friend. Empathy, as I said is guessing, but I do everything I can to do my best guess
Can Apple read your iCloud storage? I’m not saying that it is, but shouldn’t that be encrypted at rest with a customer-specific key?
I agree, this is a nice writeup but I was surprised there were not some other big players covered. ESP32, Microchip XC32, Ti CCS etc ..
> Maybe you are right, but it’s not your place, as a language designer, to dictate that.

I disagree with Evan on this question and many others, but I just don't understand your criticism here. That seems like exactly a language designer's place? Someone needs to decide how the language is tokenized, what counts as a valid variable name, and so on. Very few languages have the answer "everything not explicitly used for something else is okay in variable names". (And Elm does use the ' character for other things, the rule which would allow ' would allow many many other things.)

Maybe you mean he should have made a decision and stuck with it? But that would severely limit exploration.

Is your hypothetical that Bjarne Stroustroup tries to do that now, when C++ is 35 years old and ISO certified? That doesn't seem a close match with Elm, which is less than nine years old and not yet on version 1.
“The Mad Prophet of Connecticut”
There is a high degree of truth in what was said - especially where site specific +content specific edis are needed to tissue associated cells. I think it has merit for areas where stem cells can be extracted and edited and then multiplied and the ones with site specific +content identified and the change then confirmed. These cells can then be multiplied and used to replace defective cells - as is done with certain blood cancers where the old stem cells can be killed to allow the multiplied cells to locate in the bone marrow and replace the defective cells. This has been done pre-CRISPR, by other methods - CRISPR will be of value here. In addition, it will be useable in somatic gene modification after all it's details are worked out. Work goes in this area, but is a few years from prime time application.
That you agree with the anti-Green posts is not relevant. Pretend the ruling was against a Green politician for doing the same thing to someone you like.
It depends on what you consider anti-conservative. I've had a few friends mention that any links to something regarding "Benfords Law" (some forensic tool used for flagging potential fraud) gets an immediate "disputed" label.

My guess is that algorithmic checks are flagging posts and conservatives are interpreting that as censorship.
Their claim, as I've interpreted it, is that their lived experiences have lead them to believe any situation must be treated with caution because they never know what to expect. That is simply not the same as presuming that every mentally ill person is carrying a firearm and is violent.

As I see it, that's just common sense. If you get a call from a woman telling you she's fallen down and is hurt, how likely is it that EMTs are met at the door by a drunk man who claims nothing is wrong? What first appeared to be a simple medical situation may actually be a case of domestic violence. Neither the dispatcher nor the EMT can know this before anybody arrives on the scene, so whoever gets there first needs to be cognizant of all possibilities. Recognizing the possibility that somebody might be violent is not the same as believing they will be.
Propeller Cavitation. Friction reduction saves money on the glide not the drive
"however iperfect" encapsulates exactly my point - we can't know - but jeez, we try as best as we can
No they don’t. They keep adding new ones.

They want to provide a consistent user experience across their ecosystem. Not the same thing.
brilliant write up. I really hope this gives way ylpre developers writing about their development experience, their quality of life with their tools, discussing what factors effect them. especially embedded but cross-environment compares elsewhere could be neat too.
Curious why he would need to move to a more prestigious position? Most people realize by their 30s that prestige is a sucker's game; it's a way of inducing people to do things that aren't much fun and they wouldn't really want to do on their own, by lauding them with accolades from people they don't really care about.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11833832
I think he's an improvement over Eric "maybe-don't-do-it-if-you-want-to-keep-it-private" Schmidt
Exactly. At some point I figured out I only heat water. (Tired of cleaning it.) So I left it on the curb (poof, gone). I learned a normal small pot boils water faster anyway. Felt really stupid (facepalm) about that.
Android has two ways of encryption.
FBE = File Based Encryption, newer.
FDE = Full Disk Encryption, older.

FBE is only secure when the system partitions have dm-verity enforced and verity is only enforced when the bootloader is locked.

FDE is a bit more resilient with an unlocked bootloader since there is less data left unencrypted.

However in either scenario without a locked bootloader and verity it is trivial for an attacker to insert malicious code that can then run once your device is unlocked and send off your files.
How about let adults wreck the phone they bought if they 'want' to. Bootloader unlock in a 'hidden' power-on menu is sufficient. If you really want to baby users just have this set a flag that requires a click box to be ticked on next boot in order to actually unlock it (eg "you selected to unlock your bootloader in the power-on menu; unlocking your bootloader may lead to you destroying your phone, do you want to continue?" "are you sure?" "pinky promise?").

The "we're protecting people from themselves" argument seems spurious.
Or something akin to OCSP stapling, which has been mentioned in a few places?
Sweet. It is almost as if nobody could see this coming from a mile away.

I wonder why they still thought it was a great idea to go ahead.
Most people can tell the difference between an activity that provides a clear benefit, like classifying my emails, and one that provides no personal benefit, such as selling mass surveillance as a service to the highest bidder. If you can’t tell the difference than your ethical framework isn’t serving you.
Your statement has a nice ring to it only because it takes advantage of the very confusing English word "free". In the "free speech" context, it's free as in liberty. In the "universal, free education" context, it's free as in beer; the implication being government funded and managed (and mandatory, implied by "universal"). So while your statement seems to be all about freedom, it's really about predicating one freedom on the restriction of another.

Here's how I would rephrase your statement:

"It's a mistake for the government to let people speak freely before they have been educated by the government."

Which I think is significantly less compelling.
Thanks. Clarified.
been a couple years but yeah, I listened.

https://www.cbc.ca/player/play/14195315
Is it because they have ‘Harvard’ on their resumes or is it that Harvard still admits mostly some of the smartest and most driven people in the country? Ie could a person who is in the top 2% of a flagship state school keep up with the top 10% Harvard grad or is that name on their resume forever going to hold them back?
>> After he had become a vegan... he considered his pet cockatiel. “I remember; he looked up wistfully. He said he got the bird, took it outside, let it loose and it flew up,” Herzog recalls. “He said: ‘I knew she wouldn’t survive, that she probably starved. I guess I was doing it more for myself than for her.’”

Feels like a sticking point, what should people do with their current pets? It is deeper than an individual choice to refuse taking ownership of a pet, since they are a societal domestic cluster, these animals have lost their inner personality and relegated that prowess to their owners.
I actually don't think this is true. I've met lots of people who are self-deluding or don't conciously recognize their own patterns. We all have a story we tell about ourselves, but it often isn't the true story.

That said, i don't think any of that conflicts with learning to empathisize with others. Understanding yourself is just as important as understanding other people. Personally i suspect they are related skills.
i feel this is irrelevant.
apple offers app analytics to developers.
which means app usage data is going to apple anyway.

https://developer.apple.com/app-store-connect/analytics/
I do wish Arduino would increase the scope of their supported features. As a platform abstraction layer, using the arduino.h C++ header provides an excellent embedded development experience and there is a large number of compatible libraries online. But the scope is very, very small and limited. For features like parallel IO however you often have to drop down to inline assembly/invoke platform sdk.
Physicists Hate the EmDrive
> Cypress PSoC Creator, Maxim DARWIN 0/10

Ha.

I inherited a project that used a PSoC module and had to set up and keep a Windows box around for a year until I could get that damned thing designed out of the next revision (replaced with a Nordic).

Everything has to be done in a buggy, bloated, custom GUI tool, even configuring peripherals, even flashing. Nothing is scriptable. Their chip might have been perfectly fine, but working with their software was torture. They treat their customers like idiots -- you have to pull teeth to get something as basic as a memory map so that you can fix things when they inevitably don't work.

Completely agree with the 0/10 assessment. I'd sooner quit my job than use one of these chips again.

Edit: Another comment suggests that Cypress has a new, less insane software tool now, that's cross platform and can work with Makefiles. shrug
Yeah, I was excited to try to daily drive a Pinephone expecting it to be "a bit buggier" that a regular phone, but it's still a long way to go once I got it.
> Soy does have the obvious huge downside of containing a much higher amount of estrogen and causes havoc in some people

Do you have a study that confirms this? As far as I know this is a myth. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phytoestrogen#Effects_on_human...
Describing a school like "Harvard" as selective is trivially equating "arbitrary and biased" with some kind of semantic merit. Realistically, if you get into harvard you are lucky, wealthy, or usable for marketing. They have no desire to convince you otherwise by simply increasing their allowed student number, especially to compete internationally—by numbers, they are mostly effective via attracting people, not through education.
Would the world of today seem “post-scarcity” to a medieval peasant? I don’t think humanity will ever have “enough” — it’s just not in our nature.
Defrost
It’s a form of bulverism: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bulverism
So, it being the case that jumping into a black hole will not make you disappear for good, that, particle by particle, the information needed to reconstitute your body will reemerge, I wonder how this (very speculatively here) would fit with the fascinating concept of Greg Egan's dust theory of conscious existence.
There is no framebuffer on the GBA, just sprites and tiled backgrounds. Although if it's like on the DS, I don't recall exactly, you can setup a background in such a way that it emulates a framebuffer. Handy for software 3D.
> Now, please do educate me on how to disable telemetry on MacOS Big Sur without third party software.

There's no lower bar that you could set.
You could block still block it externally by running a dns sinkhole (a la PiHole) on the same network, provided that you can still configure the DNS resolver.