skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But Moxie's point in the blog post that is referenced is that with federated systems you have a lot of failure points. You can't keep everyone on the latest update in a federated system. You need all those actors to function perfectly, most of whom aren't going to be experts. This makes federated systems not great for anyone but experts.
A robust console-like system to capture when "interesting things" happen is an incredibly valuable tool to have for any complex embedded project. When you have hundreds or thousands of something in the wild, you can't rely on always having a logic analyzer connected when something anomolous happens.

Often times, a UART is just one of many sinks for console-like data. You might direct messages to nonvolatile memory for logging purposes, over a network link for remote diagnostics, or a display if you have one.

If you're running Linux, then you get that for free more or less. If you're running bare metal, then you usually have to build it yourself. It's always worth it.
If you're serious about this approach, the best option is (ironically I guess) just buying a Pixel device directly from Google. They tend to be well supported by third party ROMs and are easy to root or flash.

You can also grab a used device with a confirmed unlocked bootloader. You usually have to ask a seller, and some won't know the answer, but you can provide the steps for them to determine this.
I don’t know, did the Chinese study less military history than the Mongols?

For someone like Pizzaro, where’s the line between studying military history and being the recipient of a body of institutional knowledge and practice? Is the claim that the Inca didn’t have a body of institutional knowledge and practice that was effective within their own context and material culture?

Saying this as a fan of military history, this sounds awfully reductive. I suppose you could argue that printing, or at least an extensive written record, makes it easier to retain and transmit knowledge, but that’s not quite the same claim.

Worth noting that in 18th c France, the artillery officers were essentially the only ones with any formal military education.
>Blinking an LED with a busy wait loop square wave is way simpler and gives you externally visible code execution with less that can go wrong than printing to the UART.

Yeah, but everyone doing professional embedded work uses a proper debugging tool to load that LED code. "Externally visible code execution" is just when the code hits the reset breakpoint and you start stepping through the code.
Perhaps, but as time progresses such methods meet more resistance/grey areas. For instance there are gene sequences that have strong correlation with intelligence, and taking the same schema to avoid having a (nearly assured) kid of low intelligence would be more controversial obviously, or well similar cases 100 years ago of rapists and scum of the earth looking to have kids yes? Look not debating eugenics here, just pointing to any mass involvement of Crispr on child-rearing will meet to the same fate I am sure.
Those two nations still had the right culture and social structure to build blooming new societies. In this context, with "culture" I don't mean political views or such, but work ethic, and things like literacy, education, etc.

The German car industry wouldn't have been thinkable hadn't the Germans invested a lot of research into building machines in a mass produced way, motor research, etc. Sure, the factories themselves were destroyed, but the engineers together with their knowledge remained.

In fact, there are theories that disruptive events are even helpful for economic progress in the long run because they filter out the lazy elite of rich people while giving opportunities for new ideas to be tried out, and hard working people to rise to wealth and influence.
It’s just a MSVC linker directive. Use /STUB
Including COVID?
Fuck yes. I left a stable job because I have a plethora of health issues and wanted to put the little energy and productivity I have into studying, so I went to Uni. I've burned through my savings (6k or so) in 11 months now and I'm almost going broke as my sick leave wasn't approved any longer.

My body literally don't cope with stress as my pituitary doesn't produce enough cortisol, testosterone or thyroxine. Now that I got the reject letter from our government, I've been panicking and feeling borderline suicidal because everything seems so hard and I feel like I can't do it. Fuck being sick.
This is a good thing by the Trump administration. I wish it had more attention during the election.

"Trump, who campaigned in 2016 on stopping “ridiculous endless wars” in the Middle East, took to Twitter last month to announce that American forces currently serving in Afghanistan will be home by Christmas."

Imagine all that money, used instead on our infrastructure instead of propping up wars and enemy of west news broadcasts for the past 19 years.

"The wars in Afghanistan, Iraq and Syria have cost U.S. taxpayers more than $1.57 trillion since Sept. 11, 2001, according to a Defense Department report."
XR is not really what we want first. VR can offer more.
two weeks?.. you mean 8 months?..
For basic-level exercise in the form of “walking around outside a lot”, I've been playing Happy Surveillance Pets aka Pokémon GO—as hypocritical as it sort of is with my software philosophy leanings. May not work if your version of “outside” is either too far away from civilization for the shared AR part to work or too high-risk to be going out in a lot (I live in a medium-density area of city, which seems roughly ideal).

I was able to keep up some ad-hoc home bodyweight exercises with Habitica (gamified habits) + Forest (pomodoro-ish app) earlier in the year, but that fell apart a few months later when the depression got worse, and I haven't managed to pick it up again yet.
That same thing was said in reference to those banks and IBM 15 years ago too
Oh hey, are you me? Do you have any underlying physical health issues?
That’s not really the market for these models. The Air and the low end MacBook Pro only have two ports and are not really well suited to working with multiple external monitors. I suspect that, when Apple update the higher end machines, that they will be able to support multiple external monitors (and more RAM). The M1 is more of an MVP at this point.
Why? Why should I look at "Modern Redux"? Why wasn't enough thought put in in the original Redux? Like preommr mentioned, the basic flux model isn't that complicated.

Why do you guys complicate things? Why do you think new concepts are required? And new terminology? Why do you write so much code? Why don't you see how these things have been done in the past? This has been done in Mithril for ages.

My suggestion is - next time you guys decide to create something new, don't just keep thinking of new concepts and write code. It's all been done before. Just make it easier to use.

So, no, I'll not be looking at Redux, now or in the future. Because I've got applications to deliver and the end user doesn't give a shit about how fantastic your architecture is, if it takes ages to understand, implement, maintain & debug.
Yeah I tried that at some point but I didn't figure out what to feed it to make a smaller executable that would still run. Not sure what I might've done wrong unfortunately, it's been a few years.
Nice, indeed at the deeper level it's that if you want to make time shifts equivalent to rotation, you need to move in a circular fashion.

Minor point: to me derivatives are just one specific linear time invariant operator, a kind of convolution (with a generalized function) so I think LTI is the thing we really care about.
They do.

It uses a Linux environment for it.

The issue is anything compiled or baked into the image using x86, won’t be able to run without yet another translation layer.

Could end up being

Mac arm > qemu emulating amd64 cpu > docker vm (Linux amd64) > whatever application

Could be done, just adds another layer to translate things and overhead.
That's anxiety.

Anxiety is expecting a negative future / negative outcome.

An anxiety disorder is incorrectly assuming a negative future, often frequently and often.

If you're not regularly concerned about the future, then it's okay, it will go away. Though, maybe a therapist can help teach you ways to relax in the meantime? It's going to be two months before anything scary can happen, so that's a long time to be anxious. I wouldn't wish that on anyone.
Yes. Everything is hosted now.
It’s much higher than 1.57 trillion. Most studies put it over 5 trillion. This one puts it at 6.4 trillion last November.

https://watson.brown.edu/costsofwar/
If I had to bet on which happens first out of the end of growth-driven capitalism or humans leaving the solar system I wouldn't be putting my money on spaceships.
Does it really require an outsider to execute something like this? Most politicians and the military industrial complex take us for a ride it seems.
Can the EmDrive work for space travel?
Thank you. This was such a blow to me but I think everyone passes through this phase at some point. Even my father did when he lost his father. Based on my experience I can only say that this sort of pain is very personal and unique. I'm slowly coming to cope up with it.
Sure, but the nice thing about them is that they can all be recompiled at worst and then keep working.
I drink decaf. ^_^

There is decaf out there as good as the best non-decaf coffee (I drink espresso, yum!) and it's a pretty short amount of time before the brain normalizes to decaf and it will wake you up without the negative side effects.

But yah, caffeine while anxious can be not a good time.
Depends on your definition of free. GPL apps are banned in Apple's App Store.
I understand your sentiment, but your arguments are presented as facts and not as reasoned arguments. You might be right in the general sense, but the assertion that
'most couldn't tell you the difference between Sunni and Shia or point out Afghanistan on a map.' is probably not true.

This is a long running debate inside and outside America, and while your opinion is useful, presenting it as fact is not.
Yeah, we lost.

The US doesn't really need the Middle East any more. North America is now self-sufficient in energy, and that situation improves as more solar and wind go in.
The time change has no effect on total daylight hours. Nothing is stopping anyone from continuing to get up at the same real time if they want to have the same amount of daylight.
This is why IDEs with built-in documentation were so valuable and such a big help. I largely learned to program using such resources, with QBasic, QuickBasic (much more help), Turbo Pascal, Visual Basic, Delphi, etc. Mostly before or without internet. I learned data structures and algorithms from classes in parallel with this (along with some other languages), but actual practical programming knowledge came mainly from built-in IDE documentation. Before QBasic, I had GW-Basic, with no built-in help, and learning was very slow.
A good MBA program will help you develop those exact connections the parent comment mentions
I think the mistake you are making is one of interpretation. In did not share this personal anecdote to make a qualitative claim. Not at all. How could I?

Someone calls 911. Two people go to the address in question and somebody empties a clip into them before any contact takes place.

If anything the message is: Do not send unarmed people because they could die.

My perspective is admittedly simplistic: I have no problem with someone proposing to send folks without guns to try to deal with any random 911 call so long as it is THEIR skin in the game. It's easy to send others into potential life or death situation when there are not consequences whatsoever for the person making that decision.

As I said in my post, and I'll repeat here, taking a weapons martial arts class is quite humbling in that you quickly realize just how dangerous encounters with someone intent on doing harm could be.
I just call it A/UX 2.0

I try to forget those in between years of of System 7 / OS8 / OS9. They all gave me deep scars through countless hours spent troubleshooting extension conflicts. All while seeing the unhelpful, literal bomb icon dozens of times in a row [0]. The windows BSOD was bad, but at least it never mocked you about the OS blowing up.

[0]https://www.versionmuseum.com/images/operating-systems/class...

More details: In theory, extension troubleshooting should have been easy. 1) Boot with them off. If it boots, it's the extensions. 2) Turn half off. If it boots, you know it's the other half. 3) Repeat step #2 with the remaining extensions until you find the offending one.

Except it wasn't always a single one. It could be a problem that only occurred when a combination were active. So you'd go through the much higher # of combinations of turning certain groups on together... the first 5 & third 5 extensions, etc... Sometimes even that wouldn't work, and you'd be stuck opening programs you knew used certain extensions to force them into activity. Eventually, if you were lucky, you'd find the one corrupt extension and reinstall it. But if all else failed, you backed up the data with all extensions disabled, blew out the OS with a clean install and reinstall all the programs & restore the backup.
Eugenics literally means "well-bred" so any attempts to re-encode ourselves has a direct involvement of Eugenics, so I am not performing analogy here but invoking the principle of a fortiori. Particularly I am not claiming ethics of gene-editing or Eugenics in general, but that the public has no appetite for this as seen with the strong ethical claims against Eugenics.

By a "non-binding eugenics guideline" I mean something akin to "ex-convicts should not produce" or something, I mean there is absolutely zero state or national guideline that I know of that invokes arguments of eugenics, if you know of one then I am mistaken.
That's not really what doctor shopping means. Doctor shopping refers to going from doctor to doctor until you get a doctor who writes the medications/tests/diagnoses etc that you want. Ie. instead of accepting the judgement of one doctor, you change them until you find one that agrees with with what you want from them.
I don't know who Dave Troy is but the whole tweet roll sounds like someone piss in his cheerios. Very bitter without much substance.

He can ask the same question about who is financing majority of shitty start-ups, why is he picking on Parler? Sounds like he has an axe to grind and is behaving like a little child about it.

Not affiliated with Parler in any way.
Look, I'm not knocking printf, for larger systems it's great.

However you're just not gonna spin up a UART debug console for an ATTiny, I've seen printf take ~2k of flash which would be 1/4 of your total storage gone.

If you're reaching for Linux you're already on the edge of the domain space that most microcontrollers occupy.
>He says drivers should freeze their credit and change their account passwords.

As in, all 28 million drivers?

28 million people dealing with this level of inconvenience is astounding, and a clear-cut example of why the penalties for data leaks need to... well, at least start existing, by one means or another. Also worth noting I don't see SSNs, CC info, or any passwords included, so this just seems to be a standard thing people say regardless.
I think of the US as the best of both worlds because we have split phase so you can get 240 if you want, but we run the safer 120 to most of the house.
Oh, this is great! Wish I'd seen this when I was compiling Chocolate Doom (on old Windows 95 builds my DOOM.EXE requires msvcrt.dll).
I've found the google one - NeRF - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24071787 - but sigh, not the other one :/
Is this a real issue for you? I would think that you would not normally leave your phone somewhere that it could be covertly accessed by an attacker. My device is almost always by my side.

If you're in a position that your chain of custody is broken, just wipe, revert the device to stock signed binaries, confirm by locking the boot loader again, then unlock and re-flash your custom binaries.

Or am I missing something here?
Hello, organizer here!

Handmade Seattle is trying to spread the joy of systems programming in a difficult year. The speakers blew it out of the park and we're excited for day 2 tomorrow.

I was in the middle of preparing the live player for Day 2, but now I've put the VOD back for the night since you folks are watching :)

Cheers.
I’m very curious what are the technologies you’re tracking?
Is it more Wall Street traders or individuals that are the worry? You’s think that he/we could just count on the integrity of the public to do the right thing.
That's part of the problem. No one else has an idea what depression is ether, even professionals.

For example here are two things drastically different and the medical industry considers both to be depression:

1) Being overly pessimistic and skeptical to the point of believing nothing is worth trying and nothing can be done. "Nothing I try will ever help me. My depression will last forever." This can come in the form of rationalizing why nothing will work when they have a problem, so they get suck. (An example of learned helplessness.)

2) Catching a chronic cold that may or may not cause irritable bowel syndrome that has the side effect of inflammation in the stomach which then in turn minimizes or outright removes the ability to feel positive emotions. Some may experience other side effects beyond inflammation, like long term cold symptoms where they want to lay in bed all day, not socialize, or do much. They feel sloth-like in an identical way to one feels when they have a cold, minus the sinus pressure and coughing.
I've pulled open microwaves and removed the buzzer. My flatmate thought I was nuts at the time but as a person often up late reheating things it's a considerate thing to do, there's no need for a device where you can't turn off the sound. Even worse when it continues making noises every 30 seconds afterwards until you open the door. RIP anyone who likes to cook then cool.

Microwaves are already loud appliances, I can hear it running from the next room. Meanwhile you'll be hard-pressed to find a toaster that beeps.
"only a million years" seems like a slightly flippant statement in light of the fact humans have only had about 5000 years of civilisation so far.
Pulling out most forces from Afghanistan and Iraq has been tried several times already. It’s how Islamic State managed to establish themselves in the first place. The last pullout from northern Syria apart from betraying the Kurds also allowed hundreds of hardcore IS prisoners to just walk free. So far it’s been counterproductive, but here’s hoping.
I'm done with Apple. It's incredibly restrictive for no real gain at this point. I have a really old MB Air I only ever use to compile apps for the App Store for clients, but otherwise there's no clear path towards improvement from them, so I'm voting with my wallet for the foreseeable future.
tldr: no, but yes.

It logs app certificate requests which in real life is pretty much equivalent to logging app runs. And that line about only calling the server from time to time is bullcrap. I have years of experience on this issue because my internet is pretty shitty. And that "from time to time" is every couple of hours.
Elon Musk confirms Saturday he 'most likely' has Covid-19
I don't think it rules out the quitting Twitter as a factor as such? A few weeks of response lag as conditioning/expectations gradually recognize the new normal seems likely enough to me.
In late-90s to mid-00, if you did any serious Win32 or .NET development, you had the MSDN Library installed locally - it had its own help browser, with integrated search and index. The latter was especially useful, since it contained all structs, classes, interfaces, functions etc, across all platforms for which docs were installed.

Anything that was available online, official or not, was inferior to that. I'm not sure if it was deliberate, but it significantly hampered the utility of pirated copies of Visual Studio - since MSDN docs would require a lot more CDs than the software, most warez releases stripped them out. And in the developing world, where such pirated software is readily available on physical CDs sold by street vendors, they would usually be priced per CD regardless of what's on it - so a complete VS+MSDN bundle would be a lot more expensive, and thus in relatively low demand, and not widely sold.
It's a litte out of date('13) but fpga4fun has a comparison[1].

[1] https://www.fpga4fun.com/FPGAsoftware1.html
> Drivers can contact Vertafore to see if their information was hacked by calling 888-479-3560.

We have to call you to find out if you leaked our information? That's some idiotic logic right there. I didn't call you to put my information in your systems, I shouldn't have to call you to find out if you lost it.

> "The department only allows outside use of information for reasons found in Transportation Code Chapter 730 and the Federal Drivers Privacy Protection Act. These laws permit, and at times require, the release of motor vehicle records to authorized parties."

Texas should pass a law requiring any companies who become 'authorized parties' to proactively respond in case of a breach by sending registered letters to everyone affected, telling them how to sign up for the credit monitoring they're entitled to.
This is true and I relish being able to work from home have extra time with my kids and also it seems that on most days I can get 4 hours of work done and 8 hours of sleep or 8 hours of work and 4 hours of sleep. So either my work has to suffer or my health has to suffer or what has actually happened is they have both suffered.
Herman Mankiewicz, Pauline Kael, and the Battle over “Citizen Kane”
Now there are two depression threads on the front page. We usually don't allow that (I mean same-topic frontpage threads, not depression threads). Normally the easy answer would be to downweight the follow-up [1], but this post is nicely reminding the community that HN polls are a thing. So I don't know what to do!

I'm tempted to put up a poll asking whether to keep the poll or the original thread, but I have to go offline for 90 minutes and I don't want HN to blow any fuses.

[1] https://hn.algolia.com/?query=follow-up%20by%3Adang&dateRang...
Why is this comment greyed out? It's an entirely valid question to arrive at.
Makes sense, but I referenced the article and it was quoted there in one of the first bullet points as the amount I quoted.
Science is split in two: 1) It is about concrete observations 2) It also hypotheses about potentials. These parts are distinct processes, but also complementary. Both are important for science to be practical and useful. It is always important to be explicit which part of scientific method is under focus, as human minds can only focus one thing at a time.

If elements of the universe have probabilistic distributions until observed, you have also a dualism there: 1) the observable element 2) the probabilistic structure surrounding it. Both are mystical and interdependent.

Maybe the particle and observation seems more real, but they both adhere to structure that surrounds and shapes them fully too. What we observe though is not particles themselves, but after-effects of the fleeting mirage. So everything is a copy, thus holographic nature.
I cut out all alcohol and caffeine for the month of November. It has done wonders for my mental health. So no, I haven't. But I can definitely say I was in the months prior.
The stock market has grown significantly while demand for energy has widely declined in the last five months. Every energy long bet has been a disaster.

Economic growth may not be able to continue indefinitely, it’s inconclusive, your computers can create more economic value with declining watts even if you can’t. However accounting value, which is what a stock market is, can definitely grow indefinitely.