skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
https://www.tindie.com/products/kdcircuits/trigboard-ultra-l...

That one has extra circuitry to shut the esp down completely and wake it on either an external trigger or RTC based alarm. It claims 1.5uA sleep current.

The creator has a YouTube channel with lots of info about low power and other interesting tidbits https://www.youtube.com/user/kdarrah1234
People make these claims about HN based on their own political passions, which lead to false feelings of generality. If you had the opposite politics, you'd notice opposite things and derive opposite conclusions [1]. Plenty of people do:

"leftist totalitarianism prevalent on HN" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20202305

"any opinion that's not 100% politically correct && strictly SJW standard compliant is suppressed" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17197581

"anti-western and extremely anti-capitalist" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20384662

"biased to the left" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21325122

"quickly turning into a leftist SJW and socialist haven" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23351311

"always politically left" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23396632

"Obviously this website is rigged for the liberal agenda" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23429442

"skews quite left" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23661802

"a liberal echo chamber" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23658461

"They purge anything that doesn't trend left leaning" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808107

"Marxism and thought police are rampant here" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23986096

"HN is ran by radical leftists, so no surprise" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24037475

"if you say anything that doesn't align with the mainstream liberal consensus you'll be flagged and a mod will reprimand you for flaimbait" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24353254

"You aren't allowed to go against the propaganda arm of the Democratic Party here" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24782327

"anything critical of the Democratic party is instantly flagged [...] And the moderators don't give a fuck either because they're also in the main HN demographic of SV white liberal trash" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24990311

"They purge anything that doesn't trend left leaning" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23808107

[1] I think it's simply because we're more likely to remember those: https://hn.algolia.com/?dateRange=all&page=0&prefix=true&sor...
> (and I have no idea what you're referring to by 'cloud-provided orchestration tools' beyond these two specifically),

- AWS: cloudformation
- GCP: deployment manager https://cloud.google.com/deployment-manager/docs/quickstart

I imagine other clouds have similar tools (or perhaps they have converged towards more general ones like Ansible or Terraform).

As for your disagreement: you're free to have your own opinion on this. But my personal experience has been that eventually converging infrastructure provisioning systems like CF have complex failure modes that make it hard to modularize and scale them up.

With terraform: the cloud provider is reduced to a dumb API, and most of the issues you see can be resolved client side. Whereas when dealing with issues with cloudformation, its not something you can figure out yourself, you need to hope that the error is something that's clearly displayed to you and/or open a support tix with AWS.
Auto formatters are the future, why should humans ever have to manually format or discuss how it should look ever again.

However, languages that have a line length limit are the blight of them. There isn't a python formatter that won't make everything mush. My if clause that is 81 chars wide doesn't need to be broken up. Similar, my strings don't need to be reflowed.

Go fmt ignores line length, and always produces a formatted file that is pretty as a result.
> Hacker News leans right-wing politically

News to me. I guess I haven’t been paying attention, because HN always seemed fairly left.
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My most recent trip to a tipping country was Canada, and the POS systems were often configured to suggest higher tips than the locals were giving.

In one case, the waitress apologised and blamed the owner.
The constant appeal to the prisoner's dilemma feels off. Especially since it is more transactional, in action.

That is, the confession to betray to get a reduced sentence had to be offered before it is taken. Neither has incentive to confess before being offered the chance to get a reduced sentence, unless they think they have no chance of completing a lie.

Right? What am I missing?
Semi-related but I also wonder much longer we’ll be hearing the use of “the pandemic” as reasons for leadership decision making.
Oh great, this guy again? He has a history of posting overhyped tor "0days". The comment threads from the last few times should tell you all you need to know.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23929312

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24500214
Insofar as there is any hierarchy in among the orcs, it must have come from certain individuals showing themselves to be more capable, brutal, commandeering, or whatever else, than others.

I have not read LOTR and got about 10 pages into the Silmarillion before giving up, but my understanding is that Tolkien designed his world meticulously. If he didn't go into detail on this matter I have to assume that it was for a purpose, possibly either of avoiding unfortunate implications by comparison or of enhancing the dehumanized characterization of the, er, foreign hordes.

Outside of the fandom, LOTR is commonly understood to be problematic in its treatment of "race" and social structure, at least wrt contemporary society and its necessities for peace, order, and dignity. I don't know that this is a controversial take at all.
I suspect the popular tide against science, especially among the 'America first' crowd, turned once science came up with results that threatened to make certain very large piles of money slightly smaller.

With society and the economy completely dependent on science to function, doing science now has a certain speaking truth to power aspect, in that scientific results can threaten wealthy established interests. This does not make science entirely popular among the kind of people who write the mental firmware for the 'America first' crowd.

Several large piles of money have waged deliberate campaigns against public faith in the results of the scientific process [0], and this will certainly have had an impact on public faith in science.

[0]
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ExxonMobil_climate_change_cont...

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/big-tobacco-kept-cancer-risk-in...
Their answer is to spend a little over $17 billion on content this year, ie a little over YouTube’s total estimated revenue according to this article.
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You can do this in pure Go though, you just need to manage the allocator yourself. That is a significant technical undertaking, but once done the advantages are huge. No GC overhead, no cgo. Done properly you can even have multiple readers and writers working concurrently in the same allocation space.
What’s wrong with this picture? Come on programmers, use your analytical brain
I wouldn't call a kernel panic bug "machine-bricking", since after the panic happens, your system is usable again upon reboot. "Bricking" implies that wouldn't be the case.
Mitt ended up Governor of my state (Massachusetts). He did ok as Governor and oddly got us universal health care, which the federal Affordable Cares Act is based on, which I guess made him more palatable.

Our democratic governor Deval Patrick went to work for Bain after he left office.
Having a RISC-V based ESP also means it should be easy to add support in Renode [1].

[1]https://renode.io/
Late reply to say thank you for this recommendation. I'm already 2 chapters in, though if it gets harder I will slow my pace.

Book recommendations are always welcome. I'll usually check out anything that's 200 or so pages. My days of reading 1000 page books of small print on cheap paper however are over.
> Why should there be a separation between corporations and government?

I wouldn’t say there should or shouldn’t be.

I look at it like this... do you have a job to do? Is that job directly tied to a political position? If not, do your job.

Don’t talk about politics or religion (if they’re even a different thing anymore) at work. You are just going to offend someone for no reason.
My point is that if you want to pursue a non W-2 job, you are on your own for health insurance in many/most states. “art” could very well be freelance programming.

With that in mind, how does widening the insurance group to include all (taxed) Americans make the situation worse for the average household?

AFAICT the only folks who benefit from the “I don’t want to pay my neighbors Dr. bill” argument are the insurance companies.
PDFs render just fine on a remarkable. Everything is grayscale, but I haven't noticed any rendering oddities.
Depending on your brand, boring might be a good thing. You don't want a backend business/reporting tool or data viz solution to go "wild" with its color palette; you want things to be readable and distinct without looking horrible. For that type of software, guides like this are great.
Amazon is irrelevant for music gear. It’s reverb, eBay, and sweetwater that has killed Guitar Center.

If you’re in a city though, I can’t recommend local music shops enough. So much about what makes a guitar (or any instrument) great is how it plays for you. How it feels.

I’ve bought dozens of guitars online. I’ve returned maybe 95%. I’ve returned 0% of the guitars I’ve bought locally. It’s all about how they play.
>You cannot purchase any Shimano parts at Chain Reaction.

this is a relatively recent development, you could last year. i'm not sure if they've clamped down globally or just stopped shipping to north america.

>this is no different than any other bike manufacturer

it's different in that CR is a retailer as well as a manufacturer. I assure you that even if the situation has changed recently, they definitely were selling off their OEM parts. it wasn't some sneaky thing, they were literally advertising what they were doing.
I agree with the phrase "black lives matter". But I absolutely do not support the political group "BLM", which stands for a number of liberal ideas that have nothing to do with black people. For example their "what we believe page" states: "We disrupt the Western-prescribed nuclear family structure requirement by supporting each other as extended families and “villages” that collectively care for one another, especially our children, to the degree that mothers, parents, and children are comfortable."

Frankly I think this idea has awful implications that BLM does not grasp.

It has since been deleted, but can be found here https://web.archive.org/web/20200816155814/https://blacklive...
Not quite sure this fits is a '0-day', better title could be 'Uniquely Fingerprinting Tor Browsers'

In my side-by-side test of Chrome vs Tor on the EFF's browser fingerprinting tool, Chrome had a 'unique fingerprint' whereas Tor has a 'nearly unique fingerprint' -- WebGL and Canvas contributed significantly to the bits of identifying information conveyed in both browsers. I suspect my unique monitor and gpu setup could be largely contributing to this fingerprinting process. See https://coveryourtracks.eff.org/
YouTube shoves them in the middle of the video in a way the creator clearly didn’t plan for though - cutting someone off mid sentence usually. Though the ridiculous minute/hour long ads have always been skippable in a few seconds in my experience, and I’m pretty sure I’d just stop watching the video if they weren’t.
Kurly?
You really think they are similarly challenging in any way? I have a brother who is a VP at a big consulting firm and have first hand knowledge how the interviews are conducted and how candidates prepare for them. The level of skill that is required for a candidate in Software Enginering at a similar company (fangaa) is immense and the competition is ruthless. It’s disingenuous to say the interviews are similarly challenging in any case. If you can provide some points or thoughts on how they are similar in level of challenge I would greatly appreciate it.
Not every entity (person / business) needs to have an opinion on every political topic. Nor do you need to tell people what your position is when the screaming hordes demand it.
Fair point; I wasn't considering the context.

To try to answer you anyway, they've put a fair bit of engineering effort into making YT mildly painful to use without Premium -- things like not allowing sound to play when the screen is off (and covering your screen in ads for Premium if you wake up the phone to a running YT instance). I'm sure some people pay for Premium to improve that experience.
Where can this note be read? I’m having trouble googling it.
Why would you return to a restaurant where the service was so poor you didn't feel like leaving a tip?

I've not left a tip a handful of times over some exceptionally bad service and food and never felt the desire to return to those restaurants.
Is it fair to say the waitstaff at Red Robin don't deserve to make a living because you said so? Usually they earn a living. If you don’t tip 20%, you’re cheap and should eat at home. It doesn’t start by you ruining a server’s day by acting different than 95% of the customers in the establishment.
And at the top of the article about Lee, is a suggestion to download Audm.
Makes sense, still - kind of sent a chill down my back.
That is absolutely sexism. It deeply bothers me that some people think tech must be exactly 50% male/female, and anything else is inherent sexism. It's anti-scientific to deny the possibility that biological gender can influence desired career paths.
The title "On the Death of a Cofounder" was insufficient?
BBC Motion Graphics Archive – collection of thousands of BBC TV title sequences
Slightly tangential, I wonder if social networks will be looked at like the tobacco companies once the increased dopamine needs they cause and certain brain diseases are linked...
> The rk3399 CPU on this board also dates from 2016[^1] so adjust your expectations accordingly. :)

Speaking of which, I keep hoping to see SBCs based on the (delayed) rk3588. [1] "4x Cortex-A76 and 4x Cortex-A55 cores" (should be much faster than the RPi4), some kind of NPU (don't know the specs). Not sure about I/O, but I'd guess it'd be at least as good as the rk3399 is.

[1] https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/02/01/rockchip-rk3566-rk35...
NULL is required to be stored as all zeros on POSIX systems.
Absolutely. Just saying, if that's where you focus your energy, that's what'll get attention.
Ask HN: What to do with old technical magazines and journals?
I inherited a lot of old computer magazines, journals, and books, dating mostly from the mid-80s to the mid-00s. They're really neat to flip through, but I don't really need them and they're mostly taking up space. I haven't had issues getting rid of the books (donating to libraries and a used book store) but I'm not sure what to do with the magazines and journals.

I've got hundreds of issues of:

- SunWorld

- SysAdmin

- SunExpert

- Server/Workstation Expert

- ;login:

- ACM Queue

- Communications of the ACM

- Computer Communication Review

- ACM Computing Surveys

- The Internet Protocol Journal

- IT Professional

- Radio Experimenter

- Inside Solaris

- Packet

and fewer assorted issues of some others. I'm not trying to make any money, just trying to figure out if there's anywhere that would value them so I don't have to throw them away. Any ideas?
That's a Skinnerbox, named after the psychologist B. F. Skinner who did the experiment. It works on humans too, which is why RPG games drop random amounts of loot and xp.
Most notably that manufacturers now use very narrow gamut LCD panels (50% NTSC, or even 50% sRGB) in low/mid range screens to force consumers to spend vastly more on hardware than was necessary, even a few years ago, to have access to devices with reasonable color rendition.

Charging the same prices for items of inferior quality is one way capitalism can increase inflation without it appearing in the official statistics.
I'm thinking it's this: https://docs.google.com/document/d/17tEc9ETL4tjfTmNbpwJJ5OSx...
In Denmark, I've had the waitress press "nej" to the tip on the card terminal once I brought out a Danish credit card. "Sorry, I didn't realise you were local."
Just curious, does YC offer life insurance? Should they?
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This is of course possible since booting was much simpler when all it had to do was read from the boot device into memory and jump to it. Definitely simpler than the horrible mess that is UEFI booting...
How does listing your graphics card features and Direct X version lead to a unique fingerprint? Am i missing something here?
AFAIK they also own American Musical Supply, ZZSounds, Woodwind & Brasswind, to name a few.
Sort of like the fossil fuel industry?
I was about to write my own diatribe, but found yours first.

Yeah, something like 10 years ago there was a web designer who took an Art 101 class, where the teacher told them to never use pure black paint. Because black objects in the real world appear to the viewer as a dark gray.

This is all true! On a canvas, painting a black car—which uses actual black paint in real life—using pure black paint, will not look right. The painting is supposed to "have its own light" included. So you must represent what the object would look like under the lighting conditions of the world you're recreating. Highlights are not different colors in real life, but they are on a painting.

But anyway, so this web designer, fresh from his Art 101 course, decided to write some blog post about it, and it's been accepted wisdom ever since.

1) We're not painting cars here, we're writing text. I don't load up "dark gray" ink in my fountain pen, nor do I use a "dark gray" toner in my printer. I would much rather the text on my screen be the same.

2) Contrast is good for legibility. Make the contrast as sharp as possible. Or, if you don't want that harsh look, then darken the background instead of lightening the text. Not too much, just enough to please your aesthetic sense while maintaining readability.
You didn’t miss it. If you’re aware that these packages exist, the wording is extremely misleading. Hard to imagine someone reading the article with no prior context and guessing that employees who left received 3 months (IIRC) of severance. This type of of misleading framing is not uncommon at the NYT.
To put it politely, Neal is a well-known character in security circles. I don't consider this a vulnerability.
If something is (for some reason or other) above critique, it does not, in my opinion, belong on this site.
Thanks for the heads up, I’ll be sure to check your app out!

Your approach is also kind of similar to Joplin (joplinapp.org), another open source, privacy-focused, and cross-device app, but you have more features.
A few years ago I decided that all of the encryption protocols and privacy measures in the world aren't going to protect you from state-actors.

Even if your software is perfectly implemented (it won't be), your hardware is mostly a black box and manufactured by major corporations with track records of cozying up to major governments. All the debate over the security of these algorithms is moot when you can't see the code the underlying machine is running.

You may just about be able to keep a Romanian script kiddy out of of your system if you keep up with every new vulnerability across your entire tech stack, but the Government is getting in whenever they feel like it.

My philosophy is thus to never do or say anything that will make the Government mad at me.
> Any of the cloud-provided orchestration tools (Cloudformation, Openstack Heat etc.) are great only for the most basic tasks; using them to provision complex infrastructure is just begging for a world of hurt.

It's also fun when you have to standardize something that was either created by hand in the Web UI (and has a bunch of hidden default values set), or was by some other orchestration tool, and then you have to import/recreate it in terraform. It's usually a PITA, but you'll learn a lot!
> American companies can legally affect politics via lobbies

As opposed to non-American companies who never expose their preferences to leaders?
Thanks for that. So... I wonder if it'll work on magpies.
Wait, sciter is going open source?? I thought the kickstarter to make it happen didn't reach the funding goal, so they weren't going to do it?
The donations go for Mozilla’s other projects, not directly to Firefox developments. As far as I know there is no way to donate directly to Firefox development.
My wishes and prayers going to Christian's family. There's also a good book on the co-founder of Akamai who also departed early. I thought it was a good read:
https://www.amazon.com/No-Better-Time-Remarkable-Transformed...
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@dang or @moderator Please edit the title from "Indian startup..." to "startup".
FoundationDB is in use at Apple, Snowflake, multiple divisions within VMWare, eBay, Segment, Goldman Sachs, IBM, Epic Games, and more companies that are not public about their use.
I have heard about this from Romanian friends as well. 30-50 lei/day seemed about average (€6-10); for comparison, a decent fast food meal would be 10 lei and monthly salaries are on the order of 4000 lei.
What's the point of that? You can't fully resurrect all artifacts ever or you'll waste a day downloading until you run out of disk space, so all you get is the pointer files. At which point you could just as well store a the hash of something in an object store, without LFS.
about:config -> webgl.disabled -> true

It is sad that pyllyukko's user.js is more hardened than default TBB, but at least it's easy to mitigate for now.
IMHO main issue is that you suffer from the same problem that killed jQuery. By separating html and the logic affecting that html (css in this case, and event handlers for jQuery), you might make it look cleaner, but you also make it much harder to track what is affecting what. You need to scroll up and down to follow what's going on, you might miss that there's say 3 buttons with this class you defined and not just 2, etc. And as the complexity grows, it gets exponentially harder to manage it and it quickly can turn into a mess. Components help keeping the html short, so this approach is certainly working better than with the old monolith pages, but it's still more work to have single .button and then look up its styles, then to have all the utility classes directly on it.

Also on bigger project you're almost guaranteed to have someone on the team who will insist on naming their classes in totally unintuitive way, or you'll end up with .big-blue-button that will at some moment end up red actually because they've been in hurry and forgot to rename the class.

One of the biggest benefits from using the frameworks is the standardization and uniformity, you're guaranteed that everyone on the team now or anytime in the future will know exactly what classes/mixins/variables are available and will have a documentation on how to use them. You need extra people to meet the deadline, you just hire devs who know the framework and you're good to go, no extra onboarding needed to explain where the buttons variables are located, and where to apply which, and how to name their classes, etc.
I'm in that position right now and it's massively contributing to burnout.