skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
When you listen to AMD, or at least the new AMD under Dr Lisa Su, it is all about their drives, passion, innovation and trying to succeed while building a brand that enthusiast loves and working hard to crack the Enterprise Market. Not a single mention of Intel.

When you listen to Intel, whether it was tech forum, Investor meeting or marketing presentation. They seems to talk more about AMD than their own offering.

Exec loves these FUD. Business purchase made up to 50% of the PC market. HyperScaler have long lead time and planning of new instances which makes Intel's future Roadmap, promise, marketing and FUD works better. Delaying the purchase of AMD at all cost.

As I have been saying, Intel's marketing machines has been working in full force since last year. From Leaks ( notice the amount of Intel leaks coming out are two to three times the volume over the past 12 months ? ), PR, Investor notes to sales partner's promises, Channel Clearing discount etc. It is the same playbook as they did in Athlon 64 era, and credit where credit is due they are exceptionally good at it.
Perhaps people now make mobile games instead.

They can possibly get more money out of that.
> Most modern languages no longer have preprocessors, which is a pity.

m4 is a preprocessor for all languages.
That's a needlessly nitpicky interpretation of a minute part of GP's comment. It's a government agency in the state of California.
OMG, this is hilarious.
Let's not get carried away here, it's 60-some lines of JavaScript to do some manual type checking, likely pulled in by a mess of package.json declarations. I'm kind of disappointed in Nintendo if they're running Node on the switch itself.
Definitely putting this on the projector next time I have a party.
Fun fact: There are many cars by Japanese brand, but very few car named in Japanese (lang).
I swear we should just pin this question to the top of Ask HN, it comes up so often.

I am not a founder (IANAF), but the general consensus seems to be you should become active in the space you want to found a company in. Attend workshops, take classes, go to meet-ups, events, conferences. Learn from and meet people interested in the same things you are, and eventually you will start to develop a network of talented people who could become potential co-founders or early employees.

As in all things worth doing, this will take time. But, it is likely to lead to a better result than you starting a company with the first person you meet that has the skills you need.
Can confirm, both beta blockers and ace inhibitors worked for me. Went from weekly headeaches taking handfull of paracetamol/ibuprofen to none in years. some other i'm taking now works for 90% .

Apparently beta blockers are well known for this, as a neurologist told me a few weeks ago. No clue why it was never mentioned when searching treatment. I found out myself also only after having to take it due to high BP.

Still looking for something that works for a relative, tried almost everything, including triptans and vitamin B2 (which I havent seen mentioned yet). Maybe mushrooms would be something to try next.
Bribery for gun permits is also very common in NYC. It's well known that you either have to employ ex-NYPD in some capacity to get a gun permit, or pay cash. Maybe it's slowed down since some high profile arrests in 2017.

https://abc7ny.com/nypd-police-corruption-investigation/1914...

DAs don't like investigating cops.
> (...I'm fairly certain the constant voltage is for when the battery is low)

Backwards. When the cell is low, the charging is at a constant current. The current is limited to whatever is deemed safe for the battery.

Once the battery has charged to 80% or so, then the voltage will have reached the top, and any attempt to maintain the current will over-volt the cells. So the current is allowed to taper off as the voltage is held constant.

For a single cell, that means the charger will apply whatever voltage is needed to deliver, say, 1 amp. Then when the voltage hits the 4.2V ceiling, it will stay there as the current naturally decays. A 100% charge is declared when the current falls below some threshold, like 50mA.
Wow, stepped-frequency synthetic radar imaging using FFTs... I never thought I'd see that on HN...

My PhD and PostDoc were on SAR and ISAR imaging, doing maximum likelihood phase corrections before the FFTs to reduce motion blur.

I was sponsored by the Australian Defence Science and Technology Organisation. My summer holidays were at the Edinburgh airforce base near Adelaide, with a van full of radar gear snapping stepped-frequency radar reflections from aircraft coming in to land.

(If anyone from my time as DSTO sees this, say hi... my email address is in my profile)
One in four Rhode Islanders can't meet basic food needs, food bank report says
> it seems likely Apple/Moyer would rather pay the bribe.

It sounds like we agree on the facts. Apple, and specifically Moyer, decided to pay a bribe to a government official. Bribery is a crime. Why do you find it odd that he's being charged?
Oh I don't know, I bet Google would love to hire someone like DHH just for their geek-brand. Honestly, they should have hired the homebrew guy for the same reason. But yeah, I think the FAANG+M's of the world understand the value of a "thought leader" type dev. (Microsoft has plenty of full-time open source devs on payroll, which I know because I've met some at conferences.)
The biggest thing IMO is for security research, given the intense walled garden, it's increasingly required to do any sort of poking around.
> This is cool

I don't agree the example has anything to do with convolution. The example is explained with plain old primary school multiplication.

100101 * 23 = (100000+100+1)*23

= 2300000+2300+23

There isn't any fantastic property, only cherry-picked number which works as decimal left-shifts.

Convolution is not a number. Convolution is an operator that outputs a function.
The purpose of science is not prediction. The purpose of science is to find better deeper explanations for reality.

The key to the experiment was this: "Initial studies at the time seemed to suggest psychedelic drugs that activate 5-hydroxytryptamine 2A (5-HT2A) receptors could significantly reduce headache burden in chronic migraine sufferers."

We still need to do more studies and experiments and change our explanations to test those new explanations. That's all they've said. And here the initial comment was just going to cancel it outright because, probably, it didn't fit their internalized cultural moral landscape.

The experiment in question was testing an explanation, there is a HUGE lack of understanding of things that are banned, like Psilocybin--because they are banned.

See also: The Fabric of Reality by David Deutsch
> Can't believe all the Apple apologists here. Bribing public officials is a crime, period.

Apple or no Apple, no one in America should be deprived of their Constitutional rights. I'm more concerned that authoritarian states like California can get away with depriving the people of our explicit rights under American law than I am with people paying bribes just to exercise those rights.
Wikipedia has a good summary at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_concealed_carry_in_.... (there's supposed to be a period at the end of the link).

Of course, concealed carry restrictions aren't the only gun laws in the country, but I have to admit I'm just not very informed on any others. I do know California's handgun registry has gotten stricter.
Offtopic but what we really need is a model where producing maximum amount of calories with minimum cost is heavily discouraged.
It's true that RMS founded GNU and was the key leader for decades, and is basically its mascot. To many, RMS and GNU are the same. One cannot overstate his impact on the ideals and values of GNU.

I disagree with the suggestion that the group of people under discussion — who aim to distance themselves from RMS — want to "reduce the GNU project to a mere formality".

I think it's the opposite: that those people want to embolden GNU and strengthen the bonds between the various GNU softwares to create a first-class operating system made of free software, the GNU way. They ended their association with Stallman but continued with GNU because they believe in its goals. One could even say they did it because they believe that GNU is important.

It's been a very long time since RMS was able to marshall a group of people to work toward that goal. The maintainers of Guix and the other signatories of the statement against Stallman's leadership are doing that very thing.

The proof is in the pudding: the latest Guix release had 201 contributors. I think that's a lot.

GNU is internally managed on a private mailing list. Guix and other GNU maintainers coming out against Stallman may have been surprising to those who aren't privy to that list, but for the rest of us, it has been a long time coming.

For a long time, key GNU projects have either effectively quit GNU or, with great effort, wrested authority away from RMS because what goes on "behind the scenes" in GNU is not good. The only change is that now they are doing it in public.
Soliciting bribes is explicitly against the law, and that has nothing to do with "may" vs "shall" issue.
There isn't a politically and socially (?) dominant party in the US. There were recently bitterly and closely contested federal elections there.
Wouldn't it be a similar perspective to wanting drugs to be legal?

Or do you actually understand and it's just figure of speech to say you don't approve?
Eh I can see where you are coming from, but I don't necessarily agree with that. At least here in the US, corporations never accepted to unions as legitimate. It always took giant draw out strikes.
It looks like the iPads were for the department, not the guy's personal use. It's a little bit dubious given that it's the same agency asking for and receiving the benefit, but money is fungible. Suppose the Sheriff had insisted on iPads for some other department, like the schools.

Governments do stuff like this all the time. In fact constituents get mad when they don't. The Planning Commission is considered derelict in its duty if it just gives away a building permit without getting something good from the developer in return (park, street cleaning program, extra BMR units, promise to use union labor).

SFMTA considers corporate philanthropy, coverage of unprofitable neighborhoods, and low-income discount programs when deciding who gets the permit to run scooters in San Francisco.

If it is bribery when a government agency asks a permit applicant to spend a bit on the agency's mission, then there's a lot more to prosecute all over the Bay Area.
No, it isn't. The stats for gun deaths in the US make this absolutely, unambiguously clear, far beyond the point where there's any realistic case for debate about it.

Widespread fire extinguisher use dramatically lowers the odds of you dying in a fire.

Widespread gun use - not just the presence of guns as an option, but the assumption that guns can be used on the street - dramatically increases the odds of you dying because of someone else's gun.

Proponents always seem to reduce this to an imaginary heroic encounter where Random Shooter is stopped by Heroic Armed Citizens.

That's almost never how it works in practice on the street. It's far more likely that Random Citizen is shot before they can even get their weapon out. And even if bystanders are armed they either won't have time to do anything to prevent a shooting, or they won't risk trying to shoot one of two people who are fairly close together at some range, or they'll simply decide it's not their problem and the most they'll do is call the police after it's over.

At this point someone usually says "But this one time..." And it's true there are exceptions.

But they don't change the statistics, which are completely clear - more gun use means more random gun deaths, partly because concealed guns really aren't particularly useful against attackers who already have their weapons out.

You have a far better chance of survival if you learn some distraction and confusion techniques and/or fast self-defence moves than by trying to shoot someone who is pointing a gun at you at close range.
To play devil's advocate; Google give me access to an easily searchable index of the greatest repository of knowledge in all of human history for the price of a few ads. This is profitable for Google, certainly, but I feel I get more out of the deal than they do.
You're not missing anything - people see the world through a filter of their biases. The Trump administration & a republican congress also passed significant tax-cuts for corporates, which were pretty milquetoast[1] for everyone else. To add insult to injury, the corporate tax-cuts are permanent, but the one for the "rest of us" expires in 2021, IIRC.

1. IIRC, there was a teacher who complained at a senator's town hall that her $17 annual tax savings were worthless, and he retorted that she could use it to treat herself to a burger. To be completely honest, I can't recall the exact amount - or suggested purchase, but both were laughable.
That's it, it's not so much the "killer apps" anymore but the little things that you can fix up.

The one downside to jailbreaking which I never found a working solution for was numerous apps that had jailbreak detection which caused the app to stop working, like Pokemon Go.
That's one employer that I would not mind recommending.
That's fascinating. Thanks for sharing, I had no idea other Americans say 'nooz'instead of 'nyooz' as I say
SkiFree https://ski.ihoc.net/

Also https://archive.org/details/win3_SKIFREE
I like my coffee dripped, preferably from my home country (Costa Rica).
Punishing Apple is absolutely part of the fix. It gives all future, um, victims more incentive to not play along and increases the chances that future extortion will be exposed.
HN should know that non-compete clauses are largely unenforceable in California. if there's a non-compete in your contract, you shouldn't hesitate to go to work for a direct competitor.
I mean for the most part, I doubt the average Apple fan is going to care.
One man's experience applying for a concealed carry weapons permit in California
> the Apple officer in question was in charge of CREATING that class

You're kidding me? You actually believe the upper management follows this shit? It's a checkbox to make sure you have a "good working environment.

You know how I know that it's some BS? Two of the Chief X Officers at a previous job both met their current partners at a job... they were pregnant at their weddings.
It's still Safari's engine but the web browser can built their own functionality on top of it, like content blocking, tab sync etc.
For true automation sure but I can think of "IoT" applications where using the phone would be nice. Lighting most of all.

I have a small arcade in my basement and the ability to control the lights from my phone would be way better than using the wall switch, mostly because of outlet placement and the fact the switch has to stay on.

My living room only has one switched outlet and it is the one closest to the switch. The lights across the room have to be manually controlled.

I've done some research into wifi controlled outlets and I have some very old radio controlled ones but I need more. Do you have any suggestions for hackable wifi plugs that do not connect to the internet? Maybe something that connects to a hub?

My dream would be something where I can make my own sensors and talk over wifi to outlets that are UL listed, without involving the internet. I'm happy to DIY anything that doesn't interact with mains voltage.
What is unconstitutional about prosecuting people of crimes that they commit by bribing officials?

I’m not following your logic.
I think GP means state in the metaphorical sense, referring to an office of a government, not an office of one of the 50 states in the union.
They didn't even touch the Sheriff.

> Sheriff Laurie Smith, who has the authority to issue CCW permits, has not been charged with a crime.

Either i. the sheriff knew about/was in on this scheme and must be put in prison or ii. the sheriff didn't know about how her number two was soliciting bribes using her authority to grant/deny licenses and must resign because that is just gross negligence.

Which one is it?
1. It sort of is. The prevailing founding arguments for federalism was as a check against the national government.
Even today, 35 states contradict the federal government's regulation that states marijuana has "no currently accepted medical use"

2. Only SCOTUS can definitively say whether or not may-issue contradicts the 2nd.
For sure, /r/jailbreak is a cesspit at the best of times. Probably doesn't help it's overrun by presumably teenagers.
An easy and smart way to recognize human face
After initial sideloading of the new firmware (unsupported IIRC, you're on your own), you can grab the RTSP credentials and disconnect the camera entirely. It is usable as an offline IP camera after that. No cloud, just give it LAN access only.

Before this there was no non-proprietary way to access.
KafKa Streams with Java 15
Is there some service we can ask us to email us in a year with the URL of your comment then?

I'd be shocked if it doesn't remain opt-in, for all sorts of reasons.
Southwest England. (Ha, really.)
Ask HN: How do you appeal a Stripe decision not to open an account?
I'm in a bit of a tricky spot. I'm a developer, and one aspect of my software is a web-store add-on. (So, I don't run a web store, but my software is used in my clients' web stores.) Anyhow, I integrated with Stripe because it's an easy and beautiful integration, and I personally bill my clients using Stripe, so I was already comfortable with it. Anyhow, my soon-to-be client attempts to sign up with Stripe, and they promptly decline to activate their account. They follow up with an email, and they very promptly get back a "this decision is final" message.
("Thank you for reaching out about this. Unfortunately, we still won't be able to accept payments for [redacted] moving forward.")

Anyhow, I'm 99.99% confident that their decision was made in error. The organization is a local franchise of a well-known nationwide non-profit organization, and is about as non-risky as they come. However, while Stripe has a lot in its favor, talking to humans doesn't seem to be a point in its favor. So, after that long introduction, here's the question:

Is there a secret path to get to a higher up at Stripe to get a real human to manually review a decision that was almost certainly made in error? I know lots of you have worked with Stripe, so perhaps some of you have found this path.
All of that hardware would be just fine if we had a Bill of Rights for the Internet that ensured free speech rights and ability to host content (of any sort that isn't strictly prohibited already) is enshrined in law.

Pity all these laws end up spending most of their time enabling obscenity instead of political speech.
Analyzing the Rise of ‘Buy Now, Pay Later’ Services
MacKeeper was given the EndpointSecurity entitlement by Apple
Yes, being a cop is a choice. But not everyone becomes one for the same reason. Assuming negatives about everyone in that group is unfair and unhelpful to the people that are within it trying to actually enact change.

In what way is disparaging anyone who is a police officer because they are a police officer any different than disparaging anyone that is a lawyer because of the numerous negative stories about lawyers? There's plenty of jokes about lawyers, but I assume most people take those for what they are, jokes playing on stereotypes that shouldn't be applied to an individual or inform your opinion of an individual prior to evidence about them.

Are you saying it's okay to immediately have an opinion about the trustworthiness or likelihood of an individual police officer just because they are a police officer? That seems to be what your comment is defending.
There used to be a great pic online showing all of the different timelines as swimlanes to show how they were all connected.

Here: https://d13ezvd6yrslxm.cloudfront.net/wp/wp-content/images/p...
> Look at where an elected sherrif gets his campaign funding.

Reminder that in many US jurisdictions judges are also elected and may need campaign funding.
If it's just a static site, use Netlify.
Yes. It's a crime for an American to bribe US government officials, and it's also a crime for an American to bribe foreign government agents as well (that's the US Foreign Corrupt Practices Act).
While the main HQ is in San Francisco today, it started out in The Netherlands. There's still a Dutch subsidiary and office, but it's mostly used to employ people.
...any legal reason...

Actually, denying the permit via an illegal action (requesting a bribe) is not a lawful denial and would result in the violation of your equal protection rights.
Yeah, no, every time I see specious reasoning like this it just makes me resent having to wear a muzzle more. I'll still do it when it makes sense, but I can't understand why anyone wouldn't hate doing it.
Despite being sarcastically phrased, the GP is very warranted. Google is so renowned for making breaking changes, there's a site to track not just their dead code, but their dead products:

https://killedbygoogle.com/

I think experienced engineers have learned not to depend on Google a long time ago, and the GP is stressing that lesson: this is not "news" in that it happens _very_ frequently.

Also, for the company that invented the protobuf IDL, you'd expect them to maybe use swagger to catch these things in an automated fashion, if they have admitted it's a bug by accepting a support ticket for it.
Wyze also downloads crap tons of something.

1 of my wyze downloaded 350 MB while uploaded 5 GB

Another downloaded 2.5 GB while uploaded 150 GB - Always on RTSP.
Another data point here, I'm a user who utterly hate ads.

Ads is just another word for manipulation. I see ads as an amalgam of screaming signaling noise that feed our primitive brains with ideas that are not ours.

I don't care if it's a huge, medium, small, unobtrusive. I simply can't stand ads at all.

All this disgust is on ads on a very basic level, imagine what I think about target ads/tracking.

edit. spelling.
You could find this interesting: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25151773
The electors don't show up by magic. They come from states, based on the votes in those states. The electors haven't voted, but they will, and we know what they will vote. But I'm pretty sure you knew that. You're clinging to the hope that things will change.

Trump has legal remedies, and he's filed suits. But those suits don't add up to enough votes in enough states to change the result.
Sounds like there's a distinction under the FCPA between actual bribery (illegal) and grease payments (legal), where an official requests a bribe to do their job.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Foreign_Corrupt_Practices_Act
GraphQL Server with Java and Clients in Go and Rust
The CGRP drugs were also life changing for me.
Another commenter familiar with the tech said: Pluton can securely track what software was booted on the main core (called "measure boot") and it basically sends a hash of that to the cloud to prove to the cloud what software is currently running.

That sounds like most of what you need to build a system that can enforce what executables you're allowed to load and prevent you from attaching a debugger.
I realize that certifying DC electronics for airplane use is an expensive and complicated process. But I do wonder what the situation is for built-in USB charging ports up there.
I wasn't aware of the overlays. I'll have to print myself one.
It's also a bit disingenuous to cherry-pick one point without responding to the overall statement.

But, sure, I do have an issue with those. Just like you don't think every dollar of wage theft is paid as damages, one might also reasonably believe that not every dollar of burglary losses is reported and captured in those aggregate numbers.
I guess I’m wondering how Pluton and SGX coexist...