skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hope more people from HN join the PINE64 Nutcracker channel on Telegram (there is also Matrix and Discuss channels connected with a bridge):
https://t.me/joinchat/Kmi2S0nOsT240emHk-aO6g
This is for opensourcing BL602:
https://www.cnx-software.com/2020/10/24/bl602-bl604-risc-v-w...

Love to watch how the community solve problems:

1. Find some vendor Windows version for flashing BL602

2. Hack it to work for Mac

3. Reverse engineer the Serial traffic

4. Build Python version that reduce the size from 200MB to < 200kB

5. Others build Rust in parallel

6. Others getting JTAG to work, figuring out the address ranges

Focusing on building OpenSource community around the software I think is one of PINE64 great strengths.
Did AWS announced it or are you announcing it?

I'm searching just now over *.amazon.com and nothing comes up. The product pages also bear zero indication of that.
Thanks for providing this. It's funny to read the speculations when you have read the actual root cause :D

Well I guess the thing is left unanswered for now is why the quota management reduced the capacity for Google's IMS in the first place.

Maybe we will know someday :)
Any company that isn't at PH's scale wouldn't be able to survive getting banned from card payments. Taking cash/check isn't possible on the web and Bitcoin poses the kind of barrier to entry that will surely lose you at least half of your customers.

Imagine being a rather large consumer electronics web store. You're doing very well, with a good brand loyalty and major part of the market and pride yourself on fast delivery times. Suddenly, your credit card processor drops you because you sold an electronic sex toy that one time and that's against Jesus or whatever. Now the only way to get paid is through bank transfers (takes up to 2 days to go through, fees, pain in the ass) or cash at delivery (huge fee, need to withdraw cash in advance). There are 3 other stores in your market that never made that fatal mistake - who do you think will still buy from you? You're left with only a handful of business customers. Once you downsize because 80% of your revenue is gone, they leave too. F
I think code would be ambiguous. For example in "I'm working on the code" do you mean what we now call the actual code, or the language?
Delusion Damage
Intercom, Zalando, Spotify, Revolut, Transferwise, Skyscanner, ASOS, Raspberry PI, Betfair, Mojang.
It's not like the PC version was ready. It has issues that can not be fixed in another 6 months of development. But as bad as the PC version is, it's at least somewhat playable in contrast to the console version.
> Has your team considered using a standardized VM to develop in?

How is that not what we're already doing? Minikube runs in a VM. But we have to set it up somehow. Running a minikube VM inside a maually configured linux VM makes no sense - if we did that, now we'd need a scipt to boottrap the linux VM.

> You're really fighting an uphill battle with macOS these days... as sad as that might be for some.

I can definitely see this becoming more and more true in many fields, but this hans't been an issue for us.
I find it interesting but maybe not entirely surprising that games can actually crash on consoles. It still surprises me when it happens on my Nintendo Switch.

Though my last console experience before that was on a Nintendo 64 and I don't think any game ever crashed on it.
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> The iPhone 12 Pro is better than EVIL & DSLR cameras

goalshifted into "it is ok enough for this single type of photo + light".
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Are there any videos of this "unplayable performance"?

All the PS4 videos I could find barely stuttered and seemed well above the threshold of playable
Good luck getting the same quality of service as gmail with your own mail server. The fact that gmail fails every so often (extremely rarely actually) is a good sign: zero failure would mean that they are over-investing in quality and losing flexibility. Gmail only needs to be as good as the best web service out there.
A simple suggestion: Have a mobile optimised version of the website.
For me it's highly probable the last delay have been caused by the game being denied the certification at first.

Since it's a critical time for both of them not only because it's christmas but also because of the new gen I'm also pretty sure they decided it was more worthwhile for them to still certify it the second time even if it wasn't up to the standards.
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Facebook to move all UK users onto US agreements
> b) I've never heard of someone being caught practicing this

Yup. Me too.

It's not as bad with design/IT agencies anymore, but I know that lawyer agencies are still notorious for this. Big-ish lawyer agencies with dozens of lawyers have no employees, everyone is a "partner" (or whatever the term is).
I have been doing this. I bought a domain and am using zoho.com to send and receive emails for free. Storage is only 5GB but I can always pay if I want more.
And what’s the efficacy of valveless masks at reducing spreading? Given that even places with extremely high mask compliance are experiencing the same spikes as everywhere else, I have trouble believing that the benefit from masks is anything but marginal, since very few people are wearing N95 respirators. Meanwhile, for that marginal benefit everyone is being subjected to the discomfort of constrained breathing, the psychological impacts of not seeing faces/expressions, and difficulty for the hard of hearing (who rely on seeing lips/expressions). A recent study found that masks provided little benefit (https://fee.org/articles/new-danish-study-finds-masks-don-t-...) but I haven’t been able to find exact numbers on the probabilistic reduction in transmission on a per-mask-material basis.
There's no clear-cut rule here. Some workarounds stay workarounds and never get standardized. Some become so well-accepted and adopted that people then put them into standards. It's great to put things into standards, so by all means, do try to improve standards. But that shouldn't block you from everything. At the end of the day, standardization is just a means to an end, and the end is what matters here. Nobody cares if their mailman's knocks follows an RFC or not. They just want their mailman to deliver packages with reasonably minimal disruption.
I’ve found that reapproaching language when things don’t make sense to be very valuable.

Gender in German, for instance. It seems to be completely arbitrary save for one detail: whichever “sounds” best. I compare this to using “a/an” in English (albeit the rules in English are somewhat more “strict” in this regard.)
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There's no "the government" building rail lines for itself because it's on a spending binge. These types of major construction projects come with specific budgets and planned sources of bond and tax-based funding, and are usually approved at the ballot box.
That sentence also stuck out to me as betraying a terrible point of view on the part of the author. Yes, inegalitarian traditions live in the community. Do you know what else lives in the community? Friendships and marriages and the park where you played as a kid and the bar where you hang out after work and the parking light behind the high school where you had your first kiss. These things are naturally inequitable, because not everyone had them, and they aren't of equal quality everywhere. But it takes a special kind of perversity to say that we should empower the state to destroy this kind of value simply because not everyone gets to have some.
> I'd say that it feels like someone in the media has an axe to grind here.

Most definitely when looking at some of the not so technical complaints, like about "representation" or how the studio is allegedly all kinds of phobic and the general tone not being PC enough.

Particularly cynical to complain about the commodification of trans-people, in a setting where even peoples memories and individual body-party are just another commodity. When that's very big part of that dystopian worlds settings, always has been, and not some specific dig against trans people.

Makes me wonder how much of that is simply a pile-on effect from the general situation in Poland with LGTBQ+ issues and CDPR getting drawn into that as some kind of scapegoat.
There's also The Wolf by Fever Ray in Far Cry: Primal, creating one of these gameplay moments when you start to doubt you're not hallucinating.
Neat, this reminds me of

https://www.math.uci.edu/~isik/posts/Eigentechno.html

(hn post https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24820824)
Twitter's CEO is basically an absentee leader, time-splitting with his other company which actually makes money and spending his free hours sucking up to rappers because he is desperate not to appear as an uncool white guy. Is it any shock that their strategy is garbage?
And that's what pisses me the most. That they put out words that everyone knows have no real meaning.
So they went to fish for correlations and found this? EDA at its best...
What are the tradeoffs for doing so and what makes them more compelling? What applications don't benefit as much by using GraphQL?
As someone working in the game industry and had to deal with the MS and Sony, I’ve experienced myself how strict they can be when it comes to QA, especially in things related to stability and performance. For a less hyped-up project, a single crash during a walkthrough (or an FPS dipping too low) could result in the game not being able to get released on an affected platform until it was fixed.
For the record, I've read that she did some accounting for the first year.

Generally founders don't consider early bookkeeping to be a major contribution, though often legal firms get $50,000 and a small amount of stock in SV to run a Wordperfect macro, but:

1) courts could look at that differently and

2) depends on the state's divorce laws. California is proud of being among the "most progressive", but I don't know about their state.
I'm also Polish, I know quite a few people in IT who used to do exactly that, but this year they all had to stop or figure out some workarounds, because the Polish tax office has started asking for proof that their company is actually working with more than one client. If they only have a single client in a year then they have to convert to full time employment. So yes, people are absolutely getting caught by this.
If you live in Europe, your heater highly likely has OpenTherm (which is not as open as the name suggests). So instead of playing with lego you can buy/build an otgw[0] which will MITM your heater and thermostat communication, allowing you to add your own smart solution on top. You can still use the outdoor temperature sensor (if installed), thermostat control logic, etc. But you can intercept and rewrite commands so you can set temperature, date/time and other heater/thermostat settings. And snoop on messages like internal temperatures from the heater and things like water pressure.

[0] http://otgw.tclcode.com/
> plucky O/S

That's cute!

I guess we haven't really moved beyond BeOs from 1990, have we?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeOS

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Haiku_(operating_system)
yep, i've found it to be extremely worthwhile having your own domain. Its more effort but once its setup its way easier to avoid lock in to a company.

I also run my own and its been easier than expected, especially with maddy: https://github.com/foxcpp/maddy
Yes, coming from someone who is promoting yet another raw format, that sounds a bit grand. And this is Apple we are talking, which doesn't come across as a very standards based/supportive company.
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Crunches are a reality in the industry, yet there seems to be a lack of engineers almost everywhere. How did your company ask you to work overtime and did you comply, push back, or leave, and why? Did it pay off?
I assume you’ve actually played the game on a console, and experienced game breaking bugs? Or maybe you subjectively consider the quality to not match your well thought out expectations previous to purchasing it? Can you please expand on your personal experiences with the game that led you to the dumpster fire conclusion?

I’m also curious about your statement that every genre defining game has had a genre defining gold print. Can you point to one or more similar games that launched flawlessly across all platforms, on time, without negative reviews?
> The researchers emphasized that this study focused on common procedures, and on older Medicare patients. This means that the findings may not apply to other types of patients, or to other surgical procedures.

Is there any reason Medicare would play a role in the surgeon's performance?
In most cases, this also makes you more vulnerable to a dns hijacking attempt.

I'd still suggest to put "secrets" in a free global trusted email provider with 2fa
I feel like we need an opposite saying for sentiments like this to the age old "correlation does not equal causation", something like "correlation does not mean automatically dismiss"
That seems far more like being paid for the windfall of hard work than most (eg) executive bonus schemes, where you're disproportionately rewarded for the work of others.

But no, they should absolutely also pay overtime.
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It seems they put you in contact with a VC and you have to negotiate with them. It's not as good as a direct 150k$ but I guess it can also be helpful for an indie starting company.
My assumption is that all of this doesn't matter when the share holders and investors pressure the company... it's not an easy to decision whether to delay the product again, especially when there is already a negative public reaction to the multiple delays.
we're all good then as long as nobody makes multiple AIs or even one AI that consists of "multiple" intelligences working together in a collective
The founder effect doesn't seem capable of explaining the spread of D614G given that it has replaced other varients in every place it has been introduced to, and that it has even doubled back and outcompeted other variants even when those variants were introduced far before D614G. I'll read this paper, though, to get a better idea of what they're claiming; thanks for the link.

You have assumed I'm ignorant when you could have attempted to understand why I believe the things I do which seems at least as big a mistake as the one you accused me of making.
You have to give up all rights and derivative rights? Riiiiiighhhhht. Okay. So this thing I've built I'll just sign it away to you for a 'chance' of a prize?
> Research on judges has yielded similar results. It has found, for example, that external factors as diverse as outdoor temperatures and sports results can influence judges’ decisions.

When I hear of these funky effects I always wonder how they relate to AI. Presumably this is somehow related to some kind of lossy compression of the state of the world, maybe similar to principal components[0]? Where the "I feel grumpy" component is a mix of defendant-is-guilty, temperature-is-low and my-team-lost.

It might also be related to the binding problem[1]?

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

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binding_problem
We do have a law on the books saying porn distributors must do due diligence w.r.t. verifying that the people featured in their material are of age. One of the reasons why is because Traci Lords lied about her age to the production company, and actually appeared underage in all her movies but one. It got the company in a shitton of trouble and the Feds made them remove her tapes from circulation and destroy any extant copies, lest they be slapped with child porn charges.
No, the reason why so many Ubisoft games are made in Canada(and other studios as well, take a walk around central montreal, there's tonnes of games studios there) is that the Canadian government is giving out massive subsidies to the game industry to grow it there(last I've heard it's literally half of every salary - an absolutely ridiculous amount of money). If you compare the cost of having an employee in Canada to most other places, Canada works out pretty cheap, and it's an attractive place to move to and live in, without the ridiculousness of the American immigration.
Ah, I misunderstood. Sorry!

I agree. I played it a few hours on launch at a friend's place and it was completely underwhelming.
"What is it like to be a Thermostat?"

http://consc.net/notes/lloyd-comments.html
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I’m kind of dumbstruck you brought up the switch. I have never — and I am not exaggerating — never had a game freeze on me on a Nintendo system, save for a busted ass cart on a 30 year old NES.

Especially lately, I feel as though Nintendo is the only brand who actually cares to provide that “just works” console experience.
But you can pay for email from other providers like Fastmail and Proton and just have your own domain with MX pointing at them. Services are better in my opinion when you pay for them and you’re not the product.
>>your max out of pocket health expenses won’t exceed a few thousand dollars.

Wait, that's meant to be good? What kind of insanity is this. Why do you have to pay anything out of your pocket at all??
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India Becomes the Leading Adopter of AI Amid the Pandemic
> Company 1: The company went bankrupt, founder renamed the company, started a new company with the same name as the original, transferred some assets for pennies on the dollar. It later went public, but collapsed in the dot-com crash.

Is that legal? It looks like the CEO of the company willingly harmed the company's interest to enrich himself, which is basically fraud.
If getting anything at all for overtime and crunch is your definition of shittiest, you've not seen shit :)
Well, they both use the same satellites and radio signals. It's the same electronics in different packaging.

Speaking of packaging, the product you linked to is the buoyant version. Don't get that for hiking, it's significantly larger (physically) than the non-buoyant one. Confusingly, they are both called the "ResQLink 400".
the only actual threat i see is its claims on the south china sea.

the rest of what china is doing is consistent -> "mind your own business".

yes. maybe somebody should clear up whether taiwan is part of china or vice versa. maybe this is like south china sea too. they think because they've been using it like their backyard pool for 4000 yrs its actually theirs.

but it certainly didn't do syria, libya, iraq, afghanistan, crimea.
Damn good article. The doctor's points make sense and we should heed his warnings about 'extravagant' and sometimes dangerous claims made by Big Pharma about its products.

The point he makes about Merck and its antiinflammatory drug Vioxx strikes a chord with me. The fact that Merck knew from its trials that the drug could bring on strokes and heart attacks and the fact that the corporation still went ahead and marketed it was an act of extremely unethical behavior - one that was completely unforgivable.

I occasionally took Vioxx for my sore back and it worked OK, so when I saw an article AAAS's Science magazine about worries about Vioxx's side effects I read it with interest.

After looking at the stats and graphs I immediately concluded that the drug would be banned. If I recall correctly that was about three years before the ban on Vioxx was put in place and it withdrawn from the market.

That the ban took so long from the time the article appeared in Science still troubles me. Why did it take so long to ban the drug and how many deaths occurred
unnecessarily in the intervening period? It's a question I've still no complete answer for.

As I alluded to in an earlier post on Purdue and its role in the opioid epidemic, it seems to me that the FDA and Big Pharma spend too much time in bed with each other and that this is a problem for the nation's health.

Please note, nothing I've said above conflicts with my view that it was the correct decision to rush the approval for this vaccine. In this instance, clearly the dangers outweigh the risks of not doing so.

All that said, I would still risk taking this vaccine as I know that the risk would be less risky than risking the likely worst effects of COVID-19.

The fact remains that we need to be very cautious about anything Big Pharma says.

'Truth' and Big Pharma aren't easy bedfellows.
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Medicare patients are all either 65 or older or suffering from a specific covered chronic disease.
Maybe a surgeon is more likely to be assigned to a risky surgery on an elderly patient when it's the surgeon's birthday.
Our society is too much in the habit of imagining we can just put a technical fix at the end of the pipe (literally in this case) to compensate for the upstream problems, whether it’s carbon sequestration, or using mammoth amounts of petrochemicals and environmental debt to build renewable infrastructure, or in this case “fixing” the water we mess up on the front end with massive energy use on the backend.
The surgeon has their mind in other places on their birthday perhaps?
Well, it doesn't pay well.
You need to at least hide your domain whois contact information if you are going to do this...
Sadly it's bound to X11.

The alternative for me was to migrate to sway[1] to have a similar environment in wayland.

[1] - https://github.com/swaywm/sway/
Parent suggests to just run mail on your own domain.

The main thing here is to avoid single point of failure as in both domains (politically induced problems) and infrastructure (technically induced problems). If people would use more than just a handful domains/providers for mail then single failures would not have that big of an impact.

I have been hosting my mail on my own domain for the past 3 years and have not been impacted by this incident. Currently I am happy for protonmail that I use to host my mails at. But I know that I can easily move on, if service drops, and even selfhost.
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> Multicloud? It rarely makes sense.

It tends to be badly implemented, but it makes a ton of sense as a strategy.
Are they really "American" firms in anything but name? Once they go multinational, they lose their allegiance to their "native" countries. I don't see any evidence of loyalty to their home countries, per se. Not even in the most basic sense of paying their fair due of taxes.

I don't think it's shocking at all. Every market is free to regulate itself however it sees fit, regardless of what "nationality" players on it have. It's interesting hardly anyone blinks an eye when that regulation allows "American" companies to save costs in developing countries but there are complaints when it disadvantages those companies, often for the same kinds of regulation: labour and environmental.
Many practices refuse to take Medicare patients.

It's less pay, more paperwork.

Sucks if you're on Medicare. You're stuck with the doctors that do accept it, which probably weeds out some of the better practices.

Healthcare and getting old suck in the US. Think about how this might affect, say, your parents. And eventually you.
The main problem with self-hosting is indiscriminate blacklisting by Google and Microsoft. You only need to be on the same network as some spam artist to end up shunned. The tech giants are our new overlords.