skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Well, there is plenty of material on the federal reserves. The capability of the dollar to be so untouchable is because of that.

And to the fact that a currency is only stable as long as the country is: Well, I would say that 80% of the world population has experienced radical changes to their currencies and assets (inflation, complete devaluation, rebranding, coupling to other currencies, stock market crashes, ...) within their lifetime (for whatever reasons). Having a multi-generation-stable currency is the privilege of only a very few countries like the US, Canada, France or Germany. Looking at the history of a country will easily reveal a significant event in the last 50 years which included something destabilizing.

Even the mighty UK was crashed by a single investor (the infamous George Soros).

And again, my argument is limited to the following element: currency stability > country stability.
Does this practically mean I will be able to replace macOS on Apple hardware with Linux with Apples blessing?
This even has a name, "monkey testing". Basically some software that pretends to be a monkey in front of a computer and mashes random buttons and keys to make the application behave badly. Usually you only care about the application not breaking in monkey tests. Can be used similarly to "fuzzing" but for UIs as well, see Gremlins.js: https://marmelab.com/blog/2020/06/02/gremlins-2.html
That graphic is interesting to me, as it illustrates what the view is like at the 3-letter-agencies control centers, who have been slurping up our data for years.
Exactly. Let's have US companies be ruled by US laws. But then, should Poland ban Twitter? Who's censoring who?

The move here is only pushed by bad political agenda. If the move would come from EU, it would be much more neutral and more protective of civil rights and freedom, which is not what Poland wants here.
The reason that AMD didn't release their ARM design I think is that they know it is better to only have to compete with Intel than being one of the many ARM designs.
You can't plausibly wage a destructive war to seize industrial facilities likely to be disrupted or destroyed in said war. Factories and their workers are intellectual resources.

Whereas with raw materials, like rare earths: China has a lock on rare earth's because they're willing to completely destroy their own land's to get them, not because they're actually "rare".

We are arguably in a local minima with regards to rare earth extraction because nothing has pushed us to automate the human element out of it and they're not needed in sufficient quantity yet.
My motorbike is required to have the essential warning and information lights in a separate independent panel to the LCD screen. Whereas my Audi e-tron, and presumably the Telsa, doesn't seem to have this requirement, with the regular warning lights on the main screen.
It’s not legal, and you don’t have the right, to threaten or harass or people over the phone. There are all sorts of laws about your conduct over a phone. Owning a phone isn’t a constitutional right. And a phone doesn’t amplify your voice - you can only call one person at a time.

I accept your point that people want to hear the message. But that’s irrelevant. There is no legal or historical basis for forcing a company to give someone a platform.

You might not agree with that in principal, but the legal argument is about the right to speak without being punished, not the right to be heard.
That is a simple arithmetic question: Which results in higher operating expenses, the loss of a minor market or the increased liability imposed by that market?
> confidently assert 2020-12-21 15:12 over, say, 2020-12-22 15:15 via shadows

Not at all. By visual inspection you can see whether it's the morning or the afternoon (if you know the orientation of the landmarks). I guess by image processing you could get a precision of +- 1h maybe?
First E-Ink like color tablet with Tcl NXTPAPER technology
This is true, but even then it's not the same cult of home ownership == wealth as the Anglo culture has.
Source? I'm not sure that's true at all. I see a lot of weed dealers when checking some of these markets.
They were downloading at 50 Gbps for a while

https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348497204940595201

https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348440720504401921

Also, auth provider (twilio?) removed Parler as a client so for a short while it was possible to create accounts without a phone number (2FA).

https://twitter.com/donk_enby/status/1348298836930867204

edit: okta, free trial, thanks: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25774943
If I pour water in my gastank and it gives me the private social media posts of a million people, that might be a problem for more than just me.
Likely they had to jump through some additional regulatory hoops in order to meet the requirements.
And python requires its own boilerplate incantation. One is neither considerably less verbose than the other, nor any less cryptic. Both take exactly two lines. The python incantation simply "feels" simpler to you, because you as a seasoned programmer comprehend the 'intent' behind it as being simpler. But this is more likely to relate to our inability to perceive from a point of ignorance that which we already understand.

A good lesson could start by explaining what these do by way of dissection and for the purpose of orientation, without going down the rabbit hole.
Nah. The collectavistic countries are as badly affected as the individualistic countries of not more.
Well, you can see the first rule as "try not to use what you learn".

Can't speak for all instructors, but mine went directly to technique for those who ran/cycled to the gym and stretched before the class, letting the rest warm up in the meantime... running.

Also most demonstrations you can see on the Internet always end with running and most comments make fun of that, so it's certainly included in the practice.
How Amazon Sidewalk Works–and Why You May Want to Turn It Off
>see Raspberry Pi SD card corruptions

Those are primarily caused by transient power loss. Yes, you can use software to paper over hardware problems but why not fix the hardware first?
Does it have a set of prewritten questions or the questions are generated with the text the user enter?
> Over time the role will change to reflect the changing organisation and role.
> perhaps this assumption is a reflection of US work culture (you tell me, I don't know)?

I do not know anything about US work culture from first hand experience. I'm a software engineer from Sri Lanka working in Germany as a software engineer. It was my personal opinion and as I've said everyone has their own preference.

> Over time the role will change to reflect the changing organisation and role.

If the role has evolved, then it will not be the same job you did 'x' number of years ago. But according to original post, OP says "I have worked 20 years in the same job". Maybe I understood it incorrectly, but it seems like the role hasn't evolved or changed at all.
Plenty of good points but don’t forget that the fully loaded cost to an employer of a European employee is anywhere from 1.5-2x of what it is in the US. This alone is a major driving factor since it doesn’t matter how much of your salary you take home, it matters how much you cost the employer.
Everybody says so. I'l have to get one for myself some day. With a cheap 24V scooter battery one could even use it in the field without a problem.

Oh, and i seem to have underestimated Louis's recommendation. He likes it a lot.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ao39bPEyok4

On the topic of open source for hardware; There's an open source software for Hantek oscilloscopes http://openhantek.org/ (not official) , which is yet another thing i'l have to get myself some day.
Understanding a problem does not mean the solution to the problem is understood as well.

The one is analytics and hacking a problem to pieces. I know so many who are excellent at that.
The other is synthesis and making a viable solution from all those pieces. I know so few who are able to do this.

I am very good at analytics as well but I earn my living by deriving solutions from my analysis with lots of creativity. I'm for sure not the best in my field but I'm oftentimes the only one with a solution at all.
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It's about choice and control over your data - an educated user knows that with hardware encryption, it is very difficult to retrieve data if the hardware fails. There's also the trust factor where you would prefer to have the keys, rather than trust some device.

(E.g. Some Western Digital drives have problems with their hardware encryption and made the data on it irretrievable for many - https://github.com/andlabs/reallymine/issues/53 . More here - https://carltonbale.com/western-digital-mybook-drive-lock-en...).

What is being questioned and criticized is the removal of this choice. Especially when a product claims a commitment to privacy.
How hard is the eMMC to replace?
If you look at the bugs in the article, they're not that foolish. They're basically perfectly valid things to be able to do: entering text in a text field, or pressing buttons to do things. There is a specific set of valid input for your gas tank, but anything that is text should be accepted for text input.

The analogy would be something like that:

- if I throw spaghetti on my windshield, my car shouldn't break down

- if I hold the wiper's stick to the position that runs it once (instead of putting it in the position to continually run) my car shouldn't break down
Yep. I also never understood why Europeans focus so much on income inequality ("OMG, programmers and managers get paid too much, tax them more!") and not wealth inequality where old, established families can keep rolling their wealth from generation to generation nearly tax-free and see their assets apreciate substantially while the working class bares the brunt of taxation and are getting squeezed every year more and more by wage stagnation and inflating real-estate prices.

It's a real mystery to me why people aren't up in arms about wealth inequality instead but I guess as long as the working class is provided with a minimum of comfort (food, shelter, healthcare, education, sex) and are kept busy with the ratrace for the next big career move during the day and with an endless stream of available entertainment and consumerism in the evening, they're too busy to notice, care or bother to do anything about it.
There is an additional cost to such a dependency that isn't expressed in bytes.

Javascript/CSS/HTML forms the common basis of web development. You may assume every reader of your code is familiar with it.

If you use a specific library, you are restricting (easy) readability to those that know the specific library.

This has merit if the library provides sufficiently useful abstractions or shortcuts, but it's only a drawback if the library provides merely an alternative way to write something already possible in the base layer.
How do we know that we know all the active ones? Wouldn't they prefer to not be too widely known?
Malformed Lambda Proxy Response – what causes it and how to fix?
Yes, this is expected result. It is purely based on your database schema. For the Recipe example, i do not have a field that is called ingredients, that could potentially have the "banana" as a possible value. I can add this to the example.

It is only a demo of natural language to sql-like language. The output viewed is just a preview of the true output, which takes a JSON form.
> What I find astonishing is that—at least according to that heat map—it appears that bordering on 100% of the people using Parler in DC that day we’re part of the riot / coup / insurrection.

These are location from pictures. Of course almost all pictures are of the riots instead of some boring random street in Washington DC.

Even people who are not part of it will take pictures simply because it is a major event and nowadays, every time something interesting happens, there are people to take pictures. You are probably going to find similar heat maps on more mainstream social networks.
I'm not American, so I don't really know about the SAT, but I've seen SAT scores matched up to IQ scores many, many times. I would think the SAT (or any entrance test) measures how well a given student mastered the high-school curriculum. For me this can mean 2 things:

- The SAT indeed measures studiousness + intelligence, in which case, deriving IQ scores directly from it is highly misleading.

- The SAT is a decent proxy for IQ, which would indicate that universities have a very dim view on secondary education, and basically your intellectually gifted slacker can walk into a SAT exam, and easily outdo their less gifted, but hardworking peers.
In 1994, as a teenager, dial-up Internet was a long-distance phone call and, unfortunately, was off-limits for me at the time anyways. After racking up a bunch of monthly phone bills of several hundreds of dollars each, the extra phone extension I had ran (under the house) to my bedroom had been discovered by $parental_unit and promptly yanked out -- effectively DoS'ing me off the Internet for a long while.

Fortunately, I also had a 286, KA9Q -- [0], not [1] -- a KPC-3 TNC [2] [EDIT: Actually, it may have been an MFJ-1270 (?) at that time], a handheld 2m transceiver, and a ham radio license whose ink was still wet -- having first seen this combination demonstrated to me in 1992. It may not sound like much -- and it certainly wasn't -- but it was enough to get me connected to AMPRNet [3]!

Thanks to the technological wonders of 1200 baud, half-duplex packet radio -- with something that just barely passed for "collision detection") -- I was able to chat daily with other amateur radio operators all over the world, send and receive mail, and even download files. (Understand that this "1200 baud" was nowhere close to the speed of a 1200 baud modem on a phone line -- which I would have been grateful for at that point!).

It was also my introduction to TCP/IP. Nowadays, I'm a network engineer. No surprise there!

Interestingly, six or seven years ago, perhaps, I randomly ended up on a phone call -- out of the blue -- with Phil, KA9Q. I worked for an ISP at the time and can't remember what the call was about (something work-related, obviously) but the owner walked in, handed me a piece of paper with a name and phone number and asked me to call the guy to discuss $deity-knows-what. (I did, obviously, and of course I had to ask "Are you THE Phil Karn?". He was. I'm sure he would never remember that but I certainly do!)

A few months ago, KA9Q -- [1], not [0] -- created an HN account [4] and commented [5] on a thread (about the sale to Amazon of a /10 of 44/8) and I took the opportunity to thank him in a reply, even though I assumed he probably wouldn't see it.

(Somehow, ~25 years later, I still have 44.48.0.105 although it hasn't been "active" since I don't know when... maybe I'll resurrect it someday!)

--

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KA9Q

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phil_Karn

[2]: https://kantronics.com/kpc-3/

[3]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AMPRNet

[4]: https://news.ycombinator.com/user?id=KA9Q

[5]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24758472
> Not wearing a seatbelt isn't perfect, and yet we all still do it :)

Provably false.
There are a few reasons why they're lower, which other commentators have addressed, such as: different tax regimes; the welfare state; and the scale of the European market.

As an aside I think it's also important to point out while there is a difference, it's not quite as large as you think when you factor in the pay of contractors being around the 500euro mark. These people give up the right to sick leave, workplace security, and supposedly career advancement. Personally, I only contract in the UK because there is little career advancement beyond being a senior engineer anyway, and the rate more than makes up for it. I'm a fairly middling engineer in London, I'm 24 and I made 120GBP last year (I just have to be content I'll never make anything more than that).

You're right in attributing the difference in pay to corporate culture in the USA. In the USA where a senior engineer at a Silicon Valley style company will be seen as a key part of building the product, as if they were a product manager.

At nearly all the companies I've worked for in London, engineering has played a subordinate role to product managers (who also stand the most to gain from a successful project). This subordinate nature often takes the form of siloed access to business data: where I frequently have to fight to run queries on PowerBI; or to sit in client meetings.
This is hugely encouraging and a win for human rights everywhere. Poland has fought more against this type of abuse than any nation on the planet.
The marginal rate in a small bracket isn't that relevant to the effective rate though.
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What happens if society collapses? If a giant asteroid hits earth? If we find out aliens and they are ostile?
This is true. Early SSDs had double digit failure rates because of buggy controllers. The situation has gotten better but if you stress out cheap eMMC in an embedded application like a car there is a decent chance that the controller fails.
Where's the hypocrisy in that? They are consistent: lawful views must not be censored, unlawful ones must.

I can see how there could be bias in determining what is lawful, but that's not hypocrisy.
Bmw aren’t long term reliable and haven’t been for decades. Brands are not following their example.
Agree. With traditional PCs, just length of these DDR4 wires in the motherboard adds like 4-7 CPU cycles of main memory latency.
'Domesticated pigeon 1.0' was developed about 10,000 years ago and although none of the first run are still around, the model design has been pretty much the same since.
> maybe you could be wrong?

Ireland is bang on the EU average for taxation of high earners. It seems Austria has higher (although not massively so) taxation of high earners - source below.

Ireland has the most progressive taxation system in the EU, so low-earners do indeed pay less personal incomes taxes than any country other than Cyprus and Estonia.

Ireland is definitely not a tax haven for tech workers - you're the only person I've ever come across to hold that opinion. The UK may be closer to that, as self-employment is much more attractively taxed there than Ireland.

https://www.uhy.com/uk-imposes-highest-taxes-on-inheritance-...
OK, so some Taiwanese network device manufacturers have poor default account practices, news at 11:00. I'm not seeing the CIA connection.

Devices like this are used by the government and military contractors as well, and as you can see such vulnerabilities are trivial to detect so you can't count on the opposition finding out about it and using it. This one was picked up days after the firmware release. The smoking gun would be government and military admins secretly being advised by the CIA to close these security loopholes, so the government is protected but everyone else isn't. IMHO that would get Snowdened almost immediately. There's no way they'd keep a lid on that, there would just be too many people involved.

As with a lot of this conspiracy theory stuff, it only makes sense if you don't think about it too much. Once you actually start thinking through the consequences and practicalities, it doesn't hold together.
We do a lot of work in Erlang and I have very reluctantly had to deal with Elixir. I, too, prefer the "purer" Erlang syntax, and have been turned off--just like the author of this essay--with the "Ruby-ness" of Elixir.
I'm in the EU, took more risks than most people I know, step out my comfort zone also multiple times. What most people miss is not the willingness, but the safety net.

Results? Unimpressive, fails over fails.

I know value the steady job I have and I keep tearing myself for not opting for this sooner. I don't know if I would be already burnt out if I haven't tried, but timing wasn't great, that's for sure.
I respect that. I have similar experience but with the reverse conclusion.
I'd rather work with the 'engineer' than the 'hacker'.
In each of the many-worlds it is a particle. The wave behavior is caused by the interaction of the many-worlds.
Yes, but you'd be amazed at how many people don't understand what that means. No doubt it's not true on HN, but a lot of people among the general public seem to be under the impression that the effective rate jumps at thresholds.
Hehe. That criticism could be applied to ML itself. :)

I wish ML used more than CIFNISTNet, but unfortunately there's not a lot of standard datasets yet. (Even Imagenet is an absolute pain to set up.)
The Financial Times disagrees with your assesment. They also note that Alexei Navalny agrees with her.

https://www.ft.com/content/6146b352-6b40-48ef-b10b-a34ad585b...
> This is a bold claim without any evidence. Certainly it's not the understanding that I grew up with, but I had the good fortune to have a history teacher who liked JS Mill.

What are you talking about? It doesn’t matter who your history teacher is, the entire concept of free speech is about not locking people up for what they say.

That said, here in Australia we actually don’t even have a legally protected right to free speech. We don’t even have a bill of rights. And while I support the right to say anything without being punished by the government, I definitely don’t think that people should be able to broadcast a political message without doing the hard yards of actually, you know, telling the truth and formulating a reasonable argument.
Yes, thank you for telling us that capitalism needs poverty to exist.
Down for me (EU)
> Changing your job is part of your career growth in-order to expose yourself to new challenges, problems and new environments.

A lot of people prefer work to live, while others prefer live to work. Both strategies are perfectly fine.
I don't think Americans really comprehend the shock and horror that many of us feel about the state of their healthcare and the lack of vacation time, or other European norms such as maternity/paternity time or sick pay.

100% Would Not Swap.

Compulsory nit-pick that not all UK nations charge tuition fees to their residents btw :-)
Germany also has among the lowest median household wealth in Europe[1] despite having a high median income[2].

This explains the high wealth inequality we observe[3], despite the low income inequality[4].

This could be caused by the low levels of home ownership given that home ownership (and the associated leverage) is a huge tool for wealth accumulation for the average person.

I know that people say you can make more from ETF's etc. than real estate, but I'm not sure if that applies so much to your primary residence given you will always need somewhere to live and a bank isn't going to lend you hundreds of thousands of euros to invest in ETF's, but they will for your primary residence.

The extra mobility you have while renting is an advantage but one that comes with a hefty price.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_pe...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Median_income#Median_equivalen...

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_wealth_eq...

[4] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_countries_by_income_eq...
Found some GitHub issues [1] with something similar: an enterprise firewall blocking a repo because it contained the string "arglebargleglopglyf" [2] in some tests.

The text was flagged as malicious because of its presence in the repo github.com/wireghoul/htshells [3]. However, the whole point of the word in the htshells repo is that it's an invalid command that breaks Apache, so it could have been almost any random string.

[1] https://github.com/search?q=arglebargleglopglyf&type=issues

[2] https://mume.org/help/arglebargle

[3] https://github.com/wireghoul/htshells/blob/master/dos/apache...