skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think at this point we need to stop talking about free speech and start talking about "free speech that is not clearly false and does not harrass or attempt to incite violence."

We've never had unfettered right to free speech in America - as everyone knows, you can't shout fire in a crowded theater. The idea that you should be able to freely spread harmful lies (Blacks don't commit a disproportionate amount of crimes against Asians, nuclear energy is dangerous, etc.) is what's the problem.

The left takes the phrase "free speech" and purposely misuses it (I mean the smart ones do, since they understand that all speech is not free, free speech comes from the government and not corporations, etc. - the dumb ones just take cues from the misleading use of the phrase by the smart ones). When they can't spread lies or cause harm or say whatever they want on Tumblr/Twitter/etc., they cry free speech, even though they know the speech they're referring to isn't Constitutionally protected.

It's the same thing that they do with Black Lives Matter/Stop Asian Hate. They willfully misinterpret BLM to mean "Blacks are under attack by Whites" where it clearly means "defund the police, white people are to blame for everything, math is racist, nuclear families are racist, etc."

It's just tough when a huge part of the country has no compunctions against dishonesty, delusionally disregarding facts, etc. if it helps them get or maintain power.
Show HN: Self-hosted, Single-binary Analytics
It's structured by country. You need to go to the Location dropdown and select China to see the actual report.
Well, to put it another way, why would you devote time towards a hypothetical violent emission of kinetic force from an explosive device when you could more immediately benefit from removing an intelligent obstacle by applying force with a blunt object?

E.g. - why research a gun when you could brain someone with a big rock?

Seriously, not trying to be condescending here - if you could probably do a thing more effectively down the road with one path, why would you choose a more immediate path?
The Jones Act[0] requires that goods transported by water between US ports to fly under the US flag, use ships constructed in the US, owned by US companies, and be crewed by US citizens. This results in a substantial cost increase for water traffic. It's otherwise quite cheap to transport goods by water but because of the act highways and trucks are used instead. An OEDC study[1] found that repealing the act would benefit the economy from $19-64 billion.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Merchant_Marine_Act_of_1920

[1] https://www.oecd-ilibrary.org/science-and-technology/local-c...
Wow I'm glad I'm not using their cloud option at all. I still have one of the old USGs. So I never had to.
Giant Next-Gen Container Ships Will Make Ever Given Look Like Toy
Problem is, you essentially can’t trust people. Not even in a personal “do I know this person” way. But fundamentally people are squishy. If you squish them too much, they’ll do things they never wanted to do. That unfortunately is why groups greater than 1 are a weak spot.

In your scenario, you’ll never know if the last person increments an ID somewhere or did some other activity that adds compromises the chain.
The interface is kind of confusing. On the side you can selection the country of interest:

https://www.state.gov/reports/2020-country-reports-on-human-...
You can fix this on the AP side with minimum RSSI or data rate control. But that would probably push you over to either Ubiquiti (and the similar “cloud based” options) or the enterprise market to get those features, unfortunately.
I don’t think ads are solely to blame, but they influence behavior. Without ads people will still drink Pepsi, but with ads, they drink more.
Single Best Practice: Don't have any. Don't collect that kind of data in the first place.
"every discourse on the internet is by definition completely a subset of the ego of the single individual."

Much different than non-internet discourse? Definitely feels different(shared experience), but unsure if it is - 'fundamentally'.
Who needs nested virtualization when you have bare metal?

VM Migration is only for maintenance on GCP -- and customers can't control it, just Google.

AWS can hot patch live systems in place without any downtime, so, that's better than a migration (which has a brown out / maintenance period)
I’m critical of China’s treatment of Uyghurs, but also critical of the govt. and major media’s breathless approval of Adrian Zenz’ questionable work.
I mean, top-level programs are nice, I guess? IMO it's more of a means of attracting non-.NET developers into the fold. I work in a .NET shop and we probably won't use this in our production code.

The benefit of target-typed expressions IMO is that it changes property syntax from:

public List<Foo> Foos = new List<Foo>();

to simply:

public List<Foo> Foos = new();

It may seem subtle, but if you write C# you see this pattern constantly.

Honestly, these are the features in C#9 I'm least excited about. I'm much more excited about record types, init-only setters, not to mention the improved pattern-matching and type inference (no more casting nulls inside of ternary operators!).

Immutability in C# has classically been pretty cumbersome. I work on a payroll platform where we've managed to work around a lot of that, but we're excited to introduce record types and init-only setters in particular to help with some of the maintenance pain-points surrounding the elimination of side-effects from things like pay calculations.
I had noticed the interface between the easyeda and pick and place service of JLCPCB a bit bumpy, so I wrote this:

https://github.com/ayourtch/jlc-convert

Save the BoM and P&P files and then convert them using the above as a filter, save the stdout into new files and upload them at a step where it asks you for these two files. This makes the process from design to order quite seamless for me.

I also use this to fix some of the orientations that are apparently incorrect in their database.
AWS offers object locking, which is similar to a WORM drive (Write Once Read Many). This prevents logs from being deleted. The other approach is to ship logs to another AWS account.

https://aws.amazon.com/blogs/storage/protecting-data-with-am...
That website lists Pi4B at 575mA. At 5V, that's 2.875W. With efficiency of a typical usb power supply, ~80%, that's about 3.5W at the wall.
I suspect the percentage of “cloud servers” that are just standard Linux boxes running relatively standard applications is quite high.
"After that, Japan calculated its calendar using various Chinese calendar procedures" also from the wikipedia article. This is all just illustrating my point further.
Of course there may be a limit to attainable intelligence, at least per physical volume, much like there is a limit to the efficiency of a heat-powered engine. But I'd suppose we're pretty far from that limit yet, if any.
I feel like this discussion is departing from the simple clarification about what alternatives exist in the design space, and entering a debate about the merits of these alternatives vs. Go's choice, which was not my aim.

While I'd be happy to discuss about my experience using these alternatives and how it's practical beyond being a purist, it doesn't really belong to a discussion about Go.
NFTs are only as valuable as the extent to which the artist has gone to socially validate your purchase of the NFT of their artwork. Which means that it's value is also directly tied to the total social value of the artist themselves. Thus, Beeple.

The NFT market will eventually reach a steady-state no different than the existing art world. But, smaller and more affordable NFT "trading games" (e.g., cryptokitties) might stick around for sometime.
Thanks to you and Aunche! For me that meant using the red sliders hovering button on the bottom right.
Your ISMI (aka your sim card) is going to be sent alongside your IMEI, which makes that type of identity "borrowing" pointless because the carrier can see right through it. wifi mac addresses can be easily spoofed without swapping hardware. Overall I don't see much value in swapping hardware.
> "The battery has an energy density of 24 Wh/kg, meaning approximately 20 percent capacity compared to comparable lithium-ion batteries currently available."

> "The new battery has a negative electrode made of carbon fibre, and a positive electrode made of a lithium iron phosphate-coated aluminium foil."

Really, it's more like 10% compared to something like the latest Tesla cells. Even when comparing to LiFePo4, recently modern cells I think are in the ballpark of 150 wh/kg versus the 120 wh/kg implied by the article.

It's interesting work anyways, though. Even if the energy density isn't enough to be practical yet, it's progress. I don't expect structural batteries to be mainstream in cars anytime soon, but it does at least expand the set of available design options.

(I'm currently working on a Mazda RX-8 conversion. If structural batteries were available and competitive in terms of energy density and I had unlimited funding and ability to fabricate one-off parts, one could imagine a structural battery replacing the front and rear subframe and the steel frame member that connects the transmission to the differential in the rear. You'd still need additional batteries to get a decent range, though. Realistically, you'd want to design a car from scratch to really take advantage of structural batteries.)

I wonder how bad of an idea it would be to replace the front and rear bumper (by which I mean the steel bumper underneath all the plastic and styrofoam cushioning) with a structural battery?
Yes, this is in fact true.

It is also true that the US currently has quiet a lot of young children being held in practically prison cells near our Southern Border

It is also true that China has been committing genocide by definition for quite some time now.
Just to be clear the actual paper mentions Android exactly zero times.
PRC, ROC and Tibet can claim all the rights it wants, but buddy, you have to back it up militarily and politically.
> Two hours of time can cost you into the thousands of dollars

I’m sorry, what? Who are you hiring, Pablo Escobar’s lawyer?
Just to be clear the actual paper mentions Android exactly ZERO times.
Volkswagen of America lied about rebranding to ‘Voltswagen’
Thanks for giving me nightmares tonight.
existing treaties with china, us, plus nuclear arsenal etc.
what do you mean by "execute it"? It's source, you need to compile it and get an executable out of it. This is not Python, an interpreter. But if you want an interpreter for C#, nobody's stopping you to write one.

Me, on the other hand, I want Python to become a compiled language. And to those who's going to reply with "PyPy/Cython/Nuitka" I have a question for them: -do show me a .dll from those!
Won't Amazon cover 100% of the cost, including whatever incidental costs?

Adding a camera to a room is not rocket science, it's a 1-hour project at worst, after which the camera operates unobtrusively.

I bet this is more of a turf war, a demonstration of status.
For you. You don’t speak for the rest of the market though, and Steam comfortable holds its lead for good reason.
> Ubiquiti’s stock price has grown remarkably since the company’s breach disclosure Jan. 16. After a brief dip following the news, Ubiquiti’s shares have surged from $243 on Jan. 13 to $370 as of today. By market close Tuesday, UI had slipped to $349.

Until these companies are held massively accountable for such negligence, nothing will change. Similar to what happened to Facebook and all they had to do was pay chump change fines.
The question is what incentive a random person in the internet has into finding and targeting me. I’m a single dude who’s not rich, and I’m not gullible to scams (at least not easily). So unless they have a personal grudge against me, I would probably not be currently worried about installing a doorbell camera for example. The threat modeling will Change the moment I have a family of course.

I see it no different from driving a car. You can get carjacked, you can get in a crash, you don’t just not drive a car because of it, you just calculate your risk tolerance and do it.
>This suggests to me the author is giving advice based on paranoia rather than technical knowledge.

I noticed that immediately on the home page. The author suggests installing and running some sort of python package to verify the pdf is harmless. That sort of makes sense, until you realize that installing a random python package and running it is exposing you to far more risk than a opening a pdf ever will.
Flash was absolutely garbage on mobile at the time.

Signed, a heavy Windows Mobile user.
I wonder quite why something like a PT6 costs so much. The development costs are surely paid off by now, and it’s produced in fairly high volume, but it remains expensive. Maybe SpaceX should get into aircraft engines?
> I've never once seen it in the wild, MDN's page for font-size certainly doesn't mention it, and I've never seen it listed anywhere as a best practice.

This is usually called “fluid typography” and in my experience is a pretty widely-known technique, but tends to be treated more as a “holy grail” because it’s difficult to get right and browser support for the various techniques hasn’t been great. Most people/teams tend to just aim for pixel-perfect design at a small number of breakpoints.
Programming is nothing without whimsy.
Which part is false?
This assumes honesty of every agency's officer, and lack of negligence along the entire chain leading to the box.

I want to believe, but an extra check won't hurt. Whether the extra check offered by Amazon may be seen as impartial is another question.
What's the specific mechanism of data capture you would be worried about?
In this case I would use the SIM card used by the former owner, if it's a pre-paid plan, for example. This is quite common trade in the place I live.
Cry me a river. Oxford was going to open-source the vaccine until Bill Gates convinced them to give an exclusive contract to AZ, to lean on their supposed capacity to manage clinical trials and related administrative issues (even though they aren't a vaccine-focused company).

Not a conspiracy theory:

https://www.nytimes.com/2020/11/23/world/bill-gates-vaccine-...

https://khn.org/news/rather-than-give-away-its-covid-vaccine...
At least they didn’t say that women belong in the kitchen
“Embrace the decline” posted from a comfy Herman Miller chair in a heated/air conditioned room, after eating a seamless delivered burrito.
I manage the AWS infrastructure for a medium sized SaaS company and we have no SSH access to any of our ~20 servers. The only access is through AWS Systems Manager Session Manager. Not managing keys is major upside.
Ha I get it. The way I look at it is, I have chosen my security sin and that's Google. I turn off ad settings, pay for GSuite, YT premium and Google one, have ad block/ad guard everywhere and buy their nest home products.

Smaller threat area, much larger utility plus they by default have more resources than any other company to have better security.

Don't get me wrong, I was looking forward to moving to ubiquity but that's not happening anymore unfortunately.

As far as I'm aware Google has not had this magnitude of hack recently.
Yeah you're right. I hadn't realized it was so new till a little later... Well, it's good that IC has a stronger use case surface area for those who want it.
So it's about what Russell, Wiener and Wittgenstein though of each other. Hard to get excited by the details of their personal relationships when the subject that brought them together is fascinating, but almost ignored.

Would have been interested in the specific insights that affected the work of each other (beyond Logicism and Platonic Realism).
So, since they participated in PRISM, they shouldn't do anything else to improve trust?

It wasn't like this was an either/or situation... a manager wasn't deciding between prioritizing not participating in PRISM or not making an Easter egg.... in fact, I can almost guarantee this person wasn't involved in the PRISM decision.
The headline could use some "in mice" in it.
The fact that you had to have money/capital in order to publish someone I guess was a limiting factor.
My experience with dissecting novels is the opposite - you're expected to contort yourself, and often insult your own intelligence, to make sure that the result of your analysis doesn't deviate from the "correct" one too much.
Measuring Distance from Image or Video
Hello hackers,
I stumbled across a problem related to image processing and looking for help. I need to measure "real-life distance" from 2 marked points on a JPEG image or a video (assume straight-line distance). How can this be measured and saved in a csv file automatically? What technical steps are needed in this process-flow? What assumptions need to be made?

Thank you,
Josh
I was looking at upgrading my home networking equipment with Ubiquiti, but with the breach and the hidden advertisements in their products. I have ultimately decided against it. They have lost $1000s of dollars in potential sales (from me anyways).

Guess I will just have to go bargain hunting on the used enterprise market, or just ask my BigCorp networking team to see if they sell or give away any of their equipment and try to repair it myself. My only concern would be noise generation and power consumption since they were built for use in data centers.
Distributed quantum computing is already a thing.

An AGI that made a few decades of current-rate scientific progress could switch to a globally distributed quantum computer that’s synchronized in its computation through entanglement.

At which point, it would hit an exponential curve until it ran out of space to grow. (The “singularity” proponents argue this is unbounded.)

An AI that’s 10x smarter than us would be 2^10 smarter than us in a couple years — based on current technology trends. Moreover, it will have overcome the cooperation barrier with a distributed consciousnes, like the original idea for the Borg.

The ability to free itself from a single location or easy disconnection from its assets would be a major step in AI independence.
So for artblocks you get to pay so that an entry on the blockchain says
you paid for this:

https://api.artblocks.io/token/7

And all you get to say is you paid for that. Because anyone can go see https://api.artblocks.io/generator/7 in all its glory, but only one person (presumably) can say they were the last one to pay for the pointer.

This isn't "a thing of note". This is not even bullshit, because art might actually be bullshit. This is bullshit dropping its own shit, blindly, on a spreadsheet.
Pretty vapid and defamatory response to Harris’ argument.
Is it possible that the timekeeping accuracy may explain the tightening of the distribution towards today? There’s a definite trend towards earlier blossoming, but you can also see that variability is decreasing.
The Sandisk Sansa is the best name brand alternative with removable flash storage.
VW just couldn't wait until 1st of April, AKA (international fake news day) for this stunt.

Now they are the actual fools for having that reveal leaked and finally admitting it was a failed joke in front of the whole press. A magnificent waste of everyone's time.

Try not to believe everything you see on the internet in the next 24 hours.
Ha! Nice reference. Well, if they get a nice gf looking like Ally Sheedy then it's all for the greater good
Having the speaker on was handy for figuring out if your outgoing call was picked up by an incompatible device, like your friend's mom.
Printing out the AWS root password and putting in a safe is almost useless. Root password can be easily reset without MFA by having access to the email associated to the root AWS account.

MFA is the important one to keep it safe for AWS root accounts, set for the master AWS account and lock root access for all member accounts via SCPs.
NFTs for expensive art is not something that fits very well longterm.

But NFTs for simple trading games where assets are tracked by the trading game company as well as the blockchain (e.g., affordable cryptokitties) is much more reasonable.

But, then it just becomes part of the games industry. And those games simply utilize the blockchain.
> absolute, non-relative unit of measure

:)

Another physicist?
I used to be really into protecting my privacy online. These days I’ve mostly just accepted there’s pretty much nothing I can do short of disconnecting entirely. I’m not even sure why a smart faucet would be appealing to any consumer.

I feel like I’ve just accepted that we lost. I don’t see how we’ll ever get rid of mass surveillance. If we couldn’t get rid of the patriot act after Snowden’s whistleblowing, and we can get consumer privacy/protection now I’m not sure how we’ll ever get it. Maybe I’m just burnt out and cynical, but I don’t see why the government or corporations have any incentive to let people do anything without them knowing about it.
The legend says that there were people who could whistle the handshake and the receiving modem would understand it.
I have waited 10 years for this :D.

https://forums.aws.amazon.com/thread.jspa?messageID=979374
> If you’ve never lived in a society that offered socialist advantages like affordable health care, elder care, government-funded community engagement programs, etc. then I guess it’s easy to be scared by things you don’t understand.

I don’t think it’s commenting in good faith to think the only reason I would find those things dystopic is because I am ignorant or haven’t experienced them.

That sort of insulting non-answer from utopian is precisely what tends to scare me — and lead to horrific outcomes in the real world.
Let's make sure we are talking about the same thing.

You have local and SSO account.

You disable remote access in your local cloud key.

You open the local IP for the CK and are able to sign in using the SSO account is what you are saying, so auth token is coming from remote.

Question if I got this correct, can you go to the ui.com portal, the UI cloud based one in a web browser do you see the controller still? Can you login and still manage it through the remote web portal? This is what turning off remote access does. You should not be able to manage the system remotely.

Disabling remote access is for the remote web base ui site portal and that should not work after you disable remote access (my understanding). It is possible that you can connect to the local controller and use SSO to authorize vs web and be passed a valid token to login however that would be local only and not remote. Ie the hacker would have to have your SSO AND be on your local network.

Have you tired / are you able to delete the SSO account in the local CK? I have not tried but will later.

Hope that makes sense.
Disclosure: I worked on nested virtualization for GCE.

Even when you offer bare metal, it’s actually still nice to have nested virt! Otherwise, every node has to be a full sized host. So when you have a K8s cluster or similar with a pile of nodes and want to allow some teams to use it (e.g., Android emulator, firecracker, whatever), it’s really nice not to have to say “okay, this group requires full bare metal hosts that they manage themselves”.

tl;dr: nested virt is still a nice to have so that all your infrastructure looks the same.

Edit: Also, you can trigger migration yourself if you want (gcloud compute instances simulate-maintenance-event), but that's mostly to convince yourself that nothing bad will happen.
Fair points. I wasn't aware of any of these tools, but then like the majority of the world I haven't actively used XMPP in years (which is obviously among its largest cons today).
To be fair, many project's Raft implementations contained errors that can and had lead to data lost, so it's not all sunshine and roses.

IMHO, it's still easier to delegate the consensus problem to a third party service like Zookeeper or ETCD.
Anything in particular? .NET 5.0 (and therefore C#) runs beautifully on Windows, Mac and Linux (x64 or Arm)