skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> mechanical door lock

Push button, engage solenoid, who needs a microcontroller?

> manual windows

Push button, turn on motor, limit switch to turn off the motor when you get to the end. Microcontrollers make pinch detection and calibration nicer though.

> no car stereo

Tons of examples here, a stereo built today would most likely have electronics and/or a microcontroller because it's cheaper than an analog FM radio, but an old one will still work fine.

> no power steering

On my 1978 vehicle. I believe this is hydraulic with a belt powered pump to reduce the user torque on the steering wheel. No electronics, certainly not a microcontroller.

> no cruise control

On my 1978 vehicle. No microcontroller there, just some vacuum linkages. Maybe a bit of electronics to turn things on and off, the switch certainly felt like an electric switch.

None of these things require a microcontroller. Because it's cheaper, almost all of them use a microcontroller on modern cars; thermostats on lower models would probably be the most likely to be a simple system without a microcontroller.
Hope this term doesn't hit recruiters dictionaries.
I don't see what's wrong with the submitted title? The limit is 80 chars, so it had to be shortened, and dropping the reference to Seattle is the obvious way to do that; it's in the headline because the publication is a regional one.

Edit: oh, I see - it's because of the problem explained here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27469696. Edited now.
I find the Monty Hall problem becomes intuitive when scaled.

100 doors, 1 car, 99 goats. Pick a door. All doors open (with goats except 1) ... Do you think you picked the 1/100 door with the car, or that it's the other only one left standing.
I'm sorry that happened to you and also glad you're in a better place! :)

Some of my classes use LockDown browser as well and these are computer science courses so there was a lot of pushback due to privacy concerns, so I can sympathize with your viewpoint. Although a majority of students don't cheat, it's still awful that the behavior of a few dictates how the others are perceived.
I wonder if he would have been caught if instead of buying Amazon directly, he bought an index fund that has them? I think Amazon makes up something like 3% of some of the Vanguard index funds.
Maybe I’m misinterpreting your comment, but what about self-driving cars? Hugely researched and funded area, not without success, but even the best self-driving system is so inferior to a human driver.

I’m not dissing self-driving car research, just not sure we’re anywhere close to parity, and the problem is fairly well defined.
Oh, I see. Ok, title edited to be less ambiguous now. Submitted title was "Amazon reverses course in expanding work-from-home options".
That's a false dichotomy. You can have ads without tracking user activity; for example, contextual ads.
This dude is referring to: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/2020_congressional_insider_t...

>However, on February 13, he and his wife sold between $628,000 and $1.7 million worth of stock through thirty-three transactions and on February 27

> NPR asked Caitlin Carroll, Burr's spokesperson, for a comment on the alleged violations and she responded with "lol"

>On May 13, the FBI seized Burr's phone, to investigate his communications with his stock broker, among other warrants, including one to search his personal iCloud account

>On May 26, the Justice Department announced that it had ended its investigation into Feinstein, Inhofe, and Loeffler.[18] On January 19, 2021, the Justice Department closed its investigation into Burr
It is an unfortunate thing that fear is such a strong driver.
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Holy crap that's amazing. The FINRA list is an interesting approach. Nothing high tech, just put pressure on people who could have leaked.

"In fact, when Hand was questioned by Neuralstem about Calice’s inclusion on a list of names that the Financial Industry Regulatory Authority sent to Neuralstem in its review of suspicious pre-Announcement trading, Hand falsely stated that Calice could not have obtained the negative clinical trial information from her."

https://www.bloomberg.com/opinion/articles/2021-06-10/maybe-...
I find the mobile Chrome browser and Android to be very encouraging of installing PWAs. And that it warns you once before installing APKs sounds like reasonable security, like Windows smartscreen and Mac whatsit. My F-Droid apps feel as native as the others.
As someone who's not a native english speaker (and hasn't spent more than week or two in an English speaking country) I pondered a little the on meaning of hipster. I don't think I made much more progress in defining it than "trend sensitive". I am not sociologist by any means, but if anything described the current trends in the cultural middle class it is striving towards some kind of ill-defined claims of authenticity. What better way to express it in the instagram age than through outer means like fashion or by borrowing fashion from other movements that are known for rebelling against the ideas of their time.

The hipster is just tip of the collective idea iceberg.
Was scrolling through this hoping to see a mention of Spain or Portugal.

I've lived in quite a few countries. Here are my rents, always furnished, always in a reasonably good location, with the exception of Alexandria Egypt:

- Chiang Mai, 2012, Nice studio apartment, $250 USD/m

- Alexandria, Egypt, 2012, Simple shared apartment in bad location, $100 USD/m

- Berlin, 2013, Shared apartment, 330 Euros/m

- Barcelona, 2013, Very simple Shared Apartment: 270 Euros/m.

- Medellin, 2014, Simple shared house, $250 USD/m

- Lisbon, 2014, Reasonably nice Shared Apartment, 330 Euros/m

- San Pedro La Laguna Guatemala, 2014, basic 1br Apartment, $180 USD/m

- Santiago, 2015-2017, A few nice 1br apartments, about $700-$780 USD/m

I'm now back in Australia and paying $1350 AUD/m (about $1050 USD give or take) for an unfurnished one bedroom in South Yarra, which is one of the best neighbourhoods in Melbourne to live.
That's what FLoC is trying and failing to do according to basically every analysis, including this one. Ads can exist without having to be based on users' personal data, as they were for 100+ years before (even on the internet itself, they used to be based on the content of the site rather than users' personal data)
At a certain point even the most robust regulatory processes are going to give way to desperate searches for hope, no matter whether they make sense.

There hasn't been a drug for this in 20 years.
Yeah lol you can live pretty nicely even in half of Europe with this
Certainly my point about was to argue a different meaning than the parent commenter's.

But I don't follow your second sentence. Without the FDA there were no regulations to capture, hence no regulatory capture to worry about. A rubber-stamp agency would indeed operate similarly. One might argue it's a case of rubber stamps only for market leaders who have the clout to "capture" them, but Biogen doesn't seem like much of a market leader.
Treating users like idiots who must be veiled from reality is, I hope, something we can continue to find good data against.
There is also the aspect of being on the record in corporate chat. There is way more on the line when everything is recorded than informal in person talking. People also 'have to be there' with their jobs, doing something they necessarily do not enjoy. On IRC in the 90s when everyone was anonymous and nothing was on the line, you had the social freedom to be more open, and the people who wanted to be there didn't have to be paid to be there.
I was able to visit it with a proxy, so it's also an IP ban. Must be operated by an aggressive sysadmin that bans large IP blocks.
I used an Intel NUC running Debian Stretch as wireless access point for month. All I had to do was to assign all the interface (the internal ethernet one, an USB-ethernet adapter, and hostapd, the access point daemon) to the same network bridge `br0`. That's all. Even hotplugging the usb-ethernet adapter worked fine.

For those curious, find the `/etc/network/interfaces` and `/etc/hostapd.conf` here: (Grep for `br0` in both)

* https://gitlab.com/manuel_wagesreither/debian-image-creator/-/blob/master/src/files/interfaces
* https://gitlab.com/manuel_wagesreither/debian-image-creator/-/blob/master/src/files/hostapd.conf

---

Can anyone elaborate on why the authors way of implementation is superior to that? He/she's using `parprouted` and `dhcp-helper`.

From the parprouted man page:

> parprouted is a daemon for transparent IP (Layer 3) proxy ARP bridging. Unlike standard bridging, proxy ARP bridging allows to bridge Ethernet networks behind wireless nodes. Normal L2 bridging does not work between wireless nodes because wireless does not know about MAC addresses used in the wired Ethernet networks. Also this daemon is useful for making transparent firewalls.

When wireless nodes don't know about mac addresses, why is my wireless interface on `ip a` showing a mac address then?
The Netflix for Work
Yes. That’s exactly my point. We don’t have a direct democracy so then it fea that people should stop complaining and “just vote” is ignorant of how change happens. You have to get a loud enough voice to make representatives to take up this action in the first place.
> It's an inspiring philosophical concept, but it's like saying 'the world changes with every breath you take'.

It's literally what evolution is. Each generation of organism is different from the next. There isn't some break-point where changes ceased, it's been continuous since the life began, i.e. a continuum.

> They have different attributes for many reasons that have nothing to do with evolution (and are not hereditary). And any real evolutionary changes are so small that they practically don't exist.

The reason is literally evolution. They are different in small (or large) ways, because every generation is different. If they survive and pass part of their genes along to the next generation, their offspring will be different as well.

> It's not conjecture; it's based on evidence: I can't cite the exact science off the top of my head, but humans have been biologically the same for around 200,000 years.

But they haven't been biologically the same. They have changed in each generation of offspring. There wasn't some magic point 200,000 or so years ago when humans stopped evolving. We are still evolving today, every time a new child is born.

I have a feeling you don't actually understand evolution.
Can you elaborate a bit how your mailbox provider knows about click/engangement rate?

E.g. why would Fastmail have any metrics on how their users interact with the mail they receive?

I see everybody calling out that one should keep a clean subscriber list (e.g. only keep engaged users) but I fail to see this is relevant to the actual mail acceptance/inbox delivery.
Considering this network was running from 1957 through 1976, I think "CW" in this context means "Continuous Wave", the (somewhat incorrect) synonym for Morse Code?
>And please, treat yourself to a copy of it on CD or vinyl. Own the music you love.

I know the surge of vinyl. But I do hope the later part of owning something make a comeback.
That is the norm. True insiders are subject to additional restrictions, and often set up a 10b5 plan to set conditions under which stock may be traded.

In almost every case, no employees (insider or otherwise) are permitted to sell derivatives (calls, puts), while they are employed.
I mean couldn't it simply be an increase in demand due to remote workers? Someone renting an apartment in SF may now be interested in buying a home in the suburbs of DFW? Feel free to pick any other HCOL large city and medium to low COL area.

Inflation shouldn't be ignored, but if inflation was on the order of home price increases we'd be seeing it in the cost of food (which has gone up, but not that much), and other every day goods.
I just accessed the linked page without any issue, using the latest Firefox...
Are you using an old version?
La quatrième baleine à bitcoins la plus riche a acheté $12k bitcoins
La quatrième baleine à bitcoins la plus riche a acheté $12k bitcoins à un prix moyen inférieur à 40k dollars au cours des trois dernières semaines.
Thought Experiment:

What would be the ethical implications of using deepfake tech to anonymize porn. IE, alter face and possibly tattoos and voices such that the person was not recognizable by friends/family?
> > “puts, calls, warrants and other types of option securities”

> Amazon employees require Amazon's Legal approval before trading Amazon stock.

Options are not stock, they're options. Employees are generally (maybe always?) restricted from trading in derivatives like options. That doesn't mean they can't trade stock (outside blackout windows).
That would make that single cable 1/3 the price of the LHC. I’m glad it doesn’t cost that much!
TSMC eyes plans for first chip plant in Japan
Why? Every single time I look on a map, the American continent is in the centre. It only makes sense to use PDT as the only correct timezone. /s
Functionally in Australia the government can pretend the citizens have rights when it makes sense to them however the reality is we have (a) one of the most empowered tax agencies on the planet (b) no right to leave the country right now without seeking special permission; a fact barely debated in the increasingly useless local media and possibly unique within the modern western world (c) no constitutional bill of rights (d) no capacity to complain when actual firms reject to sell spare parts to consumers (e) very few independently importing retailers (f) heaps of state surveillance.[0] (g) a national identity myth still drummed in to children based on the simultaneous execution of one of the only successful cases of genocide (the Tasmanian aboriginals) and repeatedly invading other countries (and being drafted to do so) for proxy ideological reasons

Case in point: I had a prosumer grade Nikon fail on me ~2011 and it was just the button. The company refused to sell me the part and instead insisted that I send it to an authorized repair center of which there was only one within the country at the time, in Adelaide (that's Aussie for Arkinsaw). They wanted something like USD$300+ (50% value) to replace it. Wrote a complaint to the Australian Competition and Consumer Commission and nothing happened. I don't think I got more than a form reply. In response I doubled down on Canon.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_surveillance_in_Australia
With WFH one could expect the total miles driven per year to decrease drastically due to less commuting. This would make the lifetimes of cars longer and lead to lower demand -- a second way in which software is "eating" the car.
> The best defence against frauds and scams seems to be a kind of "intellectual vaccination" via repeated exposure to benign, non-functional specimens.

Similarly, ransomware is doing us all a favor. Every ransomware hack exposes and closes a vulnerability that could do much more damage in the hands of a truly malicious actor such as an enemy in wartime.
I find the creators livelihoods lines to be attention grabbing and muddying the waters about what this argument should be about.

The Netflix exemption should be available to all apps - that point is what the Epic lawsuit should be about (they've confused the issue too by talking about having their own app store). Apple could then fight for developers to use Apple Pay on its merits in the marketplace.

In the case of Fanhouse, the rules were well known (and disliked) when they started. They should have created their product as a web app - their particular use case is one where the technical limitations of a web app wouldn't have been much of an issue.

If they felt so strongly that their product had to be in the Apple App store to succeed, they are justifying Apple's 30% cut.
I believe you want a Nikon DF or (and yeah, I know they're not DSLRs) any Fujifilm X series.

https://www.nikonusa.com/en/nikon-products/product/dslr-came...
It’s also vandalism of a sacred site: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/travel/article/the-strang...
Maybe a European thought that Americans also use "S" for "Summer" rather than "Standard"?
The Controversial History of Mount Rushmore
Simple, replace judges with AIs. Possibly on the blockchain. Code is law.
Tiny creature comes back to life after 24,000 years in Siberian deep freeze
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My point is that they don't have to iterate over all e-mails as long as they know at least one e-mail of any user, which doesn't seem that far fetched, as they can just simply trigger creation of this token for that particular e-mail themselves. It's especially effective if it's a targeted attack.

But well, yeah in a scenario where you truly have short tokens and someone is not trying to create the token for the e-mail themselves, but just trying to find vulnerable links, then yes, in this case it would help, but that's non-sense, just have longer tokens and you are fine, why force user having to do extra steps, when you can just have longer tokens.
he is from the 50cent party he doesn't even recognize the argument of the topic.. he is just trying to divert conversation elsewere so people doesn't watch
> I still wish there was LaTeX for it.

As email probably unavailable, there are Alex's Facebook/Instagram.[0]

[0] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=27468908#27469861
The GFC is a direct result of illegal behavior. If you don't understand that, you don't understand the GFC. The major problem is that Wall Street investment banks were marking shitty debt as AAA when it was no such thing. Because it was marked as AAA, the bad debt was bought throughout the globe because pensions and funds globally wanted only AAA debt. They knew the debt was shitty even as they were marking them as AAA and they didn't care. Once the debt started blowing up, all of these companies that thought they had AAA debt ended up holding onto shitty debt and it put everything at risk.

It's pure unadulterated fraud. No one was punished.
Thanks I appreciate it :)
That actually looks really cool and mature. Since when have you been working on it?

What technology did you use?
We still have unknown unknowns but we also know a lot more about how neural nets deal with various tasks and dataset preparations. We know what kind of applications are good enough and where they still fail, which is much more than a decade ago.

If you look at sci-fi movies with robots, they usually speak in a metallic voice but have good situational and language understanding. In reality it was the other way around, it's much easier to do artificial voices than understand the topic. That kind of naive understanding seems silly now, and this is how we gradually advance.

GPT-3 taught us that good sounding text is not that hard to generate if you have ample training data, but modeling the larger context is still hard. These kind of fine distinctions are what I call progress.
I'm teaching my 9yo son to take baby steps in algebra and I can totally relate to your comment. When he encountered a variable "X" for the first time he was completely flabbergasted. I tried several examples but it's just plain difficult for a human mind to go from numbers to an abstract concept of a "place holder". It's a big leap of faith to go from "a specific number" to "a place holder that you later fill up with". I asked him to divide "5 * A" by "5" and he was like "I don't know what A is how do I divide?".

A related challenge is to translate descriptions into mathematical equations. Things like "Bob ate 5 times as many berries as Sue". Funny thing is in his head he works out and comes up with the correct answer. But when I ask him to go through the process it's totally alien to him. The only way I think is to make him practice with as many such challenges as possible.

Now when I look back 30 years ago, I recall the struggle I went through to even understand the meaning of "X + 2 = 3" let alone do the magic of moving 2 to the right and change its sign.
Uhh I dunno say joint tax return with one person on an Amazon W2 and the other person reporting Amazon capital gains on their 1099B? Could it be any easier?
They offer merch now -- while they don't do completely custom items like shopify might let you do, it is a little more than buying and owning music.

The albums I usually end up finding are ~$9 and pay what you want above. What bandcamp understands is that a lot of people know how to get the music for free. What makes me pick bandcamp is that I can afford it, I know where the money is going, and they let me download my music (they also have an app) with no fuss.

> This is a heaven for people who do not like streaming providers. I purchase every single album through them.

+1, though sometimes artists aren't on there, which is a shame.
And don't forget the ability to run a web server from within the browser. Opera was sometimes buggy, but it was really the first "browser as an operating system".
You can save a lot of cabling when you have central message bus shared by different components where a microcontroller decides whether a particular message is meant for this solenoid or that motor.
> Democracy is inherently fragile; it only succeeds when you have a well-educated electorate interested in the good of the country as a whole, and a large enough percentage of the population with enough wealth that such things are maintainable.

I disagree with the bit after the semicolon quite strongly. I described my alternative opinion elsewhere in this thread. Democracy has survived very well without sufficient education; it works because it means representatives from the whole community can negotiate an outcome that addresses their actual concerns. For this to work, you need representatives of the whole community and the ability to negotiate, both of which are hard to find in the current US for various reasons. The representatives need to be motivated to find a negotiated settlement that address their core concerns at least, which is impossible under ideological parties where promotion is predicated on purity. But these conditions aren't very hard to reach, and certainly much easier than the idea of a well-educated electorate. (PS: No one has a "core interest" of, say, emitting carbon into the atmosphere. Everyone who has an interest in that could be migrated to other areas: coal miners want respectable and well-paid work; mine owners want the value of their investments to remain. This means that once negotiated settlements are possible, those which are needed but not well understood are possible too, even with poorly educated electorates.)

As to the bit before the semicolon, I guess someone must've done studies. Is democracy more stable or less stable than alternative constitutions? How do you even measure stability? Obviously the US hasn't been stable for the whole time since the constitution was written, but it was even able to recover after it lost its footing. I think that alone demonstrates that democracy can be robust (not everyone could vote, but I think the ways in which the US was a democracy were sufficiently clear that it would be wrong to attribute it to some alternative style).
Thank you for so great and detailed article!

About the Avalanche memory issues, one of the options is to use some caching reverse-proxy in front of it. In one of VictoriaMetrics benchmarks the same trick was made for node-exporter. See https://valyala.medium.com/prometheus-vs-victoriametrics-ben...

> RAM usage was around 2.5TB across all of the Opstrace instance

Does it include memory used by Prometheis pods? If yes, what is the rough memory estimation if we exclude Avalanche+Prometheus from it?