skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
So, most barcode scanners operate in ‘wedge’ mode.

This may be true for RFID scanners, as well.

They emulate a keyboard and some have pass-through ports, for PS/2 keyboard interfaces.

For more ‘custom’ solutions, some also have serial interfaces, so they can be programmatically controlled to scan and read based on the logic you implement.
Is it really confusing? It's a rich company using the fruits of our labor, provided free TO OTHER DEVELOPERS. I have never okayed "use my code to train AIs that nobody else could". It's backhanded and unfair.
Ya because zip2, PayPal, Tesla Roadster, Tesla Model S , Tesla Model X, Tesla Model 3 , SpaceX Falcon 1, SpaceX Falcon 9, SpaceX Falcon Heavy are all vaporware....
London air pollution turned into art to raise awareness
Exploit UB to do optims can degenerate to the invocation of nasal deamons. I'm not sure to what extent it would theoritically be possible to avoid daemons while still providing some optimization, nor if any people even studied that question, but pragmatically: - complete violation and exploitation of the VM is a situation that Rust is trying to address as a main goal; - the main implementation using LLVM would make it hard to avoid unbounded consequences given the internal handling of UBs by llvm are rarely exploited with such constraints in mind.
Some temperatures mentioned in the article:

100°F = 37.78°C (various mentions. This is body temperature so you can not loose heat effectively in this air temperature.)

110°F = 43.33°C ("many valley communities" low prediction)

115°F = 46.11°C ("many valley communities" high prediction)

117°F = 47.22°C (Nevada weekend peak prediction)

130°F = 54.44°C (death valley prediction, meat can be cooked sous-vide at this point)

Usual summer temperatures in northern/western Europe:

30°C = 86°F (heatwave)

25°C = 77°F (hot weather)

20°C = 68°F (nice summer weather)
China still accepts plastic for recycling. As you note they make a lot of stuff and so need it and have net exports so lots of ships are going there anyway.

What they banned was people pretending to send recyclable plastic but really just sending them any old junk.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Operation_National_Sword

Text from their official notification:

> Objective and rationale, including the nature of urgent problems where applicable:
The reasons for urgent measure: According to the Special Actions of Strengthening the
Supervision and Strictly Striking of Illegal "Foreign Garbage" by the General Administration
of Customs of China, Ministry of Environmental Protection of China, Ministry of Public
Security of China and General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and
Quarantine of China, as well as the Special Actions of Striking of the Illegal Actions of
Imported Solid Waste Processing and Utilizing Sectors by Ministry of Environmental
Protection of China, we found that large amounts of dirty wastes or even hazardous wastes
are mixed in the solid waste that can be used as raw materials. This polluted China's
environment seriously. To protect China's environmental interests and people's health, we
urgently adjust the imported solid wastes list, and forbid the import of solid wastes that
are highly polluted. Protection of human health or safety; Protection of animal or plant life
or health; Protection of the environment.
African-American spelling bee champ makes history with flair
Ooops, you are right, I should have checked ! I updated my comment.
The interesting part is how big are the environmental costs of the production?
Copyright defends us from some of the abuse by large corporations in the form of the GPL.

Want Linux to run on your thing? You must publish driver source then or you're violating copyright law. This was less a big deal before device vendors ratcheted the pathological behavior up to 11 with smartphones and that's why far more people seem to react far more strongly now.
Wow, they should be able to carry hundreds of SD Cards ordered from Amazon.

On a serious note, I never understood why A380s can’t be cargo planes like the 747s.
Aaron Harris (Y Combinator partner for 7.5 years) does pitch deck reviews. Here's one from two days ago of a company in India called Wildcart: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IJyKCbHu2Cg.
I thought of this when posting. Honestly, universities are the educational equivalent of industrial farming. We need a rethink.

When I was in university (some time ago!), it was always the large courses that were easiest to game. They were also generally the subjects I was least interested in.

My small comp sci courses were amazing in contrast. Easily worth the cost of admission. I think the education system would be much improved if we had fewer, but significantly smaller courses.

So, you pay the same price, but instead of 100 courses of massive size, you get 25 courses of small size.
Here is pattern matching as a library that is not built using statements,

https://github.com/santinic/pampy

Clearly it's possible. It's also more ergonomic than PEP 622.
If it's too hard for you to develop a library hardened against DoS attacks which are pretty trivial to perform perhaps it's a good thing that npm audit flags your library as containing bugs.
Incline Village aka Income Village, NV has been a popular destination for tax avoidance for decades. It’s true that people move states (in reality or on paper) to decrease their tax burdens. What isn’t true is that this sort of behavior has recently accelerated and turned into something that could be characterized as an exodus.
Out of my small sample of three, one author sent me a journal, one ignored the request and another told me to pay him for it.
> Judging by the votes you got, your proposal is not well-liked.

i'm at peace with that :) [1]

> In general, breaking Python's syntax rules to introduce block expressions or what you want to call it seems like a steep price to pay for what amounts to syntactic sugar in the end.

that's your opinion, i disagree! i think Python would be a better, more pleasant to use language if they figured this out. a girl can dream, ok?

> What would be /really/ handy in Python is something like

{'some_key': bind_value_to_this_name} = a_mapping

yes, extending the destructuring syntax would be nice, i agree! but the original question was "Please suggest a pattern matching expression syntax [...]", and the post you were responding to was specifically talking about `match`'s syntax. [2]

> I think you should read the PEPs on match/case

i read them when they came out. i'm assuming you're referring to this section from PEP 622:

> "In most other languages pattern matching is represented by an expression, not statement. But making it an expression would be inconsistent with other syntactic choices in Python."

https://www.python.org/dev/peps/pep-0622/#id77

i believe Python's statement-orientatation kinda sucks, so to me this is just "things aren't great, let's stay consistent with that". yeah, yeah, "use a different language if you don't like it" etc.

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[1] well, maybe not quite, after all i'm here arguing about it.

[2] `match` uses patterns like the one you described in `case` arms, but is distinct from them. i don't see why dict-destructuring syntax couldn't be added in a separate PEP.
> I think the "environment good" is also mainly marketing.

An electric car is arguably much better then a diesel or gas powered car.

> This could make it worse than normal cars in many ways.

Care to detail how this would be worse?, your comment doesn't make much sense. Tesla can't keep up with demand, cars are bought, used and sold second hand to be driven as well... (they aren't thrown away). This is displacing a lot of gas/diesel powered cars.

> Consumption needs to decrease to be actually greener.

You might mean consumption of fossil fuels needs to decrease. Which is happening.

People will still need to drive, electric cars just moves us from fossil fuels to renewables like solar panels or wind farms much faster.
Might be worth noting that it's faster than quicksort, std::stable_sort, and timsort.
Switching from Notion to Markdown Notecards
That seems like moving the goalposts.
No, it's not. First, most "big tech" aren't nerds in the sense you mean, and they act more like the "cool kids" bullies in those movies than nerds. Second, the negative sentiment has more to do with wealth inequality and all that brings than any such petty rivalry as you describe.

Also to be quite honest software engineers aren't as smart or nerdy as they think they are in general. Very arrogant and egotistical, though, for sure.
Thanks for sharing. I prefer simple solutions and concepts and probably my pitch deck will be a simple one and easily comprehensible.
I think this site should use one sentence to explain what Eproctoring means or what it is.
I live in Oakland and I find all of that true. My family and I very much want to leave as soon as possible. (I’m a non-immigrant Democrat for what it’s worth, but not very progressive.)

We’re staying in-state though—Oakland is far from typical.
> Pfizer actually manufactures only half of the third step in the process it acquired when it bought BioNTech.

BioNTech is partnering with Pfizer (and Fosun) to manufacture and distribute the vaccine, but Pfizer has not bought BioNTech. They're still an independent, publicly-traded company.
> for 17k you get a brand new car.

US$ 17K isn't actually that expensive for a new motorcycle on the high-end.
Allows people to move away from fossil fuels.

They can't keep up with demand, all their inventory is sold, so it's displacing a lot of regular car sales.
My two cents: Just do it.

Build/enable integrations with other systems (eg CMDB) so that the wiki can display information from them.

Try to make people feel that they can easily add info to the wiki. An iterative approach is probably suitable – better to add something than nothing. It can then be iterated upon.

Make sure that people feel they have time to add/edit info every week. [Edit: And time to clean out outdated info.]
I loved it! Thank you Rzor!
> That's a straw man argument and you know it.

It is absolutely not in my opinion and that particular idea did not cross my mind at all so the idea that I knew it is patently double false.

But let me try to be constructive here and be even more precise:

Would it be OK if I launched a tech preview of my AI poem writer companion that would copy lines but also complete stanzas from famous poets, rock bands and singer-songwriters?
Thank you! Great idea - TED knows its stuff.
One of the Top 10 CS universities I studied at had some system for that, obviously it couldn't catch somebody who was a good programmer and could reshuffle AST with properly renamed variables. But it was still helpful for less-gifted students who cheated. Typically teachers had to set a threshold of similarity for their given assignments over which it was automatically reporting student names. The software scrapped GitHub as well.
Such an amazing resource.
Like with most things, the correct course was probably somewhere in the middle.
There is a very large gap between fair compensation and greed driven profits, we are currently at the far end of that spectrum on the 'profits' side of the scale.
Thank you - I appreciate it. I will explore this further to see how I can do it as an individual.
An Alternative Theory for China’s Tech Crackdown
They already don't certify competence.
I think VAE's haven't been the state of the art since around 2016-2017? They have been squeezed from both directions, autoregressive models on the compression side, GAN's on the generation side.

They are still fairly competitive on both sides though.
Completely agree. Money laundering laws are just the financial version of global surveillance. This cryptocurrency debate is just the financial version of the crypto wars. History just keeps repeating. I find it interesting how the government is a lot more heavy handed when money is involved...
I know of no products but the area of research seems to be active and the article I linked to is getting cited frequently:

https://scholar.google.de/scholar?as_ylo=2021&hl=de&as_sdt=2...
oh good call - I attended one online during COVID, but maybe in-person will start up soon. Thanks!
Yep, I see Belugas flying over Hamburg nearly every week, as they deliver or take away parts from the assembly in Finkenwerder. It's great to see those planes gliding across the Elbe river, always looks amazing.
Well, being an industrial engineer myself, I was always at awe looking at Roman engineering. And ancient Greek and Macedonian engineering as well. Especially compared to medieval Europe, those empires were much more modern in terms of standards and so on. Medieval engineering was top notch, especially architecture (gothic churches and cathedrals really stand out), but at that large a scale.

IMHO the Roman Empire was build on the back of its civil engineers, and not its legions. At least in the long run.
What are the Firebase shenanigans you refer to? First I’ve heard of it but I’m interested.
What Are the Best LinkedIn Business Data Scrapers in 2021? – Justpaste.it
My impression is that it is a offshoot of the metrics mania of the 1990s

I am one person watching the world go by but I think that there was, is, far too much emphasis on things that can be counted.

People became afraid to make subjective judgements of quality. They demanded data. So whatever was the thing they counted, it got maximised. Quality is a slippery concept and it is harder than counting.

Judge scientists by the number of papers they publish, and they will publish a lot. A manifestation of the quantifying fetish.
There are several problems quite big ones in fact involved with: the A380 has four engines, weak floors, designed for passengers, no large loading door, and it’s not the most efficient aircraft.
Thanks - I'll build these into my daily routine :) I appreciate it.
This is still by far the best resource of what has sadly become a money-grabbing fad.

PDFs of the full lectures, labs,quizzes, also videos. The same material the kids at MIT take.

No bullshit,no signing up needed, no irrelevant 'degrees' (Mini-nano-pico specialization) for 2000 USD, no worthless certificates, no cumbersome "learning systems" splitting a 45 min lecture in 30 micro-videos with inane and obtrusive questions in the middle.

Since it is so useful and it doesnt make anybody rich, naturally it needs to die.
> I would say sidecars were (or still are) for people who use a motorcycle for practical reasons.

One major advantage of motorcycles/scooters that it's very easy to do filtering and lane splitting, which helps in more crowded urban streets:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lane_splitting

With a sidecar you'd lost that ability and be stuck in traffic just like a car.
You can also see them in Hamburg quite often. I can see them from my balcony.
I recently just renewed my errors and omissions policy and was a little shocked to find out if you let the policy expire then the policy does not protect you even in past while the policy was active.

I swear, insurance is the biggest scam ever. You feel all warm and cozy but the moment you need it, some exemption or carve out gets you and you find out you are not covered.
I'm fine with exception being under the hood. It's just in actual app code I find the non locality of the flow makes things very implicit.

I like explicit code.
Ty - Looks amazing. I'll reach out to them.
Almost every college and university course I took would curve grades to adjust for difficulty. I’ve even had professors tell me that top scorers in a test were only expected to get x% of questions correct.
Might better read as "It's slow to use as a database"
Don’t underestimate the bandwidth of a Beluga filled with 1TB Micro SD-cards hurling through the skies...

To answer your question: Mostly several design issues[1]

[1] https://simpleflying.com/airbus-cargo-airbus-a380/
I'm just saying, title doesn't match content doesn't match actual complaint...
We can decide to stop using some (or most of) Google services. It's hard, but it's not that they are pointing us with a gun in order to use their services, right? Sure, for the cases when one cannot escape Google, use it; but for the rest of scenarios? It's all about tradeoffs: Can I live without YouTube? Can I live with DuckDuckGo (Google Search is "better" but I don't mind)? etc.
I’m curious about this as well. Although it contains a mammoth amount of work by hundreds of people, it’s very similar to the progress made in the previous weeks. I would have thought TWIR #400 would have been a milestone to post about.
> without crashing the stock and real estate markets deeply

And, perhaps more immediately, without paying abhorrent interests on public debt?
Cheers for the engaging reply, and thanks for sharing your story. It doesn't surprise me that your foray into the dark arts was also born out of gaming.

> How'd this get you interested in programming? Did you somehow reconstruct the file's FAT entry from scratch, or (heavily presuming a lot) maybe this was more a case of "reinstall DOS, discover QBASIC"?

The former sounds mightily impressive, but it was definitely more a case of the latter :-)

I don't recall exactly how I stumbled upon DriveSpace (I ran DOS 6.22, I don't think it had DBLSPACE), but I do remember that the game "Crusader: No Remorse" had just come out, and I didn't have enough space on my measly hard drive to install it.

I figured DriveSpace was the solution to all my hard drive needs, but as you've gathered, I didn't know what the hell I was doing, and so for a good while after failing to run DriveSpace correctly, I was left with minimal storage space (and a guiltily large .BIN file that I didn't know about).

I eventually decided to reinstall everything from scratch, so I started going through my Dysan-encased DOS stiffy disks (I wish I still had those), and during said perusal, I discovered GORILLA.BAS

"What the hell is this?" I remember thinking. A game!

Within days I was reverse engineering the .BAS file to give my gorillas more explosive bananas, and that is how I got into QBASIC programming :-)

From there I moved on to Denthor's BBS tutorials on mode13h, followed by NeHe's OpenGL tutorials, and the rest is history.

I really love reading about these origin stories. Would be awesome to hear from some of the greats in our field how they all got their start.
> I can think of more customer-friendly ways than to make me pay for every single download of a paper. On the other hand

If you're thinking of the scientists and students in your society as "customers" and not as scientists and students...

You are optimizing for the wrong thing (i e. You are optimizing for the benefit to capital, not for the benefit to society)
What is your time frame for this?

Internet Archive has been around since 1996 and Wikipedia 2001 (ish)
I finally looked at the article and that is bit over-engineered in my opinion.

My favorite timeclock had a two-row character lcd character display, membrane keypad for digits and maybe 5 additional function buttons: clock in, clock out, lunch in, lunch out, and admin-mode.

We used the last 6 digits of our SS# to clock in and out with.

It had a serial interface.

Use an Arduino, and you can add the serial display, keypad if needed, serial rfid or barcode scanner, and ethernet or wifi.
As always (this _is_ HN) because the poster thought it might be of interest to the HN crowd :)
> Ivermectin is proposed by real doctors who treat patients on ground zero

To treat Covid, or to treat fungal infections that happen as a result of Covid messing with patients' immune systems?
This is really amazing! I like the idea of reviewing pitch decks. It would be amazing if somebody would review how companies evolved from a pitch deck to the point where they are today.
Since the very nature of joke is that it's subjective - funny to some and not so for others - it makes no sense to debate it in categorical terms as you'd get a (X is a joke) ∧ (X is not a joke) contradiction.
I was just trying to point out that if she considers this as trying to "malign her", then she will have to prepare for much worse attacks later for doing the right thing.
Really? I think it is easy to point which was right. I guess for some the mind programming is too strong and cannot be free of it. Greed and profit is eating our planet resources, and there is a huge amount of people, which are not the beneficiaries of those monsters that are willing to protect the millionares. Just because they have been sold propaganda they cannot get out of their head.
That may be true. But I don't think a price that's higher than what one is willing to pay then justifies circumventing a paywall.
Dale looks amazing, though oriented towards companies, so I'll have to wait on that. However yourtruevoice looks promising - thank you!
Having unique data is quite valuable. If your organisation can make decisions based on signals that other people can't detect then it can gain a decisive edge.

I do wonder at the anecdotes in this article though. In businesses that I've seen, the data team is usually the biggest impediment to a data-driven culture because they have databases full of numbers and no real grasp of how that links to the decision making process that makes the business money.

Beefing up the team doesn't help. In data, as in business more generally, the important think is not trying to guess what job your doing and spend a lot of time talking to customers about what job they need done. If the data team is where that work happens in a business then that can be helpful - but the grunt work of SQL/reporting/basic analysis is almost never where the value appears from.
Does anyone know if there's any filters used, or what the exposure times were? The images look much darker than most photos from Mars.

Ingenuity does use quite a lot of off-the-shelf components. Does that include the camera? If so, this is probably the most Mars-like pictures yet.
The material at https://openlearninglibrary.mit.edu/ appears a bit more up2date.
I went the other way. I got an iPhone in 2016 and was shocked at how poor the quality of hardware, os, and software was. Admittedly opening the box and giving Apple my personal information was fun.

Maybe it was a bad time for Apple, but it was almost traumatic for me. They really did just use marketing to sell phones.
Please do consider fastmail.com.

I am no email expert or in anyway related to the company.

It was taken over by Opera onetime, but it was bought back by the employees. So, Fastmail is a company owned by employees of Fastmail. I like that concept, so I am just promoting it.

Do check it out and give them a try. I am curious to know your feedback, so please do share.
URL Shotner but redirects users to apps directly
Well yeah, but I have read the same issue and found it not particularly remarkable out of all the TWIR issues, so I was wondering if I missed something.

It's just that the poster linked specifically this one issue, instead of the homepage, so it's not like they want to make us aware that TWIR exists, they want us to notice this particular issue.
Fluvio: A programmable data platform
Yeah I rarely ever feel sweat on my body when I run. It’s when I stop running that I get drenched and need to put a headband on.

(I live in a dry climate and generally don’t sweat much anyways, YMMV)
That doesn't seem very useful if it's Windows only.
I wonder if you got a garbage Android. Samsung is the Apple of Android. Big marketing budget, medium quality.