skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Maybe the next person squatting in your town square is a former you.

Maybe they are! And if they are, eventually I hope they stop listening to the romantic rubbish about what "freedom" consists of and what capitalist society owes them, as spewed by the leaders of camps and troupes who are mainly interested in keeping a parasitic lifestyle surrounded by runaway girls and boys who'll do what they say. Those
visionary camp leaders are the real narcissists. This one gives his game away when he talks about how he should be the one to manage the shit show when money is abolished. It's all wankerish nihilism dressed up as Marxist dialectics, with the dialectic controlled by someone with slightly more reading than their followers.

FWIW, I upvoted this comment. I agree it's fine for people to have different values. Eventually, me-on-a-beach will hopefully find values that lead toward self-actualization and personal growth, and away from sloth and the bitterness and wasted time of jealousy towards people who have more. In the interim I don't blame them, I just think their philosophy is childish and poorly conceived. If that makes me a narcissist, so be it.
I don't think what he describes fits "full self driving" - I would have expected autopilot to handle it OK.

That said I didn't realise autopilot is only intended for highways and freeways. Maybe that's not explicit enough?
"Don't be anti X. Be pro something else" this mentality can and should be applied to all issues in my opinion. Being "pro solution" is far more productive than being "anti problem".
I post reverse-engineering write-ups at https://re.kv.io, not as regularly as I'd like but some of these exercises were pretty interesting (or so I thought). They sort of go in order of increasing difficulty, although it's hard to tell when I start working on a binary how long it'll eventually take.

These are almost exclusively crackme/keygen-me exercises found on crackmes.one or similar websites, and came from my realization that the notes I was taking for myself while disassembling these programs might be useful to others trying to learn how to do the same, or to those who might be stuck on a particular binary that I managed to understand.

I was also thinking of exploring malware, although the articles would necessarily have a different structure since there isn't a clear challenge like with a crackme asking you for a password, and there could always be more to say. It still seems like it would be interesting, especially if they use advanced obfuscation techniques.

Feedback and suggestions welcome!
A great idea, and useful not just for English speakers. My French background doesn’t make me any better at pronouncing Chinese names!
That BLE adapter plug looks very similar to the port where the controller plugs into for my Ikea bekant standing desk. I'm curious if it works with the bekant. Since same company makes parts for Ikea. thanks for the link. Do you know where I can purchase that adapter? Preferably in the U.S or have it shipped to the U.S?
Pi Zero isn't really 5 bucks. At least not anywhere i have ever found. All official dealers who sell it charge a minimum of $6-7 shipping and also limit you to a single unit per order.

The best deal I have found is ordering from adafruit where you can get 1x with headers and 1x without headers. Then you end up paying only $8-9 each. And that's for the zero. The zero W (wifi) is $10.
I think the zestimate for my house would be probably 10% over what I think a high asking price would be. That would be over a 50% increase in 6 years.
Yes. I assembled the desk myself. The motor controller is a separate unit from the pin pad.
> It's trivial to write your own function to use parameterized queries and add in all the type checking etc you need. It's only a few lines of code.

It's fairly trivial to do this, but now you're potentially adding thousands of parameters per query in circumstances where the contents of the IN() are variable in count. This is not ideal for a number of reasons.

Additionally, a language should be designed such that the easiest possible way to do something is at least moderately secure. If you need to attach some boilerplate code on top of the standard libraries every single time you use them for it to be safe, then there is no reason for that boilerplate to not be in the standard libraries.
Sure, "job" covers too much area to be useful in this case. "Bob did a good job cleaning the car" is much different than "Bob quit is job today." I have a business which provides services. That service isn't a job, but my specific role as the sole operator of the business might be a job.

Stand-up comedy is more of a craft than a job anyways. Most comedians never get out of the open-mic stage of the craft, and you don't get paid for those.

> Your grasp on the expenses living on the road is very tenuous. Credit card bills

We're assuming many of these people can even get credit cards. We're not talking about SV developers or people working on Wall Street. We're talking about people who put in a significant effort which they don't get paid for and then taking that act on the road for money which barely pays the gas and food to get them from one place to the next. A small number might be able get headliner gigs, which gets you to the point of viable as a living.

> No, that’s absolutely not how comedy works. Good comedians aren’t just people who don’t give a fuck.

What you quoted of mine was about how you get into the stand-up comedian mindset. I know how it works, you grind out stage time at open mics as you develop and fine-tune an act which you can take on the road. To get started on that path, takes a special sort of person. Doug Stanhope, the "comedian's comedian" said something which resonated with me. I'll see if I can find the exact quote, but he said he and his family took nothing seriously as they were growing up. Everything was a joke.

That doesn't mean that stand-up comedians can't make plans.
I have my phone set up in English. Google maps is hilarious and basically unusable when it tries to pronounce street names.
Yeah it could be a magnet for people to complain in a safe place where everyone will echo it.

However, maybe the study here presented has also some hidden selection.
I love how people think all it takes to excuse potentially lethal undefined behavior is that it's documented somewhere:

> This sounds to be precisely the type of roads where autopilot/autosteer should not be used - it is not limited by entry and exit ramps. If autopilot/autosteer is used in circumstances where it is not for use, then from time to time it is going to perform in an undefined way.

> Using ANY tool outside its operating environment will be dangerous. Put your experience down to user error.
> The basic ones I can think of that would increase accuracy measurably are:

> 1. How to pronounce “Nguyen”

You say that like there's only one way to do it.
The study appears to factor in short-term vs long-term happiness. Specifically, they ask respondents to project forward 5 years into the future:

>For its Life Evaluation Index, Gallup classifies Americans as "thriving," "struggling" or "suffering" according to how they rate their current and future lives
Interesting, I hadn't thought of that advantage of uuids/guids before.
It depends on the window of time you choose, but if the window is "in the last 10 years", then I'd say cryptographic mistakes are likely to cause more pain than OpenSSL memory corruption vulnerabilities. Any other C library, with less scrutiny, and it'd be the other way around.
Author of the article is most likely Jewish, judging by her last name.
The main value is I think for people to stop and think about where they stand on the issue.

I read through the post and agree with you that I still don't have a clear understanding of the correct sounds, but I doubt I would have gone sound by sound trying to hear the differences.

Overall my takeaway is that there are common names and sound that are worth remembering, I checked a few like Nguyen, and will probably check others when coming across some Chinese name that reminds me of the article.
I think it's worth remembering that this is an elected position, and this sheriff is overwhelmingly popular, to the point where he ran unopposed in the last election. Per the Tampa Bay Times:

Nocco's uncontested re-election in 2016 is indicative of the sheriff's popularity, his political prowess and the county's continued tilt to the right, which puts Democrats at a decided disadvantage during general elections. Pasco's current registration numbers show the Republican Party with a 21,000-voter advantage over Democrats.

"I'm incredibly blessed that the citizens have so much faith in what we're doing,'' Nocco said about an uncontested re-election.

(https://www.tampabay.com/news/politics/local/sheriff-nine-ot...)

In short, no improvement can be expected when the voters themselves support this kind of authoritarian overreach and curtailment of human rights.
Thanks for the suggestion. It was difficult for me to think of an example without resorting to IPA, since my own American accent is fully cot/caught + father/bother merged.
I mean, that sounds like a you problem more than anything.
On art-imitating-art, I read an interesting interview in The Comics Journal in the late 90s, wherein the interviewee bemoaned how poor the state of comics art hat become; the norm in the 30s, 40s, and 50s had been artists who had trained as illustrators or in fine arts, and even when they portrayed horror or superheroes, their work was grounded in a knowledge of how bodies worked.

Over time, though, more and more of the artists had learned by copying the golden and silver age work. And then copying those copies.

The end point of which was Rob Liefeld being unable to draw feet and his other atrocities of posture, proportion, or indeed a sense of where a human's organs might reside.
They could choose to use a less transparent company's software, so that they never become aware of rare issues like this in the first place?
"I'm not a stalker, I'm re-enacting the 80s teen comedies that I grew up with!"
Exactly this. It's like turning on cruise control and blaming it for rear ending someone at a slow down.
> Australian MPs are campaigning for Assange’s release in unprecedented numbers.

They are? My impression is that he's not even on their radar.
> Exception/refinement: If you know the name is from an Indian language, read "a" as the "u" in "putt"

Used to be written that way; compare Calcutta -> Kolkata, suttee -> sati.

> (Examples used assume a General American accent that pronounces "cot" and "caught" differently)

In combination with the directive to read "a" as in "caught", I don't know how to take this except as a call to add lip rounding to the pronunciation of foreign "a". But that can't be right?
If laws can just change without a new law modifing it then you will never know if you are following the law.
Seems you are easily horrified by science... Plastics come from oil which used to be plants.
Yeah justice is kinda meaningless when you've been locked up for 10 years.

Don't fuck with America she doesn't forget and never forgives.
Why? Should they do it for cruise control too?
The article reports a disconnect between self-reported levels of happiness and observed levels of happiness in the subject by others. The article does not claim that subjects are self-deluded in their reported claims of happiness, as the OP suggests.

As in most discussions, any confusion devolves to the meaning of words. Most older adults define “happiness” as a purely subjective term…it has no objective meaning. Status, monetary wealth, attractiveness…by the very definition of these terms, these can have objective measures that external observers can meaningfully comment on. Happiness, as I and others define the term, cannot.

“Self-reported social status doesn’t jibe with external observers’ opinions” suggests self-delusion. “Self-reported levels of happiness doesn’t jibe with external observers’ opinions” suggests an problem with the external observers themselves, or with the thesis that external observers can have any meaningful opinion at all.

“Happiness comes from within” is a core element of every major religion and most secular life philosophies across all cultures on Earth for thousands of years. Conversely, depending upon external sources in people or things for personal happiness inevitably leads to sadness/madness. This is a very old saw and you can investigate the tens of thousands of books, movies, scrolls, tablets, etc. on the thesis to get further insight.

“You aren’t as happy as you think/report” is as silly as “this music is better than it sounds”. Talk to the avant-garde music movement in the mid/late 20th Century and see where that thesis led them.

This seems to be a hobby horse for you personally, as noted by the attempt to provide additional support on a past thread for this thesis. The champions of the thesis that “Happiness comes from without, not within” tend to be marketers and salespeople of products, ideas, ideologies, etc. who need to generate discomfort with the status quo in others to make a buck, found an abusive corrupt empire, start a cult, etc. for themselves. So what are you selling?
Gotta be careful with “caught”: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cot–caught_merger
I think you've fundamentally missed GP's point which is that when governments lie, they do it because they're self-interested. When a politician tells you something that isn't true, they're lying to make themself seem better or to make their opponents seem worse. (Or, to take an example of "the government" lying to you, when the NSA says they aren't collecting certain data about US citizens, their motivation for lying is avoiding the public outcry should their actions be revealed). What's the motivation behind a global cabal of governments, scientists, independent regulators and drug companies all lying to us about vaccines?
I never made a moral assumption in my response. I was just stating that the unions and cartels are not very similar for a reason that you admitted exisists in you response

in your original comment you said:

> When this tactic is applied to any other factor of production it is called a “cartel” and engaged in “market manipulation.”

My comment was simply explaining the reason why this is the case
That should not be happening in a healthy, democratic society.

If it does then it means anyone can be silenced based solely on an accusation of an action highly despised and criminalized by society.
Falsely advertised and packaged as 'Full Self Driving' by Tesla for years, but recently admitted to be Level 2 cruise control rather than the 'ambitious' so-called Level 5 that was repeatedly due for last year.

This is more like 'Fools Self Driving' I'm afraid. Especially with messing around with beta software that doesn't function properly as advertised.
If you're interested in learning to pronounce non-English things, I highly recommend learning the IPA https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabe...

You can get away from this vague stuff like 'an "ah" vowel', and learn (1) the real way the pronounce the names, including sounds that aren't in English, and (2) the precise closest English approximation, without having to go through analogies and metaphors that won't be valid across English dialects.
That's the exact reason a German court barred them from using that very label last year in advertising material. They need to start calling it what it is, driving assistance.

https://www.cnbc.com/2020/07/14/tesla-autopilot-self-driving...
Exactly. If Tesla and Musk didn’t aggressively market their cruise control as
Full self driving only a few months from level 5! then nobody would be criticising them.
Question for someone knowledgeable - why doesn't Chinese transliteration make rational use of vowels and consonants?

Why Q? Why not simply 'Ch'?
If you were to pick any major Vietnamese dialect and learn that pronunciation, you will be much, much closer than the oft-repeated-in-America “nuh-gooyen”.

Most Americans who learn how to pronounce it “correctly” learn something like “wen”, which while not quite right, is still a huge improvement.
No, it's not. I know exactly what my car is going to do when I turn on cruise control no matter the circumstances. It's predictable as hell. With autopilot you have no clue what's going to happen a split second later if you use it on an unblessed street.
I don't think that's a goal, that's a side effect of realizing you don't exist and have no free will and no agency.
Hollywood calls the Russo brothers when it's time to build a new universe
Not to take away from your point (which I infer as "yeah but there were extenuating circumstances"), but I do hope you apply the same skepticism to "died with/because of COVID" reports.
> Pretty much every language has a way to do string interpolation on untrusted input and pass it to to a database

Otherwise they would not be Turing complete.. but defaults/easiest route does matter very much in this case.
Malaysia a step closer to eliminating hepatitis C with new, affordable drug
It's fascinating (and really quite unfortunate) how often articles driven by what I'd call "hate upvotes" make it to the front page of HN. We're awash in links to pessimistic anecdotes that suit a narrative driven by dislike of a certain company or person, but which don't provide any useful knowledge. I think our time is probably better spent on more positive and insightful articles.

“Pessimists are usually right and optimists are usually wrong but all the great changes have been accomplished by optimists.” - Thomas Friedman
Yes, and in the northern hemisphere at least, you quickly realize that foraging for plants is a waste of time. There just isn’t enough calories.

Re daily hunting, meat actually keeps for quite a while when hung in cooler temps (heat is not your friend when hunting). This is routinely done with eg deer. And it is easy to dry meat of all sorts, or even smoke it as that has the same effect and also makes it even more delicious.
Thought the same, would like to know how to pronounce some Polish and other Scandinavian and European pronunciations as well.
Are they testing it in private 'beta' streets, with 'beta' people who won't be killed? Or is this person going to be in opposing traffic on my nearby freeway?
The Sheriff's office's letter reads like a deleted scene from "Brazil", or some attempt at an updated version of 1984.

> “We are committed to your success,"

Shudder.
No. This is Tesla spin. The Tesla is no safer than any other luxury vehicle which it shares it's demographics with.
I would consider the contents of a Dropbox account to be as much or more so assets than a domain name.
Can't you at least build a "IN (?, ?, ?)" string, if you're going to build a string dynamically?
This in my opinion is a point that brings a lot of well-needed nuance to this issue. All or at least many of these facts or assumptions are all relatively reasonable or well-studied, that past criminal records and traumatic upbringings can lead to crime, but when put together under the dubious question of is the person a criminal can be greater than the sum of their parts. A lot of people come from broken homes or experience trauma and never commit a(nother) crime. The fact that these assumptions are standard practice has only legitimized taking a black-box algorithm at its word. It's not all just bias, but this kind of system certainly can incentivize it when making seemingly authoritative predictions.
Yeah, I took a bit of artistic license with the timescales, in reality the systems evolve at such different rates that's it difficult to visualise them all simultaneously. Towards the end of the video some of the geological simulations switch off to signal a change in timescale as human populations spread, but it's still not entirely physically accurate.
Google seems to have adopted the simpler naming scheme ("Cloud Storage", "Cloud SQL", etc.) and it honestly doesn't help much. Imagine you have some application that can write to various providers' object storage implementation. The user has to configure that somehow, and what do you call the configuration keys? In the AWS case, it's easy -- "S3_BUCKET". With Google, you end up having to use an incredibly long name. "STORAGE_BUCKET" -- too general. "CLOUD_STORAGE_BUCKET" -- too general (there are many clouds). "GOOGLE_CLOUD_STORAGE_BUCKET" -- there you go. Type that in all caps without a typo. (It's unclear to me whether or not "GCS" is an acceptable acronym for Cloud Storage. I think I use "GCS_BUCKET", but I'm also pretty sure I just made that up.)

Google's acronyms also just all blend together for me. GCP has GKE which uses GCE instances. The entropy is not high enough for me to parse that unless I pronounce every word that the letter is standing in for. Meanwhile, "AWS has EKS which uses EC2 instances". More entropy, more comprehensible.

I don't think any of this really matters much, but I also don't think that being generic and simple is necessarily the end game.
Not sure why you’re comparing crypto and options in the first place.

They are not used for the same thing at all.

Options are either for hedging risk or for betting on the market. They’re great if you want a highly leveraged, casino-style-get-rich-quick scheme.

Cryptos are assets, so buy/sell like anything else.
Slightly off-topic, but as much as I love ncdu and install it everywhere, I wish it didn't need to exist!

By this I mean: why are both Windows Explorer and all major Linux file managers incapable of showing total recursive directory size in bytes the same way OS X's Finder can? ncdu traverses home folders very quickly, why can't this be built in to a GUI file manager as an option, as Finder's Calculate All Sizes is?

I cannot be the only user for whom this is an absolutely indispensable feature --- one that actually keeps me from migrating entirely to Linux.
> For example, in the US, many families that immigrated many years ago have changed the way their name was pronounced from its original heritage pronunciation

As a native German and French speaker, this is actually an issue for me.

If I see a common German or French name, I do not actually know how it would be pronounced in English and it's very difficult for me to guess or get my head to think of that pronunciation in an 'English' way.

This is especially difficult when talking about a third person who you might not know well/at all: "I think a John Dubois, based in the X Office, is tech lead for that service"
> One taxi driver told me she didn't like the vaccine because of overpopulation and maybe we should cull the herd of older people anyway

I don't agree with the taxi driver, but I fail to see how this response could be viewed as a sentiment stemming from lowered intelligence, especially given how often the same or similar sentiment comes up (albeit masked in nicer words) in virtually every discussion about global population as relates to climate change, and often from people who are clearly intelligent.
Good on the guy for getting his goal over the line! Not the most elegant approach perhaps, but it works and going from nothing to working is worth a lot.

I'm with the group that thinks a Wemos D1 or other ESP8266 micro is probably a better match for the application (if you want to keep open a Wifi control option; if not, literally any microcontroller board would be fine), but if you know Linux and python and not C or have never touched a microcontroller before, not a lot of harm in going for the PiZero.

What I like about microcontrollers is that they just work for years on end. I've got one at home that's been running for about 10 years now, untouched (which makes sense, since most of our gadgets work that way as well).
You sound mad that this fellow has found a way to not contribute to the society you think everyone should. Jealous?
Tylenol / paracetamol is bizarrely ineffective and dangerous for something so ubiquitous and universally prescribed by doctors.