skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
As a Brit living in the EU, I kinda miss the ones back home - for two reasons, the grip and the orientation. I don't know anything about relative safety of either, this is purely about UX :)

The UK plugs usually have a very clear way to grip them and pull them out of the socket, and yanking them by the cable neither looks nor feels right. Whereas the Europlug ones I have mostly have a very dainty, slight place to grip with your fingers and are often very tight - often they really invite you to pull by the cable itself.

There's a little bit of ambiguity about orientation - sometimes the socket has an extra prong sticking out meaning you have to use the plug the right way up, and sometimes there's none. But it can sometimes happen that you're not sure if you're a few degrees out in aligning the prongs in the plug, or if you're just the wrong way up and the earth prong is in the way. Obviously if you can see the socket this isn't a huge issue, but if you're reaching behind a TV unit, or a desk or a counter etc you're in for a bit of fumbling.

I have a similar feeling around lightswitches - the European ones are large, delicate and a little flimsy and the UK ones are little and compact and feel solid. I think it's not allowed to have the UK switches here, which is a shame otherwise I'd fit out my flat with them :)

update: oh speaking of switches I completely forgot that power sockets generally also have an on/off switch in the UK. I guess it comes down to personal preference but I liked having the extra "off" switch for reasons that I can't quite articulate
Are you really sorry?
Because people keep buying them and no viable competitive manufacturing capability exists in the West anymore.

Soon it will violate the warranty not to plug it into the network. Probably for “security” or to protect the children.
How would you go about unschooling yourself as an adult?

I've been "in the system" my entire life (like most of us). Thanks to Covid and remote working, I've recently found myself with a lot of free time. I still have a job, but I don't really care about it at all nor derive any fulfilment from it. Since it pays well and doesn't require very much of my time (again, thanks to remote work), I've decided to just keep doing it and try to find meaning in my life from other things. This has proven to be very difficult, most likely due to lifetime of being "in the system".
In Italy in practice there are 4 common plugs, 2 type L (big and small), the schuko (type F) with many variations and the europlug.

the compatibility table is not trivial (in particular the europlug is compatible with everithing except the big type L sockets) and while new houses might be to nicer standards, there are a lot of very old houses in italy (i lived in a house from ~1850) and many public spaces use the cheapest sockets they can find so you either get a small type L (accepts also europlugs) a simple schuko (accepts also europlugs and unhearthed small type L) or a big type L (accepts only big type L).
Japanese chip inspectors combat flood of fakes amid shortage
Thank you! Looks like crypto version of Project Euler and Rosalind.
My main platform is Linux :) on it I run a RME Multiface II ; with it I can go down to 32 samples of latency and still do some useful stuff without even using a RT kernel (can only go down to 64 in Windows w/ ASIO).

Recently I had a cool art project where we ran 48-channel ambisonic sound spatialization + live video effects, all that from a single Dell laptop sending audio through AES67 (so Ethernet) and video on 3 1080p outputs. Linux is incredible with the right hardware !

(shameless self-promotion: this was with https://ossia.io score :-))
‘Magic wand’ a new nanoscopy tool reveals a colorful nano-world
It does not seem unlikely to me that the group of health workers that made up most of the vaccinated group prior to April generally has a lower death rate than the unvaccinated group, which would have contained most aged 50+ at the time (vaccine uptake was <6% for the 50-59 group at the end of March).

More importantly, COVID also accounted for more than 30% of deaths in the "10-59 + Unvaccinated" group between January and April (2,761 of 8,665), as this was around the time the third wave peaked. As one would expect, this didn't really affect deaths in the vaccinated group.

I don't think anyone should attempt to draw conclusions from such a small group that is not at all representative of the whole population (in general and within the 10-59 age group).
No official support (console makers other than MS are making things a PITA) but Robotality has ported their Pathway game (Based on LibGDX) to the Switch.
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The UK (or at least my city) has a problem where a lot of places have just enough bike infrastructure to be dangerous. People can get some % of the way from A to B without trouble, but then resort to the pavement when they get to a busy road without proper infrastructure.

Also doesn't help that many councils seem to think that shared bus/bicycle lanes are bicycle infrastructure.
"Doing Startups" is not a thing. A startup should just be an outcome of something that you enjoy doing. If you are frustrated with the process, stop doing it. You seem to be in a very privileged position in which you have financial freedom. Don't restrict yourself by following what others define as "mediocre result and career". Do what you love and you'll see it will turn into a success.
To be fair, both New Year's Eve and Christmas are essentially the same holiday (a solstice celebration missing the mark by a few days).
Kanye West's $90 Yeezy Gap hoodie sold more in a day than any in Gap's history
The other replies give the answers: the ABI has always been an implementation detail, and Go binaries are static built from source, so this change won't matter. But just to add to that: I've been using Go for 4-5 years, and have never needed to know or care about its calling convention. It doesn't even affect people that write functions for Go in assembly ... because as the proposal says, "This will remain backwards compatible with existing assembly code that assumes Go’s current stack-based calling convention through Go’s multiple ABI mechanism." So the Go developers have put a fair bit of thought and effort into making this just work, even bending over backwards to make assembly libraries keep working.
Will it send notifications also when it is a USA sponsored attack?

What a joke
Checkly
Here's a quick, short review by a random user on Goodreads: https://www.goodreads.com/review/show/3426819525?book_show_a...

The play itself is fairly short but I'd need to ruminate on it for weeks on end to give it some worthy words.
Lactobacillus APIs, gut bacteria found in bees, improves memory
If lizards can voluntarily make their tail fall off to escape predators, you can survive losing your music backups!
I have this pet theory of mine that planting trees could also mitigate rising sea levels since trees contain water. Is that dumb ?

I have no idea of the order of magnitude we are talking about so I might be entirely delusional.
UK IoT/mobile security law has £10m fines for vuln reporting failures
> As Java is generally the fastest GC'd language, what's the current state of Java gamedev?

In my eyes, there are no truly viable options out there, mostly due to a lack of approachable GUI game development software or toolkits.

For example, compare the one option that comes close, jMonkeyEngine (https://jmonkeyengine.org/) to the likes of Unreal (https://www.unrealengine.com/en-US/) and Unity (https://unity.com/), or even Godot (https://godotengine.org/).

Sure, many out there enjoy developing games in a code first approach, or even writing their own engines (e.g. Randy, whose videos are pretty interesting and comedic: https://www.youtube.com/c/RandytheSequel/videos or https://www.youtube.com/c/RandallThomas/videos), but i'd argue that the success of an engine largely depends on the popularity that it gains, which is largely influenced by how easily approachable it is.

Java game development doesn't have such a tool or set of tools, even the activity on jMonkeyEngine's GitHub (https://github.com/jMonkeyEngine) is really low, compared to that of Godot (https://github.com/GodotEngine), even if the technologies themselves could be used to similar degrees of success in many situations.

Come to think of it, it would be nice to actually benchmark something like Unity (C#), Godot (C#), Godot (GDScript) and jMonkeyEngine (Java) in similar real world applications, to see how they fare, performance, resource usage and development speed wise.

My intuition tells me that Java would be faster than GDScript, which would make talking about its (and also Java's, and thus also C#'s) performance a moot point for many of the indie games out there, since GDScript's slowness doesn't prevent many wonderful games from being developed in Godot, here's their latest showcase reel: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iAceTF0yE7I
I would love to hear a story of your film composing career. Yes, HN is about hackers and tech and stuff like that, but I think that being generally curious about other things, such as film composing, is only adding to the experience here.

Anyway... Just wanted to let you know that you made me really curious :)
For some reason, the Type A/B from N.America seems to be standing on its head.

The convention, now, seems to be to put the ground pin on top. I am not entirely sure when that became the convention, however, as it seemed to be the other way around when I was a child (with the ground pin on the bottom). I think I was a teenager when I started seeing the sockets installed "upside down."
Does this include USA sponsored attacks?

This again another attempt at owning the device or your customer, like that CSAM backdoor wasn’t enough, now they have AI monitoring accounts, connections, etc out of each device.
Plant cover also increases evaporation (because the water get trapped by the plants on the surface), which increases warming (because water vapour is a very powerful greenhouse gas), but also reduces local temperatures (evaporation removes heat), and increases cloud cover (which reduces warming by increasing albedo).

It's a very complex system, and working out the net effect is very difficult (as the paper says).
In my (mostly-remote) workplace people are always talking about finding it hard to separate their work and their lives, hard to switch off in the evening, hard not to check their phone for work slack messages at weekends, hard to take their leave days without feeling like they're letting people down

THIS is exactly how a culture of overwork is enforced. We're doing it to each other. These days I try to counter it by making a point of calling this out publicly, and saying "I always take all my leave days" and "I don't work in the evenings" and "I don't have work email or slack on my phone"
Buypass saved the day last month. We were suddenly not working in older browsers due to rhe expired root cert, and just one server flag on the certbot invocation and now we are good until 2040. Yay ACME protocol and yay Buypass
NordVPN as #1 means I know for sure not to trust this website.
>How is it anti-competitive?
A mega-corp effectively putting hundreds of small distributors out of business, dictating the prices that producers should sell their products, gaining a monopoly, which also opens the door for them to become the producers themselves.
This also makes Indian wealth even more concentrated.

Do you need a drawing?
>ASIO4ALL notoriously does not play nice with multiple audio sources.

Yep, that's because Asio4all uses WDM-KS and WDM-KS since Vista doesn't support multiple sources.
Actual ASIO drivers made by sound card manufacturers usually don't have this limitation, as long as you keep the same sample rate everywhere. But it can also vary depending on who made the driver and/or on whether the source apps are using ASIO or a mix of ASIO and WDM/WASAPI. Getting low latency audio to work nicely on Windows can be messy (compared to macOS, at least).
> Frankly, we have little real idea what's psychologically appropriate for kids.

You must be joking. Look at parental guidance for movies and games for example.
Violence is good and appropriate. Just show no blood. ( Harry Potter). Sex is not good except when in Disney movies and preferably between a prince and a princess. Scenes of normal life are borring just like story costruction. Children must learn that they have to reach the goals as fast as possible, no matter what means are employed. And did i mention violence ? Maybe they don't have it at home but it must be introduced somehow in their lifes.
They also need to speak more hysterical. TV and politics have shown that if you speak in normal tone noone will listen to you.
Myself going from "web designer" to a "zero-knowledge proof cryptographer" (I'm a coauthor of Dalek Bulletproofs implementation, the cleanest API, documentation and fastest ZKP system ever) I'm sad to see crypto textbooks spending most of the time on symmetric ciphers, going through the same nonsense like ECB and then touching asymmetric only with RSA and annoying GCD stuff when everyone moved onto elliptic curves already.

I'd like to see material around modern stuff (Keccak and ECC) with only a cursory discussion of pitfalls of the past standards in contrast with the current stuff. And more time on asymmetric, discrete log and fiat-shamir protocols that are so much fun and require really a 7th grade algebra to grasp.

I've also made a couple of videos on ECC basics with that approach: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCk0r9S76wngNPJb_GlhJYdw

EDIT: what i mean, is focus first on how to use primitives and what they promise, rather than how they actually work. Once you feel like you can play with these legos, it's more fun to dig deeper and see why ECDLP is hard and how ciphers are made. But please don't start from within - it's an annoying boring mess that distracts from the true beauty: the cool things you can build with these tools.
> 2-3 hours a day, every day, weekend included

I mean, I use a regular bike for 30 years in Amsterdam, I really don't think 2-3 hours of daily biking is the norm... There's 5 supermarkets and 5 gyms within a 5minute bike ride, including the ones I go to. My parents are 20min away, friends are typically 5-15min. It's really rare to spend more than an hour on my bike each day, even though I use it daily for just about everything in the city, I think it's an average of 20min a day the past years and about 50m if I wasn't working from home and biked to work (I work from home due to covid, but otherwise take the metro, not a fan of biking in a suit in rain half the year).

You can cut that by at about 30-40% if I had an electric bike, due to the speeds.

Going to Utrecht by bike is not really done, it'd be about two hours at the legally max speed (25km/h), and another 2h back. You'd typically take a train.

So 2-3 hours is really extreme. The Dutch average is just 16 minutes a day, by the way, Amsterdam won't be far off from that.
"Formally-verified"? What exactly, and how? Doesn't seem to be mentioned in the README or anywhere else in the repository.
> The true business of people should be to go back to school and think about whatever it was they were thinking about before somebody came along and told them they had to earn a living.

... but would they? Or would they keep scrolling down interminably. I know I'd like to think I would go back to school.
Same in Berlin. During the lock-down, the city transformed quite a bit. Several roads first got temporary bike lanes (they sacrificed a lane for this) and then when that turned out to be popular they went ahead and made it permanent. Some uncharacteristically quick and pragmatic decision making actually happened.

And of course the entire city is crawling with rental scooters, e-bikes, etc. They are hugely popular. Also a lot of the delivery companies are using electric scooters and ebikes. The volume of all this new traffic is actually forcing the city to adapt.

Berlin still has a long way to catch up to the Netherlands (where I'm from), which has awesome bike infrastructure almost everywhere. But, it's a nice start.

There are still too many deadly accidents and quite a few of them are due to infrastructure lacking key safety measures. E.g. a common accident cause is trucks running over cyclists when turning right. The way to prevent that is having clearly marked bike lanes and some obstacles that force trucks to not cut corners, slow down, and check their mirrors.
Whenever I read about Web3 I always get the idea the feeling it's an entirely self-interested idea or movement, and there is nothing idealistic about it. Instead of control being with a single corporation, control will be with an exclusive limited group of founders who got in cheap, and to which access is sold at a significant premium.

It pretends to democratize things, but rather moves from a monopoly to an oligarchy, which works great for the 'in' group but not necessarily for those outside it.
It is a reality your employees will steal from you at some point, unless you pay them truly astronomical amounts (and even then...) When you have just one, perhaps you will get lucky. With multiple it is a matter of time.
mumble and teamspeak.

big win here is that throu self-hosting one can pick the optimal place i.e. an isp "in the middle" or otherwise local to the participants. just stay away from places that host a lot of content (ovh, hetzner, big-cloud)
Curious to why this is "unlisted", and in fact it has only a bit more than a thousand views.
In the uk plugs the ground contact also acts as a switch; you actually can use an europlug with the uk sockets but you need insert something in the ground pin anyway (some sockets simply a plastic pin instead of a connector)
> If you make money more expensive nominal house prices might drop but you also made it harder to acquire money in the first place.

In a deflationary environment, as housing/rent prices drop, savers are rewarded.

Renting doesn’t entail taking out a mortgage.

> It doesn't create more land or housing.

Nor does building more housing in an inflationary environment necessarily satiate investor demand for inflation-resistant assets in the form of residential property.
Armstrong's 'poetic' slip on Moon (2009)
From before typography went to the dogs:

https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.458601
That's good of you. Unflagged by me, then, but still apparently flagged by someone else.

Fuck off is a rather rude response, not suitable for use in writing in many professional contexts. It's the kind of wording you shouldn't put in other people's mouths.
Sure. Glad to help :). Bash/zsh/scripting in general, combined with nice productivity tools like fzf, vim (really speeds up your work when you know it well and you can get vim plugins for VSCode/PHPStorm/InteliiJ etc). However, don't sweat not knowing vim if you at least have one very good editor available everywhere that you know well. Docker, (which often just amounts to knowing what shell script to put in a dockerfile), fair amount of exposure to AWS, short-cutted by using the command line cli combined with jq. (AWS is a beast, so don't try to keep on top of it all, but master the basics like e:g how to list S3 bucket from command line), some exposure to Terraform, wouldn't say I really know it, but I could edit some tf files and add stuff then go in the AWS console and look what it created (but I'm really a dev, not an infrastructure eng, so this works out to be enough). Python (lots and lots of it). Python is super useful for knocking out stuff quickly. Python will always be useful IMHO, for decades I believe. PHP I don't know fantastically but I can scrape by. Java ditto although I really don't like Java. C++ I did years ago , for years, don't really do it now much but occasionally comes up. Makefiles = a truly ancient but v useful skill. Soft skills like being pedantic about nailing down requirements precisely. Being nice to other team members and easy to work with (but I'll let them be the judge of that ;) ). One key thing I think is I always adored the command line, and shunned GUIs , not a massive fan of IDEs. Guess which one of those stays current and guess which one gets completely changed around and/or falls out of fashion. ; git- make sure you know that reasonably well especially the command line (sure its a PITA to get to grips with, but worth it). In general, mess about with Linux a little bit in your spare time (within reason, not letting it get in the way of family time.). See if your partner will switch to Linux even if not a geek. My wife has, and MS Windows drives her nuts compared to it. ;). Even our daughter messed about with some terminal commands like cowsay etc. ;). why is that even relevant here, well it keeps you in that groove of discovery and enjoyment. IMHO anyway. ;). running C sharp/dot-net core on Linux is something I enjoyed , nice language on a nice platform..
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For what it's worth, at least on my Swedish model, this seems to be gated behind an opt-in (default off!) consent toggle. It was buried in several layers of menus, and not even mentioned during the setup process.

So I would assume that this is mostly an issue in non-GDPR regions (or they're doing some really ugly legal shenanigans to ignore the denied consent?).
The first rule of science club is that ain't got nothing to do with having no stinking degree.
free streaming sites + offline tv as monitor + an old thinkpad + vpn + Unified Remote app, is my setup. Better than any netflix and crapware as a service
Those aren't B2B - India's B2B supplier is Udaan.
It's funny that even dictionary got it wrong. There is no record of ownership of anything in the NFT. There is just no space inside to store any information larger than several bytes.
In general, I'm beginning to feel that habitually updating software is a risk.

I have a paperwhite, but I haven't connected it for a while. Generally when I do connect it to a PC to upload more books, I'll habitually update the software. Its good practice right? Guess I'll now have to remember in perpetuity not to.

Recently I updated my Raspberry Pi setup to find that the latest version of Raspberry Pi OS does not support the official Raspberry Pi cameras (it does add a ton of functionality, including a speed boost for Raspberry Pi 4, but nothing that adds stuff in my setup). So I rolled back everything. And I'll have to remember not to update unless they (or someone else) has added camera support back in.

The point is that I used to laugh at the old guys who refused to update their software. Now I'm turning into them. If everything is working the way I want, why update? Especially for personal devices where the impact of "security vulnerabilities" is so low.
Because it's stalking?
Fxhash is a platform where artists can mint Generative Art stored on Tezos
I'm guessing most scammers don't even hear your prompt. I have a simple, short, "leave a message <beeep>" prompt and the vast majority of my scam voicemails go:

0:00 - 0:10: silence

0:10 - hangup: "Hello? Hello?"
It's exactly the opposite. Jamulus is far more mature, first release is from 2006.

The Sonobus UI is nice and responsive, coming from JUCE, but it's not native. More features, like metronome, are nice to have, but most musicians won't use them anyway as the instruments are usually connected through DAWs which provide all the necessary instruments for routing and layering sources.

The main difference is in the architecture, Sonobus is p2p, so it's great users have the option to try different approaches and find what works best for them.
It used to be "M-DISC", with the 'M' meant to mean "millenium": as in, they'd last 1000 years.

I somehow thought the company making the M-DISCs was dead but apparently Verbatim (and others) still sells BluRay discs labelled as "M-DISC" and they're compatible with many BluRay readers/writers.