skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is correct.

More specifically: many of FTDI's devices, including the FT232RL, can store configuration data in an EEPROM. EEPROMs are conventionally organized as an array of bytes, but FTDI devices always access the EEPROM 16 bits at a time. The FTDI devices include some commands to read/write the EEPROM. For convenience, these commands use an address counting in bytes, but the official drivers and tools only ever use even addresses (so that the EEPROM addresses accessed never go "across" fields).

The FT232RL is one of FTDI's parts which has an internal EEPROM. An implementation quirk means that any attempt to perform a EEPROM write on this part with an odd address will be ignored. (This quirk is specific to this one part -- most of FTDI's other parts will perform this operation as expected.) This fact was apparently not known by the developers of the FT232RL clone; it will perform the write.

FTDI released a driver update which would, upon detecting a FT232RL, attempt to write zeroes to several odd addresses near the locations used for the device's VID/PID (vendor ID and product ID). These writes were ignored by the genuine devices, but were interpreted by clones as writing zeroes to these fields. This caused the devices to fail to be recognized when next connected to a host.

What's funny is that, as far as documented functionality is concerned, the clones work perfectly. In some regards, they actually work better than the originals!
> somehow it never seems to be the case that the ability outstrips the title.

People get promoted until they reach their level of incompetence :-)
Go 3.2 Gen 2x2!
It's data viz with made up data.
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I think its because a lot of new apartments and Twitter went up straight in the roughest part of town in the early 2010's under Ed Lee's plan to clean up the Market street Tenderloin area (which is probably not a bad idea long term).

https://sanfrancisco.cbslocal.com/2013/11/04/san-francisco-m...

This put the new well to-do Twitter techies in constant daily contact with the original "residents" who were/are down and out on their luck where as before the original "residents" had that end of Market to themselves. The Twitter techies were then very likely to make a big deal about it on social media.

It also probably tore down a significant number of SRO units.
> The Ball no question makes of Ayes and Noes,

> But Here or There as strikes the Player goes;

> And He that toss'd you down into the Field,

> He knows about it all — He knows — He knows!

- Omar Khayyam
Thanks for the explantion. I already knew about double buffering but for whatever reason my brain didn't make the connection.
I am already on the mailing list (and I even backed the failed Kickstarter :'( ).

My issue is it needs an entirely new UI, and the last time that was brought up it was clear nobody active wanted to do that.
Startup Founders often say, “do things that don’t scale”. If I were trying this, I might just register the domains in my account, list myself as the admin, and list them for everything else. No building necessary until you prove the idea.
Yeah there was the whole Atheism+ thing and then it kind of just petered out and people started increasingly becoming nonbelievers or just nondenominational believers without needing to have a big organized movement / identity around it. Arguably, a lot of the reason for the atheism movement's existence no longer exists - prayer and creationism in public schools seems to be a thing of the past.

The angst is still there though - it's just directly applied towards modern culture war fault-lines rather than towards religion / belief in god.
I really like the gpt-3 idea. I have a notebook full of short story ideas that I've been too lazy too transcribe, but now I have a way to get things onto my computer!
I mentioned once to an Apple employee that I fixed iPads on the side sometimes. She was surprised because, as she said, even Apple doesn’t fix them; they just give you a new one and charge you half price. Maybe that’s changed by now but I wouldn’t be surprised if it hasn’t, those things are miserable to fix and I bet the Watch is just as bad.
The only reason we no longer live under hereditary monarchies, ruled over by privileged-by-birth nobles who are very explicitly and shamelessly above the law, is because revolutions have done a great job of either killing off those monarchs and nobles, or by scaring the surviving ones into giving up their power.

I don't think you have any appreciation for how the basic rights you take for granted were a direct product of the rivers of blood shed in those struggles.
They went through the effort to get a job. Why not think that you might have to go through a similar effort to get into a relationship? And maybe they are looking out of their league if they aren't attractive enough to get dates. Maybe strike up some conversations in the checkout line with People of Walmart.
Oh, that's nice. :)
Yeah frameworks are terrible, But tailwind is amazing. once you get your config set up you chern out templates/designs. there is no fighting to override stuff either.
Well what comes first, the chicken or the egg? How does one learn morals if not from an external source, such as a teacher, parent or pastor?
Yes, geothermal heat is a thing, but it always was a thing. The linked paper does not explain what has changed in the last few decades to cause this thinning/melt to happen now.
No way. Cats eviscerate bird population.
Although it'd be hard not to notice before the leak is even halfway through one swimming pool worth. On AWS it's fairly easy for the charges to rack up for quite a while.

(Also, at least around here if the water agency notices abnormal flow for a long time they drive by and if they see a leak they shut off the water. Happened to me once when a sprinkler pipe blew out.)
Huh? Go to the downtown east side of Vancouver and it’s as bad if not worse than SF. And all those folks have free healthcare, plenty of social services and even clean injection sites.

That didn’t solve the problem in the least. It certainly reduces harm, but not drug use.
Build times can affect morale and productivity in a very stepped manner.

A 30 second build might be fast enough that you don't lose context, don't feel the need to work around it, etc.

But suddenly 40 seconds is just long enough that now you go and browse another site while it builds, and that always takes your focus for say 60 seconds.

And so for 40-60 seconds the productivity hit is the same, but then maybe at 60 seconds you now need an extra minute to get back "in the zone"

And so on
What would be an "external or objectively calibrated method" to determine what someone thinks of themselves as?
My fully custom website (thousands of pages per minute) has an authentication query that runs on every page—and it has a subquery inside a subquery inside a subquery. That's four layers of SQL inception. And it executes in under ten milliseconds.

Subqueries are indeed a performance red flag when the query is returning more than a few rows AND the subquery references fields outside of the subquery. Or put more simply, a subquery that will need to be executed an unreasonable number of times per run.

But so long as you aren't doing anything like that, and your database engine has a competent query planner, there should be zero difference in performance. For this reason I don't consider subqueries to be a code smell. For me a query is "smelly" when it does things which aren't obvious to a human parsing the query with their brain.
It seems like you’ve skipped a step to “therefore there is a science clergy.” Who are these supposed clergy, and how do they resemble religious clergy? A credentialed scientist saying something they knew was incorrect or later learned to be incorrect seems unrelated to the concept of clergy.
Isn’t Linus a pretty hard-core C programmer?

Not sure I’d call him “crappy.” Not to his face, anyway …
Yep, it's a rewrite rule: https://pkg.go.dev/cmd/gofmt

The combination of unambiguous syntax and consistently-formatted code results in rewrites producing meaningful diffs (most of the time).
does that not seem semi-valuable to you?

I mean if you're someone that passes off altered code as official code then yeah it would bother you, I guess. I'm not saying you do that, but I'm sure someone does.
> X.org has many other problems, mostly related to screen tearing or security bugs. It is getting closer for the end of its life as being too complicated and not well designed project.

That is FUD.

Screen tearing is subjective issue, personally i never cared for it and my biggest annoyance with Windows is that its forced compositor also adds vsync which forces input lag across the desktop. X allowing me to not use that garbage is a big plus. With a fast refresh rate monitor tearing is practically invisible anyway. Also X11 applications can avoid screen tearing, if some do not then this is a bug in the application.

Security bugs is overblown and Wayland security features are akin to keeping your computer turned off to get the best security. In practice if you do not trust an application you can isolate it, though it is really futile since applications can simply use other means than X to "spy" you. X already provide functionality for doing that but if you are really paranoid (why are you running untrusted applications in that case?) you can run a nested X... or even X under Wayland under X. Then once you notice the onionwrapped application launch your browser or any other application, you'll realize the futility of said onionwrapping but hey, until that moment you'll feel safe.

> end of its life

Xorg is an open source program, you can't "end of line" an open source program, it isn't Visual Basic 6 that died because Microsoft decided it should die. As long as someone wants to improve it, it will get improvements.

Also a new version was released just a few weeks ago with a new maintainer that offered to make new releases.

> being too complicated

Have you actually checked the source code? If you ignore the drivers and all the satellite libraries (like Xt, Xaw, etc) the X server itself isn't really that big or complicated.

> not well designed project

This is irrelevant, it does what it is supposed to do.
If we talk about politics even the conservatives are liberal, both want society to be better with different methods. Few conservatives say do nothing, one critique of conservatives is "what exactly are they conserving?" Amish are one of the fastest groups to adopt solar panels and have done so for decades.

> commitment to traditional values and ideas with opposition to change or innovation

Trump was not traditional, and Obama was very moderate, even stating he did not support gay marriage. Don't trust general labels!
This is a sensible argument, but there is absolutely a reality on the ground. San Francisco has horrid problems compared to all other US cities I have been to. It is even more extreme when you compare it to international cities. The crime, homelessness and excrement is extremely visible, in the statistics and while walking down the street. It is bad, it is broken, and it doesn’t need to be that way. I spent a month in 5 separate cities this year, one of which was Vienna. Vienna is spectacularly well run through the result of decades of well considered governance. A significant contribution is a yearly investment in public housing which has prevented property speculation bubbles and given marginal people a place to live. The first step to fixing a problem is to admit you have a problem.
They know they can. Getting rid of the rebels when you can is always a straightforward decision.
Access to data about which investors have funded similar companies in the past.
Do you understand that your level of fear is irrelevant from virus perspective? Sars-cov-2 doesn’t care about your feelings.

We will eventually move on, the idea is to do it with least damage possible. People moved on from the plague, the black death ve will move on. It’s just doesn’t need to lose so many people in the name of conspiracy theories and inconvenience.

The handling of the situation is different everywhere. It’s a management issue, not really a virus issue.
> Omarova said she was unable to express her views personally to many senators, as is usually the norm in confirmation hearings.

This context is important. Refusing to meet senators on their terms while demanding they meet you on yours seems like a power play.
Are you talking about the Marshall plan and the Cold War or something?

What would the mechanism be of Europe’s disintegration if the US pulled out of the EU today?
Thats the rub - a currency which you can't actually spend is more of a speculative investment. A currency which you can only exchange for other more stable currencies even more so.

When you try to take a digital currency and exchange it for digital items and digital ownership, you do so in a realm where "information wants to be free" - ownership of data is not often as interesting a concept as you want.

Finally, when you try to exchange digital currency for physical goods, you start to realize ownership itself only means anything as part of the existing legal constructs - a distributed ledger "title" will only be valid when the government says it is, and a successfully executed smart contract can be effectively overturned by a judge's order.

The parties/exchanges that don't acknowledge any of this and push the decentralized, out-of-government-control messaging seem like they are tending to be the ones who are structured corporately to be highly resistant to being taken to court over false claims by their customers/victims.
The story from the astronomy side was that the 2.4 meter mirror was mysteriously inexpensive compared to anything else in the R^2 mirror cost curve.

It's a little odd how people re-tell that story, but ok.
You're not getting old; this is a real nuisance.

That said, and to add onto the other reply, you're in luck: OpenSSH 8.8p1 includes support¹ for setting TERM in your SSH config with SetEnv². In my experience this works fine with just the client OpenSSH being up-to-date connecting to servers with older SSH versions and terminfo databases.

In your case, you might want to use a wildcard host at the end of your file to default to a more compatible TERM variable, and then override to foot's TERM variable value for the hosts you use that do have up-to-date terminfo:

Host my-up-to-date-terminfo-host
SetEnv TERM=foot

Host *
SetEnv TERM=xterm-256color

I've been using Foot for months now and just came across this issue, so it's nice there's now a path to get the full-fledged Foot experience only where it's supported. I usually stay comfortably inside GUI Doom Emacs for most shell workflows, but it's nice to have a modern, Wayland-native, no-nonsense terminal emulator when I do break my config :P.

¹ https://github.com/openssh/openssh-portable/commit/f64f8c00d...

² https://www.mankier.com/5/ssh_config#SetEnv
Being offended should not be suficient reason to claim harassment. If an interesting potential partner would stare at them, making the recipient of the attention not offended, it leads to the absurd conclusion that certain behavior is harassing or not depending on what the victim thinks about perpetrator. That's horribly arbitrary and discriminatory.

Harassment, regardless of the sensibilities of the victim, can only be defined in regard to clear actions that are irregular in human social interaction. Looking at someone in a public place is acceptable, following them around is not. Asking someone once to a date is usually acceptable, regardless how offended the recipient of the invitation might be (with the exception of existing power relations, subordinate, senior colleague etc.) Persisting after rejection is not.
Ask HN: What are your favourite podcasts of 2021?
> Why do you want to punish people who managed to keep their job because you don't like the fact they are scared of covid ?

Not GP, but one reason is that they're advocating for restrictions that have severe detrimental effects (loss of employment) on others, but not on themselves.
When this came up a couple of months ago, I wrote https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=28860500:

> Not fond of Pico.css’s weight, though: over 50KB, nowhere near as lightweight as the name suggests (even if it’s above-average compressible, 8KB gzipped—but I wouldn’t count even 8KB uncompressed as pico); in this case, if you flatten the variables and strip unused code, you’re left with under 4KB (~1.4KB gzipped). Lots of bloat from unused light mode support, things like form controls, and a fair bit of frivolous custom properties usage. This is the sort of place where I see the appeal of the likes of Tailwind, because they generate such huge amounts of CSS that you just about have to use an unused style remover. But it is another build step, and contrary to the deliberate intent here.
As I said, it is not good enough for me. Why do you feel the need to argue for closed-source software, anyway? Do you need to justify this to yourself? Rest assured, personally, I don't care what you feel comfortable using.

on a side note, banks and governments often actually audit closed-source code, as they get that worked out in their contracts. Go ahead and ask Microsoft, if you could do the same...
So how do you game this? "Googlebomb" this? I assume it's harder than keyword-based search? As a search engine, what efforts do I take to stop someone from gaming vector-based search engines?
For 'like-minded people' type of crowd, podcasts and youtube channel work well. Include a message in each of your newsletter for people to forward/share it if they like, be genuine, encourage people to contribute to creating a community, run a 'club' with occasional virtual meetups and gradually increase it if it feels right, make it more personal, open, collaborative.
Love generics in Swift, this will be great
I'm not mixing up anything. The primary input to the price of gasoline is..crude oil. Link below is gasoline futures back twenty plus years. Please tell me again that we have not previously had significantly higher prices for a significantly longer period of time? I'm not seeing that.

https://finviz.com/futures_charts.ashx?t=RB&p=m1

Compare that chart to the also availbe WTI, Brent, natural gas and heating oil.
I got a weird mashup of Hitler's rise to power as Chancellor and The Three Little Bears mixed in with a weird quaint story about a famous barrel. It got pretty weird.
What are some examples of this?

String theory? Read Smolin, who points out that for decades, string theorists dominated physics, despite the absence of experimental evidence.

Expert systems? I saw this back in the mid 1980s at Stanford, when the CS department had gone all-in on expert systems. Claims were made that strong AI was just around the corner. This from a technology that doesn't really do all that much. You write simple statements about something in a notation based on predicate calculus, after which you can ask questions. You get out pretty much what you put in. Systems like that still exist, mostly as chatbots for answering the easy questions so customer support doesn't have to talk to you. A programmed FAQ, basically.

And those are hard sciences. Economics is hopeless. Psychology is worse.

(I made the unpopular comment at the time that expert systems would turn out to be more important than syntax-directed parsing, but less important than relational databases.)

As Fred Hoyle once said, "Science is prediction, not explanation". The parts of science that work lead to engineering that works and products that work. Belief is then unnecessary.
> No mainstream conservatives proposes 'let's ban kids form having mobile phones and Facebook until we fully understand their effect'. So if you are not willing to apply the principle consistently

Instituting a new, wide-sweeping government ban is itself a major change. It's not unusual for conservative families to implement those sort of rules in their households.
> Kendo doesn't have belts like most other martial arts, the principle being that seeing the color of someone's belt causes you to prejudge their ability.

TIL: This is a really interesting perspective; Thank You for this! I will use it from now to calm myself down. I, always either got mortified by the extreme skill of my juniors or by the incompetence of seniors — not sure if it’s the case with me or is it a general feeling.

The Kendo way at-least makes me ignore the titles :)
Disclaimer: I am totally newbie in Go. But quite experienced in Java and Js/Ts.

I never jumped the Go bandwagon because of the lack of generics.
Can I now try Go?

The following article seems to say that the lack of other features can be frustrating (the lack of lambdas and the lack of the functional handling of collections seems problematic to me)

Also I wonder whether the language has a IDE support as good as IntelliJ with Java (safe function extraction, type-safe autocomplete)

Would the local gurus here please comment?

[the idea for me is to replace my tricky shell scripts with Go scripts.]

https://medium.com/webstep/a-java-developers-adventures-thro...
There are millions of people using nebulizers daily on the advice of their doctor. "They use oxygen, compressed air or ultrasonic power to break up solutions and suspensions into small aerosol droplets that are inhaled from the mouthpiece of the device. An aerosol is a mixture of gas and solid or liquid particles."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nebulizer

Would this warning also apply to them?
Statistically Tesla has abused statistics to make up misleading points.

Things like comparing the Model 3 to all cars on the road when the average car is something like 12 years old and driven by a very different demographic.

Or comparing AP accident rates to all rates of accidents when AP is speed limited and mainly operates on the safest types of roads (pretty much won't work on the most dangerous kind, "stroads")
I've been running this on my ThinkPad P1 for a couple of years now without fail.
I like that I have the ability to be able to easily switch between discrete and integrated graphics and download and update ThinkPad firmware.
I assume Ubuntu has these features now, but I'm not really sure as I haven't touched it in a long time.

Initially I had issues specific to my P1 regarding external monitors and switching between graphics modes, but I likely would've experienced these issues with whatever distro I used, and they've since been addressed.

The only thing that irritates me now is that the Pop Shop app occasionally blocks apt because it's running update in the background. And the app can become laggy if you're doing too much with it at once.

Overall PopOS just does what is says on the box and with minimal need to configure it. It's currently my preferred distro for modern laptops.
I know all that. I can fully accept that the vaccine doesn’t make me invulnerable. I have the vaccine and am fully prepared to go back to living my normal life while accepting that I still have some risk. I don’t think that forcing other people to get vaccinated further reduces the risk to me (which is already very low). At least, it doesn’t provide enough of a benefit to offset the costs of removing freedom.

Dying from Covid is more or less optional at this point. If you want to remove the risk of dying, get the vaccine. If you want to take the risk, don’t. People are free to do other risky things like skydiving or free climbing. If you don’t want to accept the risks of those things you can opt out of doing them.
Nobody woken up in the middle of the night to debug your code wants you to write that.
Omicron spreading in US could bring wave as soon as January, CDC warns
How is that last statement true? macOS is basically not customizable, and gnome can be themed, even with the new changes (https://blogs.gnome.org/alatiera/2021/09/18/the-truth-they-a...)