skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
A similar but more powerful and flexible device is the Core2 from M5Stack. It's expandable through stackable snap-on blocks, USB, multiple I2C and a full set of GPIO and signal pins on a header. It has ESP32 CPU, Wifi, Bluetooth, 2" color touchscreen, microphone, power indicator, 6-Axis IMU, vibration motor, I2S codec, amplifier, speaker, RTC, power button, reset button, 10 x RGB LEDs, SD card slot and 3 programmable soft buttons for ~$45.

There are dozens of snap-on expansion modules which can also be screwed on for permanent use, including a keyboard module, joystick/D-pad, expanded battery, prototyping breadboard breakout, ethernet and various wireless modules including cellular and LORAWAN. I have several of these along with a bunch of the modules and the system is ideal for prototyping up various things super quickly. Amazon sells their own Core2 bundle with an expanded battery module which is pre-programmed with their IOT prototyping platform firmware but you can just overwrite that back to stock firmware which supports FreeRTOS, MicroPython, UIFlow and Arduino frameworks.

https://shop.m5stack.com/products/m5stack-core2-esp32-iot-de...

https://www.amazon.com/M5Stack-Core2-ESP32-Development-EduKi...
How the Physics of Resonance Shapes Reality
> Yeah, that's just what we need, Tech company's approach to defense.

> "Hey the missile doesn't work in v1, but we still shipped it"

Yes, that’s how we won WWII: we shipped prototypes based on the new ideas, and improved them based on the lessons from the field. In war, stakes are higher, and you can’t always afford to delay for a long time to ship perfect product: by the time it arrives, the war might already be lost.
Who could have guessed a piece of cardstock would be a poor means of verification. No one seems to have thought these through and few seem to be taking it seriously.
If that's like WSL2 that's a complete VM. And WSL1 was already departing from the trasitional NT subsystems anyway (because e.g. they were not designed for completely bypassing NT userspace to the point of not mapping it)
Everybody accepts that. The only difference is the hypotheses that some people have for explaining that difference. Those who accept a genetic hypothesis are unlikely to look for the real cause.
That’s why Lockly.com has THREE methods of opening a smart lock.

1. key

2. iPhone

3. PIN pad.
2^128 is a big number, and we live in a universe with physical constraints. The mathematical probability is nonzero, but it's never going to happen.
Founding DocSend, Creating a Winning PLG Motion, & Data from 1K’s of Pitch Decks
Online dating turned flirting into a video game
It's painfully obvious that they don't mean anti-vax, given "mandatory usage will be a race between mobile payment and government services like eID and eLicense".

As most things, even if you were required to carry an electronic vaccine proof, you would simply be unable to do certain things; most bars require ID to enter, and I wouldn't be surprised if eventually they'll be required to use scanners that verify REAL ID status (given all US territories and states, outside of American Samoa[0], issue DLs or ID cards with REAL ID).

0: https://www.dhs.gov/real-id/american-samoa
To me it feels like the original fine may have influenced by that. It would have discouraged Intel from offering these rebates to OEMs, giving AMD a chance to slowly get back into laptops. At the time Intel's mobile CPUs were far superior, but the same could not be said for their integrated GPUs, but IIRC the rebates required that OEMs go full Intel (CPU, GPU, chipset, and WiFi).
Yes. This country has a 10/90 split between the authoritarians (who mostly live in large cities and are themselves in semi-authoritarian conditions - New York, Los Angeles, Chicago, Seattle, etc. [0]) and the rest of the people (the Silent Majority) who live in suburbia and the Middle of NoWhere.

Unfortunately the Silent Majority just wants to be left alone. They are getting more vocal (Tea Party during the Obama years, most pro-Trumpers, others) but they are slow to act and lack any sense of retaliation when they are shut down [1]. They think if they keep their heads down the totalitarian system developing at a national level will leave them alone.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_United_States_cities_b..., about 35 million Americans live in cities larger than 1 million total pop

[1] https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/irs-scandal-fast-fac...

> In May 2013, the Treasury Inspector General for Tax Administration released a report indicating the targeting involved delaying the processing of applications by certain conservative groups and requesting information from them that was later deemed unnecessary.

[edit] remove unrelated statement [\edit]
The FAQ didn't say that when the news first came out; it must have been updated due to backlash.

As a side note, I still haven't gotten an email notification of this days later. If it wasn't for HN I wouldn't have known Google was cancelling legacy G Suite at all.
Problem solved WRT copyright issues relating to news articles. If the AI derived content (a la GitHub copilot) is deemed as original "unlicensed" content, no reason to force users to visit the website. (it's been a while since the news media and Google had their legal battles, and I'm unsure what the end resolution was then)
All digital creations are NFTs. We just don’t know it yet
https://archive.is/0WhVV
But it is the right way.

With a client certificate the end server knows, you don't need to fuck around with cookies and TLS binding and so on. Add a new end point - great to use that during your "session". it just works.

One day I will work it out.
Google search tells me that in 2020 the median deductible (out of pocket pay before health insurance takes over costs) was between $1,418 and $2,295 depending largely on the company size, with "platinum" plans median of only $95 and "bronze" plans median of $6,992[1].

The cost of an MRI (starting at $400, going way up depending on what was MRI'ed)[2], xray (starting at $100)[3] and an overnight stay (around $2600 non-ICU [4]) would be at least $3100 alone if you had to pay everything out of pocket, not accounting for any additional costs (the unspecified "additional tests" you mentioned, for example, or things you haven't explicitly mentioned but may still used like an ambulance ride, etc).

Of course, this is recent prices, and the prices may have varied when you actually were in hospital, and it is my understanding that prices both for health care services and procedures, and health insurance can vary widely depending on the region and the providers involved in the US.

But my google-fu let's me conclude that you indeed extremely likely had a health insurance plan at "platinum" level, far better than what most of your fellow citizens in the US enjoy.

Somebody with a plan near the "median deductible" would have paid that median deductible of more than $1400 in full, or around 10x what you had to pay, somebody unlucky enough to be on a "bronze" plan might have had to pay the full amount (or at least around 7 grand), and there are about 31 million people in the US without health insurance[5] who would have had to pay in full.

(Please note that I, as somebody who never experienced the US health care system, can thus only provide an outside view based on what I heard from people I know and in the media, and googled)

[1] https://www.investopedia.com/how-much-does-health-insurance-...

[2] https://www.itnonline.com/content/mri-costs

[3] https://health.costhelper.com/x-rays.html

[4] https://www.debt.org/medical/hospital-surgery-costs/

[5] https://www.statista.com/statistics/200955/americans-without...
How the Soviets put a lander on Venus
>"Autopilots do not replace human operators. Instead, the autopilot assists the operator's control of the vehicle"

That's why I was careful to say the colloquial definition. IMO this is also why other companies deliberately name their systems something like "driver assist". It errs on the side of removing ambiguity.

The colloquial definition is generally much more aligned with "operating without having to focus on the task at hand." I don't think Tesla wants their drivers to operate the car without focusing on the act of driving because it has an "autopilot" feature.
I’m Low-Key Addicted to This Calorie-Burning (and Mood-Boosting) Sauna Blanket
Burning plasma achieved in inertial fusion
If the patient gets to hug his kids a year from now, he would probably consider it compassionate use.
Validating seems to be so lackluster that I'm not sure fake card producers are even an issue currently. Any time I've had to validate my vax status in order to get into some establishment, either a crappy photocopy or a digital photo of the card on my phone has been accepted without even blinking. Typically they don't even look at the info, they just see you wave something that looks vaguely right at them and they're satisfied.
It's because the Warsaw you know is on the other side of the screen.
From Wikipedia for Polkit

> It is also possible to use polkit to execute commands with elevated privileges using the command pkexec followed by the command intended to be executed (with root permission).[7] However, it may be preferable to use sudo, as this command provides more flexibility and security, in addition to being easier to configure.[8]

> A memory corruption vulnerability PwnKit (CVE-2021-4034[10]) discovered in the pkexec command (installed on all major Linux distributions) was announced on January 25, 2022.[11][12] The vulnerability dates back to the original distribution from 2009. The vulnerability received a CVSS score of 7.8 ("High severity") reflecting serious factors involved in a possible exploit: unprivileged users can obtain full root privileges, independent of the underlying machine architecture, regardless of whether the polkit daemon is running or not.

Does a lot of software depend on pkexec? How could it be secured to be recommended over sudo?
I disagree with this. Healthcare is a absolutely a privilege offered by society, not a fundamental human right.
Ask HN: Choosing interesting topics for CS research
I am planning to do my masters in CS the future. My initial interests while applying were specifically in NLP /computational linguistics which I noted in the SOPs . However, I don't have much experience in it other than a survey paper about common sense reasoning in my undergrad.
for various reasons, I ended up doing a sponsored project in embedded (rasp pi hooked up to a PLC for measuring biogas plant values) which i did not enjoy much.

Recently, I found compilers/programming languages very intriguing and contemplating preparing on the topic. Maybe getting some experience by contributing/using open source projects like LLVM etc.
Currently, I am self studying some prerequisites like linear algebra that would hopefully come useful (mainly for ML).

First off, is it a good idea to choose topics and prepare to gain some experience in the domain before starting the masters? if so, how to approach any topic and prepare?
Literally all day, every day.
A year before becoming involved in WWII, Neville Chamberlain, the PM of the UK said: "In war, whichever side may call itself the victor, there are no winners, but all are losers."

Call it a victory if you must, but looking back at the past 2 years there were very few winners.
Palmer can finally afford the John Lasseter Hawaiian shirt collection.
No. Requiring vaccine passports or vaccine cards incentivizes people to get vaccine passports and/or vaccine cards, which is exactly what we're seeing.

This is like counting lines of code or repo commits to see how productive a SWE is. If you want to incentivize X, you have to be very careful not to instead incentivize an imperfect proxy for X.
My concern is more with people in somewhat unusual circumstances who get "lost in the bureaucracy".

I am fully vaccinated, but unable to get a QR code – digital or paper version. My circumstances are somewhat unusual: I moved back to the Netherlands after a few years abroad (I am a Dutch citizen), and due to the difficult rental market and not having a job (yet) I've been forced to stay in temporary accommodations. I can't "officially register" with the city there, and thus unable to get the QR code in spite of having all the other official documentation.

This is a problem for various reasons, and something that will finally be fixed next month or so when I start my new job, but it's not really something I can fix now. Never before has such a "unusual status" led to a near-complete exclusion from basic participation in social life. I can basically do bugger all except sit at home, and after being away for many years I don't know anyone, too. It's not a good situation. I guess I should count myself lucky as we don't require these things for public transport.

Is my situation unusual? Sure. But there are lots of unusual situations out there, ranging from simple ones ("I lost my phone this morning and now I can't go to {job interview,funeral,etc.}") to more complex ones.

Furthermore, since the current vaccinations only work so-so, it's not really clear to me how effective all of this really is and I wouldn't be surprised if the effectiveness was only very limited, or even net negative (just as bicycle helmets can provide a net-negative to cyclists safety, since cyclists tend to take more risks on average while wearing a helmet).

Overall, I'm not a huge fan, although I'm obviously biased on account of being disadvantaged quite a lot in my current situation.
Yep totally, one of the things I love about Sci-Fi is that there could be a mix of The Culture, The Belt, and Nasa based stories and it's all Sci-Fi. I happen to be a massive fan of near future Sci-Fi because I draw hope from it. I love Foundation and The Culture also but they are SO big that for me it's hard to tell the difference between fantasy and "High Tech Sci-Fi" often. The Expanse feels within reasonable reach, The Martian or For All Mankind much more so and given the events in the world that means a lot IMO.
The Dewey Decimal classification system is ridiculously flawed, and no self-respecting library uses it these days (unless it always has, and hasn't got around to re-organising). Even my school's little one-room library didn't, something I found annoying at first, but came to appreciate.
I am amazed that anyone would spend hundreds of dollars to get replica of a handwritten paper card with zero security features of which there are millions of originals floating around.

I guess the people who don't really understand how vaccines work also overlap with with people who don't understand how paper cards with no security features work.
Or, if you get a wired->BT adapter like the FiiO uBTR, it’s another device you have to remember to keep charged.

(Btw there are 3.5mm to lightning adapters that let you charge while listening, just not made by Apple)
Just purchased the yearly - this was even better than advertised with being able to have video as media in addition to images. This is already better than many of the other options on the market I have tried. Excellent work. One question - I want to share my account login with my business partner, is there a way to share a login?
Well, we don't have anything like a coherent understanding of the architecture of biological general intelligence either, so at least this won't be a particularly new state of affairs.
Can't we both research vectors and have vaccine cards? And surely you're exaggerating by the use of the word "just". Maybe there is some circle I have not interacted with where a vaccine card is a weird social status thing, but they are also literally vaccine cards. Medical records conveying actionable information, in addition to whatever else, however inherently imperfect at that job.
Does it need binary blobs? Would be a shame such a device becoma frozen in time because one can't update it.
It's been awhile since I used Shure's in ear monitors, but they once sent me a kit with one of everything in that part of their product line. Nice stuff, and if you can tolerate in-ear stuff, incredible sound. But all the cables failed over time. Not heavily used either. They were great about sending replacements, but they were very aware of the reliability issues. And these were monitors that had MSRPs over $800.
"Trumpian lies"?

Trump is actively promoting vaccination.
You can try it today by doing a Google image search for "American inventors", or go a step further and try "white American family" and deciding for yourself if there is an agenda in the results or if they accurately reflect the search term...

This has been a thing for at least a decade and so we can't pretend it's accidental. Why it's still a thing is a matter of opinion I suppose.
Windows had 95% market share. Apple has barely 50. It's a big difference
how is this article NOT attention based?
As long as there's some mechanism to identify the fraudulent cards people can be held accountable for trying to pass off a fake as the real thing. Making, selling, or using a fake vaccination card is a felony.

Can just anybody call up say, Walmart and verify if a vaccination card supposedly filled out by them is authentic? If not then that's the issue. Not the fact that fakes exist.
Have fun with those ghosts of yours.

The power elite sets policy. Not vague sentiments.
It looks to me that the plugin author isn't only trying to get the money he's owed from people who are trying to scam him. Which still isn't a great thing, especially since it can happen mistakenly, but it's at least a little more understandable.
Are you implying that what they're saying isn't important or invalid? Or, what is your point?
Study: College student grades actually went up in Spring 2020 when pandemic hit
I need to lead this with "I'm fully vaccinated and pro-vaccine" so nobody gets the wrong idea (I'm disappointed that this is the state of discourse) BUT...

Anyone can print a piece of paper. If vaccination requirements are going to have any teeth whatsoever, they will need to be much more invasive. A central database is the minimum. You'll need holographic cards with your picture, like driver's licenses. Spot checks on restaurants to ensure they're checking ids properly, and serious consequences for failure - you'll need a license to serve food, and the FABC (food and alcoholic beverage control) board will be able to fine you or revoke it.

Basically, you'll need to treat almost all of public society the way we treat alcoholic beverage sales.

I personally find that terrifying and would rather see covid run rampant.
Doesn't have a battery either, although there's room in the case for one or two flat cells from a laptop pack plus a charge controller.
I cannot trust JWTs - look the maximum I want to send from a client to a server is a single nonce. Anything else is just adding attack surfaces. Add that one 128bit number has too many already :-)
Which devices?

Unlike an RPi, this thing has a screen, a keyboard, a sleek case, a battery compartment. What are other devices that have these all, and cost, say, under $40?
Have you considered skipping the shady middleman altogether and just ordering the pure stuff directly from a manufacturer?
Would you mind explaining?

Upfront investment by building-out to provide supply is the policy that we need.

Yet current policies favor rent-seeking and parking-funds in desirable areas, leading to properties that owned but actually vacant (e.g., most of London or Vancouver Island).
> Why the heck hasnt a single manufacturer included the USB Dongle radio IN the mobo?

USB radio dongles are not standardized, that's what Bluetooth is for. (There used to be a Wireless USB standard but it was never widely adopted, and it has fallen out of use altogether.)

There are USB-C power bricks that also work as hubs, so you're not wasting your only USB-C port.
Important to note that the quoted $15 doesn't include shipping, assembly, tax or any other costs.

For the same actual cost I'd go on EBay/Craigslist/FB Marketplace and buy an unlimited number of old computers with 1000x the specs of this one that are going to be otherwise placed into a landfill.
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That's incredibly inconvenient and often uncomfortable.
algorithms are just a condensed logical representation of information. that's why i associate him w the field
(USA point of view)

I feel like given that vaccines do an acceptable job at reducing risk of hospitalization and death, there is only really a few things worth discussing, in relevant order:

- Are hospitals actually being overloaded by covid cases to the point of being an issue (according to many, yes. but according to [1] Johns Hopkins, no, or only in some cases?).

- Are the unvaccinated actually the majority of the covid related cases (as far as I'm aware, yes).

- Is this localized (state or city specific), or is this a federal issue.

- Are unvaccinated hospitalizations significantly worse compared to other personal decisions (diet, exercise, risky hobbies).

- Finally, what actions, if any, should be taken to correct the hospital load? (nothing, vaccine mandates, accelerated hospital expansion, turning people away, etc)

- If the answer to the previous is nothing, then what are we even doing?

The focus on just asking "vaccine mandate, yes or no" feels like it's missing most of the discussion.

[1] https://coronavirus.jhu.edu/data/hospitalization-7-day-trend
Actually this was an option back in the IE days too. Just nobody did it because it was stupid.
Looks like they have OpenWRT booting in it: https://youtu.be/dbcRk-vMAog
This is a direct result of the (intentionally) punitive nature of vaccine mandates. Broad, heavy-handed actions by the government are the classic spark for societal backlash. A softer approach that focused on positive benefits for having a vax pass versus punishing unvaxxed would probably had better results. Instead, we've pushed (presumably) otherwise law-abiding citizens into using forged documents. This directly undermines the legitimacy of the government - people lose respect for an authority that cannnot enforce its own orders, and these people will be more likely to carry out similar acts of defiance in the future. Considering the political polarization in America, this is not a recipe for success.
Not quite. Often the reason that a law is unconstitutional is that the federal government lacks the authority to regulate this, but the same law would be constitutional if created by a state government.
Why are we attacking the person instead of the argument? We should be discussing the points, not trying to start a flame war. I'm really not sure how vaccination documentation to eat in a restaurant is equivalent to jailing people for their ethnicity, sexuality, or ideology. Can we take a step back and discuss your thought process? You have come to a much different conclusion than I and I would like to understand how. While doing so, can we kindly assume the other person is not trying to be evil?
The article doesn't go into the implementation of his system, which was likely a real bitch.
They stopped including it a while ago, I think they stopped with the XS.
The original question was about "how to break out of lethargy", and I think it might work for that. I think some people need "momentum" to get invested into what they want to do; the motivation doesn't come until they're deep into it.
But yeah, like you said, it might not be enough in the long run.
Almost comical to draw an analogy to 3D glasses imo - VR is a completely different ball game. VR headset purchases are growing at more than 2x year on year, and the "try it once and forget about it" thing seems to be less and less of a thing based on post-Christmas 2020 & 2021 WebXR usage stats that I've seen.

The virtuous cycle is starting now that big AAA devs are taking notice of the platform. More games => more users => more devs => more games.