skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Unless he has a specific interest/project in mind already, I'd look into something like this to start with:

https://www.sparkfun.com/products/18577

It's from sparkfun so you generally get better support and docs than a random box of stuff from Aliexpress. The QWIIC ecosystem means that you can daisy chain a whole bunch of sensors easily and without soldering. It includes a small but nice selection of sensors, actuators, buttons and LEDs to play with and some suggestion projects.

Soldering and more advanced stuff can come a bit later if he gets into it. No need to discourage a kid from learning electronics because soldering is hard and you want to save 5$ by buying a bare IC instead of a breakout board (not to mention that the current shortage means that breakouts are often more easily available to hobbyists compared to bare chips).
Maybe I am an US citizen and I want to start a business in Germany.
I could be wrong but I feel like you've missed the sarcasm....
They mention this:

"Queryable Encryption was designed by MongoDB’s Advanced Cryptography Research Group, headed by Seny Kamara and Tarik Moataz"

Some related papers with those two as authors:

https://eprint.iacr.org/2016/453.pdf

https://cs.brown.edu/people/seny/pubs/sgx.pdf
Maybe Windows9x doesn't get along with non-4:3 aspect ratio screens?
> Unique Badge and Reactions, Special Stickers and more

Yes, finally! That’s the good move to make the company sustainable. Let me pay for esthetic and goodies!
I <3 AirPods and have used them for the past 3 years. But the sound and voice quality are crap when you use them as both your input and output device in calls. AKA, when the microphone is in use.

I'm cofounder of Noor —a voice chat app— and had to tell this to EVERY single new user, and they all were amazed. So we made a website you can link to whenever you hear someone using AirPods on a Zoom call.
I have suggested them to look at my version, but I think UPX not much hardcore for that. Because I'm guessing decompression speed is more important to UPX than the extra 2kb.
My interviews at Google in 2006 was 4 rounds with 9 interviewers total.

It was indeed a bit of a clown show, and everyone agreed it was bad, but as long as I was there, I don't think it changed much.
Most of the maker companies have their own Arduino-compatible devices nowadays, along with their own ecosystem.

Here's a couple that I found from companies I've experience with and enjoyed.

Seeed Studio has their Grove ecosystem. They have a starter kit here: https://www.seeedstudio.com/Grove-Beginner-Kit-for-Arduino-p...

Adafruit have an Arduino-compatible called Metro. They have a starter kit here: https://www.adafruit.com/product/170

SparkFun have a pretty straightforward LEDs and buttons kinda kit here: https://www.sparkfun.com/products/18577

Honestly, they're all a good start.

Alternatively, I'd consider an RPi 400 if you want a more Commadore 64 (all-in-one PC to tinker with) approach.
I've got several little USB drives with the recovery key on it, although at the moment I'm also trying to use Anki to memorize it...
If that were true there would be a place chock full of good people, that everyone in the industry knows is there and that they pay very well for good people. Is there such a place?
In Europe I have never had more than 3 rounds before either receiving and offer or being told "thanks, but no thanks", be it small startup or large multinational.
That's so funny, because I'm in the same boat with my XPS 9570. I bought it for personal use because I had an amazing experience with a 9370 developer edition at my last job. I figured it would be the same, but that was extremely naive. I got the i5-8300H SKU with an empty 2.5" SSD bay, 53Wh battery, and a 1TB drive for $800 and change with the intention of plugging it into my GTX 1070 eGPU at home. I figured that this would be like, a power-sipping config.

NOPE! It wakes itself from lid-shut sleep and cooks itself whenever I put it in a bag, it will crash and reboot if the Thunderbolt cable gets jostled, and I get maybe 90 minutes on battery life after weeks of optimization script fiddling. I wanted to like it so badly because at the time, the processor was a steal. Matching the old 7820-HQ's performance with a bottom-tier i5 8300H felt like magic, but nothing else lived up to the hype.
I don't know how anyone over the age of 30 could write this headline with the word "could." I know there's data behind it, and that we have to be careful not to assume things without the data but...

Have they been outside in the summer, in the midwest? In the mid-1990s you could nearly read a book by the light of lightning bugs. Now's nearly dark.
Not worth it. Spending $200k (I know, I'm a good decade out of date on my house prices) on a house and then having to spend another $200k to make it habitable is a losing game.

Perhaps it's different if you're acting like an angel investor in housing, but for an average family, it's financial Russian Roulette.
You have just asked why we can't "just move manufacturing out of China:"

There are no individual chemical plants, there are huge chemical complexes owned by many companies with own well guarded know hows. There may be 2-4 suppliers in a row producing some intermediary product used in making of only 1 output.

Just to make the semiconductor grade hyperpure propanol you need ultrapure catalysts, ultrapure sulphuric acid, ultrapure water, and ultrapure input hydrocarbon stock. Ah, forgot, you also needs an ultrapure tare manufacturer, because bottles you ship ultrapure materials are single use.

You need decades just to replicate this. Now you need to move 100+ of such material chains.

> If it's just for historical and/or economical reason

Simple answer, yes! Taiwan has quietly swallowed near an entirety of the wider precision manufacturing industry.

It been consistently swallowing very capital intensive industries producing exportable niche products one after another simply because nobody else been taking such hard, and risky ventures. Yes, their profitability is not high, but their "moat" is gigantic.

Taiwan been an industrial titan for 20+ years, and the US only finds out about it now.
For this, you really want to aim for high quality kits with high quality documentation. The typical Ali Express cheapy kit is a box of stuff with no instructions at all; you're expected to use google-fu to figure out what all the bits and pieces do and how to connect them and where to find the libraries. Which is no problem once you know what you're doing. But that's too daunting for a beginner.

Another angle is robot/robocar kits powered by Arduino, with available source code and documentation. I sent an Elegoo Penguin Bot kit to a nephew, and wrote up a blurb to get him started on hacking the software; you can see the blurb here:

https://wandel.ca/misc/robot/

The code is pretty advanced for an Arduino project, but it's trivial to tinker with and immedately see the results.
Yeah the article is very thin on technical details. To make this work as they describe, it must not be possible for any client to "forge" queries, or else they could trivially decode the content by sending prefix queries of increasing length.

It's also difficult to see how this could work on the server side without exposing some information about the encrypted fields. For example, if all documents have a value that begins with "a", then there must exist a prefix query that matches all those documents. I would expect it to be possible to figure out whether such a query is possible or not, only given access to the encrypted data, but even if that's not possible, the simple fact that a prefix query was issued that matched all documents gives away that information.
That seems naive? All sorts of industries have nice side/nasty side, and it's often very dependent on both which company and which job title and even which individual manager you get. This is why Glassdoor is a thing.

At the end of the day it's all anecdote, but the plural of anecdote can be opinion even if it's not data.

The cost center heuristic is good: is the work you're doing an important part of a product being sold? If not, you're just a cost like office cleaning, and will be treated and paid accordingly.

Apart from banking (process-driven, often boring, can be well paid) the other big stereotypes are consultancy ("body shop": cheap and nasty; higher end consultancy can be hugely lucrative but very political) and games (almost uniformly appalling, only work for a games company if you really want to be able to tell your friends you do so)
The one that allows you to run your application on the computer you are using.
The point of micro transactions is to get rid of the aggregators that charge larger fees for monthly subscriptions to a basket of content
Wow, sorry to hear that about your father in law. It might not have even been a case of going through motions, but it could be a coping mechanism also. When people suffer a big loss, it can cause people to do weird things or actions without much thought. An example is, there is a grave site of a little boy who passed and his father had him buried with a sort of sun roof thing where light could get inside. His explanation was that his son was afraid of the dark. Before I was a parent, I would probably think, wow that is weird. Now that I am a parent, I think about that and go, "if I lost my 6 year old right now, there is no telling what I would do, that would probably be me."

Your last point. That is definitely an issue. Even if innocent, all the motions of waiting to go to trail can wreck someone's life. Try explaining to an employer I've got an upcoming court date for murder or theft and I swear I am innocent. So can you pretty please keep me employed while I wait 3 years for my trial?
How is that any different to the recovery codes section? OP could have carved their one use passwords into the floor, for example.
Cloture – Implementation of Clojure in Common Lisp
Everyone is paying for chip fabs. This isn't new? Especially Intel and TSMC are in a position where they can require money for a fab.
Together with Infineon, NXP or ASML we could built up own production lines but these will also cost a lot of money. Because China is doing the same. Europe just missed to do the same, strategic investment into the economy. Free trade...China never believed in and we shouldn't neither.
Keep in mind that development location isn't tied to sale location.
For example, companies located in EU already develop drugs for the US, and some may not launch in EU or launch much later.
>that conventional pre-modern empire building would not allow
I dunno if I'd say this is truly the case. The Mongol Empire was the largest pre-modern empire, yes, but there were other ones spanning millions of square kilometers (multiple pre-horde Chinese dynasties) and several continents (the various caliphates) with these 'conventional' methods.
6,477 LOCs.

A wasted an opportunity to implement it using 7 or 8 microservices.
In one of the books about the general idea, _Translucent Databases_, the idea is to save the costs of securing the raw data. Someone might break into the database server (or listen on the wire) and find only encrypted values. This can make many different architectural use cases easier to deliver.

In the most extreme cases, the unencrypted values never leave the client. The database can concentrate on delivering storage and fast query answers without paying much attention to issues of security. Clients don't need to trust the database because they control the encryption.
Its not like TPMs are infallible. And even if they are thought secure today, older encryption becomes trivial to crack with time. But like you said, its about raising the bar. You can do a lot to mitigate the threat of deepfakes to a certain point which will eventually push them back into just the realm of those who really know what they are doing. That's not ideal, but well funded and talents groups have been able to falsify evidence to discredit people since the beginning of time. So the nature of the problem doesn't change, they just have another tool.
Correct on all counts.

> we're going to make it as hard as possible to use privacy-centric versions of it...

Right, plus every time you use any coin, it's a taxable event. They need that money for green energy initiatives and endless wars, I suppose.

> The older I get, the more libertarian I get. Or anarchist. I don't know yet.

Keep up the good work!
we are living the Trumpian timeline, nonetheless
They do.

https://www.macrotrends.net/stocks/charts/ASML/asml-holding/...
>censorship, prove to us how you would go about censoring an Ethereum transaction please?

Very simple, throw the wallet holder in jail. I don't know why you're asking this question, you should be able to answer the same question about Tor or Freenet and extrapolate from there.

>re: timestamp, prove to us how easy it is to build a distributed and tamper-proof append-only ledger without a BFT consensus mechanism?

I also don't know why you're asking this question or what it has to do with cryptocurrency or what I said at all. There are BFT consensus mechanisms that don't require the use of speculative tokens. BFT algorithms are by and large, good and useful; the problem comes in when people try to solve this by handing out tokens and convincing people to use them as money. In that way web3 is actually very intellectually lazy to me, the only proposed solutions it appears that most of them have for this is to simply mint more and more tokens.
You are refering to Robotron, which mostly is known for their Z80s knockoffs (which often were less buggy than the originals.) Given that they did not create chips of their new design, I would not describe them as having been 'strong', though.
I suspect they are thinking of TOTP-based schemes for 2fa, not hardware-based 2fa. With TOTP-based 2fa, you can store the seeds in your password manager, which ends putting them next to the passwords themselves, all in one place.
At the cost of being shorter and stiffer; a cable which can only use USB 2.0 and 3A charging can be longer and thinner. And there are also buggy devices (like the first hardware revision of the Raspberry Pi 4) which incorrectly short the two configuration pins together and can only work with less capable cables. But other than that, I agree: a passive Thunderbolt 4 cable can be considered a "perfect do-everything USB-C cable".
You'd balk at more than $5/user/mo? For 12 engineers, that's only $60/mo (and for all 30 employees, $150/mo). I'd guess that you're not a C-level since you said you'd balk at that price, which is incredibly cheap. I pay more for my business's status page.
Please pardon my inadvertent US-centrism! If you live in a country with a functioning democracy, of course it would make sense to participate. Here in the US, average citizens have little to no influence on policy:

https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/perspectives-on-poli...
We miss you, Joe!
Is this the exactly same issue that happens with every other Bluetooth headset too, or something worse?
Do what is best for your family. Your career is now secondary.
an unstated and unrequited aspiration for sure.
Employers keylog. How safe are those logs, for one?
Information is a measure of surprise: we should choose to verify our predictions; but it's disappointing when our predictions turn out to be correct.

We want our best predictions to be proven wrong, since we would learn a lot.
I agree. As a parent, I both want my kids to learn, and I want care for them so I can work. I think if we were more honest about both these needs, we could do better at both. I have seen a certain mania that schools are only for education, and it leads to crazy things like expecting five year olds to spend 45 minutes per day writing, or otherwise asking kids to sit and learn for a lot more of the day than they can really tolerate - as opposed to more outside time, more play time, more movement. It's ok to be a school and a daycare!

Semi-related, I know I'm responsible for deciding to have kids, but the ongoing functioning of society relies on a continuous supply of people to keep it running. I sure hope some people are still working after I retire! It would be nice if the U.S. could support parents more than we currently do.
How is that any different than carving your password manager's recovery key on a piece of metal?
Even then I don’t subscribe to any news sites. I want to just roll up and say “I’d like one article today please, here’s a quarter” I refuse to sign up to something I’ll barely use.
Just built out Rootly and it's fantastic product. On top of that JJ and team are responsive and really heavily engaged with customers, listening to feedback and continually implementing improvements.

Having trialed Rootly against competing products Rootly won out for the customer engagement. The competition just wasn't responsive.

Implementing easy incident management tooling also saw the volume of incidents increase rapidly as teams started to notice and handle issues as actual incidents. While the metrics increase is bad on the face of it, actually addressing far more issues that were previously just ignored is fantastic, and had lead to increased stability through better incident and problem management.
Honestly, finding a brick-and-mortar store is getting harder these days. You might be lucky in a big city but I personally don't know anywhere with a good ramge and comparable pricing to online. Prices for microcontrollers is really good online.
In addition to the fact that password managers can be single points of failure for reasons other than credential loss, sometimes I need a password on a device where my password manager is not available (eg. a friend’s device).
It is! AFAIK you can have a bunch of relay servers effectively acting as load balancers. In the nineties / early 00s you had large IRC networks with many thousands of users chatting in real time with no issues.

Well, one known issue was a netsplit [1]. But it did work most of the time.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Netsplit
I was based in Denver Colorado, and years ago worked full time for an agency/consulting company. I got my one and only client through a contact I kept in touch with at that agency. After doing some work with that client I started traveling a bit. My hourly rate is lower then most others in the area but it is enough for for me since we don't spend much.
The vast, vast majority of money laundering and illicit financial activity happens within the confines of the traditional banking system. Why don’t we start with regulating that properly first?
Thank you for the feedback, we'll make some changes to the page.

Agree on those companies having technical talent and in fact a vast majority of our customers came to us with their own bot built out that resembles of our features. It really comes down to the age old question, build vs buy? The maintenance cost and feature enhancements for something owned in-house can be burdensome but I am obviously bias towards it.

We've seen it takes usually at least an engineer one whole quarter to standup the basics of nailing creating incidents right with some basic automation.

But the times customers decide building it themselves isn't worth it is often a) someone that owned it had left the company and b) its a big distraction from their core focus/ has become a full-time job to maintain.
I've done work in this industry. Negotiating wholesale contracts and contracts directly with manufactures as well as all the other middle men. In theory alone, Cuban's strategy should/could work. However, what I've seen is there is a market price equilibrium effect in place such than any middle man who is best positioned, will inflate the price towards that market price. So what will happen is, in a world where it's only the manufacturers and Cuban, the manufacturers will get to absorb all the profit of the current middlemen and Cuban keeps his 15% and the price to consumers remains. Or, continues upwards seeking that equilibrium point. For generics, there may be some competition and the market of manufacturers will naturally consolidate until the generic is only available from a single manufacturer. In many instances, this already occurs, the manufacturer has a Brand then when IP is open and competition imminent, they release the first Generic at a price that makes other manufactures hesitant to ramp up production thus maintaining a complete monopoly for that specific drug.

And then you realize this is simply how capitalism is designed to work. People in the business of healthcare always try to dream up these complicated business models and because the other complicated business models inflate prices and their new and better business model is going to save the world. It almost never happens or works. Capitalism and the set of basic economic laws win every time.

The only real solution I could dream up is to implement price control. Where the consumer's cost is some function of the manufacturer's cost. Where the function/regulators should discourage price gouging and encourage manufacturing efficiencies. Unnecessary costs like mass advertising campaigns should be banned and the R&D side of the business should be separated from the the sales side. I personally wish all the IP generated in medicine was somehow publicly owned; either through purchase, initial funding, or... IDK I just think it would benefit all by having the scientific side of medicine unrestrained from IP.

FWIW, I'm pro-capitalism but don't feel it should be universal. Healthcare deserves a universal approach with a goal of maximizing access and thus affordability. And, I say that having personally built a decent career on the business end of healthcare that would likely evaporate if healthcare was truly "fixed" and I would completely accept that fate for the greater good.
Anyone else thought this was super light on details? My only takeaway was that they replaced their edge HAProxy with a custom proxy to do more intelligent load-balancing across data centers. Feels like a lot of text to describe this.
Powerdvd.
Well it’s a trade-off that must be considered. The whole eurozone will have to tackle this issue as the number of retirees grows whilst the number of workers shrinks. The USA doesn’t have this problem so much. I don’t see how it can end without substantially higher taxes for anyone of working age.
That's a big bet... especially the 50% discount on payments in BTC!

>We will also start accepting Bitcoin payments for all of our services, with a 50% discount when paid in Bitcoin.

I'm pro BTC but that is a big bet!
UK passports don't have fingerprints. The only biometric data is depth information calculated from the photo you provide.
So Europe needs to start making supply factories, too.

With a fab, that's still difficult, but necessary.

Without a fab, however, that would have been deemed impossible and unrealistic.
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Maybe a shared undersea cable or landing point issue since it’s multiple
I think the argument here is that Apple is better in this area than Microsoft or Google, not that Apple is great.

Better than Microsoft or Google on privacy is not a high bar.
Just,… why? Even if you believe in Bitcoin, we currently do not live in a Bitcoin dominated world. Their only reasoning is that they believe Bitcoin will be the future and felt inspired by Saylor? That’s pretty weak.
Have only just started reading the article, but its really annoying that there are no hyperlinks to the referenced types/methods.

> See the debug_* methods on it.

Sure... please point me to them
Regolith Desktop 2.0
"Yeah but what about Iraq" is not a response to any of the evidence supplied on Russian crimes in Ukraine, it's a way for you to feel better about supporting the enemies of your enemy.

And you aren't fooling anyone.
That's not a technical problem though. Going to a bank and saying "my house burned down, here's an affidavit or a notarised document stating I am who I say I am" is fairly likely 5o get you access again.