skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Likely the same as currently established means of delivery. Insurance.
>It requires above average: [...]

Literally all those traits you listed are needed as an EE(and in many other white collar and blue collar professions too) plus add even more scary stuff like advanced math (for PID tuning, system signal processing, system modelling and simulation, etc.), but for way less pay that even a kid making iOS apps who hasn't passed highschool math can out-earn you. So how is that fair? My example was a slight exaggeration, though I bet there are plenty of mobile app kiddies making more than EEs.

My point is not that SW devs and app kiddies are overpaid, but that in comparison to them, pretty much any other career is massively underpaid, even the related ones like EE, since the barrier of entry is higher and the pay is lower.

To wit, there was a highly popular and controversial topic on my country's subreddit where a youngster was asking half snarky, half serious: "What's the point of going to school, when I make 65k/year as a self taught web-dev without needing any of the useless knowledge I had to learn in school, while the people who go into professions where they actually do need that knowledge from school for their career (engineering, medical, farming, chemistry, nursing, etc.) can end up earning less than me, a school dropout and mediocre webdev?"
Like any normal person, I've given considerable thought to what I would do if I were sent back in time to the 1630s (without an entire town including functioning coal power plant).

Making ice cream seems like a good way to get your initial social capital. Like, before you can embark on your hygiene and gem theory programs, and to raise capital for your experiments to create a steam engine, you can bring modern-ish ice cream to whatever town you end up in.
I see the problem if the monoculture is dominated by for profit big tech corpos
That's a false dichtomy. At any bitrate Netflix chooses to stream at, this technique could improve perceived quality. Meanwhile blurays also use codecs with similar advanced reconstructive techniques - even with the higher bitrate they are essential to maintain a high perceived quality.
Is there some reason a person could not build multiple iterations with small differences and train them all, then send the best to QA? Does QA have to approve every piece of experimental code?
The goal is to quickly and efficiently conduct heat from the DRAM (A) to the outside world (B). You could generate a little power from the temperature difference between A and B, but that would greatly reduce the effectiveness of the heat transfer. Perhaps that generated power could cool something else, but you'd waste power (and generate heat) in the process. Net loss.
In other cases - yes. In this one - not necessarily. The content itself is hosted on a different domain and for a good reason. Most importantly though, they don't need another cookie to track you: you are already there, they know who you are, they know you already requested a resource, and they can track you over all Google services and many others anyway. They don't need to use a dirty trick to send you an additional cookie although the very fact that we're having the discussion means Firefox made a good decision and hopefully people will notice this pattern more.
> it doesn't seem like they are doing anything uniquely untoward.

I think it's best to assume if it can be used against you, it will.

That's why we pushed back on Apple's CSAM plans to scan images on the device.

Does anyone remember how we even know TikTok is tracking keystrokes? It's because Apple updated their security to notify users when the clipboard was activated by the app, and TikTok was doing it for every keystroke.
The Blue Zones book shows that people in all times where able to eat healthy. You are commenting on a post about this book.

Toxins are bad. But all research has shown that persistent toxins are much more common in animal products than in plant foods. In some German research they found glyphosate concentrations were lowest in vegetarians and vegans.
Unfortunately that approach pretty easily ends up in a territory where you can't do anything interesting with your phone, either, because it's all too dangerous.
Well, this is only my humble opinion, but what I see here is a pretty low-tech (and thus rather easy to build) way to produce free energy. Which means 0 pollution (once it is built), which to my knowledge doesn't exist elsewhere in this manner.

I don't see "arbitrary (relativistic?) velocities" as you say. There must be mechanical limits to the speed of the rotation here. What is unlimited is the duration that the engine spins.

When you say "weaponization of this technology could potentially threaten all life on earth", I actually think of nuclear energy, as in the one we have right now.
> if you did not see yourself in such a position then it would probably be unnecessary for you to act with such childish hostility

I think OP is aware of this? The US is better to be beholden to than Russia or China, but ideally the EU would be the union it claims to be instead of a bunch of bickering city-states.

I resent that too. I think the US is objectively a worse country, but somehow, everything useful to the world happens there. I’m just sad that such an exploitative way of living is what apparently drives progress.
Bluetooth stays enabled on iOS in airplane mode. You have to disable Bluetooth separately.
Small customized souvenirs for local tourist attractions or shops.

Ask in nearby townhalls if they would like some souvenirs for visiting important guests, some commemorative stuff for various contests.

Ask local hardware shop owners if they have ideas for custom brackets or some parts that could be easily machined but are unreasonably expensive.

Ask nearby sawmill owner if they need anything machined, typically they have requests from clients for some simple parts but don't have resources to have own people manning cnc's. Typically they will have requests for wooden or metal ornaments or curved parts of wooden windows, maybe artistic cabinet doors or house doors.

Wooden and metal signs for various shops.
There was some research into modifying old AMD microcode when they didn't enforce signing. https://hackaday.com/2017/12/28/34c3-hacking-into-a-cpus-mic...

Nothing of that level on Intel so far.
No.

This is too simplistic. All systems of government are not equal. It’s disingenuous to claim otherwise.
We don't perform the zip push manually, we use the AzureFunctionApp pipeline task. What that uses under the hood, I can't tell.

- task: AzureFunctionApp@1
inputs:
appType: functionApp
deploymentMethod: runFromPackage

This task always succeeds. Whether that is because it's using the async API and ignoring the status url or because of different reasons is beyond my control. All I can tell is that with regular occurrence, the wwwroot will contain the file 'FAILED TO INITIALIZE RUN FROM PACKAGE.txt' instead of the actual deployed code (web.config will show "503 Site Unavailable: Could not download zip").

Our retry code repeats the same push using Publish-AzWebApp, which is sync FAFAIK (and regularly fails the same way as the pipeline task). We don't use AZ CLI at all. As long as Microsoft keeps updating both the CLI and Powershell modules, we expect them both to be equally supported.
For messaging, Matrix has solved almost all of the problems you're claiming are insurmountable. Key management can be assisted with m out of n type secret sharing, or we just treat people like responsible adults, and if they lose their keys, then tough, those messages are gone now.

For loopholes, the solution is to just not believe the bullshit. Have a very high standard of evidence required and/or require fully informing the user of exactly what is stored, where it is stored, who can access it, and publicly sharing all code that touches it.

It's been proven over and over again that the current model does not work and that the people in charge are narcassistic children who cannot be trusted and lie constantly.

The GDPR is a half measure designed as much around enabling surveillance as safeguarding privacy. Anonymisation is a blatant lie. 'Innovation' is just a codeword for doing the same things we did before but worse.
1,3,4 are all fine but 2 ? really ? As far back as the 1970s Codd was already screaming at anybody who would listen not to roll your own persistence.

I can see the appeal: text files are forever! read and write as simple strings!. But what do you do when you want to search ? whip up a regex or a for loop ? can you see how this will get unimaginably nasty with any remotely complex query, you will end up implementing a buggy, slow and informal subset of SQL without realizing it. Or, what if the data has constraints in it, like uniqueness of a particular column value across all rows, or other complex constraints, or types. Text files can't help you. Hell, if you aren't careful with charsets text files produced on 1 OS turn out to be garbage on another.

Maybe use text files as a conceptual\prototyping tool to imagine the persistent form of your data structures, or as a dump of the database for backup. That's reasonable.
Around 2019, a lot of kubernetes distributions started popping up. They often bundle various open source solutions into one platform/PaaS and sell it to the end users. I wonder,

- What are the consequences for these companies?

- Do they share revenue with the open source projects?

- Can they simply distribute these services without any consequences?

- If not, When and How does a small open source project org enforce track and their license?
This is not a constructive contribution and is addressed in the HN Guidelines:

> Please don't comment about the voting on comments. It never does any good, and it makes boring reading
Then the mail is in the sea.
I would not consider LI to be a place to make "new" friends. I consider it a place to help tell people, who already know who I am, from elsewhere, more about myself.

In my case, doing nonprofit/volunteer work has been a great place to make new friends (and the occasional enemy).
I've been in multiple communities under a fake name. Every birthdate I entered online is always 01-01-1970. I don't think you were being rebellious, you were the complete opposite!

I've met people IRL from Finland, Lebanon, South Africa, basically all over the world, who I met online. Sometimes I would introduce my real name only when we met IRL.

Not using my real name has not held me back from meeting new people, online or IRL.
For the record, opensource licenses are generally fairly understandable.
> all highly available fruits and vegetables are so identical piece-wise that their semi-synthetic origin isn’t even a question to me

I dont undertstand this.

> but have no idea where to start with plants

I'm willing to help, please send me a message (hncies@altmails.com).
The Invention of Individual Responsibility
I was canoeing in Minnesota two weeks ago as part of a Boy Scout camp and they offered a patch if we came back with several readings. The boys were interested and looked forward to taking the measurements.

Didn't realize the device was named after someone, we were told it was an acronym and the name morphed a bit to sound like a "sucky" disk.
There are NGOs that report on civilian welfare in war zones, such as Amnesty International and the Red Cross. Has no reputable agency investigated Bucha yet?
>Reddit Premium, which not only grants me 700 "reddit coins" per month (can be used to purchase awards, etc.),

Fake money to buy fake awards for people online? Eh, if you like it I guess

> but access to the r/lounge VIP space

That place is insufferable. Worst kinds of nerd in there.

>removes all advertisements from my Reddit experience; worth every penny.

This should only be an issue if you're using Reddit without an ad blocker on PC, or using the official app surely? Both of which are pretty insane
How to report scam texts and mobile calls to 7726 [in the UK]
>But I don't think a few drones will change that.

I don't expect many people will begrudge the occasional urgent medical delivery. What a lot of people don't want is the sky full of buzzing hardware delivering takeout burgers.
Anything food related at least in the US is incredibly difficult. Things like needing an alcohol license to sell kombucha and having to go to an industrial kitchen to even qualify to sell it.
Life is largely zero-sum.
CP/M is now Open Source
> Remember folks, arbitrary censorship is a clear violation of human rights!

There are a lot of "human rights activists" who strongly disagree.

Arbitrary censorship is ok as long as i do it. When somebody else is doing it is not ok.
We live in a world of double standards and this is not good.
I've faced this problem in the past and it is really annoying. One of the many reasons why I dislike this service and try to avoid it as much as possible.
Very few non-Apple printers spoke Postscript, certainly at the beginning of the laser printer era. It was an extra cost option available for some printers, which was only bought by people using Apple or the few Unix freaks. And presumably Don Lancaster.
Generally agree, except that if you look at statistics, you’ll find that work in US military isn’t particularly dangerous. US never fights against enemy that’s actually dangerous.
> I realized that aiming productivity tools at projects were not helping me. Instead, I aim to build habits.

What about productivity tools that help you develop and maintain habits?
In the former EU country of UK this is totally abused. I believe a vehicle can be capable of exceeding these limits, so long as they are enabled while on roads. So you can have a powerful ebike so long as there is a switch that makes it less powerful, and you switch it on while riding eg on a bike path.

Lots of people seem to ride with it disabled though, confident that if the police catch them, they just push the switch and pretend it was on.

This stems, AFAICT, from mobility scooters for the disabled. On pavements they have to be limited to 4mph for pedestrian safety, but on roads it is probably in fact safer to ride faster, which they do. Hence a flippable speed limiter.
Drone delivery itself isn't vaporware, and will almost certainly happen. However, the title referring to "the biggest drone superhighway" is the kind of BS the current UK government likes to put out. I am surprised it isn't sold as some kind of direct benefit of Brexit. If you read the article, it is about a small amount of funding to scale up trial drone delivery. As the article implies a lot more research and investment is needed to scale up drone deliveries to an industrial scale, beyond isolated success stories.
3D printing for vintage cars. But you sorta need to be embedded in it to know what’s needed.
The microcode is a sequence of fixed-length microinstructions.

Each microinstruction is composed of many bit fields, which contain operation codes, immediate constants or register addresses.

The format of the microinstruction is changed at each CPU generation, so, for example, the microinstructions for Skylake, Tiger Lake, Gemini Lake or Apollo Lake have different formats.

Therefore, someone who discovers the microinstuction format for one of them has to repeat all the work in order to obtain the format for another CPU generation.

In the presentation from

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1nJeV0Uq0M

the authors show the microinstruction format for Apollo Lake, which is a kind of VLIW (very long instruction word) format, encoding 3 simultaneous micro-operations, each of which can contain three 6-bit register addresses and a 13-bit immediate constant.

For Apollo Lake, the microinstruction encoding is somewhat similar to the encoding of an instruction bundle (containing 3 instructions) in the Intel Itanium processors.

It is likely that in the mainstream Intel Core or Xeon CPUs the micro-instruction format is significantly more complex than this.

The team which reverse-engineered the microinstruction format was able to do this because they have exploited a bug in the Intel Management Engine for Apollo Lake/Gemini Lake/Denverton to switch the CPU into a mode in which it allows JTAG debugging.

Using JTAG they could read the bits from some internal busses and from the microcode memory. The bits read were intially meaningless, but by executing many test programs and comparing what the CPU does, with the bits read at the same time via JTAG, they eventually succeeded to guess the meaning of the bits.

For most Intel CPUs, there is no chance to switch them into the debugging mode, unless you receive a secret password from an Intel employee (which probably is within the means of some 3-letter agencies).

Once switched into the debugging mode, it is possible to do things as complex as making the CPU to replace the normal execution of a certain instruction with the execution of an entire executable file hidden inside the microcode update (and you can also update the microcode directly, bypassing the normal signature verification step).

However, for most motherboards, it is likely that switching to the debugging mode also requires physical access to change the connection of some pin, not only the secret password, though exceptions are known, where the MB manufacturers have forgotten to disable the debugging mode on the PCB.
I did a degree in Electrcial Engineering, as in volts and amps, as opposed to Electronics Engineering (or Communications, Computer and various other discplines of EE offered).

I now do design related to power, instruments, electrical, controls, equipment design for explosive atmospheres, thermodynamics (steam), lighting, functional safety etc etc - which also means I do networking, software architecture and programming (mostly industrial controllers, but also tools for my own use) and pretty well anything with a wire.

To get to the point where you are designing real stuff, stuff the public might interact with and mis-use or have it harm them, without very tight direction and supervision is:

4 years degree
3 years graduate engineer
3 years junior enginner

and then you are just an engineer, so thats 10 years, same time to become a specialist doctor and easily as difficult to do well.

After that there is senior, lead and then principal engineer. Many peopoe never go past senior in their lives, lead and principal take qualities that start becoming all about personality as much as technical abilities, though a real talent in either direction may well rise.

It's a lot of work, the turnover annually of knowledge is one of the highest there is, based on rule of 72 wiith 6% new or updated knowledge to acquire each year just to stand still without developing means 100% in 12 years, in a full careeer thats the equivelent of 3-4 degrees worth of learning, often totally new concepts, that might need to be made during the working life of an engineer.

In order to do this it probably means you spend a certain amount of your "free time" on related interests, eg ham radio, recreational computing, side projects whatever.

It's reasonably well paid, but in order to really be good at it you don't do it for the money, you do it because you like it, it is calling. You would probably do it for free if they had good work and you were fed and housed comfortably. If that is not the case, then maybe it is not for you.

First year EE graduates are looking at around 90k starting, 30 odd percent start at over 100k according to our local university.

Mining engineering graduates might be looking at 120-150k first year out )remote or fly in fly out) right now, they are being wined and dined by prospective employers starting in first year of studying undergraduate!!!

So it's still probably underpaid though, even though at the twenty year mark EE might stretch to 200-250k pa, more in high cost centres or particular circumstances. but the span of knowledge required and responsibility is very high.

As they say, most doctors only kill one patient at a time (and then bury them), engineers can kill a whole heap of people all at once...
You can want to be the best and want everyone to succeed.

You accidentally revealed your own zero-sum thinking in associating “top player” with putting other people down.
Entirely fine and not even censorship when it is private companies doing it. They are free to silence whomever they want...
The majority of what people want, because people will expect to be able to explain what they want, and that is speaking to a uncomprehending wall. Lacking comprehension is incredibly fundamental.

For example: you question I am answering, that act of answering your question requires comprehension of your question. Lacking comprehension, only a lookup of canned answers to expected questions is possible.
How is the AGPL not welcoming?[1]

[1] https://drewdevault.com/2020/07/27/Anti-AGPL-propaganda.html
Because that wealth isn't useful to individuals who are far away from accessing it, and that access / wealth can still change as they approach the age of access. Additionally, the idea of "start low end high" is being questioned by many individuals who would rather have a more flat curve while starting higher initially.

GP even mentioned the reason in their post.
Why WebAssembly belongs outside the browser
Wonder if GP would also support a repressive regime to remain 'among top dogs' in case democracy were toppled in own country (which is not unthinkable).
> Ankhi Das, Facebook’s most senior executive in India, resigned in October 2020 after the Wall Street Journal reported she had intervened to prevent the platform removing accounts of members of the country’s Hindu nationalist ruling party, some of whom had called for violence against India’s Muslim minority.

I am not sure it is Facebook’s place to be policing members of the government of the largest democracy in the world.
Yes and no: one thing I totally forgot to mention is phishing.
You don't want to give any semblance of endorsement to user-generated contents: many viewers will check only the main domain, due to how browsers' URL bars hide stuff.

Having a total different domain help highlighting that it is not official content.
Why would there be mechanical limits to how fast a flywheel can spin? If the wheel is suspended, say, in a frictionless magnetic harness, there should be no limit to how far it can be spun up. Thus, a single device should be capable of cracking the Earth's crust and ending all life on Earth, without the expense and engineering necessary for fusion weaponry. I don't believe you've thought through the dangers here.

> When you say "weaponization of this technology could potentially threaten all life on earth", I actually think of nuclear energy, as in the one we have right now.

The difference is that nuclear engineering is expensive and difficult. Magnets are cheap and ubiquitous. A nuclear reaction can continue only so long as there's fuel. Infinite free energy is, well... Infinite.
Exit nodes are the interface between Tor and the "clearnet" (regular internet), whereas relays just relay traffic between Tor nodes (to make it harder to trace the route). So there wouldn't be any Tor traffic from this person's IP going to websites.

Presumably most folks neither know or care about this distinction and just block all Tor related infrastructure outright, since some of the traffic coming through is malicious.
I suppose helicopter pilots are a bit hard to come by also
New kind of transport/sports devices.
Solutions that require increased complexity don't survive in the long run. I remember in the early '70s when my parents bought a new station wagon. This was right when the EPA was cracking down on emissions, and the manufacturers had to jump quick to compensate. Raise the hood on that thing, and you were greeted with a mass of hoses, pipes and components.

Since then, lots and lots of work has gone into making clean engines simpler. Open the hood of a gas-powered car these days and you'll find relative simplicity.
The CNCF maintains a list of closed and opensource container-friendly storage backends: https://landscape.cncf.io/card-mode?category=cloud-native-st...