skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don't care that they're selling. I do care, in this case, that they're selling to a company that will use this data for non-diagnostics and non-robot functionality. That's why I said it feels like having the rug pulled out from under me.

> What promises were made by iRoomba when you bought it about their intent (or not) to sell the company

https://homesupport.irobot.com/s/article/964

Pretty explicit ones about not selling a map of my house.

> How is this sale tangibly affecting you?

I already explained this, it's unclear why you're asking again.

> This feels like a gross overreaction that's typical of online statements to garner as much of a reaction from other readers as possible.

I mean, you didn't even bother reading up on the promises Roomba has made to end users, Amazon's fairly explicit rejection of in-home privacy, and you're scolding me for sounding reactive.

I didn't ask for the company not to be sold, I said I was disappointed. I didn't say "I'm throwing my device away", I asked if I can run it locally. How much more reserved do you want me to be?
Not only that, but this stuff doesn't need to be 100% effective for it to have massive consequences. If amazon can use data about people to swing 5% of votes, the vast majority of politicians would give them pretty much anything in their power.
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Firefox is doomed, which is a shame. I'll use its forks on Linux for as long as I can however.
because they actually have a lot of those weapons and an extremely unstable/poor state.
Where does this wizard’s money come from? I’ve read about his bikes many times in the past but this is the first time I’ve ever really stopped and thought about the price tags. “I rode around the country on a 1.2 million dollar computerized bicycle”, sheesh. Then he shifted to a couple of computerized yachts. His film/video digitizing setup discussed in this article is a mere $10k.

(Wikipedia is a dead end, his computer bike is wikinotable but he is not, so there’s nothing to see there about where this money might come from. Wealthy family? Wizardly levels of persuasion? Crime? I dunno.)
Someone just spent big money on it, and they're going to want to make that back. Advertising is the obvious way, so enjoy current Axios while you can.
I'm not so sure about this...I guess maybe there's some project specific stuff, but the good projects are semi stable and oftentimes it's just PyTorch code that you can pull and use elsewhere if needed.

Other people's infrastructure always seems bad to me, as I'm sure mine does to others. The cycle and circle of life! :D
All the talk about building a great "luck surface" is just an attempt to deny luck: something might seem like luck, but it's really part of an intentional strategy to maximize potential value!

For any given "luck surface" strategy, you can find far more people who haven't achieved massive success using it than those who have. Some strategies are probably better than others, but those are not foreseeable in advance.
Bill Bryson's "The Body" is really interesting and engaging. It tells lots of small science stories about how people have discovered how the human body works. Amusingly it repeatedly talks about how little we know about the body, and the flailing about with different theories or people just winging it :-D
That is a very widespread notion, but even though the StG 44 looks like the AK, the operating mechanism is inspired by the M1 Garand. Kalashnikov himself mentions the Garand as an inspiration: https://www.amazon.com/Kalashnikov-Arms-Edward-Clinton-Ezell...

You can see a comparison done by a popular AK builder/engineer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J4l33puWET0
And based on that outcome you feel optimistic here?
What we talk about when we talk about The Algo
> if we could completely eliminate the use of cars for the vast majority of the populace

I find this way of thinking unrealistic and paternalistic. It might work in an authoritarian society, or in a society where the alternative to car culture is appealing.

But, let's get very realistic for a moment. I telecommute, and my wife has an in-person job. I'd even go so far as to say that most jobs are like hers: in-person, because she isn't a knowledge worker.

We go to the grocery store. Even though it's a reasonable walk, we take our car because it's not reasonable to lug the groceries back home. It's also not reasonable to bring groceries onto public transport. (My boss, who doesn't drive, uses an Uber for grocery shopping.) An alternate way of living would need to figure this out.

Even though most of our trips are very close to home, we do about 18k miles a year. Our family (and many friends) do no live in town. We also prefer to travel by car. It's much easier when going on a family vacation compared to lugging kids and baggage through all kinds of trains and bus transfer.

And... Where we live is mildly rural. Regular bus routes, (or similar) don't make sense.
I had to dig out an old Pentium 4 Dell machine this weekend to work with some old hardware. 1 DIMM and a SCSI card had died in the 12 years it was powered off, but it worked just fine with 256MB of memory. Mostly as responsive as a modern machine, but you could tell when the 20 year old spinning drive had to chug a bit to load things. And I seem to still be able to navigate WinXP with no issues - no weather or ad widgets loading under my mouse cursor; it was actually a breath of fresh air. I'm not sure if that's nostalgia/familiarity or if it was really more useable.

I've also heard non tech people complain about how clear it is that each Windows version is just a shabby coat of paint over the last version and they wish Microsoft would just stop, so I don't think it's just me.

I have to imagine XP would fly on a current machine with multiple gigs of RAM and an SSD.
Monero is not a mixer as Tornado.
Definitely sounds like there was some bureaucracy in there.
I have a brilliant idea to address these privacy concerns. Make the bad thing like selling counterfeit oxy or whatever illegal, so that the bad thing is illegal rather than the money. Then we can make "money laundering" not a crime. If it's harder to catch criminals then tough shit, our privacy is worth it.
This doesn't answer OP's question. OP asks why projects link to the page showing who starred them, not what some tool named stargazers does or/and what data can be gathered from people that starred a project.

edit: Thinking about it, probably does. Basically someone will check the stargazers page to find what people that have starred a particular project are up to or what else they may have found. This may seen as a waste of time on projects with numerous stars but becomes really useful in small niche projects with low number of stars.
Agreed, as soon as I scrolled once and I noticed it I was gone.
That's true, RS232 has always been very forgiving at least if you use good drivers. Like the 16550.

I've had really bad experience with some MAX232 chips, especially the one that didn't need external capacitors (I forget the model number). Those tend to cause issues and blow up at the smallest wiring mistake.

I still use RS232 today, even for actual computing as I have an actual VT520 terminal <3 And I use it a lot in electronics projects where it is still very widespread.
Those US companies are free to not be on the EU market, just saying
What I hate about the current ML space…

You’re implying it isn’t like that for every language/framework. I’d love to know what you’re working in where the dependencies aren’t always a problem. Even Carmack has complained about this.
The catch with this is the resultant ANSI C specification is extremely hard to understand because it has to encompass all of that variation.
You don't need to do silly head movements. You could send the other person and email with a password, or a text, or a signal message or ask where you last had a drink together or...

If you are concerned that all methods of communications are compromised you wouldn't suddenly trust zoom if they do some silly head movement.
isn't the crux of the matter the all-reaching laws of the US that allows their intelligence agencies to order EU-subsidiaries of US companies to offer up their data..?
Ban USD.
There's been plenty of discussion here about Vice, Buzzfeed, Substack and all the other 'new media' startups.
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What the what?

You don't have to believe in the multiverse because the dimensions they are referring to are not physical dimensions. They are mathematically orthogonal spaces upon which brain structures operate.
I have two Chromecast Audio devices which similarly provide both analogue and optical digital outputs, but they seem to be much more expensive second hand than the Airplay alternative.
If you want the search that most people expect than yes.
Postgres tsheadline for highlights doesn't respect phrase searches.

Postgres tsvector positional limitations of 16383 create a lot of false positives as well for phrase searching.
It's always easy to say it's luck. But I don't think it is. You created opportunity. And that's the key thing. Create opportunities. As many as possible. I did something similar. Started with a dollar a day. Ended up with several thousands a day. The only thing I consider luck is the fact that a grew up in a stable family in a rich country where I got faced with computers at a very early age. I received enough time to explore my desires. Never felt any pressure or whatsoever. But the businesses I created where my own work.
One thing my publicist used to do was make listicles. It would have some competitors in first or fourth spot, myself in the 2nd or 3rd spot and then some other potential solutions.

The purpose wasn’t for engagement, it was just to modify search results and ping a few specific people’s google alerts, specifically the competitor.

One benefit is that the competitor would be intruiged that they were noticed at all, and be keen on being invited to an interview or seen on stage in a fireside chat at a conference, and the continued interaction meant more partnership and deals got done.

The point of all this being that you can collect more resources together. And it doesnt matter that any of our solutions didnt have product market fit. I periodically quizzed my co-founder “we’re still in the ‘make-money’ game, right” just to make sure.
If your lambdas are like 10ms total time and have a very low memory footprint, sure, I used settings that I felt were adequate for an average web service. But anyway, that kind of ok proves my point even more, because now you need a much higher rps to benefit from the discounted tiers.

>if handling 500 requests/minute really cost you $300/month, don't you think it would be far better to just provision a EC2 instance?

Yes, hence why I stated that very few customers IRL would benefit from this. If you're already doing $100,000k/mo on Lambda fees, for sure you can switch to better and much cheaper infra.
There are going to be high resolution cameras on them in no time, and people are going to love it.
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Cryptography to Cryptocurrency
Krugman has always struck me as a small-minded hack, but that’s my opinion and not based off of any objective measurement of his abilities or whatever-just his writing and insufferable, pompous commentary.
>> images turned sideways

Instead of pictures of faces, now they're just vertical lines.
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Looking for an informed opinion; what are the practical consequences for European companies using American cloud providers (which I guess is most of them) ?
Is accuracy even that big of a concern to most soldiers? If I'm attacking, sure. But if I'm in a defensive situation, I'd much rather prefer being able to fire anything than being able to fire accurately. Reliability trumps accuracy.
No bank is going to run such a system in house. It will be a contracted service whose data is one breach away from giving fraudsters a firehose of data to exploit their victims.
I managed to convince my last five employers to let me work a four day week or less. Usually, I asked for it during the interview and accepted the job offer where they said "yes". That will rule out some jobs, but overall I can recommend the approach, as long as you don't have trouble finding jobs even without that requirement.
Which, maybe an appropriately placed sticker can help determine. Note I said help. Whether the sticker is enforceable or not, it's an easy way for the manufacturer to know whether the user even accessed internals that aren't required for normal operation, streamlining some warranty cases.

TL;DR - invalidating because of sticker bad, using present sticker to fast track warranty cases good.
I've been thinking of starting a weekly newsletter covering more of the technical / questions / breakthroughs in biotech / techbio/ deep tech bio / hard tech bio / bioinformatics / computational bio/ etc/ rather than just the business concerns. Basically we'd do the technical news and have an interview series attached to it. Would that be of interest to you?
So many replies to this without a single person mentioning that cars are extremely dangerous and kill lots of people every year. However, over the past 40 years cars have gotten much safer and kill far fewer people. A lot of these safety improvements are structural, but also a lot of them are due to the fancy onboard computers which are doing traction control and blind spot monitoring and deciding which airbags to deploy and emergency braking and on and on.

When a person driving a automobile runs through a crosswalk and hits and kills an innocent child crossing the street with their bike, an accident that could and should have been avoided by automatic emergency braking, a great cost has been inflicting on society as a whole so a person could save $500 on their car.

The price of each individual car needs to be calibrated with the price to society of all the bad things cars do. And this isn't a hypothetical situation where cars might kills tens of thousands of drivers and thousands of pedestrians every year --- they already do. Mandating safer cars, even if this will increase manufacturing costs and bring up all these new data privacy issues, has a huge positive impact on the rest of the people that happen to share the world with those cars.
It is common and logical to criminalize both the crime and the facilitators of a crime. We don't let a getaway driver get off scot free from a bank robbery just because they weren't the ones pointing the gun inside of the bank. Money laundering is, by definition, money obtained from criminal activity.
I've never heard of Lustre.ai, I'm going to try it out, thanks for the tip.

Besides #2, I pretty much do the rest of these steps already and it has been helpful.
> That's some good insight porn right there!

...and yet, all poor people know it by heart (unless they were born into a rich family that has just fallen from grace), , because it's totally true.

For more good insight: wealthy families know a lot more about how to make money when you have some money. Poor families know a lot more about avoiding the risk of being totally broke from an unlucky event, because they know they'd be totally unable to recover from it (not having the safety net of education and wealthy contacts that the upper-middle class have even when they go broke).
That isn't Gitlab saying those are the requirements for being "open-source", it's just their requirements for who they are willing to give a generously large amount of free services to.

I think it's quite fair to say you're not going to give free services out to open source projects that are seeking to fundraise beyond covering their costs.
How hard is it for a React.js developer to find a new job elsewhere?

If Facebook is 100% evil, then it behooves the workers to work for a less evil company, at a minimum. Of course, Facebook itself isn't 100% evil so things break down in your example.

If you're a React.js developer and you're worried about internet privacy, intrusive ad-tech being used to track people (etc. etc.), then maybe... just maybe... you should find something else to work on in a company that matches your ethics better.
Any true blockchain (Satoshi style) MUST have a token of value. Thats a huge part of Satoshi's innovation! The miners need to be "paid" in a token native to the blockchain, which is what drives the validation mechanism.

Anything else is just an append only Merkle tree, which has found used for 50 years
>> It's telling that I've never felt comfortable trusting Monzo with my salary, because it always feels like it'll fold any moment

Can you elaborate more on this, the fold part?

>> from the old brick and mortar bank

Which such bank/s you recommend?

PS: I have been in UK for quite a few years now and only use Monzo.

Edit: typo and query
Over time, the drift between the past print encyclopedias and present digital ones will itself be informative.
No?

This is the obvious outcome of the US government’s repeated and explicit statement that non-US residents do not have any due process rights and thus no warrant requirements, followed by - when companies tried to compensate for this abuse by creating subsidiaries in the EU - stating that the US government also had access to all subsidiaries data, again with no due process protections.

What did the US government think would happen when they made it clear that no US company could provide due process protections for any EU data that they possessed?

This has nothing to do with the “IP theft”, but rather the inability of US companies to comply with universally applicable EU law.
That other front-page article about "insight porn" was referring exactly to this clickbait.

> 3 Tricks on how to get it done! 1. just do it 2. just do it messy 3. just do it small
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People who don't benefit from good genes are already the underclass today
Well, for better or for worse, $500mm wouldn't even be worth mentioning as a tech exit (unless it came as a fire sale after a unicorn fundraising round).
Dlp normally doesn't break.

Not sure how you were able to do so.
TLDR I know how to use latex and took calc 2, I want to look smart on the internet.
fwiw i found you can misspell words to get around the filters, e.g. try something like Dnoland Tmrump and see if it works
Never had an issue running a random java project, for instance. Either because people package all dependencies. Or because maven, while not popular, mostly just works.

Of course, ML is a bit different in that it often needs more drivers/gpu setup. But there are loads of ecosystems that don't assume you have package X installed on your system, like python's does.
Single point of failure: only one centre. Fire, flooding, earthquake or non-natural disaster would cause problems for all mail delivery throughout the US.
> The downside to these cards’ safe design is that the use of these cards doesn’t generate repayment data that is all that useful for lenders

Oh no! Anyway[1]... :)

But on a serious note, personally I'm glad that those fintech pseudo credit card products exist. I would be happy to be able to just pay with my normal bank / debit card everywhere on the web. I can't, not even with a third-party like PayPal, but I can with a virtual fintech "credit card", without needing a "real" credit card.

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9S8eNZ4fw5I
I don't think the GP or Willink himself has ever suggested it's a new idea. Stoicism and that military Willink/Goggins/etc type of motivation go hand in hand.
This is another version of the "guns don't kill people, people do" argument.

Even without any driving assistance, people will go in their their phones and have lapses of attention.

The data shows that people are more irresponsible with the autopilot technology. Does this fault fall on the drivers or manufacturer.
Clippy
You wrote “temporary”. Did you mean “transient”?
>Nothing is stopping apple from rug pulling the project next cycle.

Why would they do that?
As others have pointed outed, Microsoft, Intel, Nvidia, etc. are indeed pulling the rug out on the other side (in the name of security).
Locking the Mac down 100% would have zero benefit to Apple and just generate negativity.
>my career is mostly founded on a series of coincidences and lucky breaks

I think you'll find that's true of a lot of people. Yes, there are people who graduate from a mid-tier school in engineering, go to some large company, work their way up the career ladder, maybe switch to one of two other big companies over time doing more or less the same thing, are reasonable happy and healthy in their personal life, etc. But a lot of people have much more circuitous routes that include barely navigating some difficult situations.
Sort of proving my point since that page you linked states that non-us born people were more likely to be functionally illiterate in English. Makes sense since they would not have gone through 18 years of US schooling in English, but may be literate in their native language.

Many countries have literacy rates near 100%. The European country I am in now has a 99% literacy rate.
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I certainly expect them to be driving the phone they are developing for - in the case where a single team is doing both iOS and Android - yes, I expect them to be using both consistently (and I argue for issuing both at companies where I've led mobile teams).

I've been down the whole "we'll just test it in a vm" path, and it works... if by works you mean you get a happy path test every once in a while, and devs make sure the automated tests pass.

It doesn't instill the same level of care and attention that daily use gives. Dog-fooding is not a joke. It's genuinely hard to make a decent UI for a platform if you're not using that UI often, and in real situations.

I've literally gone as far as making devs switch device personas over time on my mobile teams. They get an assigned device from our test pool for the sprint from a list like

- High end stock android device with large screen

- High end stock android device with small screen

- High end Samsung ROM device with large screen

- High end Samsung ROM device with small screen

- Mid tier stock android device with large screen

- Mid tier stock android device with small screen

- Mid tier Samsung ROM device with large screen

etc... down to the devices no dev wants at all, like

- Amazon Kindle Fire default

- Amazon Kindle Fire kids

and they do all their dev/testing/use on it.

It works fucking wonders in suddenly making them care about things that were previously just "meh" problems. Two weeks stewing in their own problems on a device they were ignoring is one hell of an incentive.