skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Commercial software owes me nothing either.

So, to understand it, I should know what CVBS is and click on links to other projects. Which I did:

Apparently LD-Decode is a Software defined LaserDisc decoder. Great. It also buries its basic purpose in further links.

As for Domesday86 Project, its About page is about project members, privacy policy and general disclaimers. And it's just weird that you think "The BBC Domesday Project was a partnership between Acorn Computers, Philips, Logica, and the BBC to mark the 900th anniversary of the original Domesday Book, an 11th-century census of England. It has been cited as an example of digital obsolescence on account of the physical medium used for data storage." is a good description of whatever it is.

I have an electronics degree and I struggled to get this basic info, so imagine how bewildering this would be to a less technical audience. It doesn't need to be this way. OSS can do so much for people, if only the slightest effort can be made to let them in and indulge their curiosity.

Also, before you respond with an explanation of why jargon is good, consider the reason you didn't boot up your computer with a careful sequence of toggle switch positions, is because someone before you was kind enough to make the technology accessible, even to snarky YC commenters.
That is a tough question if the doctors were simply carrying out government policy. I hope the investigation shows how much of this was policy as intended or over zealous doctors behaving illegally.

If legal, where does the buck stop? With doctors? With politicians? With the general public?
Two nouveau riches run into each other shopping on the Fifth.

- Look at this, got me this tie for $1000

- Hah what a dummy you are, they sell them for 1200 two blocks away!
Suggestions for a microcontroller, motor, camera and image recognition project?
Hi.

I've no experience working with microcontrollers, but would like to get some by building a project I have in mind. It would require a motor to push or rotate an object, a basic camera to take a picture, and a simple image recognition program to determine the outcome. The system would also need Internet access, preferably via Wi-Fi.

I know I could start by trying out different options, but thought it would be useful to ask for suggestions first.

Which microcontroller or board do you think would be a good choice? I guess building a custom board would be a bit too much, so I'm considering Arduino (Uno WiFi REV2?) and Raspberry Pi (Zero 2 W?). I feel that with Arduino I would get more low-level exposure and would also need to do image recognition in the cloud, while with Raspberry Pi the work would be somewhat easier and image recognition could be run locally. Does that make sense? What would you recommend?

Do you have any suggestions for the camera component? Monochrome low-res photos would suffice. What about motors? What characteristics should I take into consideration?

Also, I'm planning to use TinyGo for programming, but can see that MicroPython is popular as well. Are there any important things to consider when choosing between the two or is it basically a matter of preference?

Thank you very much.
I love mondegreens.

In high school, one of my best friends grew up thinking the song was "secret asian man"
The fact that the USPS is currently operating at a loss has a lot to do with a bill that passed in 2006 requiring them to prepay their employee benefits including pensions 50 years in advance.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postal_Accountability_and_En...
Evidence of a wonderfully comfortable life. We should all hope to have horrible experiences that are that inconsequential!
The better the tech, the better it can be used for good as well as evil purposes such as deception/scams, disinformation, mass surveillance, election manipulation, etc.

It's not the tech that's wrong, it's the populace in democratic states losing more and more power, to the point where most of these systems can only be described as hybrid regimes anymore. The actual power does not lie with the voters but corporations, the mega wealthy, their various lobby groups and corrupt politicians. There is no monopoly of power exercised by elected officials and law enforcement respecting the constitutions, it's different groups and fractions fighting each other for supremacy. AI is just another tool at their disposal, of course they're making use of it.

Guns can be used for protection as well as oppression. The internet can be about free information or about censorship and spying on users. We can live in digital Maoism or digital liberalism. It's up to the common people and for them to realize this before it's too late.
so creating each new rev of GPT3 would involve going through something like all those messy steps in that logbook?
My personal opinion is that if you are aiming to be a good developer you should be reading more and NOT listening to podcasts.

Guests on podcasts are typically there because of whatever is trending and are frequently overrun with self promoters. Has anyone managed to get Fabrice Bellard on a podcast? No, but Uncle Bob will be ever ready to show up.
So tether is next?
We all know they don’t have the capital backing they claim they have. What will precipitate the collapse and when will it happen?
FIFA awarding the World Cup to Qatar now appears to be quite prescient.
An Interview with Nicolas Rougier, Creator of Nano Emacs
Germany export to France is an uninteresting information without context. Due to the energy mix the energy is exported in production peaks when it is cheap (sometimes prices are negative) and imported back when there is shortage for higher prices. Also the whole flow network needs to be taken into account and germany imports also from other countries.

You can’t currently build a reliable electric grid with wind and solar alone so you need either nuclear or fossil fuels.
Article is dated 10/8/19.
Reading my earlier comment, it's too black and white. It'd be another straw. Is it the one that breaks the back? I have no idea. But I don't think it's wise to start nationalizing companies.

If trust in foreign currency holdings declines (say, if we decide to unilaterally cancel other countries' holdings in our currency when we want to punish them), then I'd assume that creditor nations would start looking at replacing some or all of their US treasuries holdings with real assets that carry less counterparty risk. If we start nationalizing onshored assets, then the field of suitable assets starts narrowing a whole lot to portable things like commodities.

We should work very hard to maintain a reputation as a trustworthy counterparty if we want to be able to continue running large deficits.
This is an interesting frame, to me. Like consulting an oracle; the priesthood must know how to ask the right question, to ensure accurate and irony-free prophecy.

Seems to me to be part of some kind of duality in models of epistemology; knowledge construction, vs. knowledge discovery through "search" of the hypothesis space?
Can you give some examples of "things which do not work"? Seeing how as I've been using Linux for close to 30 years and have it running on loads of different types of hardware with more or less everything working - yes even Bluetooth - I'm always somewhat surprised by these problems which fail to haunt me.
Replication is a huge issue, but I've been wondering lately about refusal to publish.

Even if all of the published papers were peer reviewed and replicated, there's a lot of science that never sees the light of day.

Even non-results are important - if not glamourous, and (even worse) publishing is disincentivised if the results go against what the funders wanted or expected.
The arxiv article covers that.

If the neutrinos are majorana then they are their own antiparticle so they don't interact with Higgs field. And with the lightest left handed neutrino massless then through the "seesaw mechanism" you can wind up with an exceptionally heavy right handed majorana neutrino, and by cosmology the mass needs to be around 4.8×10^8 GeV.
Ask HN: Is there a structure for startups where you can have 50 founders?
There is an enormous opportunity where lot of people could give small amount of time, network or money to make lots of ideas come to life. But right now it doesn't happen because of concerns:

- distrust, how would I know I'm awarded fairly? who decides that? lets say I worked on something I was good at, i.e. I made a logo or I designed database schema. how much should I get?

- accountability, this company gave 50 people its shares, where are they now? are they just vesting? why should I bother with that baggage? is there mechanism to dilute inactive participants? how much? who decides that?

- fair accounting

it's a legal challenge but also more of a logistic challenge.

Imagine if there was crowd/democratic way to build companies:

- people can join and leave

- people shouldn't be able to game or take over the equity grants

- people should be awarded appropriately

- system should be able independently track cost and revenue

I wish it could be done in a non-centralized way but I think there is no avoiding it, unless some legal framework is created by the govt, an entity/org that will work for very broke startups too.

I dont know the right answer but here is what I propose:

Create a non-profit org who maintains and runs the system. Least involvement the better.

- anyone can start a project/company at this org.

- first person(s) create list of roles, they interview all of them and vet.

- once they have vetted and gotten 12 people interested, the org issues in-game currency of 1 million

- this 1 million gets divided to all 12 people equally

- lets say someone is working FT on project and requests higher %, they can propose dilution of others and 70% equity holders must agree.

- there is a task nobody knows how to do they create a public request, and people get paid in game currency and gain equity.

- if one day company starts generating money, the non-profit takes the revenue, distribute it according to equity.

- if company incurs loses then non-profit waits for the company to cover it

- company decides to sell shares/currency, remember it's 1:1, so they say we are selling $10k worth of equity/currency. And that gets deposited to company's bank.

ISSUES:

- how to address problem of formerly active members/shareholders...

-- Maybe if someone was involved before company had revenue they get privileges that people who contributed after revenue don't.

-- You can't track this with GIT commits or something, what about someone sharing the site to their 5M twitter followers, that's immense value.

-- What about senior founders abusing system as a gang?

This can't work unless the system takes care of things automatically, acting as a third person is just asking for trouble.

I think open source and MLM are inspiration for this model. MLM gets an army of people to work for common goal, although it's a scam.
It also causes problems. Now I have to worry about multiple processes instead of just one, and I need to upgrade it separately and test them both together.
It’s high quality software that is being pushed well past its intended use case. Maybe it will work out fine but rqlite is taking something designed as an on disk file format for one program and trying to use it as a network distributed concurrent database system. It would be surprising if they didn’t expose bugs in SQLite.

There are database systems that have been around for many years built from the ground up for this use case.
Super interesting given the purposeful differences between Fossil & Git.

https://www.fossil-scm.org/home/doc/trunk/www/fossil-v-git.w...
I actually kind of like that idea, but I can also see it quickly devolving into people arguing about if their responses are really equivalent to the AI comments. It's like marking SO questions as duplicate.
> None of that justifies claiming the cost is due to gravity.

Where do you suppose the need for so much energy comes from?
Solar wind blows it away.
Going to pwn2own is probably a good way to make sure the NSA closely follows you...
Serial experiments lain tribute (sound)
How much of the Office Suite market do they have though?
Both. One thing most people discount is how much better materials science has gotten since the 60s/70s. We now understand the limitations and constraints of the materials we are working with much better and can design in a cost-optimized fashion for a targeted life span. Computers aid this a lot with techniques like Finite Element Analysis (FEA) and similar.

Things in the past were greatly overbuilt for their purpose because we didn’t fully understand the material properties. We now have a lot of lighter, thinner, more functional products and in a cost-optimized way.
> I found a bug in SQLite

Well, good thing it wasn't a bug in the C compiler you were building sqlite with... even those can come up occasionally.
Can you use music.apple.com under chrome on mint?
I'd say HN should prefer the URL that fits its readers best. Which in this case means paywalled URLs should be replaced with the available workarounds for that problem, ie URLs through that archive.ph.
Because the Amish are a Christian organization that’s been around for over a hundred years.

Also, you still have to give up all your family and friends and live by strict Christian values. Not everyone’s cup of tea, especially if one happens to be different in some way.
I'm saying this after 20 years using C++, from AT&T CFront onwards, all the GotW, years of Boost posts, every Modern, Effective and Exceptional book read.
I've loved C++, but now it is complex even with my experience.
I think the a sound in ba and da just isn't included in the list.
I’ve been tempted to dig out my minidisc recording deck and player from storage, and use them for to add a bit of friction for more constrained listening. I’m probably projecting other problems onto music streaming services, but I often shut down with the endless choices and frustratingly flippant auto-generated playlists. Of course I can, and do, curate playlists for specific moods and tasks, but I also seem to lack self-control these days to not jump to another music tangent without getting lost from my original intent.

The nostalgia/quaintness of burning/updating a dozen or so minidiscs seems like an “fun”enough construct to build a deliberate ritual that outweighs the friction—similar to friction of making a pour over coffee helps force a nice 10min break and tends to limit number of cups/day to something reasonable. Either way, just more of a thought exercise at the moment.
This one has been great for my nephew and niece. They are hooked on it. Can recommend https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/0241317738/ref=dp_ob_neva_mob...
>But that requires change and the aviation world is extremely change resistant.

But that resistance to change doesn't come out of nowhere. Getting complex systems on a plane is hard for a good reason. On a Level A system (which any system taking direct control over airplane controls would be) hundreds of people's lives are at stake.

The certification isn't there to stifle innovation and automated systems aren't disregarded because of a general dislike of "change". These systems are in place because they save lives. Software in planes needs different standards.

Most modern planes can fly themselves to quite a significant extent, but what they can not do is deal with emergencies, which push the plane outside of the design parameters where the software can function, that is where a crew is most needed.
I have hope for Linux running on more desktops now that I've seen Proton in action. But there's still things here and there that stop me from switching, even if every game I want to play runs flawlessly.

One of the biggest issues is peripherals. None of the manufacturers write their software to work on Linux and they don't make their protocols open so others can easily do the work instead. Reverse engineering works to an extent, but that requires significant effort. I'm not going to be okay with losing functionality of my hardware.

Last time I checked, the HRTF options were also lacking on Linux. Meanwhile there's multiple choices on Windows (I'm currently enjoying SteelSeries Sonar) including built-in support for object-based 3D audio with multiple renderer options.

And the latest killer for me is lack of HDR support. I have an HDR monitor and I'm not going to settle for running it in SDR mode. I'm not even sure I'd want to switch if Linux supported HDR but didn't have an equivalent of Auto HDR (which I think does a decent job at scaling the luma of SDR games outside of the SDR range)
Confused on your last point. Joining a good pre IPO company is generally a good idea. The difficult part is to find the good company, IMO.

Look at how many were considered good but still haven’t gone public.
What is interesting, is I've been feeding in prompts from /r/writingprompts on Reddit to see what gets generated. And the stories, while somewhat impressive, all have a certain feel to them kind of like they are formulatic. Or they have story flow errors or parts that can really fit any writing prompt.

Now, lately, when reading /r/writingprompts I every once in a while come across a response that reads very much like ChatGPT generated it. I guess the feel of the AI generated responses is somewhat like what you would get when a junior high schooler is asked to write a story and hasn't had much experience yet.
The government would buy them if they cared?
Not that I’m caught up here, but everywhere this has happened to me: yes

The only time that hasn’t happened was when I left aol, where our biz group was sold off to a new shop, I wasn’t needed, but the equip belonged to the new shop and they didn’t care.
Just wait until quantum computing breaks all non-PFS encrypted internet traffic from the past 20 years. It's going to be wild. David Brin is going to get to live out his vision of a transparent society.
Did you have to get baptized first to be allowed reporting a bug?
Lightweight means I don't need to install some shit on a server somewhere and hope that its reachable at the time I need to access it. If I'm a process running then I loaded from a disk somewhere which means I can in-process sqlite to write to that disk.

Less stuff == less to go wrong == lightweight.
I'm comfortable with what the thread says about how we came at this disagreement.

As you've acknowledged upthread: your claim that documentation is 50% of the time on a pentest doesn't hold up. I believe it took 50% of your time, because you say it did, but like you said upthread: it's was an exceptional case. Maybe:

1. You spent more time on doc than was actually required

2. You worked a bunch of SARs, which are short doc-focused projects (and not pentests)

3. You were given a bunch of retests, which are short doc-focused projects; this almost fits, since it's some of the first work that's given to new team members after they're done shadowing on projects, except that it would be weird for there to be so much retest work that you could do them back-to-back for a long period of time (most clients don't purchase retests)

4. You worked ENPTs (external netpens), which are short projects and have a huge doc component of "fitting tool results into a report". But (a) your office didn't do a lot of those (Matasano in general didn't do a lot of netpen work) and (b) it wasn't low-seniority work; as I recall, the people who did netpens specialized in it.

It could be some combination of all these factors.

Meanwhile: Litany is nothing at all like LaTeX (though after I left LaTeX staged a coup and replaced the commercial PDF library it had been using). Litany is a bug tracker. You enter a finding title, a URL/location, and a description --- which Litany autogenerates for common bug classes --- and when you're done with the project you push a button and get a complete PDF. This would have been the primary way all reporting was done during your tenure.

Interestingly, one of the few major disputes between Matasano and iSec Partners (the big two constituent firms in NCC US, iSec bigger by a factor of almost 2) was report generation. iSec's actually had a LaTeX template consultants would use to generate reports; they wrote them by hand. "I refuse to use Litany" (and lose control over my report formatting) was supposedly such a big thing that they had to rename Litany when they re-introduced it across the firm; it's now called Limb. Which is a tragedy, because Litany of Failure is one of the all-time great product names (credit, I believe, to Craig Brozefsky).

Some of the people you've mentioned in this thread have reached out to me. I stand by literally everything I've said. It's OK to be wrong, and you are.

The rest of it:

d0136ada7858ad143675c2c3302db6343869190878191c8fc6a1547f0f23530e

Just in case this ever comes up again, I'll at least commit to not having changed my story. :)

Long story short: don't pay for software pentests that spend 50% of their time in doc. You're paying for the testing, not the report, even if the report is all you ultimately care about.
I remember switching from postgres to MySQL and there was definitely a learning curve, so even without deployment costs (admittedly the same for mysql -- which were a real thing back then before RDS or Aurora or whatever hosted postgres)... It probably would have been better to use sqlite
Super cool and fascinating.

I don’t know why, but I don’t like that the headline frames it as a “privacy risk”. Are we really concerned about privacy when playing chess?

I think the world probably needs to accept there’s no such thing as “anonymous behavior”. Behavior itself is individualized. Therefore if behavior can be observed the probability that it is anonymous rapidly approaches zero with time and observations. The only way to be verifiably anonymous is to not be observed.

This means if you are a person at risk of harm if your identity is unmasked that you can’t rely on supposedly anonymous behavior. Bummer.
Be thankful. This machine was rapidly turning into HAL 9000:

> Something is deeply wrong with this machine. It is quite insane. I tried to ask how the world was created according to Finnish Folklore. When I proved it was wrong -- and described American Indian Folklore -- It invented imaginary source, a book called "Sotka".

The machine speaks fluent Finnish, but here is Google-translation:

Sotka is a Finnish folk poem that tells stories about various mythical characters and their adventures. It is of the same type as the Kalevala, but it is slightly shorter and contains fewer stories.
Reed/grass baskets are really old technology. Like, prehistoric. There's no need for newfangled materials developed only in the last several thousand years.
I've thought about that one off and on for a while too. Maybe something like an thin wire electromagnetic mesh as the inner layer of the envelope but I'm guessing no one has tried that at scale because the math says no.

Most likely you either have to pump a lot of power through the mesh to get field coverage enough to reliably bounce atoms away from the skin or you have to make the wire mesh so dense that you've basically got a layer of copper as your envelope and are therefore far too heavy to lift off.

It seems like too obvious an option to have simply been missed over the decades.

Still, I have to wonder if someone will invent a way to coat a string of fabric in like 1nm thick copper film. Or maybe graphene will save this idea too.
You can, for example using Shell Launcher: https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/windows/configuration/kios...

But people usually prefer replacing just the Start menu, or just making tweaks to how the regular task bar works.