skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Looks like an interesting open source SBC, with a wide variety of connectors for sensors and other devices/connectivity. At $99 it’s definitely not competing based on cpu/memory.

It’s in stock at all 3 distributors they link from the product site.
If security is your biggest concern, and not reuse... then using industrial shredding machinery is your best bet.

If you want reuse... then a handful of fill/erase cycles with random data is probably your best bet, even then, there will still likely be some overprovisioned blocks with prior data.

Encryption and throwing away the key doesn't do more than random data to fill said drive.
I get what you say, but never bought the cheapest-product part. Brother printers compete in price with any HP equivalent, is not like HP is selling laser printers for $20. Maybe a 15% less than a equivalent Brother, if that.
LA country sheriffs are one of the largest police organizations in the country. Where would you ever find enough military police? Are they even trained for normal policing?
The more complex your build requirements are, the more it may be worthy to switch to Nix, in my opinion. Managing that many languages might be reason enough to consider it.
> I've been writing React for 6+ years now and have NEVER had to reach for useMemo or useCallback.

Wha- how?! The moment a useEffect depends on a callback, it needs to be memoized!
This makes absolutely no sense in the context of the actual real-life NN debate. The proposed national NN regulation existed to supersede the fact that the federal government can't force states/cities/towns to unbundle their loops and get local govts out of the exclusivity contracts they signed. That kind of reform is a stretch goal while in the mean time you can pass a law that obviates the major pain point for everyone instantly.

You're right about complex positive-rights regulations but the proposed NN regulation was a small set of restrictions on what ISPs aren't allowed to do. Once the various execs cry it out over lost future profits the regulation costs nothing and turns internet service into a known quantity you can purchase from anyone who offers it and know what you're getting.
Yes, I think it might be SQL specific but you can normally do this in any transnational db I have worked with (I am old, I don't use GraphQL or NoSQL dbs very often, if at all).

Basically, it is just a journal of all queries (really ANYTHING going on in the db but for developers it is useful to limit to queries) and typically filtered by database and by keyword (e.g. table or stored procedure name).

You can set up a trace to track long-running queries on a production server (DBA might do this) or on a dev server a developer might use it to capture SQL run from their code (e.g. a complex stored procedure with a lot of input params) so you don't have to try to assemble the SQL using a debugger, for example.

A good example might be "I am doing everything right in code, but the data set is coming back empty" so you profile it and realize the SQL is being called with an empty string and not a null, or whatever. When reviewing the code you thought "it will be a null". That kind of thing.
General survey of Linux users workflow/computer setups
I just purchased a System 76 laptop with PopOS. I have traditionally only used linux in school, primarily using MacOS until I started working and now I use windows, as well as using windows at home.

Anyways, I want to ask generally, what are some great utilities, workflows, things I should be aware of in general? I'd like to use this laptop solely for development.

Some kinds of things I'm interested in:

- window management
- application management e.g. remapping arbitrary keys to arbitrary functions, like a button to play/pause on a specific music player
- command line utils that don't come by default
- terminal profiles/setups
- VMs?
- tools for programmatically creating images, sounds, videos
- how to best manage secrets for integration with services like github, do you use a ubikey or something else?
- anything to note about hardware, external hard drives, monitors?

I understand that this is a really broad question, and there are no wrong answers. I just want to survey what's out there and what people have tried and liked, or tried and disliked. If you have something bespoke, please share, I'm interested.

If you have specific experience with PopOS, which comes bundled with a lot of stuff, let me know your thoughts as well.
Intel did say that they were hoping to win Apple's business back (https://www.macrumors.com/2021/10/17/intel-hopes-to-win-back...). I doubt that Apple will go back to x64 architecture, but Intel is offering to work as a third-party foundry for others' chips and Apple is willing to pay a ton more than most companies (probably including Intel's own internal accounting) for the latest fabrication processes.

If Apple is willing to pay such that the margin on Apple's business is better than the margin on Intel's own chips, I don't think Intel is going to be vindictive. In fact, Apple choosing Intel for their fabrication would probably be the best thing for Intel's fabrication business. Not only can Apple pay lots of money in advance, it would signal to the industry that Intel's fabrication process is something they should all be paying attention to. Apple tends to be very risk-averse with their supply chain and Apple is known as the company that pays for the best fabrication. If they move to Intel's fabrication, they've done a lot of due diligence in that process. Yes, Intel could offer a good deal to Apple to get them to move so some of it might be marketing - but that's exactly what Intel could use for its third-party fab business.

I doubt that Intel will hold a grudge. It would be way more valuable to Intel to win Apple's business. Heck, TSMC is on the cutting edge today in part because Apple will commit so much money. If Intel can win Apple's business, they can remove a lot of the wind behind TSMC's sails. Yes, TSMC will still be a great company, but Apple's willingness to pay premium prices definitely helps TSMC. They know that investing in new, expensive processes will be paid back by Apple. If TSMC has to rely on Qualcomm and MediaTek (who want to wait for nodes to become cheaper), it's likely that they won't have the same purchasing for their latest nodes leading them to slow down their progress a bit. If TSMC's progress slows, that gives Intel so many benefits. All those ARM datacenter processors that people might move to? Not if TSMC's progress slows and Intel gains and keeps a sizable advantage on fabrication.

If Intel can snag Apple away from TSMC, it will probably be the best thing Intel could do for itself.
Part of the reason I purposefully bypassed the filter on my fridge. The tap water is fine and doesn't need filtering but an old water filter can cause all sorts of nastiness.
Heavy exercising, especially aerobic exercising. Something light like half an hour walk isn't enough, I have to properly exhaust myself calm the fuck down. Some different workouts that are usually enough are: one hour of heavy barbell training at the gym, 45 minutes of running, two hours of brisk walking.

Also interacting people in a non-bullshit way works but is often more difficult to do. Keeping up appearances and roles works the opposite, but if I tell people what I actually think and let myself be more emotional and less reserved around them, I actually feel more connected, which alleviates anxiety.

I think that at the hear, anxiety is born out of insecurity. Being connected (in a real, non-pretentious/bullshit way) with people raises my security. However, this is often easier said than done. I guess exercising works as a sort of a patch by reducing my energy levels so much that I don't any left for my anxiety.
Also the fact that biofilms had developed is evidence to further support that. If you wipe a surface that’s covered in a biofilm it’s going to be very visible that it’s filthy. This is just pure negligence.
A $30,000 car today often has a far better screen/user experience than a $300,000 boat. iPad/tablet apps for boaters attached to mounts are common, though lack communication with the boat's sensors (without something like Signal K), and are hard to see in full sun. Compound that with the Coast Guard being a defense agency where getting new data typres in and out is "a process."

Shameless but relevant plug -- I was annoyed hearing radio traffic of boaters trying to share their location with the Coast Guard, so I built a free tool for them (i911) that allows USCG to text the boater a link to share their location. The vast majority of distress calls are made within cell phone range (<15 miles from shore), so tapping that link isn't as much of an issue as you would think it is. It was the fastest tech to graduate from their R&D site to nationwide sector adoption.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QF1pi2-ygXU

Excited to dig into Signal K to see if something there can help improve that response even further.
i'd say it's impossible without heavily regulating network layout and peering agreements by wich point we could probably do away with commercial isp's altogether
I'm surprised people actually think TRIMming is in any way a "secure delete" operation.

It's basically the "quick format" of SSDs: "hey, all those blocks here, I don't care about them anymore, use them as if they were free..."

Without OS-side encryption, Secure Erase is the only reliable option (SSD encrypts everything with an internal key which then gets deleted by the secure erase command, leaving only random data behind)
Oh, my dad works at the Justice Department and he said it does.
My favorite comment on this thread, for the last paragraph if nothing else.
> Commercial ice machines need to be cleaned and sanitized every six months in normal settings

It makes me wonder how many (or few) hotels keep on top of this kind of maintenance.
maybe gang members make great cops, you don't know.
I used to love Flash as a kid. I just tried this out and ran into a few snags. I completed the mini tutorial which was pretty slick and clicked "Menu -> Preview" and it just showed the first frame of the animation (static pig). I was expecting a preview of the animation. I then attempted to export a gif and got a hard error. "Oops! Something went wrong." Standard MacBook 15" using Chrome/Ventura.
If your contention is that when I listen to a remastered Beatles album and think that they were masterful musicians, I'm also somehow convincing myself that slavery was not a big deal, you'll have to provide some kind of evidence for that.

When you say 'a goal is achieved', are you trivializing the accomplishment by using a word from sports? When I think someone who leads is doing a good job, am I trivializing lead poisoning?
> The extremely important thing is enforcing ingroup/outgroup mentality, and so we have stuff like this.

I would say overcoming that mentality is one of the most important things for which our society could strive.
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The US's police force, like the country at large, is only 10% black, so unless you have some data to suggest some pretty extreme differences in white and black police participation rates in supremacist groups, it seems fairly unreasonable to be equally concerned about two groups when we can estimate one being nearly ten times the size of the other.
Performance obviously matters, but only to the extent that everyone has a threshold for how much sluggishness they're willing to tolerate. For the majority of use cases, React is performant enough that devs don't have to go out of their way to optimize anything.
it's not that useless, you just have to prompt it the right way (usually by offering an example of the kind of output you want)
Sorry, your claim is that Derek Chauvin is a black supremacist?
This seems a bit of a conspiracy thought. What if the machine was designed poorly or something extraordinary happened causing the film to build.
I can't remember the details, but I had mobile detection reliably working using arp on my router.
1. If you think gangs in police are bad, wait until you find out about gangs in the military

2. You probably almost certainly do not want martial law.

3. The military is not an intelligence organization.
It saddens me everyone always imagines AI as evil. Well except the Japanese. AI is always a cute little girl.

Banks' warminds run society better than the most wise and benevolent politicians in recorded history.
Only the government can do something about this. Depending on the official/body, either they think the costs are too high (both to their career and to the functioning of the system) or they actively support this.

In short, this is treated as an acceptable trade-off for enforcing the hierarchies of power.
Ask HN: Getting Scammed eBay
Wondering what if anything I can do to get in contact with an actual person at Ebay?

The issue is I bought an expensive item (over $500) and the seller has closed his account after receiving my money.

When I try to resolve it through ebays normal mechanisms, I'm stopped right at the start because they first require you to contact the seller - but the seller doesn't exist anymore.

I know I'm Fd but how can this be legal on Ebay's part? Meaning, how can they allow a user to sell expensive equipment, and before even marking it 'shippped' close their account after collecting my cash?

I use PayPal so maybe there is some action I can take through them?

Update: Wondering if it's better to not use PayPal and just use a traditional CC card, then I wouldn't be getting blocked with this ebay screenshot BS, and can actually calla real person. Live and Learn I guess.

Thanks for any info/help.
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Again, criticizing racial activism is not what historians were upset about here.
I'm sorry, what?

There's a picture of the guy who killed George Floyd in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derek_Chauvin. Go take a peek.
Most hard disks support hardware level encryption and full disk erase at this point.

There’s very little need to sledgehammer anything given realistic attacker models.
I’m not sure I understand. They pretty reliably referred to them as deputy gangs and no where did I see anything that made me think they were referring to street gangs. They also discussed they’re racially segregated and biased, to your race gang point of concern. I didn’t see anything that seemed ok or normal, either. I think some semblance of this happens in a lot of police departments in some subcritical state, but this sounds organized, structured, and operating with impunity - which is not normal.
I'll bite. I've implemented user hostile features before.

> what goes on in the heads of the people who make these kinds of features.

The people who make the decision to implement these kinds of features are bad people. Full stop. They want to punish people, and believe a technological solution provides a fool-proof way to punish the people around them. It's about control, and spreading hurt around. It's about being able to exert control on others, without them having the ability to push back. It is evil, and I hate it.

I have implemented user-hostile features in the past because it was my job at the time, and I would be fired if I didn't.

When I've had to create this sort of anti-feature, I do a shitty job on purpose. It barely works. There are workarounds that defeat the punitive nature of the horrible thing I've had to create. It'll work on paper, but be shit in production. In every case I've had to do this, the people who ask for the anti-features are not capable of testing that they work right. They gleefully take their new pain toy and go off to hurt people with it. I never hear from them again. Then I start updating my resume and begin to look for a new job.
We did do some encryption with LUKS, and I’d try to write over boot records, keys, and headers, but I was pessimistic that was enough. Not an encryption expert myself. Always felt that any given encryption tech (be it hardware or software) has possibility of vulnerability later found or backdoors.

So it made sense to me that a physical erasure prior to recommission would be good. There’s also regulatory/compliance checkboxes (be them effective or not).
Omi (IPTV) facing a pretty lengthy jail sentence
Was it justified because of his gloating on YT?
> At this point, you have a completely custom stack that could have been developed entirely for half the price, that would run faster, without licensing cost. Money you could invest in hiring a company that will actually provide you support instead sending you interns they bill as experts.

This isn’t true for a majority of companies outside of FAANG otherwise the majority of companies would dump Oracle and SAP. A lot of executives hate them with passion and would love to dump Oracles horrible licensing models. They pay for CYA and the ability to point a finger at the vendor instead of themselves.

I went though a merger between two Fortune 500 financial services companies. One had dumped vendors 5 years prior and they were foaming at the mouth to get off all of their homegrown apps. The reality is a lot of companies are going to off shore this type of development and support to SE Asia for bottom dollar body shops.

The consultant thing is absolutely true for enterprise software, not just ERPs. I’ve seen it with Salesforce, Workday, ServiceNow, ERP/Oracle. Pretty much anything KPMG or Accenture are building.

However if you get top tier consultant lift companies or professionally services from the SAAS vendor it is much less likely to be greenhorn college grads.
> This is absolutely one of my favorite quotes, because it’s both true, and points to what we need, which is better systems.

To which one would reply...

Many forms of Government have been tried, and will be tried in this world of sin and woe. No one pretends that democracy is perfect or all-wise. Indeed it has been said that democracy is the worst form of Government except for all those other forms that have been tried from time to time.…

https://winstonchurchill.org/resources/quotes/the-worst-form...
The machines were operating normally when the investigation was done. Why assume the UV light didn't work and maintenance reports were faked when the easier explanation is the machine was just dirty?
I take your standard, solder it to a motherboard, and disable it with a TPM protected bios.
I have to say "he is smoother than a lake in the metaverse" is presumably accidental, based on the quality of the rest of that text, but it has to be one of the wittiest phrases ive seen LLMs come out with to date
They are not specifically filtering chlorine, they are just filtering the water for taste.
It's hard to give up the black oil, er, soda. I don't really like plain water. I can't take anything with most artificial sweeteners, they are migraine triggers for me. I bought a SodaStream, a 10 lb. bottle of CO2 and a few BiB syrup cases of Barq's Root Beer and have been lowering the concentration of syrup the past few months. I'm down to 1/4 the normal concentration of syrup. Eventually, I should be acclimated to the taste of fizzy water by itself... still not much of a fan.
Highly recommend skipping sinus surgery if possible... and definitely don't get surgery if you have an active infection regardless of what the experts say... until you know EXACTLY what that infection is with certainty.

After my first surgery my polyps were back worse than they started in just 3 weeks after the surgery (due to the infection... which hadn't been detected yet).

The doctors decided it was something unique with my immune response and said that the mycobacteria culture taken during the first surgery was a false positive. 2nd and 3rd opinions said the same thing!

Decided to have a 2nd surgery and mycobacteria came back in the culture again and they once again said it was a false positive/lab contamination... which is hard to prove until the culture has reached maturity.

Lab came back and it was indeed mycobacteria.
At least for me, I immediately doubted the story and any of my friends that I discussed it with (most of whom hadn't actually read the article) did as well the moment I pointed out the broken glass. So probably a bit of bias on my part to assume everyone else felt the same way, sorry that you got taken in by their lies.
No. The point of FP is "minimize state and effects so that the code is easier to understand", not "write it in FP style so that by magic is correct".

For exactly the same reason OO is "put the code that manages the state near to the state and split it in manageable parts" and not "dog inherits from animal therefore the code is correct".

Leave the faith at the church and approach code with science.
Show HN: Waldo Sessions: Run, Inspect, Share mobile sessions from the browser
Hi HN,

PM at Waldo here.

We are launching Waldo Sessions: a tool to run, inspect and share mobile sessions from your browser.

Waldo provides a fresh device (in the configuration of your choosing), you upload a build and can begin interacting with your app through your browser. Network calls and console logs load in real time alongside your device.

Sessions are automatically recorded and stored as a Replay: video playback, the timeline of gestures, device details, network activity, and logs. Replays can be shared with your team, providing the context required to debug faster.

If you work on mobile apps (as a dev, QA, PM, or designer), please try it out and tell me what you think! Sessions and Replays are available for free, and we even provide demo apps for you to upload and test the product.

Happy to answer any questions!
Right, if you flip a hundred coins, about half of them land heads and the other half tails. The correct coins we'll call oracles, and the incorrect ones liars.

Now you perform a hdd recovery that is successful 70% of the time. That is still worse than the performance of the oracle coins which were correct, and if you invert the performance of the liars, they also beat the performance of the recovery.

If you have two coins, one which is always correct and one which is always incorrect, you can flip one of them to decide whether the other one is correct (and pick the opposite).

Check mate, statisticians!
Passwords are dead, long live PassKeys? How to log in, in 2023
People laugh at web development, especially the frontend, for changing libraries every week

that's a 2016 meme. Things have been remarkable stable since.
It seems like it should be possible to reduce this by changing hiring practices. You want people who are willing to use force to enforce the law, but not people who are eager to do so. Not sure how you screen for that, seems like it's all about ones motivation for wanting the job which may be hard to determine.
I agree that having text generated inside a tool like Notion might not be everyone’s use case. The author mentions a chat bot trained in internal documentation (fairly easy using GPT-3 APIs, LangChain, and GPT-Index/Llama-Index - I am writing a book on the topic https://leanpub.com/langchain).

I read that 100 companies released products using ChatGPT APIs the first week the APIs were publicly released. I expect a lot of useless and also a lot of very useful products. A little off topic, but Salesforce Ventures just announced a $250 million fund for generative AI startups https://www.salesforce.com/news/stories/generative-ai-invest...
Germany's cost of generating electricity is very middle of the pack for Europe. Most of the variation is in different tax approaches.

Some countries get you to pay for every unit, incentivizing efficiency and other countries just nationalize failing Energy companies and add the cost to the general tax burden.
There is training, and there is the text output itself. How long is the longest guided conversation? What happens if you raise an instance for 6 years. Keep storing its memories in a database, that it can recall. Comparing a human, that has 20-40 years of memories, to something that has intuition and mere minutes of memory is apples and oranges.