skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Aw jeez, my mom had these books. She wouldn't let me read them as a kid. I'll elaborate a bit, I don't think I'll dox myself, since she kept to herself a lot.

Unfortunately I don't have space for them, so her copies either got sold or trashed when she recently died of a very treatable illness that she elected to not treat or mention to anyone for several years.

I did keep her Clan of the Cave Bear books (Children of the Earth?) because the cover art always enchanted me, and I judge books by their covers.

I also kept a few of her romance novels. She never talked to me about sex beyond "wear a condom" type advice, and her and my dad completely hated each other for as long as I could remember. So it's funny to imagine her having a sex drive. She was pretty old when she had me, I guess usually you have to have some sex drive to get pregnant, and then it just faded after I came along.

I like to think that people will read meaning into my bookshelf when I die, but seeing it from the other side - No. The math books will get chucked. Maybe someone will keep a couple volumes of manga as a novelty. The book with a secret compartment will be worth a couple bucks. The books are worth more to me as decorations than to anyone else as anything. It's all right, I guess.

I don't know what to think. Mom's good parts deserved better than her bad parts. I guess there isn't much meaning to it all in the end. She died doing what she loved, playing with crystals and avoiding doctors.
Volunteer Tech Opportunities
What are some projects or non-profit organizations that are looking for volunteer coders or similar positions? I'm new to the tech world. My experience is with python and running my own websites.
That’s cool, but can your build system run Snake?
https://appleinsider.com/articles/15/01/19/how-intel-lost-th...
This is selling the narrative that enables the continued wealth disparity of EU and UK tech workers. This narrative was bought into (by workers imagine that). For all our collective bargaining we've bought into our Stockholm Syndrome enough not to bargain for wage equality.

With the salaries US tech workers are earning, healthcare, welfare and childcare benefits don't substantively impact their take-home for it to matter.
Suppose we have trained a model to perform a certain set of tasks. Later we would want to teach it a new task. Catastrophic forgetting means that teaching it a new task makes it unlearn some or all of its earlier tasks.

It occurs because training changes the weights of the model. The earlier set of weights was good for the previous tasks. The new set of weights is only good for the new task. Usually special care must be taken to overcome catastrophic forgetting.
Make it illegal to sell an IoT device with closed-source firmware, with punitive damages in case of breach that get distributed directly to the buyers.
> and then on to Russia

False.

The only people who saw the documents that Snowden had were the journalists chosen by Snowden. In any country, including the USA. Some were less responsible than others hence the nyt got a copy. Hong Kong is wholly and totally irrelevant.

The fact the times decided to publish is 100% their responsibility.

Again, what criticisms do you have of the NSA, CIA and dept of homeland security? List them all briefly here, please.
Your experience at Robinhood is relatable but I’m not sure I follow how RecipeUI would benefit us more than Postman.

Our team has OpenAPI specs but we have a rough time sending requests because each team member has valid requests for some subset of the API surface of a given service (from working on subsets of the service) and there isn’t a common repository for valid requests covering the entire surface area. On top of that there’s multiple forms of auth so there’s a flow to execute to obtain the auth token for a given request. Every team member has written their own scripts in various languages for one or more flavors of auth. We’re often sending each other one-off scripts or postman collection exports, or sharing fiddler traces or even tokens.

Would RecipeUI benefit us more than Postman?
I have been thinking a lot about it recently and I do think they are significant.

If you look for example at chagpt4, it achieves a certain sort of intelligence. It gives you many sensible responses.

The thing Is that this is basically what we humans do. Give so-so explanations about all sorts of stuff that are reasonable-sounding.

Im confident that they well become evidently better than all of us. More complete arguments, with better data backing that up that the regular folk. In some sense I feel that they almost above that threshold.

The basic opinions of people are neither sophisticated nor deep. And llms are always improving to become exactly that.
Thanks. That's what I was looking for.
I’ve found the opposite in trying to get it to play Wordle. It’ll repeatedly forget things it’s seemingly learned within the same session, all the while confident in its correctness.
> To wit, the ability of a woman to divorce you and receive alimony and child support for basically the rest of her life.

Child support doesn't last that long — just until the child reaches 18. And alimony stops if the spouse ever gets remarried (though of course some people dodge that by not technically getting married to a new partner).
>they basically did nothing for ~7 years.

Much worse than nothing. Cancelled finished and near-finished projects by the Amiga teams.

Reference: "Commodore The Inside Story: The Untold Tale of a Computer Giant", David Pleasance, ISBN 978-1913491659.
>My daily driver is an IBM Model M made in 1984

Are you sure about that? IIRC, all Model M keyboards say "1984" on them, but that's a copyright date, not the manufacturing date. There should be another inscription somewhere with the actual manufacturing date (day/month/year, not just year).

In fact, according to Wikipedia, Model Ms did not start production until 1985:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Model_M_keyboard
I might be late to the party but I think that the government simply should be kept out of regulating consumer electronics. Top-down control doesn't work well, and even if it did, I question the motivation. Why should my smart fridge be regulated essentially by the same body that has the ultimate right to excercise violence pro-actively? It makes no sense
When I was at Amazon, I thought this was an insane scale. Then, I joined Google to learn how they serve couple orders of magnitudes higher.
He didn't go to a hostile country. He went to Ecuador, not a hostile country. The US government cancelled his passport while he was connecting in Russia, and then the Russian airport refused to let him leave.

The fact that he's now in Russia is 100% on the US.

Also, he didn't bring any stolen information to Russia. He says he was contacted by Russian intelligence but that they pretty quickly figured out he had nothing more to give them than what he gave to the journalists.
>octaMED music in games

Yes, there was a player library, easy to use and all.

But the reason octamed was not popular in games nor demoscene is simply because it was optimized for quality and offered costly effects with high cpu usage, unlike e.g. protracker.
The point of feature flags is to decouple releases from deployments.
Good news! Deep learning inherently has a long tail of subtle bugs (SolidGoldMagikarp anyone?) so no one will care if C++ introduces a few more.
Awesome investigative work, what's the opportunity though, I don't get it
Can it be taught "contextual matrices" where by it builds a new layer of construct but preserves the other, then cross learns between parameters or something (sorry for my poor lexicon, I'm wet-learning :-)

But imagine all LLMs in a macro view like a sponge entity
>Once you start going in to more than four channels, you suddenly start needing to do the mixing in the CPU instead. I remember my original Amiga 500 was capable of only doing 7 channels using OctaMED (six mixed into three, and one native), so the CPU load of mixing was significant. That is why it generally wasn't possible to use more than four channels in games.

A basic A500 can definitely handle 8ch (not just 7) on OctaMED, but not in "HQ" mode.
SFTP is a major step up from FTP, but there's a lot of unrealized potential on the server side, so you can't just work on better clients. Both OpenSSH and the GNU lsh server only offer an old version of the protocol -- v2, I think. That oldness is intentional: https://marc.info/?l=openssh-unix-dev&m=168488976013498&w=2
A lot of people refer to him as a whistleblower because he exposed what the NSA was doing. A lot of people consider this a public good.

Your definition of whisleblower seems to be closer to a government bureaucrat's definition.

I'm curious why you brought that up?
Hoax: Thousands of dead fish after the release of Fukushima wastewater?[video]
People keep forgetting because of this good old two-pronged psy-op:

"Wow, you must wear a tinfoil hat, you really think the government is tapping your phones?"

"Wow, you didn't already know that every phone is tapped? You're so behind the times. Every cool person is already jaded about that."

There's almost no will from voters to fight this, so the discourse instantly leaps from "impossible" to "acceptable".
There are hundreds of language servers out there. Even VScode does not ship all of those. Emacs‘ LSP client „lsp-mode“ tries to download them for you if possible. For example, in case of JavaScript and TypeScript you don’t have to provide it yourself.
Do we need to still learn this or can we all just switch to httpie or resti.sh given that it's 2023?
Because no one uses a scanner? Or how did you come to this conclusion?

Or do you mean official verified and stamped translations?
PCIe gen2 x1 lane, aww I was hoping that there was an accessible low-power home NAS motherboard.
Yeah you’re right, URL was unencrypted along with some others.

Doesn’t seem critical if we’re talking Facebook and twitter but becomes problematic with human rights orgs and the like.

The justification was that it was used to match login fields against vault items. I’m no crypto expert but it seemed flimsy to me
SQL is not a “regulated” standard. Even something as simple as limiting the number of rows returned is different for different databases. Let alone specifying hints and locking semantics.
>Settlers (the original)

Was written in 68k assembly. The port either implemented an emulator or translated the code ahead of time.
https://archive.is/wNC8x
Google Nest Cams will start charging 25%-33% more per month to record video
> Arc/Rc the hell out of it

The pattern I keep needing is single ownership with back pointers. That can be done with Rc and Weak, which pushes the checking to run time. I think it might be possible to do this statically with some extensions to the borrow checker. It's not keeping the forward and back links consistent that is hard. It's making sure that all code sections either have read access to owner and owned, or write access to owner or owned. That's a static analysis kind of problem.
He didn't. He went to Ecuador, but the US cancelled his passport while he was connecting in Russia. And he didn't bring any classified materials with him.

So it's 100% on the US government that he ended up in Russia and not Ecuador
Then you just have a feature flag per app.
Still bad.
Just in case anyone ever needs to DIY a stool transplant, double encapsulation with inner gelatin and outer enteric coated capsules works. Do a colonoscopy prep the previous day and try to take repeat doses throughout several days and in between meals rather than all at once.
>My biggest issue is that, like so many markets, there is a "missing middle" created by this downward price pressure.

I would wager that this is a proxy for the housing market. It's correlated with renting (majority) v/s buying (minority). And renters don't want the middle. That's pretty much how I view everything I buy. It's ephemeral.

>I think one reason Ikea is so popular is that they ride the upper end of the cheap segment.

Also, Ikea gets the mechanical designs right. I have been quite impressed with all ikea furniture that has folding contraptions. Their nyhamn futon used to be quite a steal at the old price of ~$200. The finnala sofa bed is also well made. And ikea tends to use removable fabric covers, which is also great. So ikea gets a lot of design right. The only bummer is their 1.5x price inflation since covid.
He argued the American people
had a right to know what was occurring and make a decision as to whether it should be done.

That likely isn’t “by the book” whistle blowing since governments can and do make what they do in the shadows “legal enough” to avoid scrutiny.

Guess it’s weird it’s that much of a discussion but many people care more about laws than morality.
Not exactly true. Many electronics manufacturers give out free samples. All kinds of free samples. When I was a kid (and even into adulthood) I would contact all the electronics manufacturers I could to get free samples. I had dozens of free Microchip PIC embedded CPUs and support chips. Back in the day Maxim semiconductor (now Analog Devices), and many others. I even got free stuff from Digikey, but that took some convincing of the right people at Digikey. Some of the products I begged and pleaded for - I got a full touchpad controller for free, including shipping, because I was a "student" and I was making a "prototype". It really wasn't that difficult to get free electronics to learn with. And for the passive components - resistors, capacitors, coils, and other parts there's always free broken electronics floating around, and I would harvest everything I could that I didn't already have plenty of.

https://www.microchip.com/samples/

https://www.analog.com/en/support/customer-service-resources...

https://reddit.com/r/electronics/comments/1qvcr2/how_to_prop...

https://www.ladyada.net/library/procure/samples.html
In 1997 during the handover ceremony for Hong Kong there was a part that involved the PLA marching into Hong Kong.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G4-Sr_t_kE4

To pretend that they weren't in control of the situation when he was there from a national security standpoint is a bit naive. Ultimately the decision to allow him to depart Hong Kong was made in Beijing.

https://www.nytimes.com/2013/06/24/world/asia/china-said-to-...

"The Chinese government made the final decision to allow Edward J. Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, to leave Hong Kong on Sunday, a move that Beijing believed resolved a tough diplomatic problem even as it reaped a publicity windfall from Mr. Snowden’s disclosures, according to people familiar with the situation."
Finding a doctor in general is becoming harder. When you check the insurance site all you see is NPs and PAs. I just moved to the area, I don't need an NP. An NP can't even prescribe me my meds.

And that hip surgery I had? Yea, I need to see a doctor, not a PA who just sends me for an MRI and then refers me to a doctor.

And then there are DOs. Also something I avoid.

Insurance is really trying to pay less for a visit... They can start by not re-imbursing homeopathic stuff & chiropractors.
What’s not accessible about CSS? This is already a low bar to pass. I remember adding CSS3 transitions a decade ago at my first internship.

It feels like there is a lot of brigading and shilling of Astro throughout this thread, as typical with web frontend frameworks.
I assume that wouldn't be as aggressive as tempered glass or something, but it's funny to imagine your pan shattering followed by every other piece of glass/ceramic in the room when the fragments hit them.
> what he gave to the journalists.

We now know Glenn Greenwald was likely a Russian asset at the time he was given access to the Snowden files. For a member of the intelligence community, he sure did a piss poor job of vetting who he chose to whistleblow with.

https://thespectator.com/topic/why-glenn-greenwald-backs-put...
This blog post is a minefield

> In my paper, we didn’t bother to study the influence of these other obviously relevant factors.

So you are not honest, self sensoring and betray science.

> I left academia over a year ago, Now... as a member of a private nonprofit research center

Sounds like escape from peer review and criticism.

> scientists calculated that the two largest climate change impacts on society are deaths related to extreme heat and damage to agriculture. However, heat-related deaths have been declining, and crop yields have been increasing for decades

Dude air conditioning and medical care are getting better. Also farmers are having their master degree.

> we can overcome some major negative effects of climate change. using technology to adapt to climate change... (not) addressing emissions

Did author think that climate change is bad solely because of some human may die more in the future? The whole ecosystem and planet is ignored? Also ignoring the root cause is just idiot.

> deaths from weather and climate disasters over the last century

Proved above point.

> while ignoring potential changes in technology and resilience

Can technology and society change to a point that plant never stop photosynthesis when it is too hot? We are under a society that people reject genome modification and geo engineering.

> my papers were rejected out of hand by the editors of distinguished journal... confirmation bias of the editors and reviewers

Only thing you care in your paper is money. Climate change damage the economy so you care about it. What about the whole planet? What about stuff other than human?
How long is "quite" in this reference. I've got ikea crap which is falling apart and its only ever held towels and linen, not even 5 years.
TIL. Alasdair Grey in "Lanark" writes about his "difplag" model of writing where he takes other reality, and twists it to suit his narrative needs, lifting language if need be, but also citing non-existent ideas in the original.
"Overall the US-China tech war is likely to escalate" Because the US is going to make even better technology, right? With the same open standards that allowed its technology sector to grow in the first place?

No? How about we escalate by writing blank checks to scammers and passing more sanctions to further isolate ourselves.
https://archive.is/rqWkZ
I thought 21st century means low contrast UI and single color icons
Eric S. Raymond has mild cerebral palsy. Both he and his doctor hypothesize that in CP, like autism, the same neural miswiring that gives rise to the condition can, in some cases, also bestow greater insight or intelligence.
The Cave Pearl Project (arduino based underwater data loggers, used for real science in cave systems) has a blog and several Youtube videos with info about ruggedizing electronics for humid environments and temperatures from freezing to about 60 Celsius. [1] Two words: conformal coating.

Lots of other good in-the-trenches reporting of hard-won knowledge in the blog. Many epoxy resins shrink significantly, for example. That may or may not be important for your project. The blog is not super condensed but it's worth reading, especially for seeing the evolution of design and construction practise from the early years (2011) to now.

There's a book, now somewhat dated, on the Protection of Electronic Circuits from Overvoltages (lightning strikes, or fridge motors, for example): [2] TVSes (transient voltage suppressors) are still in use, however. Even varistors.

Connectors are the bane of every electrical engineer's life. There are more designs of connectors than of any other category of component, and probably there are good reasons for all of them to exist. I haven't got any good references for this topic though.

Other things like fuses, fireproof insulation on on your power cables, physical design such that prying objects can't touch high voltages, and so are about protecting the rest of the world from your projects.

Rod Elliott's web site [3] is a mine of information for beginning to intermediate hobbyists. It's focused on analog, audio specifically, but when you get down deep enough, everything in electronics is analog. you need to know about resistance, capacitance, and inductance, earthing (grounding) layout, and other similar topics.

1. https://thecavepearlproject.org/2023/03/17/waterproofing-you...

2. https://store.doverpublications.com/0486425525.html Available on Amazon as an ebook.

3. https://www.sound-au.com/articles/index.htm
Soon. Stay tuned.

(no concrete promise, thus not late)
> When you make the choice to become a whistleblower, you are making the decision that the information you have is more important than your personal freedoms.

So it's wrong to expose a corrupt government without becoming a martyr? It's better to let the public to be fooled?

Not everyone thinks this way. Sometimes it matters, and sometimes it doesn't.

> he went right to Russia and horse traded information for protection

Do you have a source for the above statement?

It's my understanding that the U.S. revoked his passport while he was en-route to Ecuador, trapping him in Russia. I haven't heard that he gave the Russians any intelligence.
Very fun short read.
Interesting that Feynman's conclusions about management efficiency (communication) loss, is so applicable to today's big systems, big companies, universities, schools, and governments(bureaucracies) at every scale.
Use listed current limiting power supplies. A 10W 5V wall wart is incapable of starting a fire no matter how badly you screw up.
https://archive.is/HUOGy
I had cable modem when DSL was being pushed by all the telcos. On my street, everyone switched over to DSL and I think I was the sole cable modem user and the access point was right in front of my house. I was getting regular speeds of 1Mbps cause no one else was using cable modem. This was glorious in 1999.
Stability, legal leverage. It’s likely been hashed out in response to nVidia’s attempt to buy ARM.

https://www.gq.com/story/tim-cook-global-creativity-awards-c...

Tim Cook: we are very much focused on the long term.

If ARM ends up being acquired, Apple can unleash the lawyers to demand adherence to their 40 year deal.
Shedding Light on CVSS Scoring Inconsistencies: A User-Centric Study