jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
> Soon they'll be coming with their own 5G chips that phone home over cell networks - no wifi access required

This is something I never understood about the IOT bullcrap, even if something can connect to a mobile network, they'd still need the expense of a data subscription which render the whole thing pretty moot. It's not as if 5G providers were operating their network for free.
"Many of the sellers openly admit they do not have a land title, the only document which proves ownership of land under Brazilian law."

In which case, what are they even selling? Who would buy? Even if you "buy", aren't you then still illegally occupying land?
fine, you'll have dumb tvs (but smart phones and homes), but your kids won't.
Wasm is exciting because not only is it a clean, elegant instruction set that has learned a lot from the design warts of JVM and .NET, it also has formal verification as a first-class design goal. This makes it interesting for high-trust environments outside the web context as well.

I made a couple of short explainer videos on it:

- design goals and instruction set:https://youtu.be/VOaSaShAYb0

- mechanizing safety proofs for wasm: https://youtu.be/zsPVbmEPTlA
> FDA move quickly and prioritize things

Move quickly? Are you being sarcastic? What the heck is wrong with the FDA? They knew about this vaccine trial, everyone in the whole world knew. They were supposed to keep an eye on the trial and get data "live" and analyze it before J&J actually submitted for approval. Once they submitted, what took them so long? They are not running any experiments, they are simply reading a report. This is the third such report after Pfizer and Moderna. They have fresh experience with reading a report and coming up with all the possible challenges. It is their freaking job to understand p-values and significance levels. 1 month to read a report and say "yes, it looks good"? Are you kidding me?
Its outputs include analog RGB, so if you had a VGA monitor that could sync to NTSC or PAL vsync signals, you could get a usable image. IIRC most monitors could not though.
Great article. Ironically, one of those sites which doesn't show images without JS.
If real problem is that your contacts can be stolen, it makes no sense to add noise to them instead of securing them.

Do you install lots of trivial apps, which you give permission to access your contacts?
Yea I get why mgmt is creaming over it, but it also seems like a lot of employees are too for no valid reason.
"One of the benefit of EPUB is that text can be reflowed, so the display size doesn't matter much"

I do feel that the e-ink reader screen size does matter because reflowed text only works well for small, paperback-sized books. Any book larger than this small size that also features tables, charts, images, diagrams, code listings and more, will not display well on a small e-ink screen.
It was a comment. In a subthread. On a submission showing a "managed vector storage for ML applications". Each of these points reduces visibility.
Own goal. We lost the chip lead because of outsourcing national-security-critical fab capabilities, and now we're telling China "don't make the same mistake we did -- develop your own capability".
Thanks Chris!

It would be perfectly reasonable to be more explicit and use a

subscript name for the theory after the ⊢. In fact, when

more than one theory is being used, it is necessary to the

use the subscript to avoid ambiguity.

Unfortunately, many modal logics do not allow the subscript.
> The first website looks horrible on widescreen displays

But you were able to read it, right? You didn't have to go find a separate computer to use to figure out what it was saying. The text didn't get cut off when you resized your browser window.

> The first website looks horrible

I mean, yes? I'm not sure what you're saying by this though. Nobody (at least nobody worth taking seriously) is telling you that you should follow the style of the first website. You should have max-widths and throw some CSS on your page. To quote the original website:

> I'm not actually saying your **** site should look like this. What I'm saying is that all the problems we have with websites are ones we create ourselves. Websites aren't broken by default, they are functional, high-performing, and accessible. You break them.

There's this argument in all of the followup websites that seems to boil down to "it's easier to make websites look better than the original." And yes? But who is arguing with you that we should deprecate CSS from the browser? Who is arguing that it's a hard task to make something that looks and reads nicer than a completely unstyled page? It's a weirdly oblivious misreading of the original joke.
Yes, let's all stay home afraid for the rest of our lives
I never managed to read this article past its title. I always get distracted by the fact that, after one second, the text gets obscured behind a pop-up.
As a mobileme user for 5+ years now, no you don't really get much more than calendar/contacts/mail. The rest are only useful if you really, really want to live in the iLife sandbox.

That reminds me, I've gotta start scanning my mac.com email archive for people who aren't using my gmail address yet...
I had assumed that the first language would only have one sound (say for "danger") and thus only one phoneme. Why would the first language develop the most phonemes, and then lose them as people migrate out of the area?
There are two excepts of the book at the bottom of the answer that also link to a free preview of the first chapter. I'd recommend reading the preview even if you don't plan on buying the book right now.

https://kindle.amazon.com/post/1EJFN69GTE3AN

https://kindle.amazon.com/post/2BJ69NQFHGN1P
Does it cope with dynamically generated (ie by JS) pages? That'd be a big win for me..
Its called Digital Douchebaggery -- and expect it to continue so long as TC can regularly position itself in the center of any tech gossip available.
I couldn't find any news sources in the article (although they don't add too much information regarding the ban):
http://businesstoday.intoday.in/story/govt-bans-nokias-pushm...
http://www.deccanherald.com/content/153598/govt-bans-nokia-p...

I am shocked though at how things are turning out in India. First RIM, now this? This sounds positively draconian:

> Once the necessary amendments come, it will be mandatory for telecom service providers to have the systems in place to deliver authorised intercepts based on telephone numbers, device identity, email IDs, IP addresses or keywords to the national security agencies on real-time basis.

Although it mentions "authorized", it is most likely an empty promise, given how rampant corruption.
I’m sarcastically implying that attempting to apply someone else’s marginally successful model to a totally different culture is a recipe for a bad time.
Note: ArchiveTeam is not the same people as archive.org, however, the results will indeed eventually end up on archive.org (since archive.org takes donated WARC data). More at https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/Internet_Archive#Back...
You realize that makes your argument worse.
I worked on a decision like this once. It eventually came down to the financial auditors preferring SAP’s reports. Roll-your-own isn’t going to fly with anyone.
All this cruelty is incredibly expensive. Reducing it would mean more left over for those pressing problems, not less.
Because its most visible effect has been the suppression of the working class? Because its most prominent advocates are nefarious global plotters?
The tools are still kind of rubbish in the sense that for many startups in software their edge could literally just be having an extremely good internal development flow whereas EDA stuff seems to be written solely to get from A to B.

I haven't seen the deep end of the software as you get closer to the fab, but I'm guessing it's worse.
Pretty cool. Maybe on suggestion, disable autocorrect and autocapitalize
Are there any short videos (under 2 minutes) that would be better to pass to non-tech friends? Most people, myself included, would tune out of such a long video.
720p is perfectly fine for a laptop camera.
Extrajudicially?
Honestly the future is drones. Not sure what the value of maned aircraft is. AI air superiority drones should be their next thing

Not entirely but like 15% of the force
Oh and if you compare the flyaway cost of the F-35A to the F-16 Block 60 or 70/72, the F-35 is cheaper...
There would have to be organizational will to do so, and one pole of the American political system doesn't have it for a military plane program and the other actively hates the idea of nationalized industry.
This causes some other problems... Kubernetes doesn't do a very good job of treating the sidecar as part of the main container so you will get random disconnects in your app when the proxy is restarted unexpectedly. This is actually why we abandoned it, just to deal with the random hiccups. Hadn't even benchmarked it.
Constant spam:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8929953

Flagged again.
Admittedly I've never used OS X and have been a Linux user for years (so I may have picked up some things along the way that seem like second nature now), but I've not had any troubles that so many talk about. i3 and KDE do everything I need wonderfully.

How much better are Firefox and Thunderbird on OS X? And media players and terminals? Because other than a calculator or an occasional spreadsheet, those are about the only native applications I ever use.

I am a thrifty guy, so almost never buy new laptops but used Thinkpads that are a few years old... this might explain why I don't usually have any driver problems.

I just can't figure out, for what I do, how OS X would be any better? Maybe one of these years I'll get off my wallet and find out what all the fuss is about. Or maybe not.
Also it's not even true. NASA was using mechanical pencils and grease pencils which both had issues. Fisher spent a million dollars of private money to develop the space pen and then sold them on the public market and to NASA for $2.95. But the story of needless government waste is just too good.

Edit: whoops I should have clicked your link before replying
This should be deleted from Hacker News,complete waste of our time. Linux or OS X is a preference and based on needs and personal preference. Who cares about this person on why they left OS X. Idiots.
I'm getting started with LLVM, Just downloaded the source and now wondering how to go about things.
Absolutely, windows is still a disaster. For developers working with open source technologies, windows is a difficult platform to use. I was attending a workshop on Angular.js and rails where I had the misfortune to have brought my windows 8.1 machine with me. Everyone, including myself, who had a windows machine could not get going with any of the workshop material.
I don't think that this is a meaningful complaint.

Let's say that a minority population has a strong preference and a majority population has a much weaker opposite preference.

So first of all, regardless of the socio-economic status of the two, note that in pure representative systems, the majority wins. If, in the quadratic voting system, the majority still wins, it's not like that's any worse than the status quo. There's no rule of super-losing a vote.

And the entire point of the quadratic voting system is that it allows fairly large minorities with strong preferences to triumph over fairly small majorities with weak preferences, without allowing a few billionaires to buy up all the votes.

If the situation is that there are two minorities with strong preferences, and then a majority with weak preferences, then the QV system will quadratically favor the larger minority over the richer one, but if your point is just that there are minorities with strong preferences that you don't think are just, well, that's more or less Cowen's point. As he points out, a minority with a strong preference includes the pro-life lobby.
>the insurer could get rid of their internal review process and people, just rubber-stamp whatever our MDs are prescribing, and save us all a lot of money and headache.

If that was true, there would be an insurer doing that and offering lower premiums on healthcare.gov

But it's not true, and the review processes do control costs (even if wrongly at times). I think the government farms this task out to insurers specifically so the insurer can take the heat for the denials, when it's actually the government's rules and standards for the requested therapies that is resulting in denial of coverage.

I've personally seen this with Medicaid or CMS penalizing for erroneously approving payment for treatments and also erroneously denying payment for treatments. And it gets very fun when the rules are not clear and there is a lot of gray area.
I think the most likely explanation for this is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Confirmation_bias
It's been really interesting to see the shift in ads and other things across the entire web when I forced all of my Google interactions to non-default containers. The amount of painful ReCaptcha interactions I've had has gone way up, but getting rid of a lot of the low quality "personalized" ads generally seems worth it.

It was most useful for cleaning up the horror show that is YouTube recommendations if random YouTube videos from searches and chat recommendations don't get tracked to my logged in account. There's still a ton of noise in the recommendations engine and I will never trust auto-play again, but I'm having to block and/or report fewer channels and I don't automatically shudder just seeing the recommendations column show up above the fold anymore (though I still tend to prefer browser widths that drop recommendations below the video I'm watching because what a waste of space that is).
How will SpaceHey support itself?
I am really interested in this.. Do you have a source?
Totally agree with this. Knowing how to handle your own emotions is a key "people skill". And therapy really does help with this.
Almost all football managers are ex players.
Besides the unwarranted and unhelpful snark, you also took the weaker interpretation of my comment so you can defend your point of view. Neither are good signs for your argument.

I said "less value" not "no value". In general there's less value in providing fragmented help in small chunks to individual people than there is in providing help via a large coordinated effort to entire populations. Even if the total is the same, the fact that it just trickled in and it lacked coordination can only hurt. I even gave an example, perhaps a better one would have been that you can't cross a canyon in 2 steps. And you won't effectively put out a big fire no matter how many cups of water you individually dump on it.

Fittingly even the example you chose is bad simply because "malaria relief" still involves quite the coordinated effort, not the least financial, not individual people independently sending small help to a single other person.
>I thoroughly enjoy conducting system design interviews

As a seasoned vet in the area, I thoroughly enjoy participating in system design interviews. In 2019, I interviewed at Google, FB, and Microsoft. Each featured multiple System Design rounds and only one of two at FB was not very good. While the others were very interesting and interactive, the not so good one at FB was run by someone fairly junior who clearly didn't have much practical experience in designing complete systems, so it felt very one-sided and me constantly feeling like I was being patronizing since the lack of feedback really felt like lack of understanding.
Seems unlikely.

The success of Linux had a lot more to do with performance, resource requirements, and security than POSIX compliance. You could get a lot of the essential pieces running on Windows, it just required spending twice as much on hardware to do it.
I added a note about alcoholism. It is very serious.

Please check out AA if you or anyone you know relies on alcohol. aa.org.
I've found the resources the folks at Basho (makers of Riak) have put together on their wiki and blog quite useful. The following would be a good starting point:

http://blog.basho.com/2010/03/19/schema-design-in-riak---int...

http://blog.basho.com/2010/03/25/schema-design-in-riak---rel...

http://wiki.basho.com/

http://blog.basho.com/
Only if you believe DN links are less worthy of front-page status than anything else on the homepage.
I dislike Gruber more than I did because he's one of those guys who ascribes a huge corporation emotions. Eric Schmidt left the Apple board because if they are competing it would be a conflict of interest and a legal problem between the companies and their investors. Get over it, these are business decisions. Gruber has been saying what he thinks Apple might like to hear for a while. Too bad Apple is a huge company and not a teenage girl
That was the first touch-only Android device (although it came out in July), but the G1 had a touch screen and that came out in Oct 2008.
I wasn't saying that using Bluetooth is absurd.
The Absurd part, in my opinion, is treating the brain as an "input device". Ones brain should not be tinkered with.

You can not compare VR Headsets and airpods to a chip that is, literally, implanted IN your brain. -
These devices generate Extrinsic Stimuli. The Neuralink however directly READS the Neuron Activity (as I understood it).
There's a certain Zen to using Apple interfaces (IMHO): You have to relax and just accept that this is how it is, and it's best to get used to it.

I fully understand if you find this to be not really good enough, but this is the only way to make them work for you.
I did know true exhilaration until I turned on my dryer light remotely
The article describes how it has advanced: it's wireless and reads relatively more electrodes. Producing the device is something that can probably scale up easilt . 1024 electrodes is still nowhere near enough to decode precise movements imho. These pong experiments have been done in humans since 20 years ago, but real fluidity seems very difficult to achieve , because signals are noisy, the brain adapts, distractors are always present etc. The article doesnt mention how long it takes until the device needs recalibration. OTOH brain surgery is not something easy to scale and i doubt people will accept surgery for implanting 2 devices just to play pong. Such a device should be precise enough to allow using a robotic arm effectively.

I think the applications of this are going to be in research for years, not as implants that paralyzed people can readily use.
Another problem on international keyboards besides unexpected key-codes for symbols is that it is awkward to type them with extra AktGr or Shift. Even with Vi-based editors this an awkward problem.

So indeed avoid symbols. If the application needs more shortcuts, then use prefix keys for less frequently used shortcuts or allow the user to type commands.
> ill intent is obvious

I always here about it. Is it true? Couldn't terrorists just practice being interrogated knowing this.

Double agents when working for secret agencies regularly get training in how to pass polygraph testing (i.e. interrogation) so it is very doable..
Lower cost of living ≠ Better Living

You'll have more money left in your pocket after living expenses but then you won't get the culture, the nightlife and the food.
There's an old joke (and programming exercise) about how long Methuselah would collect Social Security...
Google needs more than actual knowledge that the video is a copyrighted work–they need to know that it is unauthorized or be "aware of facts or circumstances from which infringing activity is apparent". If they no longer have a formal relationship with the artist and no longer have the artist's original works to have the Content ID system compare to, then they have very few ways other than DMCA complaints to become sufficiently aware or certain of infringement.

What I find more interesting is 17 U.S.C. § 512 (i):

(1) Accommodation of technology. — The limitations on liability established by this section shall apply to a service provider only if the service provider —

(A) has adopted and reasonably implemented, and informs subscribers and account holders of the service provider's system or network of, a policy that provides for the termination in appropriate circumstances of subscribers and account holders of the service provider's system or network who are repeat infringers; and

(B) accommodates and does not interfere with standard technical measures.

(2) Definition. — As used in this subsection, the term “standard technical measures” means technical measures that are used by copyright owners to identify or protect copyrighted works and—

(A) have been developed pursuant to a broad consensus of copyright owners and service providers in an open, fair, voluntary, multi-industry standards process;

(B) are available to any person on reasonable and nondiscriminatory terms; and

(C) do not impose substantial costs on service providers or substantial burdens on their systems or networks.

----

Thus, they don't have to provide Content ID themselves, but they have to allow for a third-party Content ID that doesn't have all the strings attached.
At the time Cold Fusion was the thing that made PHP seem like a better idea by comparison.

It'll have a lot of work to get away from that reputation.
But websockets doesn't give you raw tcp, right? Do they have a proxy somewhere?
Every arrow fired on Arrow is CGI due to crew and actor safety.
What? The freak storm is supposed to represent the technological development of digital copying itself – I should know, I came up with the analogy. You stop mischaracterizing the analogy. It is an analogy, not a model.

Or are you implying that the developers of digital technology did so merely to copy cheaply those things which were previously hard and lossy to copy? (I doubt it.)

I.e. what is your actual criticism of my argument?
Exactly. It's proof that these kinds of things are investigated, people do go to jail for it, etc. That makes it even more unlikely that something as huge as DJT alleges could possibly have happened with zero evidence of it showing up.
No. That product is years old and has been removed entirely from the market twice now. Amazon deliberately does not market them and only makes them available intermittently.
Interesting discussion by Seymour Papert & Bret Victor:
http://worrydream.com/#!/MeanwhileAtCodeOrg

The point is using computers to help people reason (because experimenting & seeing results in real-time is what enables people to create new & better ideas), not teaching coding for coding sake (to create more programmers)
BMW has/had a serious issue with this. Here is one nice example:

http://www.autoblog.nl/is-het-zo-makkelijk-om-een-bmw-1m-te-...
Rarely (unless you are working on your hobby project) you get a chance to make program simple. There are inherently complex requirements that can't be changed for political reasons, complex legacy interfaces to conform to et c.

Interestingly, most programmers seem to think that inherent complexity doesn't exist, i.e. that any requirements can be translated into a simple program. The result of this approach are leaky abstractions that later on cause much pain to the developer and anyone maintaining the codebase.
There is though: there is no speed limit on German Autobahns