jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
Believe me, in general I'm with you. But at the end of the day you just don't have to buy an iphone. Get an android device, flash it with Linux, buy a pinephone, do whatever you want!

The problem with this argument is the same as any essential utility. At some point, it becomes impossible to live a normal life without access to a certain facility. If access is only available through a monopoly provider or a small enough number of providers that they tend to move the market in unison even if not actively collaborating, that can become a serious problem.

This is why we have government regulation of essential markets. Regulators might impose pricing limits in violation of the "free market", to prevent exploitation of vulnerable customers (and in this context, remember that most or all customers might be in that category) where competition fails to do so effectively on its own. But laws and regulations can also impose other safeguards, such as requiring honest advertising, adequate privacy and security protections, or interoperability.

I think it is no longer credible, at least in my country (the UK) and others like it, to argue that a modern smartphone is a luxury. People use their phones to access government services, shops and home delivery services, banks and financial services. They are by far the dominant communication device of our age, not just for calls but also texts, emails, numerous Internet-based communications channels. Some people no longer have any other reasonably convenient means to access those services and communications. Some of those services and channels are provided exclusively via mobile apps and simply aren't available to those who don't have a phone (which is in itself a problem, because obviously not everyone does, and this is making things very difficult for some demographics during the strange times we are living in).

This being the case, it is reasonable to argue that people should not have to choose between two dominant ecosystems for their phone when both have serious problems in areas like privacy, security, reliability and data lock-in, some of which are a direct result of the interests of the providers of those two dominant platforms, without any realistic ability for most people to protect themselves from those risks or with any such ability relying essentially on luck (for example, the availability of jailbreaks and the continued operation of essential apps despite any jailbreak that has been applied).
Aaron Schwartz had a post about this, that comes from a talk he went to -

http://www.aaronsw.com/weblog/handwritingwall

Definitely worth a read, even if you don’t agree in the end.
well, google consumer products are not exactly know for being "premium" in anything.
The thing I am concerned about with SciHub is its centralized nature. So far it has resisted everything, but supposed that eventually Elsevier manages to land Elbakyan in jail, or hack back SciHub and delete its content, what would happen? I'd be much much happier to see the material kept in a more resilient configuration (IPFS, database dumps, ...) so that other entities can back it up. And I'd also be happy if the paper collection segment was free software, so that other entities could cooperate in case the original SciHub went down.
Same thing on 1 page ? I hate feeling controlled by the content I read…
What is wrong with what she was -- teaching?
> Does anybody have an actual and useful meassure of maturity?

You pay your bills and solve your problems yourself?
... and I am reminded of what a friend of mine who worked in a warehouse said to me a while ago:

"This is the most idiotic job on the planet. Someday they'll have robots to do this."
Business Plans
Hint: Don't live in California. There are plenty of well-paid software jobs in places like Boston, Chicago, Northern Virginia, Atlanta, Florida, Austin, etc.

They might not have the glut of "hot" startups that Silicon Valley does, but they have much more reasonable cost of living.
No, just helped overthrow governments in the middle east that led to the rise of the Islamic State that started a few wars...
Nice brand. Says nothing about content other than they save money on marketing. Is it cheaper? Better quality? Calorie labeling is obvious? Ethically sourced? I don't care about branding but verbosity of a certain level is important to me.
Thank you. The course I looked at, and tried a little, heavily referenced that book.
A delorean crossed with a big trak. Reminds me of the old battlestar galactica shuttles.
Without fanning class war and just to state a fact, Ellen Pao was able to afford top-notch lawyers, which you'd need to go against KPCB given what they'll do to your career. Only "the 1%" can do what she did and keep their careers and finances (after legal bills) intact. That doesn't invalidate her case at all but it informs the selection because, honestly, hers was one of the weaker ones. (That's not to begrudge her for filing it. I think well of her for doing so.) If more people (who are likely to have stronger cases) had such access, you'd see much stronger cases hitting the Valley elite.

It's similar to the Michael Brown case. On inspection, we found that his was one of the weaker cases when it comes to racial harassment by police. It doesn't invalidate the issue or the grievance.

Pao v. Kleiner was going to be a close call. I wanted to find KP guilty and, looking at the evidence, it seemed that the worst interpretation that I could summon was of negligence. They did fail in allowing her to recover her reputation after Mr. Nazre's attack on her. They did have a performance review system that allowed him to damage her professional reputation out-of-band to the point where she couldn't recover. That was a major moral failure on their part. (On the other hand, they seemed decent in offering a transition plan, and I'm surprised that John Doerr wasn't able to fix her career on an external vector, making all parties happy.) Gender discrimination? A tough call. Probably not, to be honest. Plenty of people have their reputations ruined because of irrelevancies and political chicanery. Management being bad at its job (in this case, performance appraisal) is not the same thing as a Civil Rights Act violation.

Is Silicon Valley corrupt as hell and a bit sexist? Sure. Is it likely that Ellen Pao's "personality conflicts" were, to some degree, gendered? Yes. Did Kleiner Perkins violate the CRA? It's not so clear. But I really don't want anyone to interpret this to mean either (a) that Valley meritocracy is vindicated, or (b) even that this suit was "frivolous", because it clearly wasn't.
"So yeah, we got hacked..." - Landing Page
Is it so preposterous? Let the rich dude have his slice of private beach.
There's really no good way to die. About the best you can do is a massive coronary in your sleep.
Looks wonderful! Just a quick question - is Thunderbolt or USB4 support provided? I havent seen a mention of it on the site yet

Thanks!
I am all for this. I think it is something to strive for. I also think that bug fixing can sometimes take multiple hundreds of percentages of the original development time. This is where initiatives like this lose steam. Complexity of setup/recreation/intermittent bugs means explaining to a project manager and/or development manager that the task is going to miss the sprint. Or that the task is taking x number of hours and this causes said manager to see what the bug actually costs to fix. Then they look at the feature backlog and something has to give. Can’t tell senior leadership that we are missing one of their arbitrary(or even well thought out and pragmatic) deadlines because then the PM worries that they will be perceived as losing control of the project. So priority changes and features are the focus.
It’s just the way I have seen things go way too many times, whether I was involved or not.
> The Framework Laptop is made of 50% post consumer recycled (PCR) aluminum and an average of 30% PCR plastic.

Like others have mentioned, I'm immediately thinking of Fairphone. Definitely going to keep an eye on this and hope it's still on my mind when I'm next in the market. Until then, I'm hoping they'll looking into responsible sourcing of conflict minerals [1] [2], possibly in partnership with Fairphone.

Edit: Hmm, can't find an RSS feed. Anyone know if there's one I can follow somewhere?

[1] https://www.fairphone.com/en/impact/fair-materials-sourcing/

[2] https://www.fairphone.com/en/2017/02/01/fairer-materials-a-l...
it seems like nrp is answering questions around here, so here's another one: will you be shipping to the UK and / or continental Europe?

Edit: found the answer: "We're shipping in the US and Canada this summer and opening up additional countries in Europe and Asia before the end of the year"
Make a trill!
We've given this a lot of attention in the age of Covid, as you might imagine. Many modern HVAC control systems include CO₂ sensors in the return air streams to make sure they're bringing in enough outdoor air to meet indoor air quality standards, and that's fairly easy to simulate. Particulate counts are trickier, and may be better estimated using out-of-simulation engineering calculations based on the type of filtration in place.
I am generally of the view that Avro is Good Enough for most things that plaintext is used for and is pretty well-supported.

Arrow looks very promising for cases where fast raw data shipment is the goal.
Looks very interesting. Hopefully the pricing isn't ridiculous, and come with empty SSD/RAM so users don't waste money on a basic build. I have concerns about the port modules, as they are "mechanical moving parts" that I don't have good experience with, but definitely a better alternative than dongles in a lot of use cases. Signed up subscribed. Looking forward to see it in action.
Could this be related to the mobleMe "Find my iPhone" feature that Apple added in 4.0?

If so, this is probably a non-story. I'd be interested if it still logs if Location Services are off, too.
You're arguing passionately against propositions you made yourself. e.g. nowhere there it says "MS is a piece of shit".

IMHO, saying things like

Microsoft’s Internet Explorer and its email programs
Outlook and Outlook Express are very difficult for even
professionals to secure. Furthermore, adversaries tend to
attack more popular platforms and applications.

Is a fair assessment. Can you point us to the MS bashing fest?
Those doing Android dev and stuck with Eclipse should also check out nbandroid: http://wiki.netbeans.org/IntroAndroidDevNetBeans

It's such a breath of fresh air having a responsive IDE... now all I need is a responsive phone ;-)
Flash hole... on an iOS device?
I can't imagine how the economist came up with the calculation that every $1 spent will generate $2 in revenue. This is an outrageous claim. How long does that relationship last? Out to the millions of dollars spent? Why doesn't ConEd invest some dollars here?

Advertising, and especially online advertising, only makes sense for some industries (not utilities for example) and only for certain types of businesses within those industries.

I hope this venture is out to really help entrepreneurs and not just looking to steal the very valuable and very small amount of capital that these young companies have.

Caveat emptor.
I did mistake you with another commenter when I said Java. Nonetheless, why do you insist PHP is my "favorite language?" You're drawing an invalid assertion based on the fact that I've been disagreeing with you.

I didn't refute that PHP has performance deficiencies either.

The only thing I can really say from looking at those benchmarks is that PHP is very likely a poor choice for general purpose (non-web) application development where speed is a definite issue.

When building a webapp although, those benchmarks suddenly because unclear to me because they mask the fact that byte/machine code caching is used for some, but not all languages. That feature is available for PHP, and it's called APC.

That is all.
Perhaps you could answer a question. If the phone screen is locked will this device still gather data? I assume it will.
Wherever "The Art of Prolog" is recommended, I'm accustomed to seeing also "The Craft of Prolog" by Richard A. O'Keefe, but here it's missing.

Only the pure of heart Prolog programmer can make his way through that book!8-))

http://www.amazon.com/Craft-Prolog-Logic-Programming/dp/0262...
Interestingly, I have seen Twitter thread from months ago predicting exactly what happened. Like, literally long time ago.
I think it's global warming. It has to be.
> if you can't educate or have intellectual discourse with people who are fabricating reality or deeply believe in conspiracy theories

Why do you want to go to great lengths and "educate" people on your point of view?
There's a difference between attacking the Capitol and attacking a Pizza Hut. There's also a difference between a protestor throwing a firework at a courthouse and taking tactical gear and weapons with a couple hundred buddies into a legislature.

This equivalence between BLM and the mobbing of the Capitol is confusing to be because it's so obviously a false one.
It's the Amiga effect. The smaller a group is the more radical the membership.

Having thedonald.win be a cesspool isn't all bad. If someone is on the fence and goes to check it out their first reaction is likely to be of disgust, especially if the userbase is hostile to "noobs" because they're paranoid about infiltration.
They turned down an offer from the Pentagon to supplement manpower, days before the protest. Why?

A police department with an intelligence unit couldn't guess that things might get a little out of hand when 3 weeks before, the President publicly used Twitter to ask his followers[1] to attend a "wild" protest on January 6th? Not that an intelligence unit was required as the plans were in the open. I have great difficulty in putting this down to incompetence, all things considered.

1. https://twitter.com/realDonaldTrump/status/13401857732205158...
I'm an active reader of threads on YC, and maybe I'm just lucky but I have yet to see anyone spouting MAGA based conspiracy theories. I did get downvoted one time for saying Trump invented the term Antifa (Which is absolutely true. I did a google search by date to verify.) but that's as close as I've seen.
Say hi to Jack for me
I think Duplicity (http://duplicity.nongnu.org) is what you're looking for. For Ubuntu I know there's a nice GUI that anyone who can use a computer can set up. For other platforms I think cli is the only way, but someone could just write a QT/Cocoa wrapper around it.
Most useful thing I've read in years.
For some reason, this title reminds me incredibly of an (approximate) quote of:

Hank Rearden on why his metal is stronger, cheaper, lighter...
The argument made is that governments already changed policies.

For example, the 1992 UN Climate Convention said:

The ultimate objective of this Convention and any related legal instruments that the Conference of the Parties may adopt is to achieve, in accordance with the relevant provisions of the Convention, stabilization of greenhouse gas concentrations in the atmosphere at a level that would prevent dangerous anthropogenic interference with the climate system. Such a level should be achieved within a time frame sufficient to allow ecosystems to adapt naturally to climate change, to ensure that food production is not threatened and to enable economic development to proceed in a sustainable manner

The European part of the Netherlands ratified that. It also ratified the 2015 Paris agreement.

Argument seems to be that is enough to require Shell to react soon and strongly.

I think I agree. I don’t see a need to introduce financial incentives. The government doesn’t pay companies who don’t dump chemical waste, persons who don’t steal, etc. either. It’s enough that it says those things shouldn’t happen. IMO, this case is similar (but more abstract). The government clearly said we must act soon; Shell knew that, and didn’t do enough.
>PLEASE make that very clear in the readme.md then.

This.

I wish people dabbling in crypto wouldn't be using phrases like "With this project you can be perfectly sure" or "[...]this encryption is unbreakable even in theory."
And still they have enough experience with existing API to accept it is much worse in long term perspective. With new API at least most annoying things will be solved.
The first thing I did with my HP Laptop is a destructive recovery and the junk was gone.
if you're going for a non com/net/org domain, I'm assuming you'd have to register it with a company that's not US based too, so no ordering .nl domains through Godaddy, cause that can still cause problems.
Actually, somewhat counter-intuitively, oscillations are very normal and natural and arise all over the place under fairly common conditions. An entire semester of differential equations and this is just about the only thing I took away from it, but in some ways it was still almost worth it.

The point I was sort of alluding to is that right now urban life has certain undeniably advantages, along with certain undeniable disadvantages. I also suspect the advantages are still going to grow for another decade or so. But looking ahead to even some perfectly straightforward applications of trends already in development across a wide variety of fields, I see a lot of technologies emerging in 2025-2030 or so that will start bringing parity back to the "sprawl", or, to invoke a buzzword that I think actually works better, "decentralization". (I think the 2010s will come to be seen as the last dying gasp of industrial-age centralization.) Our grandchildren will be aghast at the horrors of our era of driving, for instance, not merely that we killed ourselves by the thousands for it but that it took up all our concentration for the duration. A fifteen minute drive in a rented car that automatically picks you up and doesn't drop any of your net connections for the duration, well heck that's hardly an inconvenience at all. In fact, "drive" is the wrong word, it's a ride. Better delivery systems; robotics will make practical things like grocery delivery in all but the most remote of areas. All of this automated infrastructure can work on even existing battery technology, because they remove the biggest problems with batteries which is the human issues of charge time (these can use industrial strength chargers) and the downtime of a given car is much less relevant. And so on for quite a while.

So what I see is a wave that will continue to go towards the cities, but then recede back away from the cities, but actually in some sense, drag all the good things about cities with them.

And my god, the hands that will wring as that is happening. We could probably power half the shift with the mighty power of wringing hands. Which won't do a damned thing to stop it.
Ok, I read the claim, looked at the dates and have to say this...WTF?

When I was in college I worked on a system for a government affiliated agency doing research into flight simulators and other aviation related software. The exact project I worked on did this patents claim as base functionality before we did the hard work. This was 1996. That technology had been around for, oh, probably 4 years at this point.

I'm 100% sure that this software was not productized to be seen by the patent office (nor was a patent filed by this agency...), but this technology has existed in one form or another since the invention of networked computing and having computable aviation data.
This is a good point. Really good ideas can overcome legislative and regulatory inertia, with enough money and time behind them, thank goodness.

My only devil's advocate point would be that drive-by-wire cars typically have mechanical failsafes that the average person is fairly comforted by. For example, many drive by wire systems have some springs that set the car to just above idle if the ECU gets confused. I guess the analog for a potentially opaque windshield is sticking your head out the window, though this may not be fast enough if you're on a windy mountain road, driving through construction, etc.

A liquid-crystal-less region at the bottom of the windshield may do the job, and still do all the information-displaying and sun-blocking you need.
Giant bug attacks imminent!
No, but if you had a .com and .ly version of each domain/site then you could probably be reasonably confident that if one got seized the other would be ok (I'm assuming that the US and Libya are sufficiently far apart politically that they are unlikely to collaborate on this kind of thing).
same conference, different year. also that's not dan.
> people have way too much time on their hands

I love those kinds of people. Like this guy: http://www.tomscott.com/
> They were a decade too late with their initiative.

I don't think MIPS, open source or not, is competitive in a RISC-V world, and I'm not even much of a RISC-V fan (I'm more of an ARMv8 fan). Yeah, if MIPS had done this a decade ago and forestalled the rise of a RISC-V, then they may have had a chance.
Yep, I loved playing archon (and later battle chess) with my best friend Phil on his Commodore 64!
the standards homes have been built to have changed a lot, many of the newer of these homes are going to be difficult to "upgrade" or "rehabilitate" into salability. It's worse than the mobile homes used for old people storage in Florida in the 80s, at least those could be pulled off the lot and replaced as roll in units. Today's McMansions are going to have to be broken up and cleaned off the site first.
It's more that it necessitates certain optimizations, rather than enabling them.

You need to figure out how and when to merge expressions, when it's worth it to extract a loop where the same expression needs to be compiled as two or three variants, because there are invariants between all but two or three of the invocations. You also must decide which collections you want to create out of the reference soup, when you can alias/discard collections and values, how to hoist predicates (for IF and SWITCH), when you can avoid type coercion. For small workbooks, just using tagged unions in a 2D array, plus a string pool, will suffice, but our sheets are so big that we can't afford that.
Everyone in the comments until now seems to focus on the simulation properties for true to life simulations for ads and movies. Isn't this way more interesting for culinary advancements? I for one am way more interested if we could tweak ingredient ratios and cooking methods for the optimal result. Fluffy yet cross pizza dough with leoparding, how much sourdough/yeast is really needed for my bread and how can I estimate the rise based on the pre-rise, how can I optimize for flour x, ...

Until now I tried to measure exactly and get every parameter right and document everything correctly, with this I could just simulate everything if I get decent measurements for my parameter once.
What if there were restrictions on these with regards to ttl, it would put the burden back on the trackers, they wouldn't be able to swap and change them as quick and very quickly run out of options.
I would guess it's cumulative inflation of the nominal value: if something is 500 and then 750 later there's more numbers to guess in the space altogether.
I think I get it. Its underpinned by the assumption that the application doesn't need robust logic around connecting to a local proxy like it would connecting to a remote one. In this sense its going back to the days when instances had a local HAProxy running. That assumption didn't really pan out and we all decided service LBs were better but ok, sure. We can have both.

I still think describing the concept more plainly would help a lot of the confusion.
The sci-fi novel "The Light of Other Days" explores a little bit the social mutation that might occur in the complete breakdown of privacy.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Light_of_Other_Days