jkeisling/hacker-news-corpus-2007-2022 huggingface dataset:
The Mishima soundtrack was my introduction to Philip Glass

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mishima:_A_Life_in_Four_Chap...
After many attempts to speak german with germans, it seems to be a consistent theme that they prefer english if you are incompetent.
This won't happen because it would require Apple to share their software as well as hardware. The seamless pairing and automatic handoff enabled by W1 and H1 relies on a very sophisticated software stack.

There's no way Apple is going to distribute that software to third parties, and even if they did there's no way they would be able to guarantee the quality and compliance of all of that on third party platforms. Apple is all about user experience and buggy flakey third party systems in the W1/H1 ecosystem is absolutely off the table.

The way to do this is for third parties to come together and come up with open standards for automatic pairing and seamless device handoff. The problem with that is I suspect it's incredibly hard.
Sounds like there's a market for tooling to sell to app developers on linux, but not so much a market for selling linux apps.
Archive - https://archive.is/yT1FP
> Disclaimer: My views are my own (and not necessarily shared by my employers).

Who is your employer? It's not mentioned in your profile...
I remember the discourse at the time of the discussions in the Netherlands including discussions about that wearing mask = touching face more = increased risk. Not after, but during the discussions.
covid19-projections.com (which has generally been quite good) estimates that ~a third of the US population has been infected with COVID. In South Dakota, which didn't institute any real restrictions, they estimate the number is close to ~50% [1].

Back in October - i.e. before the massive second wave most of the world saw over the winter - the WHO estimated that around 10% of the world's population had been infected with COVID [2]. It wouldn't be surprising at all if the number were substantially higher now.

The idea that case numbers are underreported by only 80% worldwide is extremely generous. That's pretty close to the CDC's estimate for the US (1 in 4.6) [3], and the US has per capita one of the most aggressive testing regimens in the world [4].

[1] https://covid19-projections.com/infections/us-sd

[2] https://www.usnews.com/news/health-news/articles/2020-10-05/...

[3] https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/cases-updates/burd...

[4] https://www.statista.com/statistics/1104645/covid19-testing-...
"The infamous Crocodile of Wall Street" lol.

They certainly thought an awful lot of themselves - it's fascinating to dig into their public facing digital trail. If they played by the rules they'd have been living large as part of the .001% of the world.

They bought themselves a giant lead brick and chained themselves to it. It'd be sad if it weren't so stereotypically comical.
got to love HN's unwritten rules.
It's a nice line of thought, but I think there's a lot of existing work that's should be investigated. Essentially, it seems like another "wouldn't it be nice if everything were written in $LANG, even the OS?".

Erlang is mentioned as an example, since its VM certainly offers many features we'd like from an OS. Maybe comparisons to Smalltalk, LISP machines and even regular UNIX shells should be offered.

It's likely that all this has been done before, and I'm tempted to think that its major problems would stem from having too much power in the config language. For example, I'd imagine you could do this with SysV init's runlevels and shell scripts, but it would be pretty horrible. What would make the language du jour any less horrible?

Also related is, of course, the Nix ecosystem: Nix package management, NixOS configuration management, NixOps provisioning, DisNix distributed services, etc.
> Likely to be compensated for by new state laws.

Police departments may lobby for "agency keeps the proceeds" state laws, but because states usually are constitutionally required to balance their budgets, they are reluctant to move general fund things out to dedicated funds, and if the feds are moving in part due to public outcry over the practice, the same pressure out to be able to be brought on states if they start to consider mirroring the discontinued federal practice.
beside legacy cobol, wordpress plugins were the most horrendous code i've ever seen. dead code I should say since quite often half of it was left commented in the official running source.
On the network level, seems to have missed the ARP protocol entirely. Didn't seem to mention the function of the multiple routers between client and server, the calculations of netblock and subnet mask, role of firewalls between client and host, etc, etc.

Probably missing off the top of my head at least 100 steps. If you sat down to write a paper on it he's probably missing closer to 1,000 discrete units of work in the overall process.
Matias! http://matias.ca

I use Mini as my daily keyboard (http://matias.ca/minitactilepro/mac/)

The upcoming Ergo Pro looks great (if pricy) http://matias.ca/ergopro/pc/
I only read a bit of that I drifted off recalling when I first started using the Internet in the early 1990s and started communicating with people around the world.

I'm from a small town and never travel so it was a real eye opener for me. Of course I knew about the world, time zones and all that jazz I was excellent in geography and live maps, the world, cultures.

What I quickly realized is it's nearly impossible to have any relationship with a person who doesn't isn't in your time zone. Even e-mail is awkward since you know it's going off to someone who won't see it until they are awake, have time to read it, want to respond or may wait a few days.

It's like another world, I'd hate to see what happens when we discover intelligent life in a place where light takes years to reach.
There is another paper, XStream from SOSP 2013, which ran a facebook sized graph on a single machine. I wonder what is "hot" in this HotOS submission?
Based on the text quoted in the article, I think it's relevant to note that traffic can't be prioritized "based on compensation or lack thereof by the sender to the broadband Internet access service provider." I may be reading it wrong, but to me that says specifically that ISPs can't hold content providers hostage for payments, but says nothing about throttling end users' access to content.
As long as you're doing your training offline and shipping the resulting learned models, I don't see this is a big risk. If you're planning on shipping software that can learn online, then sure, use something else for that, or ask for a better deal from FB.

I wonder what would happen if every company offered patented algorithms under these terms. Still wouldn't stop patent trolls, I'd guess.
As someone who has suffered as Daylight Savings Time has blasted his programming kingdom, I'd give DST the boot first.
I JUST (today) build from source on github and got this:

mono -V
Mono JIT compiler version 3.4.0 (master/8f2d3ea Wed Feb 26 11:59:41 EST 2014)
Copyright (C) 2002-2014 Novell, Inc, Xamarin Inc and Contributors. www.mono-project.com
TLS: __thread
SIGSEGV: altstack
Notifications: epoll
Architecture: amd64
Disabled: none
Misc: softdebug
LLVM: supported, not enabled.
GC: sgen
I'd rather use that space to have a bigger lens and then carry around interchangeable lenses.
I wonder what percentage of Baidu users read English rather than just Chinese.
It is clear cut though. What we call the Democratic party today used to be called the Republican party. It has zero connection to today's Republicans.
> you don't learn math by pouring over the text and reading page after page. You read something and try to understand it. You play with it, you stand up, take a walk and try to work out why something is the way it is, think of examples, try to clear up what you don't quite get.

Absolutely this. Math is a not a spectator sport, you can't acquire the skill and knowledge by reading. You must engage with it, fence with it, wrestle with it, make it your friend and spend time with it.

I remember not so long ago playing with some equations and accidentally proving Pythagoras' Theorem. It wasn't new, it wasn't deep, but it was satisfying, in much the same way as getting code to perform as you want, accomplishing some task in an elegant way.

But if you don't spend the time, you'll never get the insight(s).
I will link you to the backpack/EDC rabbit hole that is: http://www.carryology.com/

The Bellroy backpacks look very nice: https://bellroy.com/
+1 for Mullvad. Been using them since the beginning but never used their support so can't comment on that. One thing that bugged me was the general instability of Mullvad vs others, a few years ago connections would often drop or become extremely slow. For the last two years this seems to have been massively improved.

Connection dropping is one of the major issues with any commercial VPN provider. I recommend to create a script which runs openvpn and immediately after that "ip link eth0 down" to prevent leaks.
What chip (family) would you use instead if firmware protection is important to your application?
> Actions speak louder than words.

Umm, your entire comment was pointing out how embarrassingly loud words can be, and therefore how it was better just to take a quiet action.
This is ridiculous. Facebook bans photos of nursing mothers. The average person already doesn’t have the “right to free speech” in the absolute sense on Facebook. So why does Facebook moderate hints of nudity but not holocaust denial? It’s a choice. That’s not to mention that most other ad companies would refuse to run a holocaust denier ad.

Also ads are “special” on Facebook. They show up on your wall whether you want them or not, while normal content from your friends goes through an algorithmic sphincter. In a sense Facebook is already limiting the free speech of normal users by putting their speech through some kind of “engagement” black box. Meanwhile, if you have money, you get to say whatever you want to whomever you want.
Funnily enough, I'm one of the people mentioned in this article, and we're a 3 person startup making this real.
I am using this plugin inside an iPad app doing panoramic interior shots. Took some playing around to get it a little bit smoother. Didn't have much time to do it natively for the initial version but it works well, I've left it in.
When I first started to become computer savvy, Stallman had already moved into the activist stage, and further away from programming. I had always heard that he was a great programmer. But, I've never actually seen any code he's written. The earliest software versions I can find on gnu.org's FTP are from 1994--I'm guessing most of the projects had multiple contributors by this time.

Anyone happen to know where some pure Stallman code can be found?
Go is a garbage collected language: http://golang.org/doc/go_faq.html#garbage_collection
What's leaning ownership?
Make sense!

That fails my solution!
I don't think this strategy is unethical; it is really risky... probably so risky that it's naive for the long term.

It's not unethical because the buyer in this case can't really buy up all of the supply and therefore is just looking for arbitrage opportunities or opportunities to exploit weaknesses in a competitors business model.

The opportunities, over time, are very limited though:

1) You can't actually buy up all of the supply. If you were able to buy all of the listed supply and then reset the price you'd soon attract other sellers who had previously unlisted supply.

2) If there was real demand for an extremely high priced book I'd guess the author or publisher would be releasing a new version to meet the demand.

3) Although some printing of books are considered to be collectible, that market is limited. Generally the value of the book is the information it provides, which means that as the price rises the (perhaps less informative) substitutes become more appealing to buyers.

4) If you exploit a competitor's pricing algorithm enough to make them notice, they'll just change their algorithm. In this case, perhaps they don't sell you the books or they don't respond to your prices.

You might be able to make a few bucks on this strategy, maybe a few people could even eke out a living, but it would be risky... they'd earn it.
Almost need an availability zone built for a failure event that otherwise sees little use, or just spot use. So then you can assume that the people on it need the same resources their live implementation is taking up before failure so there is no overload when the failure occurs.
Thankfully, there's Old Glory for protection against such things: http://www.hulu.com/watch/2340/saturday-night-live-old-glory
Well yes, reduced road wear is not the primary advantage of super singles. The contact area is slightly larger, which can help slightly (things such as total load and outside dimensions and speed being equal—if you like, it can allow a slightly lower tire pressure). It’s still in the same ballpark, as you say, but it should slightly improve road wear characteristics.
What is to stop Facebook from making a picture show up all fuzzy and then tell the user that they should opt-in to tracking to get the highest resolution pictures.
you could see this as a case of apple using their monopoly powers to drive another company out of business. This whole thing seems quite deliberate on the part of Apple. They have taken the applaudable step of prioritising user privacy, and i'm not a conspiracy theorist... BUT i assume that apple will never do something if it won't ultimately help the bottom line. I'm going to invest in some popcorn and see how this plays out.
The problem is that Google is removing services that are key to Chromium use for many users. I wouldn't consider this locking down, or removing services (though it is technically that). Instead I would consider it cutting Chromium off at the knees.

I suspect, but have no evidence, that this is in reaction to Microsoft basing the newest version of their browser on Chromium.

The solution is to use an Open Source browser, such as Firefox or some other alternative. That's going to require more developers though to pitch in and help get feature parity in their favorite Open Source browser.

I also have some concerns there, as the Firefox CEO Mitchell has said Mozilla tends to focus more on money. We've seen indicators of that recently with sponsored search. I remember the old AOL Browser and AOL Email, and the ads. I hope not, but could see Mozilla implementing ads in the Firefox UI area.

What I'd like to see is a browser that is built of swappable components working around a browser microkernel consisting of a web engine (Servo?), a JavaScript engine (Deno?), a plugin framework that works via messaging and can support various msg protocols (with two ref impls:ZeroMQ and Matrix). Think something like the Eclipse RCP, but for the Browser and Web browsing.

If this sounds interesting, send me a message. That's not an ad, I am interested in gauging the interest in a project like that.
No, I meant "(1) functional state of folded proteins being an exact match with the lowest energy conformational state that it's linear amino acid order allows"

This is untrue.
I'm not sure either. Minimum wage in Japan (2019) was about $8.50 USD/hour, and working 40 hours/week at that rate would be about $17,000 USD/year. My guess is they are not working 40 hours every week, or they have signed contracts that pay them less than minimum wage.

I wish the article had been clearer about this. I'm sure animators in Japan work really hard and aren't paid much, but while the article made it clear how I should feel about the situation, it left me uninformed on the details, which would seem the more important part of a news article.
Very true, and very bad, but not the same thing as selling the data themselves.
It's easy to understand once you realize it's a propaganda outlet. We have smart minds doing their best to tell a particular story regardless of facts. Here is some good reading on the phenomena https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/145660.The_Captive_Mind
Yes. It's no longer a secret that Google has begun to share ad-revenue with oem's. Fortunately, Microsoft is in no position to do so.
Talked to him in person. No source.
Comparison to a disorder doesn't seem to be going over so well. Well, yeah.

But I look for these little optimizations all over the place; it's entertaining. Oddly enough, I'm more successful when off the computer. Like, I can optimize the #$%^ out of unloading the dishwasher, but trying to come up with a 20-second task while I'm coding doesn't often work out. Besides, if I'm working and I have a > 1 minute break, it's more beneficial for me to close my eyes, lean back and just zoom out to make course adjustments.

It's not actually a positive thing for me to fill in every bit of empty space -- the pauses serve a purpose (though admittedly, our build/deploy/test cycle currently is too long, and this is harmful).

But if I'm making tea, I know the tap takes a bit over 5 seconds to run a mug's worth of water, so I can fill the kettle just enough with my right hand, while the left one chooses what tea I'm going to use from the cabinet overhead.
What are you looking for relative to what Gmail offers?

Just the idea I can host it myself, I guess. All the NSA/Prism stuff also plays a role. Last time I set up Postfix/Dovecot/Spamassassin etc it took me a while to get it working properly and I'm still not even sure it is really secure (let alone I can define what 'secure' would be).
A counter example, at least for me. I hate Hate HATE forms that try to force me to type a date, phone number, credit card number, etc into some specifically formatted form and prevent me from typing letters. Why?

Problem #1: I type often. My fingers know when I've made a mistake and correct it immediately. But on a number only input field I type 456A<del>7 and because the form wasn't letting me type letters I get just 457 instead of 4567. Now I have to correct yet another mistake that was forced on me

Problem #2: Delete almost never works correctly. There's a CC form [xxxx][xxxx][xxxx][xxxx]. I type want to type 123456789... I type 1235<del>4. I now have [1235][4...] instead of [1234][....]

Problem #4: Paste almost never works. I have my info somewhere. I copy 123456789... I paste I get [1234][....][....][....] or I copy 1234-5678-9... and paste and I get an error. "No dashes allowed" or I get some other crap.

Problem #5: Copy rarely works because I can't select all fields since they've been separated.

Problem #6: 95%-99% of the time tab goes to the next place in the form but many custom forms move to the next field automatically so I type a phone number 111-222-3333 and then press tab but because the custom form assumed the moment I typed the last 3 that it would be helpful to automatically go the next field I'm now two fields ahead.

You could possibly fix #2, #4 and #5 but I'd prefer just a blank field, no mucking with the input system. If you want to display some live status while I'm typing just outside the form on whether my input is correct or not yet that's fine but please don't mess up my typing muscle memory.

I'd be really curious if anyone has done any serious testing on these fancy custom input "helpful" forms vs simpler plain text areas.

Yet another is how about just accepting the user's input and checking if it could be what you need. For example when taking a CC card, let me type WWWWXXXXYYYYZZZZ or WWWW XXXX YYYY ZZZZ or WWWW.XXXX.YYYY.ZZZZ or WWWW-XXX-YYYY-ZZZZ or even WWWW XXXX YYYY ZZZZ. Check if you can turn that into 16 digits. If so assume it's correct. Don't force me to do it what's easy for the computer. I might have it in some other format and I want to copy and paste it. Or I might just find it easier to space out because I can then read it and more easily check for mistakes. For example accept a US phone number in XXX-YYY-ZZZZ instead of forcing me to XXXYYYZZZZ
The time I'm least likely to have my phone with me is when doing things like starting the laundry, or starting the dishwasher, or grabbing the last soda in the fridge, or similar stuff around the house, where I may have left the phone somewhere else in the house.

Pretty much every other time the phone will be in my pocket and the value would be less. But even then it'd mean fishing my phone out, unlocking, starting an app instead of just pushing a button. Not torture by any means, but if I can just stick a button there and not have to think about it again, then awesome.
Why all of this talk about a dystopian future? I can choose to refill on a particular brand of paper towels without giving up my right to choose what I eat. This entire thread is full of absurdity.
Roku TVs have had this from the start. When you first setup (or factory reset) the TV, you can choose to not connect it to a network. In that state, neither WiFi or Ethernet are routable, so no data leaves the TV. The TV does broadcast a private WifI network used for pairing RF remotes. Roku releases USB updates for the TVs periodically, usually a little while after a major release has been released over the network to all units, but those updates usually aren't needed for unconnected use unless there's some issue with OTA reception or HDMI that were found in the field.
The burden of proof would be on you to prove Apple is using third parties to track its users in that case. Without proof it's just a goofy conspiracy theory.

My first question would be... why? What's their motivation?

Facebook has to track users to make money, it's their entire business model.

The same is not true of Apple, who make almost all their profits from hardware sales and are worth over $2 trillion.

Going out of their way to get a third party to secretly spy on users on their behalf sounds like far more effort and risk than it's worth to me. It's not like they're desperate for extra cash.

And it's not like it'd be impossible to find out if it was indeed the case. iOS gets reverse engineered all the time. I can see all the traffic my iPhone sends through my DNS logs. If this hypothetical third party was embedded in iOS spying on user activity, it'd be spotted quite easily and quickly.

So I ask again, why would Apple do that? Aside from being a total PR nightmare it'd be straight up illegal.

I trust Apple because I don't see what reason they have to lie when they've built a multi-trillion dollar business without tracking their users already.
The purpose of something and the incentives it creates often do not overlap, hence the pervasive unintended consequences caused by government policy, corporate policies, and rules of all kinds. I do not see a logical argument one could make that taxes are not an incentive, certainly there is no such argument in this comment.

Anything you tax you should be ready to have less of, and anything you subsidize you should expect to have more of.
"A district analysis of the program found that more than 70 percent of students enrolled in the program were white and Asian, even though nearly 80 percent of all Boston public school students are Hispanic and Black."
"The program was open to all students in the Boston Public Schools who took a test known as Terra Nova in the third grade and received a high score."
"Last fall, 453 students received invitations, 143 students applied and 116 enrolled this year, officials said."
"Cassellius says interest in the program had declined over several years and only five schools currently offered the program"

So, in summary, about ~25% of invited students enroll in the program, i.e. parents aren't interested in their kids taking this program, it's dying out anyway, undoubtedly costs money, and those that are interested in the program are vastly, disproportionately white and asian. I think bringing up racism might be a bit inflammatory. I think it's safer to say, though, that the program isn't desirable to anyone, and particularly undesirable to minorities. And yes, they should have an enrichment program that people find worth taking.