skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If I had a system that I booted in UEFI mode, I could tell you, but all of my hardware (even the ones running UEFI) boot OSs in BIOS mode.

Despite the fact that they're primarily a systemd distro, Arch Linux strongly recommends that you mount efivarfs in ro mode and remount rw when doing kernel upgrades.

GRUB2 seems to use efibootmgr to write stuff to EFI, and efibootmgr appears to lack a "detect if efivarfs is mounted ro and temporarily mount it rw" switch, so you have to do that manually too.

Gentoo's Genkernel-next doesn't seem to do anything at all with EFI.

Dracut (one of RedHat's initrd management tools) looks like it reads from efivarfs, but does not write to it. (But there's a lot of code in Dracut, so it's entirely possible I missed something.)

It's not entirely clear to me that you can't use BIOS boot with a GPT-formatted disk if your bootloader supports that sort of thing. It's also not clear to me whether or not chainloading from GRUB into Windows is supported with a BIOS/GPT partitioning scheme.

Regardless, it's a pity that the UEFI design committee apparently thought that requiring one to write data into the motherboard's persistent storage in order to boot into a OS was a reasonable thing to do.
China is budgeting this plan to catch up to the US' industry by about 2030. Is there any chance that within the next 15 years, traditional semiconductor chips will become replaced by something else (whatever that may be)?
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Google are investing quite a bit.
I am not 100% sure I understand your description, but if you want standard drop-in-replacement for linked lists, you want the array deque. It can do fast insertion and deletion at both ends.
The only operation it cannot do is O(1) deletion of any element, even in the middle, that you have an iterator to. But in my experience it is rare that you need that.
So, if I'm understanding you correctly, you think the way to advance your career is to spend 20% of your time working on unsanctioned side projects in work time, writing code that will be owned by your employer that you can't publish legally without permission, all the while taking longer to do your assigned tasks and looking like you slack off for a day a week? And you think that if that gets you fired you'll move up your career ladder? Would you seriously hire someone who'd done that?

I wouldn't do that. I'd take some of my spare time, a few weekends, to document the idea and maybe hack together a prototype, and take that to "the right people". If they're going to be happy with the project then it's better to do it without pissing off everyone else.
Gambling is usually a business run by states as it is like an extra voluntary tax.
Usually the returns are lower than in private run lotteries to make it less appealing, so the final result is that it is heavily taxed. Also there are laws that limit how much advertisements you can do.
Banning gambling doesn't looks like it works, people continues gambling in worst conditions. Letting the state control it allows for more control and it is less profit oriented as social issues are taken into account.
I find it a really good solution to the problems that gambling has. And it allows people that does responsible gambling for fun to do it.
I imagine if hn grows any bigger it will become like reddit. It's the smalltown vs big city mentality.
In no particular order:

Nuclear fusion
Hyperloop
Hypersonic engines
Cancer
Antibiotics replacement
Optimisation / simplification of tax code
Crop yields, artificial meat
Diplomatic solutions to ethnic/sectarian tensions
This comment is appalling, and so are most of the posts under it.
Eh, I'd rather have TouchDown's UI than anything 'Material'. But I might use it for a second account, I need to look into it more.
That's funny, psychologically it seems much easier to accept 1 day per week spent on side projects. But a whole block of 2 weeks to work on whatever you want sounds really crazy, even if it's after 8 weeks of regular work. It sounds like it would work a lot better though, context switching can be a real pain.
So in a similar vein, why bother with alias rm='rm -i' at all?
To me most of these suggestions seem like awesome things but not logical fits for "research". I think the key question is not "what is awesome" but instead "what projects would be a better fit for YC Research than for a startup". For example, areas where an open standard would be great, but right now it seems like companies are bickering and trying to control it.

Bitcoin is one example of this. So is the IoT space, both in APIs and in actual hardware designs.

Another situation is things that are fundamentally valuable yet unprofitable. Like drugs that are out of patent and have multiple uses but are not FDA approved for all those uses. Or figuring out how to make more existing research actually public and shared as widely as possible.

Another situation is areas where the existing research establishment is busted. Reproducibility is a big one here. Try finding articles in Nature or Science that you can't reproduce and then make a big stink about their results being false.

Overall though I think every answer to this question should include an answer to, "why is this a better fit for YC Research than for a new startup".
Apple acquires Flyby media – a VR company
I also had the same initial reaction, but also keep in mind that these guys are paying your salary. You are literally there to serve the company in exchange for money. If your manager wants to make your 20% time more structured, then so be it. It's not free time, it's just a block of time set aside for research, experimenting, and innovation. You're still being paid for it, and it's not like you're being asked to work overtime or during your lunch break. If you want a lot of free time, then you can find a part-time freelance job and work from home.
I can't even figure out what language it's in

Glider Pro is written in C (.c files), Glider 4 in Pascal (.p files). Github gets confused by the resource files, which are data files in a specific format used by Mac OS Classic: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resource_fork
Can't help but promote my own beliefs and ideas here a bit. I have started integrating some sustainability concepts and technologies together into something I call a tiny village. I am hoping to spread the ideas and maybe have people use many of these ideas in real developments someday. It is all open source (work in progress) http://runvnc.github.io/tinyvillage
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I hope there will also be room for researchers to pitch their own ideas. This more focused approach that you've been pursuing certainly has it's advantages, but I'm guessing that the researchers themselves will also have ideas that you (and HN) won't have thought of before.

(I know you're just starting to build out YCR, so I won't be surprised if it takes a while to get to the stage where you can do this. But still, I wanted to put the idea out there.)
Working on what's important rather than what you're told to work on assumes that you know what's important and that no one else is working on the important project.

Saying "this project isn't important enough for someone like me" won't just annoy your manager. It'll annoy everyone, because someone else will have to pick up the work you dropped. You'll get the reputation for being awful to work with, and that is toxic to your career.
classic Id
Android/Linux could become tomorrow Android/BSD or Android/QNX, Android/Almost POSIX Kernel and only OEMs and people using undocumented APIs would notice.
It's a great place to keep up to date with industry news and to engage with people who you would normally never have a chance to connect with.
Interesting. Would you do it for animals too? It would suck to live for 400 years but your dog dies in only 10.

How would people remember everything?
How would you spend all that time?
What would everyone do?

Is this just for rich people or do poor people get to live for centuries too?

Haven't done the math but if 8 billion people lived for say 500 years each, plus new arrivals constantly, wouldn't we accumulate rather?

What about fertility? Should there be a window on that?
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I just tried it out, it's nice to have all the videos two clicks from my home screen! Thanks :)
>will it stifle progress by removing incentives for inventors?

my guess is it will pressure companies who currently hold on to their secrets without innovating (because they are the incumbent) to start innovating. If your competitors are on an even playing field with you, the only way to survive is to innovate.
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I dunno. What's the use of anything, really?
>you are socially obligated to follow everyone you know with a feed

Not a chance. Only true on Facebook but that is easily taken care of by ruthlessly unfollowing/hiding all but your highest value connections.
I'm reminded of this Ribbonfarm essay whenever news about Aaron comes up:

http://www.ribbonfarm.com/2015/09/17/how-to-be-a-precious-sn...

I think Aaron Swartz's life & death continues to fascinate us because many of us see something in him that we wish we could protect in ourselves. He's the ur-snowflake to all of us clods. It would be nice to live in a world of free access to information, universal compassion, freedom from power hierarchies, and everything that he stood for. It's just not very practical, when content creators need to eat and people have differing desires that are often at odds and reality needs to choose between multiple competing desires.
> Humans need more lifespan, badly.

> Do we?

Yes, we do. Categorically. If you would prefer to die, then speak for yourself.

And of course, no one wants a longer life if they're miserable. We need to solve poverty as well.
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Quantum Computing.
What about a serious attempt at an apprenticeship model, similar to the one used in Europe for students who don't go to "university"?
$100Billion seems a little small, to be honest
People learned the hard way what good UI was for this sort of thing -- by having bank clients complain about ATMs eating their card after they took the money and left the card in the slot.

I know, I was one of those before my bank got newer, smarter ATMs.
The educational strategy that’s turning students into unimaginative robots
I read it and it's a great overview of the different kinds of bugs that happen in the real world. Certainly more examples than the article provided. But your comment seems to be focused more about how a good language with a proper type system can prevent bugs from happening in the first place which is a definitely a good point but not what this article was getting at I think.
Poll: Do you have 20% time?
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Indeed. It should be exposed the standard way you expose functionality in Linux -- with a D-Bus API.
This is the way to go. This is a tragedy of the commons situation. Gambling creates a lot of problems that are not paid by the companies or individuals participating, but by the society at large. The heavy taxing and limited advertising makes a lot of sense so the industry is accounted for all that hidden costs.
Gambling addiction is a real issue that harms families and communities. If the gambling industry doesn't takes care of that paying higher taxes, that same communities are the ones dealing with that extra cost. A social lose-lose situation.
For me an ever better solution is state owned gambling. It is much more controlled and it is harder to open loopholes for abusing it using bribes, historically a common thing with this kind of industry.
hence the research. Yes - I have been following people like Layne Norton, Lyle Macdonald, etc. for years. And Crossfit has a huge number of critics for its program. It would be see results of research on a safer, better program/diet.
Created https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11001029, probably hit the dead time on HN though.
Look at how Intel stifled and basically destroyed AMD using various underhanded tactics. Please. Any country should try to beg, borrow, and steal its way to global parity. It's after all the American way.

Then when they have parity and we have real competition, it will accelerate progress.
> That might be enough money to reverse engineer Intel's 14nm chipsets.

Maybe, but by that time Intel will be on 7nm technology. Intel isn't holding still, they are improving technology rapidly.
Victim of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_principle
Given my experience on the enterprise, you can still use the present form.

Although I do like gated checkins in TFS without having to roll our own solutions.
True that. It sucks that the people at the top use the government to stifle innovation for everyone else.

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

Edit: The context for the Chip Protection Act is actually in Intel's primary wikipedia page:

"During the late 1980s and 1990s (after this law was passed), Intel also sued companies that tried to develop competitor chips to the 80386 CPU.[32] The lawsuits were noted to significantly burden the competition with legal bills, even if Intel lost the suits.[32] Antitrust allegations had been simmering since the early 1990s and had been the cause of one lawsuit against Intel in 1991. In 2004 and 2005, AMD brought further claims against Intel related to unfair competition."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intel
Bottom up self assembled nanofabrics? Yeah but don't think that the US is necessarily going to be the place those show up first.
> it should most certainly not be treated as inevitable.

What life never dies?

What non-living thing does not change?
Just making sure that most of userspace still compiles for PPC is probably worth the effort for Apple, to ensure the code remains portable. Maintaining the platform-specific intricacies of the language runtime and kernel-space stuff would be a drag, and it's probably difficult to maintain the hardware necessary to test it all on, but that may not be required to keep Rosetta working.
In only 15 years? In a way that's faster and cheaper for general purpose computing than semiconductors will be in 15 years?

Doubt it.
How about checking into the use of optogenetics to build a universal, minimally invasive neural interface? We have optogenetic treatments that make nerve cells responsive to and emissive of light. Can we treat nerve cells to transmit and receive light over a fiber optics, letting us bridge gaps in existing neural paths? something like that night go a long way to healing all sorts of neural degenerative disease, and possibly deal with paralysis as well.

Perhaps eventually something along the lines of plug and play hardware for humans, if you can come up with some sort of universal spec for it.
You could also say that's 4 comparisons vs. 2 comparisons. Not the end of the world, but what if you have one additional level of nesting?

if a:
if b:
if c:
if d:
if e:
if f:
if g:

Vs.

if a and b and c:
if a and b and d:
if a and e and f:
if a and e and g:

Or would you perhaps find

if a and b and c:
if d and b and a:
if e and a and f:
if g and e and a:

Or

if e and f and a:
if c and b and a:
if g and a and e:
if d and a and b:

In any case, now you have 12 comparisons vs. 3 comparisons. (Though this is not entirely comparable to CSS, since selector order is somewhat more restricted.)
Legalize insider trading; It'll fix/solve HFT;
Well, I think his issue was with the word "need".

Wanting more lifespan is a different thing. The claim that most people want to live longer is not as controversial as the claim that most people need to live longer.
Legalize insider trading; It'll fix HFT;
Be warned, the legal stuff there is a very high level overview. I personally would hesitate to give such a lecture for fear of people walking away with too much confidence. I've seen too many think they can get away with downloaded contracts and advice from lawyers they saw at conferences. Remember that the people giving you money have their own lawyers, good ones, to protect their interests.
I stand by my comment. I'm sorry if it sounds rude, but Woodward really is not an investigative journalist today and has not been for more than a decade (to be generous). It is an insult to the profession to put him in that category, and I'd argue that most investigative journalists today look at him as the person not to become. Hence my surprise. He could have named Bernstein, or Hersh, or a thousand others who did not become vanilla political insiders as soon as they could.

It's like saying "great kernel hackers like Bill Gates", when he has not written a line of code in 20 years. I would find that association really curious, wouldn't you?
No 115K is not insane. H1B workers ought to get higher wages because of the below -

1. Spouses of H1B workers (H4) cannot work. Most spouses of H1B are well qualified advanced degree holders. Currently they idle their productive ages sitting at home. The H1B worker has to look after his/her home with a single source of income.

How will you feel as a citizen if someone restricts your spouse from having a job, though he/she is well qualified with advanced degrees ? How will the spouses feel when they are restricted by this 'out of the world' rule that spouse of an H1B cannot work ? How is this different from the Saudis that women can't drive cars ?

2. H1B workers cannot have a secondary source of income. So he/she has to do with a single income source unlike others who can work multiple jobs.

3. H1B workers pay social security and medicare for nothing. H1B is a 6 year visa. Why should H1B workers pay social security & medicare tax when they are allowed to work only for 6 years ? They do not have any use of these taxes. They will not be present in US at the age of 65 to reap the benefits of these taxes that they pay. So a higher salary will compensate this unnecessary loss for an H1B worker.

4. H1B workers cannot make a job change very easily, nor can they switch jobs if they are fired. They should immediately leave the country (imagine vacating the apartment,selling car,taking kids out of their school) else face deportation.

So 115K is not insane, it's a minimum. H1B workers ought to get paid more because they are losing a lot by these draconian restrictions imposed upon them by the H1B system.
I get that thought every time I do archaeology on the work of memory safe systems programming languages (Burroughs B5000), the Cedar/Interlisp-D/Smalltalk environments at Xerox PARC, Oberon environments at ETHZ and other similar research.

The programming world would look much different (for the better) if Lisp Machines had succeed instead of UNIX workstations.
Can I run Firefox on Wayland without X, i.e., without XWayland or some other compatibility layer which includes most of X's source code files?

If so, do you know where I can download it?

>turning ChromeOS into a full linux distribution defeats the point of ChromeOS itself: to have very few "moving parts".

Just because that is why Google created ChromeOS does not mean that those of us uninterested in Google's vision cannot bend it or parts of it to other purposes. It is after all distributed under open-source licenses.
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I'm going to be 45 in a few years. Your ageism is a big problem.

The thing is, as artificial general intelligence advances, everyone is going to be left behind. Give it 4-6 decades. Anyone essentially Human 1.0 at that point will be irrelevant.

But a few decades out, you can count on your OWN skills to become outdated, and regardless of whether you are a motivated learner or faster learner, it will quickly become very difficult for anyone to keep up. Even the young.
Tablet computers were available for 10 years before the iPad came out. They certainly brought the category mainstream but a long way from invented it.
Intel was already forced to a joint venture and share technology (Atoms for time being) with Rockchip/Spreadtrum. It was either that or facing huge fines for price dumping (Qualcomm had similar troubles and paid >1B in fines). Of course officially its just a cost cutting measure and pure Intel win, they dont have to sell below cost and gain tablet SoC maker as a client, but you have to wonder.

btw this year Intel switched to selling radio modules below cost, so you can expect china forcing them to another deal in a year or two.
They all count differently depend on the news they are trying to sell.
Plastic

https://semiaccurate.com/2015/11/18/arm-charts-path-printed-...

These aren't better than silicon, but they probably will be close enough shortly.

After that, Moore's Law should go operational. And these have a huge advantage in terms of non-recurring expense.

Think taking all of the "maker" stuff but creating a chip instead of a PCB.
My guess is neither.

Sure, you can copy the designs, but will you have the knowledge to modify them? Just playing catch up all the time has a major cost.

Think about code. Sure, people copy designs and code, but it's still hard. And even if you have problem X, and Intel doesn't, it could be for many reasons apart from transistor Y they have in the same general vicinity that you don't.

In a way, the blatant copying is good because it means that the Chinese industry has to go through less iterations to get up to speed. Hopefully the end result is a healthy environment with multiple players trying to out-innovate each other.
Was thinking about this whilst watching Marco Polo on Netflix the other day. China gave the western world so much of it's tech, science and culture within the last millennium. How the tables have turned. I'd put it down to karma.

In general I think it will accelerate humanity's technological progress. Looking on an individual level the most impactful inventors weren't motivated by monetary reward (e.g. Tesla). If you are a true inventor it is a tap you cannot turn off. If you are a bro who is in it for the money chances are you will not invent anything particularly ground breaking. The major concern here is that it's the bros who control the capital.
This is a social problem, not a technical one.
See also ubjson (http://ubjson.org/) which is quite nice because it is a simple format that manages to be quite concise and extensible.

An interesting feature is support for strongly typed arrays and objects. This lets you embed binary data as-is by specifying it as an array of uint8.
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> That might be enough money to reverse engineer Intel's 14nm chipsets.

Intel's advantage isn't their design (which was always generally one or two generations behind the best). Consequently, there is no point is reverse engineering it.

Intel's primary advantage is their manufacturing has always been stellar.
This is very interesting and I think there might be something here with this idea.

It looks like you might run/work there. Is your "Frank" on the affiliate program just an example or a real person?

Another question I have is about the legality of it. Are these technically employees or contractors?
I believe that Ikea had a model home that they were building that was a practical minimal shelter. Perhaps there are ways to extend that?

Also, I remember that there were a few companies in China and Australia that were experimenting with 3d printing of concrete homes. Perhaps that could use a little help as well?
How does it compare to UBJSON?
As far as I can see rkt has made no effort to implement the opencontainers spec, unlike docker. Meanwhile Docker is implementing all the pieces you are asking for, eg containerd and runc are standalone runtime parts which will break up the monolithic structure, using the spec.
The Paul Principle (corollary to The Peter Principle)