skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
... As the area of sub-700mb atmospheric pressure slid over the Tetons and down into the Yellowstone Caldera, an enormous weight was lifted. Like a curious bear pushing aside the stone on the lid of a bottomless box swarming with a quadrillion angry bees, a trillion tons of ash exploded into the stratosphere. Within hours, half of humanity lay sprawled under a smothering blanket of doom ...
Okay, but why do we need "software updates"? If the phone still works and is able to do the job what difference does it make?

I had a Moto G for over 3 years that cost $150 in 2014 and which continued to work perfectly with zero updates (Android 4.4) during that period.

It finally died last month when I tried to recharge it on an USB cable that I wired backwards (on a motorcycle). Replaced it with a $120 Lenovo that's fantastic, does everything I could think of and more.

I think people who are ready to buy an iPhone for over $1000 would in fact pay any price; Apple should try to sell those for $2500 and see what happens.

For the rest of us, a $120 Android phone is more than enough.
Schliemann's case is not that simple, Calvert and Schliemann's work happened before Sir Mortimer Wheeler, Tessa Wheeler and their student Kathleen Kenyon transformed it from amateur antiquarianism to the systematic professional research field we now know. As Stuart Piggott later noted "Wheeler was looking for a professional job [in Archaeology] where the profession had yet to be created".
While your enthusiasm makes me smile, Lubuntu is not a microkernel[1]

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microkernel
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Any tips on how to do reasearch to find long tail keywords?
Hmm, let me try.

An internet poll suggests that Rick Astley's "Never Gonna Give You Up" shall be the new US national anthem.

The sampling bias is that everyone who doesn't use a computer often probably never came across the poll
I did build useful stuff yesterday. And I'm happy I never used any of the "additional tech". Because now that stuff still runs today and pays my bills.
Those features are supported in Webpack and other bundlers.

Code splitting:
https://webpack.js.org/guides/code-splitting/

Tree shaking:
https://webpack.js.org/guides/tree-shaking/
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> a few thousand seasonal workers year round.

You're vastly underestimating what sort of effects "peak season" has. UPS hires 95,000 temporary employees each year; FedEx hires 50,000. Amazon hires 120,000. Retail scales up similarly, but I'm less familiar with the industry.

"A few thousand" is how much single distribution centers scale up employment.
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I have an iPhone 6 (not 6s) and can still use pretty much "most applications that only support the newest OS".

The only things I can't do involve hardware-based features for things I don't have in my phone.
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> a small 40MB iOS app

What a sad, sad world we find ourselves to live in.
Wow, learned something new! I guess I never understood they existed :)

Good luck everyone!
Were they really the good old days?
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This is partly because of hardware manfacturers not supporting the latest version of Android. I think Google latest attempt to separate hardware drivers from Android itself should help a lot though the advantage will really be seen 2 years from now. If what Google is attempting works just like iOS and iPhone you will get the latest version of the OS barring a few hardware based features that your phone hardware doesn't support.
I wonder what phone Bill Gates uses nowadays!?! He said many times he's very loyal to MS but they have all but stopped making phones, so every choice left is a bad one...
Even then, there will always be lower-tier iPhones and lower-tier "other" devices that will be cheaper and work just fine for most people, just like most people only need a Corolla, Camry, Civic, etc. for their daily car needs and not necessarily the newest BMW 3 or 5 series, etc.
My Nokia from 2009 can handle it just fine. I still use it whenever i break yet another smartphone (written from Nokia 6303i).
Your statement is equally hyperbolic and unthinking.

For one, "they managed the entirety of Australia" implies uniformity and political unity which did not exist. Australia is huge. Some unlucky groups in the interior had to dig ten feet deep to get water, and travel between wells frequently while waiting for them to refill. And keep their locations a closely-guarded secret, because their lives depended on it. I wouldn't call that "easily-obtained subsistence."

In general, the notion that hunter gatherers have an easier time procuring food than completely sedentary farmers is very much up for debate.

Your assertion that Americans are "philosophically naive" compared to indigenous australians is also... unscientific, to say the least.

We should absolutely reject colonialist value judgements like those found in the grandparent, however, let's not substitute them for an equally simplistic noble savage narrative.
Actions like this always seems to weird to me.

Given the limited resources of government and the large number of people who need help, it seems strange to ration that aid on the basis of previously making a bad financial investment.
The main issue is that everything movable or deformable is going to get absolutely wrecked by vehicles, in short order.

Even old-fashioned speed bumps get severe ridges worn into them by vehicles that go too fast. They need to be repaired after a year or two. And even if that doesn't happen, they experience severe forces from wheels, every single day.

You (and the non-newtonian bump mentioned in the article) suggest basically a rubber bag filled with fluid. Instead of getting ridges worn into them, they're going to get punctured and destroyed.

There's a reason the system mentioned in the article is only shown in parking garages. It only works indoors (because of UV), and it only works at relatively low speeds, where the forces are lower, and the risk of undercarriage hits is very small.

I hate speed bumps, but it's extremely hard to find a workable alternative. Personally, I prefer chicanes.
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I can't ask my grand mother to know a private key. A physical document, if unforgeable, will do just fine. At the end of the day, all an ID card does is to outsource authentication to the government, which will do that regularly (every 5 to 10y) and issue an authentication token (the ID card) for third parties.
Programming is my hobby as well as my job. I don't think it's controversial to say that people can find plenty of time for their hobbies, even with a family; therefore, you would expect someone to have plenty of time for programming-as-a-hobby.
> I guess I just want to understand why there is a mistrust for professional scientists even on a site as technologically inclined as HN.

I think you are new to HN. There is a long history of healthy skepticism by the readers here of studies posted in a wide range of fields. Healthy skepticism, or at least, pointing out remarkable and hard-to-believe aspects of a reported study (as I did here), is quite commonplace all over HN.

In fact, if you read any of the nearly hundred other comments in this thread, you will see equal amounts of skepticism, some more verbose, some more terse, than what I expressed. Fortunately, you did not go and criticize those commenters also.

In the case of evolution, I was taught years ago in school that evolution is not a gradual and linear process, and that often very long stretches occur with zero evolutionary action, then a single evolutionary event causes a gigantic leap of changes in a species, a single spike, which then plateaus again for a long time another spike.

I am not an evolutionary scientist of course, but I was leaning on that, and layman's perception of evolution, in my comment.

I'm frustrated to have to point this out. What did you hope to accomplish by criticising my reaction to the article? Are we not all here to comment on our opinions and reactions to the items posted? Just because you do not agree with my particular reaction to the article does not mean you should make such wide assumptions about my own motivations (or those of any other reader you choose to attack in the future).
"To my knowledge, Facebook has never proactively sued anyone for infringing its patents."

That's not a good enough reason for developers or startups to give away legal power like that. Forgive me if I don't feel like waiting for them to turn evil.
How are you still getting security updates for the Nexus 5? The last security update they released was from October 2016.
I agree, it's not hard. However, I know some people who just can't grasp how to set up a mail account or even use Dropbox. For them, unlocking a bootloader is nigh on impossible.
Redox OS is a interesting project although it's not ready for prime time usage since it lacks applications.
https://www.redox-os.org/
Mac OS?
120 degrees Fahrenheit is pretty hot-that’s around the temperature of water in a water heater, and those have plenty of warning labels on them.
> Okay, but why do we need "software updates"? If the phone still works and is able to do the job what difference does it make?

Yes, maybe not updates as such but we certainly need security patches. Any network connected device does and phones are more connected than most, frequently sharing networks with strangers or friends that aren't tech savy enough to keep their environment secure..
> Browsers will catch up with what developers want.

Developers want everything from JavaScript to C++, Python and Haskell. There's no way a browser can specifically address all what developers want. Therefore browsers should become better virtual machines.

Edit: yup, WASM is a good start.
A QR code (of I presume a URL) would be even simpler to use but creates a big point of failure, as you need to secure a central server that contains the picture of every american and needs to be accessed publicly. We know how these things tend to end.

Whereas digital signing can be done in an offline, airtight system, as long as the public key is widely available.
AFAIK the Nexus 6P is still receiving updates.

I have one of those and an iPhone 7.
> This is different to soft drinks in other countries... how?

The US - along with a select few nations - was a pioneer when it comes to mass-consumer economics that leverage a relatively free market to deliver high quality goods to both rich and poor. It required a dramatic leap in productivity, manufacturing output, to get the scale necessary to drive prices down to such an extent. Ford's Model T was arguably the earliest, best example of that. Over eight years post introduction it went from $850 (6k unit sales) to $360 (577k unit sales), eventually bottoming out under $300 (and incomes climbed substantially over that ~16 year total period). Whether we're talking mass production soda, or cars, or radios, or kitchen appliances, the US was particularly a global pioneer at it from ~1880-1980.

> And, for the US with its HFCS coke, you can import the much better-tasting sucrose-coke

To be fair, that's a Warhol quote from 1975. At the time he said it, Coke was still using sugar in the US market. It was 1984 when Coke and Pepsi announced plans to switch to HFCS.
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The government is not in the business of selling your info?

Why is it then the government has setup massive databases of public information records that anyone to get a copy of for a nominal fee...

The government collects and sells more information about you than the credit reporting agencies do...

Hell the government is a large source of data FOR the credit reporting agencies, they correlate government data with data they get from Lenders.

Trusting the government is just as bad as trusting these companies
So do you want someone who is good at explaining how they are looking for the solutions, or someone who is good at finding the solution?
For me personally approaching a problem never involves a whiteboard.
> You make it sound like the MBP is a weighty piece of burden compared to a dainty T440 (use a T440 vs. haul a MBP.)

I made the mistake of buying a MBP to see what all the fuss was about and fantasize regularly about destroying it Office-Space style, "weighty piece of burden" is just about the nicest way you could put it
You must be from the valley if you think that a 1000 phone is economical. That is laughable.
Infosocialism is my favorite kind of socialism, because of how artificial intellectual property rights are in the first place. Since content is so easy to copy and benefit from, why not pay for it globally rather then trying to pay for it with artifical bounderies to create a fake market of monopolies? Of course, there are lots of problems in the idea, but the ideal is solid in all its forms.
The the dev team intensionally cripples their product's service efficiency when the user base adamantly calls them out for doing so, and meanwhile several of the core devs are being paid by a company which is developing it's own fix for the crippled transaction speeds of bitcoin.
For one, many of those specialists have indeed "put together a sensible conclusion for a publication".

They even have written articles and even books about their opinions on this manuscript (and others).

What they didn't do (well, what most didn't do, some did that too) was go ahead and shout to the media "we broke the code" when they had just as much and just as inconclusive information as any other.

The "generalist" just didn't have such qualms. It's not about him being brave enough to put 2+2 together when those pesky specialists (where he got all his knowledge from) failed to dare.
It's not your problem only in the sense that it shouldn't be your problem. E.g., in theory.

Some people can be quite belligerent about their FOSS entitlement. I've also seen folk publicly bash open source projects just because the license wasn't permissive enough, in their opinion (GPL vs. their darling I'll-bend-over-do-what-you-will-with-me BSD or MIT).

It can be hard to maintain poker face with "not my problem"... as hard as the "fuck you, pay me" proposed by the OP. The social pressure to give away your work for free is real, and humans are social animals. Just look at this thread.
> proven reliability

This. I buy iPhones because I know that every released version will be bought by several tens of millions. I don't want a smartphone that only a couple of million bought. If something is wrong with it I don't want to find a few unhappy souls on some forum complaining about the same thing, and a manufacturer that's already pushing ten new models.
The "Just works" feature is worth so much to people.

Obviously some of the the flagship android phones are also big sellers, and also tend to "just work" - but those also cost about the same as the iPhone.
US Consumer Products Safety Commission recommends 120F as maximum household hot water temperature, and says 5 minutes exposure can cause 3rd degree burns - https://www.cpsc.gov/s3fs-public/5098.pdf

Water at 120C would not be an ocean, it would be steam.
The post describes Facebook's motivation for their license, but personally, I don't care about their motivation, but about the fact that their license is anti-Open Source, anti-Free Software.

There's actually a big difference between the patents grant of a license like Apache 2.0 and FB's license and I quote (from Apache 2.0):

> "If You institute patent litigation against any entity (including a cross-claim or counterclaim in a lawsuit) alleging that the Work or a Contribution incorporated within the Work constitutes direct or contributory patent infringement, then any patent licenses granted to You under this License for that Work shall terminate as of the date such litigation is filed"

In other words the patents grant and its revocation is made explicitly in the context of "The Work" being licensed. So you can still sue a company like Facebook for unrelated projects and still be protected by the license.

By contrast Facebook's PATENTS license says that:

> "The license granted here under will terminate, automatically and without notice, if you (or any of your subsidiaries, corporate affiliates or agents) initiate directly or indirectly, or take a direct financial interest in, any Patent Assertion: (i) against Facebook or any of its subsidiaries or corporate affiliates ..."

Let me spell this out for you:

1. if Facebook infringes your IP, but you happen to use React, then you can't sue them without also risk infringing on their React-related IP and be counter-sued for it

2. their PATENTS creates a unidirectional relationship; when Facebook accepts your contributions, they are protected because MIT / BSD are said to have an "implicit patents grant" (which supposedly works in the US) due to the estoppel principle

Btw, Microsoft is taking steps to do what Facebook is doing as well. See for example how they are switching from Apache 2.0 to MIT and the disingenuous way they are communicating the change:

https://github.com/Microsoft/visualfsharp/issues/3440

But folks, this is not how Open Source or Free Software is supposed to work. When you release something as Open Source, you need to allow others to use your work as they wish (Freedom 0, or in OSI parlance, no discrimination against fields of endeavor).

Patent-encumbered software is NOT Open Source or Free Software.
> If the phone still works and is able to do the job what difference does it make?

Windows XP still works, but that doesn't mean I would accept my computer being locked to that version of Windows.

Security updates are important, but so is the fact that you might want to run software on it that doesn't work with an older Android version.
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I think a great architect knows when to use a battle-tested tool and when to roll-out his own. There is no shame in using something that has a great track record of not failing you. Building a blueprint is not about writing a new formula for a brick, but rather using the best brick on the market and focusing on making the building as usable and efficient as possible.

Honestly, I disagree with your statement. The tsunami of FOSS is sometimes an advantage as well, because people can easily migrate off of legacy architecture that they were hired to fix in the first place and pick one to our liking. Since I do not know your niche or how much experience you have, it's hard for me to guess whether you have worked as a contractor somewhere, but...

I had a guy re-inventing his own Celery with a single worker in the same thread as main process. Of course it failed spectacularly :) I then also had an example of someone deliberately not using already battle-tested auth libraries for social auth but creating his own and of course he managed to expose things that were not needed to the client app and the company got hacked. He spent a month building it, instead of just plugging in an already built library that is used in production by millions of people.

Another developer yet built his own framework which was never stable and costed the company tens of thousands of dollars for the three months it was in production (plus three for development).

These are not some small start-ups or dev-shops, but rather serious companies that had devs that were alumni of Big 4. I think I am not the only one with this experience.

For me that is heresy - similar to not using a great standard library in a any language, but rather building your own libs/wrappers. Now, I have nothing against modifying a library or optimizing it for your use case, however starting things from scratch is in my opinion a huge cost, unless your company has time and money to throw.
Whilst I am in favour of the optimisation of resources (and use these sources) we are willingly moving the "View Source" model to for profit entities like github.

In the way the internet has evolved we really should look hard it the elephant in the room: the DOM is for documents - not for interfaces.

IMHO optimisation for javascript is just a short term fad (hopefully) and browsers will adopt a more open approach to interface building. This should lead to "View source" on an open standard for interface building - which I think React comes close to. I know there are projects around that attempt this, but I am not aware of any real successes - at least in the same way React has grown.

The elegance of HTML has been superseded now, because interfaces are rich and packed with features. The DOM design is lacking and slow because of legacy support.

If the whole community effort was spent creating a better UI/UX standard (a standard web front end) - compilers would have no business case and i'm not sure they ever should.
And you can see the effect on sales. The only reason to replace a laptop these days is if you spill some coffee on it.
The London Athenaeum reviewer comes out as so provincial as only an Englishman would...
> including effectively mandatory 20% tip -- and this was the lowest of the "suggested" options of 20%, 25% or 30%

I moved to NYC just before you could pay by card in the cab. At the time, my friends told me to give $1 if the ride was less than $10, and $2 if it was less then $20 and so on. Most of the time, I think I effectively tipped between 10% and 20%. I kept with that habit after they introduced card payement with these insane suggested tips. How is it now? are you really expected to tip that much?
That's still more than 3 :-)
"vote with your wallet". I'll never stop being amazed at how readily americans buy into the "democracy = consumerism" equation. Or the number of things they happily apply that formula to.

I suppose that 'we're here to change the world' soda commercial isn't nearly as absurd when you consider the audience.
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The Closure Compiler is the only reason I have Java installed, it's that good.
And IMHO, a lot of the bloated JS projects nowadays would really profit from its dead code removal...
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Wonderfully worded, thank you.
I have been taught something different in school, but that was a while ago, so perhaps the field has evolved some in recent years. That, depending on the species, evolution rarely occurs between generations, and that it leans on large changes that are sudden and far between, and these changes are not at the same time for each species. That is to say, evolution is not usually a linear process for which at any point in time there is a delta. It is more of a stair step.

That is part of what makes the report hard to believe, even if it is a novel idea and has some other merits.

Not to say it couldn't be true, but as I expressed, it seems remarkable that such evidence was found in a single generational study.
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Not right now, since the functionality ID is just as effectively. But switching to API keys is probably the way to go, and I'll do some work on that over the next days.

Btw, I created an issue for that at https://github.com/ablator/ablator/issues/95
Peak oil was never reached, technically speaking. Lithium may be a very different story.
Understanding Convolutions
Similar to the famous Understanding LSTMs blog by colah. Came across this pretty good two part blog on Convolutions and CNNs.

https://vaulttech.github.io/2017/08/12/what-are-convolutions/

It gets into the detail of explaining the math and links to either wiki or khan academy or Andrew Ng's video at times essential.

I was able to understand it with great clarity. Wanted to share the same with the community.