skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On the whole I agree with the author, but they have glossed over some things I feel should be addressed:

> The computer manufacturer Lenovo, for instance, used to sell its computers with a program called “Superfish” preinstalled.

Most "serious" users reformat the machine and re-install the OS to get rid of the OEM included crapware. Not something the average user does, sure, but you're still allowed to re-install the OS on a commodity x86 system like a laptop. It's a matter of inconvenience, not impossibility.

> This system means that a car company can’t stop me from painting my car a shocking shade of pink or from getting the oil changed at whatever repair shop I choose. I can even try to modify or fix my car myself.

You cannot do this with a Tesla. Go look on the internet about people waiting months for Tesla to repair their cars, or people who have bought totaled Teslas and fixed them, only to be denied re-certification by Tesla.

I think we will see other electric car manufacturers moving in the direction of a more closed ecosystem than what we have now with ICE cars. Reason being that electric cars have a unique drive system (even more than ICE cars) and usually a proprietary HVDC battery (>60V) and battery management system. The manufacturer risks increased liability and bad PR if they let people modify these cars and then they end up in flames.

> Samsung cuts deals with lots of software providers which want to take my data for their own use.

Same deal as with Lenovo, but slightly complicated by the fact that ARM is not as standardized at a platform level as x86 (yet, I think this is slowly changing).

Pick a phone that comes without OEM crapware like Google Pixel, or a phone with good 3rd party ROM support like LineageOS.

> What is important is that we recognize and reject what these companies are trying to do, buy accordingly, vigorously exercise our rights to use, repair and modify our smart property, and support efforts to strengthen those rights.

Agree 100%, but this requires consumers to research products before they buy the cheapest one. We can encourage good behaviour by manufacturers, but it will mean educating our friends and family and collectively voting with our wallets.
The recommended 32Fs have FPUs so the hit isn't all that bad
Steve Wozniak's Tribute to Ted Nelson
What do you mean by unprofitable?

If you have cheap (or free) power, it's absolutely profitable.

EDIT: I see you meant CPU mining, not mining in general. My mistake!
Yes. See also: https://www.damninteresting.com/the-baader-meinhof-phenomeno...
> Having a network/location default would be ideal in my mind and that doesn't appear to be an option for macOS or Windows.

That's too bad.

The crux of the author's point appears to be that reducing the choices the user has to make is generally good, but I feel that modern designers are often over zealous in that pursuit.

Intelligent defaults is something that feels like a good blend. You're working with the computer, it recommends something it thinks is smart (I set this local printer as the default) and if you disagree you can modify it. One must be careful to not overly increase the mental overhead of the user this way, but smart defaults can prevent the complexity of the user trying to reverse engineer and fight unspoken rules.
Turn Bluetooth Off When You're Not Using It
It's not necessarily as competitive as Firefox and Chrome are, but it's not particularly behind either. Definitely not far enough to justify dropping support for it, if you don't have additional motives like Spotify here. That is, Safari does not support the DRM that they want, and that makes a disproportionally big difference in their revenue.
It's even better if we move the problem of classifying from the person throwing trash to the time of manufacturing of the article. You could mark each article with #1, #2 or #3 and standardize each bin to be called bin #1, #2 or #3.

The person then simply matches number on article to the number on bin and throws, dead simple.

See my comment above for detailed description of this.
Why is this a bad thing? I don't understand why you think every rural backwater needs to be subsidized to the tune of billions by the productive regions of the world. We should be looking to returning 95%+ of land to nature as we urbanize more and more.

I wish more companies and governments would do what the ISPs are doing. Why am I paying for post offices in rural America? Why am I paying to subsidize electricity transportation to rural America?
PLOS's prices are ridiculous as well, and their surplus is quite staggering.

There are players like peerj that publish at the fraction of the price. Also many smaller non-profit journals have APCs in tye range of tens of dollars.

But whatever makes you sleep at night.

Edit: Also, no breakdown given, as expected.
Can you guarantee me access to upper tail funds? I'm interested. I'd love to get my money into Medallion.
You can buy an Arduino for $10 and program it with a USB cable and any Windows/Mac/Linux computer.
We are comfortably profitable, but I wouldn't say "very very". That's part of what makes this tricky. If I did let him go, I would want to hire someone else in his place, and would probably end up paying them somewhat more too. So I can't really frame it like we have no choice. (Could lie of course, but I don't want to do that, especially since he'll likely notice when we hire someone new.)
Thanks for the explanation on the Android side. It still seems weird that nobody wants to take this up as a USP for their devices (referring to non-Google entities).

> On a broader note, people are spending more and more time in data-hungry apps anyway, which can send almost anything they want to the network. This is sure to chip at any device-level security, pushing it towards irrelevance. I wish I had a log entry every time an app used the location service on my phone along with a database containing a history of Internet-transacted data.

I've long wished for network access permission on iOS, allowing the user to decide which apps can never connect to any networks. To reduce the total attack surface, I'd want to keep many apps (especially games) running only within their sandboxes and having access to only the data they create/generate on-device and no other external resource/server.

AFAIK, Android has had this even in the days of permission requests at app install time. I don't know if granular control is available on this from Android 6 onwards.
This idea was explored at the beginning of Ghostbutsters II when Venkman interviewed someone who didn't leave enough time to print paperbacks of his prophesy. One should always think about the economics of a doomsday before committing to a specific date.
Modular Approach to Cloud Security
The problem for the every-person is finding the one that succeeds rather than fails. Given that in the aggregate these investments so severely underperformed, we can conclude that on an weighted average basis, you were more likely to lose money than gain money.

No one disputes that some funds will over perform. The question is, which one? If you can predict that reliably, you will be rich.

Most people can't.
What kind of checks did you use?
The current gen Xilinx stuff is pretty awesome. Digilent is even making boards aimed at the "maker" community: http://store.digilentinc.com/arty-a7-artix-7-fpga-developmen...
This embedded dude longs to use Erlang on his MCUs. Closest I can get to it is one of the embedded *nixes. Raspberry PIs are great for prototyping but not all that easy a sell on the BOM
What do you think of my proposed solution I posted above?
So do you mind telling us which funds have a 100% certainty of >S&P500 performance over the next few decades please?
The body's own fat-metabolism protects against the harmful effects of sugar
Ugh, our AD domain at work isn't even that old but was set up by some local consulting company and of course they used .local.

It causes all sorts of grief when shared SMB drives won't resolve on linux, or you can't tell at first blush whether the DNS server is working properly or you just happen to have mDNS correctly resolving something for you on one machine (but not on another).
The hard drives get bigger, the file sizes get bigger with 4k, but the bandwidth shrinks. Right after I bought a 4k tv to stream, my cable provider informs me they will be implementing 1tb data caps.

A single 4k UHD Cineform movie takes ~250gb. So now I get 4 movies a month, thanks Cox.
Nice but nothing will replace Iosevka for me now, the fact they have alternative glyphs for common programming usage and that you can rebuild the font to whichever set you want combined with extremely legibility at small sizes and a default condensed design (more characters per line for same width screen/window) makes it close to the perfect programming/terminal font imo.
PG has a relevant post on this, where he explains that he thinks of Newton as having made several "bets" on different systems of thought, and we remember the ones that paid off.
http://www.paulgraham.com/disc.html
The esp8266/nodemcu stuff is super cheap to get into. AliExpress has the boards for $2-3 each and I bought a bunch of sensors (temp/humidity, accelerometer, magnetometer) for around the same price. For less than $100 you can have a bag full of this stuff for weekend projects.
Has anyone bought open compute gear for internal office tasks such as local file servers, PBX, network services, etc?

It certainly does not seem like it's meant for small deployments, but I'm curious to hear what other have done.
What Silicon Valley Doesn't Get About People
Value investors like Graham/Buffett/Klarman generally define risk in terms of the price that you pay relative to intrinsic value. They would not agree that targeting low-volatility inherently lowers risk, so I can't imagine both sides agreeing to award bonus points for that.

Second point not related to parent post: it seems that picking the experts is every bit as hard as directly picking great investments. There are so many investors who were portrayed in the financial press as "The next Buffett" but went on to have poor returns. I can think of four or five of these guys off the top of my head. And then beyond that there must be literally tens of thousands of full-time mutual fund salesmen who fail to pick mutual funds for their clients that beat the market. So in addition to the underperformance of the funds, there's very often another layer of scraping on the transaction.
What if they self host the code?
I love Nix concepts and all it's subprojects (NixOS, NixOps, Hydra, Disnix).

However, i've found NixPkgs to be a bit messy. It's too big, targets too many platforms and it's too disorganised. But to be completely fair, I think it's getting a lot of good refactorings lately.
Some sites are starting to add bitcoin miners to their pages to raise funds instead of, or in addition to advertising. https://torrentfreak.com/the-pirate-bay-website-runs-a-crypt...
This made me think: I wonder if there are WebAssembly based miners?
How do you separate a half eaten cup of yoghurt from glass shards and paper towels?

Not mixing trash is definitely easier.
They didn't throw up their hands, they recognized a very important fact:

Trying to teach every trash bin user how to sort is very difficult. It might be much easier to instead teach a few specialized people how to sort (the single stream recyclable service). This is easier for the trash users, and probably a lot more efficient as the number of sorting errors might be greatly reduced.

The food vs other items problem is probably why they explicitly said it would likely be two bins, and one only if it could be made to work.

This is the point of the article: UX is not UI. The solution encompasses changes to the entire system, not just the UI.
Because there is huge demand due to smartphone production. Up to 2015 prices were OK, you could buy a 8GB DDR3 non-ECC dimm for $20. Now you need like $50.
Canonical's Metal As A Service (MAAS)
Elastic tabstops
Quoting CoinHive's site:

> [...] There are solutions to run the Cryptonight algorithm on a GPU instead, but the benefit is about 2x, not 10000x like for other algorithms used by Bitcoin or Ethereum. This makes Cryptonight a nice target for JavaScript and the Browser. [...] Our miner uses WebAssembly and runs with about 65% of the performance of a native Miner. [...]
Random Write Considered Harmful in SSDs (2012) [pdf]
You may be partially right. A few hours after I posted the comment, I realized that the urban vs. rural difference is also a factor here (like kilnos described in another comment). Before we had much larger concentrations of human population in cities, it seemed to me that people were a bit more than acquaintances even with neighbors. May not have been the thickest of friends, but were still around to connect with, gossip, reach out for some quick help, etc. I'm sure there were variations across geographies and cultures, but a "modern city life" has made many people more busy and stressed to form such connections and keep up.
Citizen Kane practically invented modern dramatic film.

The techniques Welles developed for Kane were innovative at the time, but are now mundane or clichéd. In terms of writing, framing, lighting, directing, editing, scoring, it was unparalleled.

It's not the best movie in the conventional sense, and maybe not even a particularly good one - I found that the story itself failed to grip me - but it is technically brilliant, and one of the most significant movies in terms of its influence on the art of film-making.

I don't remember the source, but there's a quote to the effect of "I don't think much of Shakespeare's plays, they're just one cliché after another".
There's a new mcu from microchip, that has 32mb dram, for ~$7. Might get you closer to your erlang dream.

It uses new , cheap multi-die assembly techniques, which microchip also used in their ~$1 Bluetooth chip. So I think with time, and with an attractive software ecosystem,we'll see interesting new mcu's and price points.
No. It should be unoccupied if nobody is passing. If it is empty on a particular stretch, somebody will decide to pass.
South African grocer is the first to accept Bitcoin as payment
Quibble... Buffet doesnt buy bad companies. He buys solid companies that have excellent management and for some reason are inexpensive at the time of purchase.
And no DRM; the files are regular MP3s from a CDN with timebombed URLs. I've written a few tools for my own use with the unofficial API and it's just MP3s in and out.
Using the information leaked from Equifax, hackers can lift your freeze. All they need to know is your address, SSN and Date of Birth. See: https://www.experian.com/ncaconline/freezepin
FWIW, recycling is not "impossible" if the trash is not pre-sorted by the people throwing it away, it's just harder for the people who have to do the final sort (presumably someone is there at the end correcting the mistakes of all the non-expert trash bin users out there).
The number of people actually affected by StageFright malware from Google Play Store (which is what we were discussing) is very likely to be zero. It simply blocks the payload. We know for a fact that 500 million+ were actually affected by XCodeGhost, an order of magnitude more than the sum total from all malware seen in the Play Store.

Don't conflate unpatched Linux systems with the Play Store. Anybody who uses Android and cares about the security of their device (like anybody who uses a Linux-based router and cares about the security of their network) uses vendors who deploy timely security updates.
30 Days Timelapse at Sea Through Thunderstorms, Torrential Rain and Busy Traffic
Yes. Brute forcing pin codes can be done very quickly. Apple realized it was technically feasible too, which is why they no longer make that claim. That they didn't apologize to their users and offer refunds demonstrates the disdain they have for their customers.
PeerJ's APC pricing is $1,095. We're actually an investor in PeerJ and are really hoping they're a success. But they're not a counter-point to PLOS-level APCs (they are indeed still cheaper, but not substantially anymore).

And yes, there are examples of small-scale journals charging less, or society journals charging less/free because it's paid for by the society membership fees. There's Tim Gowers' arXiv overlay journal. There's a bunch of small-scale examples or anecdotes. But none of those are repeatable at the scale the academic community needs.

You're right, I didn't give you the financial breakdown of our operating costs that you wanted. First of all, I don't actually know the per-published-article costs and breakdown off the top of my head. And second, I wouldn't post that information publicly here. I guess that means you'll continue to think that we don't do any work and collect vast sums of money, sitting in dark rooms laughing about how we get to fuck everyone over. You clearly think every single player in the industry is doing it wrong. I'm not going to change your mind.
Well, that specific example is a confusing type of link, but it would not really expose your privacy any more than having to right click 'Open in a different container' if you have segmented off the Google domain..

EG, if you open it within the Google container, your privacy is most exposed. Whether you have to right click and select 'Open in a different container' when following search or email links, or whether you can have the browser do this automatically, the end result is the same. You're following a Google link, so if they create a special one that tells them which result you clicked on, they still see it and know about it because it's on their domain.

But once you get to that third party domain, you're in a separate container instead of one filled with your own special Adsense cookies.

There are extensions you can use to remove Google's redirect link in their result page.

But this is kind of tangent to what I was trying to get across.

If one has goal is to contain a web property, giving them their own container but then keeping that container open when you leave their site is not really containment.
I've wanted a proportional font for coding for a long time! I sympathize with Rob Pike:

https://twitter.com/rob_pike/status/567476552187641856

I much prefer reading proportional fonts. This new font solves a problem I've had: punctuation is hard to discern in proportional fonts. But I'll still have trouble with deeply-nested functions not lining up.
All the anti-constitutionalist people at the NSA are getting heartburn as we speak.
Microcontrollers have got a lot more accessible since Arduino. There's lots of beginner material out there, although admittedly not on Medium. (Unsurprisingly, the people involved prefer a more bare metal approach and put it on blogs or forums instead)

The tooling is nearly always C, so it's interesting to see Rust moving into this space. Memory management is not so much of an issue, but multitasking correctness is; perhaps there will be some new micro-RTOS framework with provably correct interrupt handling. (We have sel4, but that's not quite the same thing)

As you get more low level, the tutorials get sparser. You move into FPGAs, where you have a choice of two languages with 1970s design principles, or third-party tools which work despite the manufacturer's total closedness. As you go deeper into actual IC design, nobody will attempt it without supervision from someone experienced to tell you all the little tricks. And then there's analog IC design, which is basically black magic.
The first paradigm of APIs was "Remote Procedure Call". In this case, the API call represents some specific action that you would like to take. This could involve modifying multiple linked or unlinked data records in a single transaction.

As for GraphQL, I'd say OData, SPARQL and other Linked Data protocols are competitors
The money is going to Girls Incorporated of Omaha, the charity chosen by Buffett.
Although there is still tons of money going to actively managed funds it seems to be more and more common knowledge that index fund investing is ultimately the smartest thing to do for personal finance.

Does anyone know what the risk factors are (if any) to this type of passive investing if EVERYONE begins to do the same thing?
Any idea where could one get that 4 cent mcu and how to assemble it ?
He also discovered that heat is motion, so the dude practiced what he preached to good success.
What cat? In what way would .gifs make a site appear broken?
> At minimum, we’ll need to see more user-friendly variants of TLA+ and other techniques for average developers to be able to use.

TLA+ is quite user-friendly, certainly more than most other formal methods. It takes about two weeks to become fully productive, without any guidance other than the freely available tutorials. It's easier to learn than most programming languages.

> Probably it should be taught in normal CS education.

I agree.
Here's a link for the lazy:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_dates_predicted_for_ap...
Wasn't the Roomba sharing maps thing already debunked?
It's possible that the code generator and interpreter are bundled. (Though I have no idea in this specific case.)

For example, it could be that the parser always passes the AST result to the interpreter which generates and starts to interpret the resulting bytecode directly. Then later it's passed to the JIT from there.
The CEO/CFO wants the traffic to be auditable and all company traffic go through a proxy anyway.
It's similar to the old saying, "Unix is user-friendly, it's just selective about who its friends are."
No, you are the one who has misunderstood something. I'm saying it's rigged against the fund chooser. Read it again.

> You mention that plenty of individual funds did beat the S&P. This is straight an apocryphal anecdotal fallacy.

No it isn't. If the guy was smart about what was being bet on he'd have picked RenTech and he'd have won.

> I understand you are trying to defend your business.

Nope. Just providing some colour so they don't think it's as simple as it sounds.
Agreed. Coming from SourceCode Pro, everything seemed a bit taller, but adjusting the space between the lines fixed that perception. Looks smooth on my 2015 MBP, and external 24" 1920x1200 monitor.
But sometimes education is the best UX. Just give people an exhaustive list of trash for each bin.

There is no simple and elegant solution to knowing what goes where, since it depends on the recycling process etc.

Recycling bins at community recycling centers here just have alphabetic lists that list every item, and helpful staff that tells you were to put things if you are unsure.

People throw away the same things over and over again. Teach them once, and they‘ll throw it in the right bin.

No need to come up with a confusing icon or throw everything in a single bin.
How would one implement this? Couldn't you just rip it off their website?
Can confirm, in my emag applications class I had tools from "black magic something something" company printed on the top.
So the people living there aren't left behind too much. It is in your best interest to retain some social cohesion.
Is there a way to exploit the miner scripts? I mean in a way: Never trust the client? If the proof is calculated on the client, how does the server confirm that the proof is correct?
How do you define modern thought? How do you measure impact on it?
Pff, look at the fancy people over here!
Can you actually use WebGL for this? I mean, don't you need a user-visible graphics context? That's a serious question, I have used WebGL only once in my life and that was years ago.

On the other hand, WebGPU looks exactly like the kind of technology that would make web-based GPU-enabled bitcoin mining realistic.
My #2 is PragmataPro it still has nicer/more ligatures than iosevka but I expect that to get fixed over time.

It's a beautiful (but not free/open) font though.
Paying 50 cents requires you to keep their mining browser tab open for around a week with your CPU churning. Somehow I don't think that's the solution.