skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Hmm.

Strangers trying to talk to me for the next X hours is one of the worst things that can happen on a flight for me.

Even if they do respect my wishes and dont try and talk to me (doesn't always happen), you then have the remaining 10h 59m of the flight to sit awkwardly knowing that you've both managed to annoy each other for trying to instigate something for your own selfish reasons that the other person doesn't want (i.e. you want to talk and they dont, or you dont want to talk and they do - no one wins).

Or worse if you dont manage to stop the conversation attempt early, you end up talking to someone for the better part of 10 or 11 hours just out of politeness and all that work/reading/sleep/coding you wanted to get done are lost while someone drones on and on about their garden or their last trip to <destination>

Please - only start conversations if you're really sure the other person is interested in talking to you! Particularly on long-haul flights!

YMMV I guess - I suppose on short-haul (<1.5 hours) it would be ok, but please please please never do this on long flights! :-)
Very different.

The three main problems is space is 3d, moon fragments are going to be very soft, the sun is going to impact these orbits.

The likely result is the earth ends up with a huge amount of dust, but not many large impacts.
No reason to complicate things. Everyone gets 1k/month and everyone's taxes go up.

The hard part is figuring out where to take the money to cover the difference.
Which is quite strange given that when the pussyhats and vagina costumes (I'm not offended by them) are used in demos and shown on TV people aren't getting beside themselves --good on them.

It's all theater and story or narrative, unfortunately.

So it's really not about the subject per se, but rather the context of the subject, which proves the guy's point.
What's the cheapest way to buy one including UK shipping?

Edit: It looks like Arrow is doing free shipping
I never finished the Baroque cycle, and never will, but enjoyed Anathem tremendously, and thought Reamde was a fun adventure novel.
This is my experience too. I bought one of those adapters that has VGA, HDMI, USB-A, and whatnot and I think I've used it a total of 1 time. Everything else I've bought is USB-C, if it exists, and I just use a USB-C to USB-A cable for any devices that aren't. My hub is USB-C and I even have a USB-C KVM switch that works great. No downsides for me either.
The developer-marketer era
I'd love to see your writing become a book! Four color, nicely bound. I'd love to read that.
Problem is, the result of this hunting is ranches where big game animals are grown just to be shot.

And 'hunting' big game with modern high-powered rifles and scopes is barely more than a level-1 vidgame. Seriously, you're virtually guaranteed to bag something, and the biggest risk is a sprained ankle with your guide as backup.

The best solution is to sell expensive packages to hunt the most dangerous game of all -humans- specifically, poachers.

Your big fee gets you deputized, mostly goes to protect the park, and you go on a real hunt of something that has a fighting chance, and you'll genuinely improve the animals' chance of survival if you succeed.
Netsil Visualizes the Performance of Microservices
We plan to support our chip longer than TI supports the AM335x (the processor inside the OSD335x-SM).

This is just the second device in what we see is a large space for System-in-Package devices. Please contact us (https://octavosystems.com/contact/) if you would like to discuss plans and goals in more detail.
If it's incorrect, you likely have bigger problems than where to send the pin. And I think there are ways to correct the address.

If it's outdated, then it simply goes to your old address. If you moved, the Post Office will forward mail addressed to you at your old address to your new address.
I have no problem with that in general. The cereal-eating was focused and vivid (it was Cap'n Crunch), and anyway it was over in a couple of pages. Nicholson Baker's entire novel The Mezzanine is like that, and it's just fine.

But so much of my time was spent reading about those people going from A to B to C on their way to D, and for what?

There was a similar episode in _Anathem_, which I generally liked. But for some reason the characters had to go from A to B and the best way to get there was to go over the North Pole, and the book stopped for fifty pages until they got over the Pole and everything could continue.

In a different world some editor would have persuaded Stephenson to cut the whole thing out, and I used to hope he would one day meet that editor and we would live in that world, but by now I've given up.
Right, nobody wants to invest in a company making a $1,000 breast pump because boobs are gross and not because they think this is another Juicero...
I don’t get the hate for things built on electron. The technology is awesome.

Have some patience. It will eventually improve to the point where it is very low overhead and provides much richer experiences than we have in the terminal today.

Nobody is forcing you to use it today. Just be supportive because we want it’s future.
I'm guessing that that would require FDA approval, making it unattractive as the initial market.
Why wouldn't they both be liable? The violation is the breach, not the existence of a pice of PII data outside of their firewall.
I'm glad you got here before I did, because the post to which you are replying is disingenously mischaracterizing it as "oh, someone said boobs." That dude was rolling in some openly sexist garbage, smugging about it, and looked shocked that the female refused to take it. It wasn't about any particular body part being referred to at all, and that poster knew it when making that post.

(And I'm saying this despite looking at the prices in the article at the root of this thread and having my eyeballs roll out of their sockets and bounce down the road.)
To quote another Stephenson novel, "plane changes are expensive."
Bitcoin Is Unstoppable
Apple's secure enclave is a separate core. Also, it's not clear that direct control over frequency and voltage is possible even on a jailbroken iPhone.
Well, sure.

Point being that this "fight for the users" centered around 3rd party cookies is a privacy theatre. If 3rd party cookies were to be completely blocked on every single computer tomorrow, the ad industry will just switch to another option and nothing will change. But this does make Apple look like privacy champions.
>The Federal Government has tremendous assets:

Correction needed there. The value of those asset classes will fly to the bottom even if 1% of asset stockpile is sold.
> She and her husband, Jeffrey Alvarez, managed to raise $6.5 million from investors after starting the business together in 2013. But they’ve recently hit a wall. With few VCs willing to fund the product, they’re turning to Kickstarter in the hopes of keeping their company running. The campaign, with an initial goal of $100,000, is expected to start Thursday. “If VCs don’t want this, then we know parents and mothers do,” Alvarez said.

1. This sounds like there's more of an issue of money drying up for hardware products.

2. This also seems conveniently timed for their KS launch :)

Well played.
your article is from 6 months ago, and is only talking about short term measures they had implemented a few months beforehand.

In 2017 china has has:

Enacted laws that lowered yearly money per person taken from china from $64,000 to $9000[1]

Seen foreign outflow investments drop off a cliff in 2017 (almost 50%!) [2]

Massively restricted allowed classes of foreign investment such as real estate, traditionally one of the few ways private citizens and companies were allowed to take money out of china [3]

Cracked down heavily on bitcoin, an excellent currency exfiltration tech.

Its clear that this is part of a broader trend, please stop reposting this misinformation laden comment.

[1] http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/housing-marke...

[2] https://www.forbes.com/sites/ellensheng/2017/07/14/deal-brea...

[3] https://www.brookings.edu/blog/order-from-chaos/2017/08/23/c...
It's a sad state of affairs if you consider it "idealized" to be able to focus on your job and rely on others to do theirs.

Yes, in the real world you sometimes have to work with poor product managers who have little empathy with customers, who deliver unclear specs and vague priorities. That doesn't mean a good developer is somebody who can handle the parts of their job that they failed at.

"Communicating clearly" is important, but when developers fail, they usually fail at writing clear, functioning code, not explaining why they did something to others in a conference room.
You do, too, have a choice with government: you leave. Unless you live in North Korea or a similarly dictatorial state, you have a choice to leave your country.
I'll say it. Maybe it's a mediocre product that isn't attracting lots of investments? I think VCs are primarily driven by greed and their ROI values rather than sexism.
WhatsApp rejected UK Government request to access encrypted messages
That was not what he said. Article is wrong. He started he wants more competition amongst compiler vendors for the benefit of the kernel.
Evolve documentation mini-sprint
Ask HN: Have you ever built something no one wanted?
I woke up this morning with this awful feeling, "I think I just spent the past 3 months building something no one wants." Has anybody else ever experienced this? I don't want to give up too early, but I also don't want to waste my time working on something no one wants.
You definitely have to be root to do this. In the future there might be a dedicated core (PCU) to control frequency/voltage so even root on the main cores may not be able to do it.
My first reaction: this story appears so very close to their kickstarter, and it fits well with their target market.
If you find that someone broke into your house and stole your Xbox, and there's a guy down the street who you already know has a long criminal record of home burglaries, is it unreasonable to suspect that guy to be a likely culprit?

Likewise, if there's a backdoor in every new PC's CPU, and there's a three-letter agency presiding over that CPU vendor's jurisdiction that has a long track record of backdooring things, is it unreasonable to suspect that maybe - just maybe - that TLA is responsible?

Now of course the ex-con or the TLA can be totally innocent here, but if I were a detective, they'd be the first ones from whom I'd be asking for alibis.
The teams are different - the native team has a distinctly different team than the one working on JS. I'm not sure what the overlap between the JVM and JS team is though. I'd say quite simply that the JS target is just still quite young.
I don't. There needs to be actual damages or else, who knows?
EEPROM allows you to write individual bytes. Flash requires you to write many bytes (~256) at once.

Some flash chips compensate by including a small amount of RAM to handle read-modify-write operations.
> From where did you get $20 trillion? The data I see show $3.5 trillion for the United States versus $5.4 trillion for China

https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-06-25/with-21-t...

http://www.smh.com.au/business/china/with-28-trillion-in-sav...

> If the U.S. Treasury defaults, one can sue. If China defaults...you're just screwed.

which government got recently shutdown for its debt problems?
great first impression. your content is very engaging and helped illustrate :) the concept. signed up. Are you funded?
A Powerline segment for showing the status of a Git working copy
They do care about the problems of average Germans. Unfortunately, the list of corner cases is lengthy as most people are not average.
EU paid for report that concluded piracy isn’t harmful, tried to hide findings
When writing these examples I use to test in one simple file. Then, for the sake of clarity, I copy and paste pieces of code in the blog post. Some typos come from there.
The impression I got from the article is that the investors never got to the point in the conversation where they found out how much the thing cost. They were put off before any sort of ROI considerations were on the table.
As much as I agree and have seen first person that VC (and all of finance by the way) is an old-boy male dominated world, this story smells like it's spinning the yarn that it's not Icarus.

She and her husband, Jeffrey Alvarez, managed to raise $6.5 million from investors after starting the business together in 2013...Precursor Ventures, said he decided to make a seed investment in Naya

Oh ok, so VC's do like it [1][2]. Despite what you hear it's a tiny subsection of startups that ever raise any money. Even harder for hardware startups.

The company was selling the Naya for $999 until Thursday, when it lowered the price temporarily to $649. A typical Medela pump is about $250...There’s a dedicated fan base among mothers who can afford it

Ah, got it. Their product is too expensive for too small of a market.

Today, Naya Health opened up the possibility for customers to register to buy one at least — no deposit required

Wait, they don't even have sales yet? If you go to the site you can buy one...

Look, the VC's that were acting like teenagers are slimeballs and anyone, regardless of your gender, race whatever has run into slimeball investors. I'm male and I've been sexually harassed or had a casually racist comment lobbed past me more times than I can count by a potential investor. It sucks.

It is not however why it's proving hard to close a massively risky, and I assume hugely expensive A round. This looks like submarine PR wrapped in an outrage sandwich.

[1]https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/naia-health/investor...

[2]https://techcrunch.com/2016/04/25/naya-health-raises-3-9-mil...
> That’s because we are not the customers of credit reporting companies, but the product.

An increasingly familiar pattern.

The free market is flipping against the people.
Your post was more of a spoiler !
And who could blame them? Most of us are not very good athletes and don't have as many neighborhood friends around to play sports with anymore.

If we want to live vicariously through someone on the screen, we share a lot more in common today with someone playing a video game than someone playing a sport.

Plus, esports are probably dafer than football, at least.
If you read the article, you'd see that the pump in question already has FDA approval.
Arbitrarily raising wages for everyone is the same as increasing the money supply without increasing the underlying value it represents (which causes inflation).

UBI does not do this. It doesn't "increase" the amount of money floating around, it simply redistributes a portion of the created wealth from one population (the rich) to the total population. UBI money isn't pulled out of thin air, it's taken from one group (via taxation) and distributed.

Of course prices for certain goods and services will change as a result of this wealth distribution, but to suggest global inflation will occur (ie the value that money represents decreasing within the complete system) is incorrect. Furthermore, while I obviously can't say for certain, I imagine prices for fundamental goods will not change drastically simply because UBI doesn't provide enough money for real discretionary spending. The goods/services you consume under a UBI program you already would be consuming at the same rate under the current system.
New interview with Sam Altman
> This is ridiculous case - lets sue sugar manufacturing for making sugar,

Didn't we do exactly that? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sugary_drink_tax

This is also done for other things like having tobacco companies or alcohol companies finance health care and treatment programs.

Actually, for oil companies that is not even new. They usually pay quite a bit to account for the local damage they cause to the environment, so adding global damages as well seems very reasonable.

The only weird thing is why Oakland and SF are suing and not, say the federal government or the UN.
"Does this mean that any digital conspiracy you can dream up involving the NSA is probable?"

Um, yes?
Archived copy, which can be read without JS enabled:

https://archive.is/tID3G
While it is less likely, nothing is guaranteed. You assume your investments will be around until you cash them out for retirement, and they are all dependant on something not failing:

* Direct stock ownership depends on the company growing, not failing, not being bought out, etc.
* Mutual funds depend on the fund manager not going under / properly managing assets.
* Bonds depend on state institutions honoring them.
* You can't really save for retirement in a bank because their rates of return are below inflation. You lose money in banks.
* Hoarding fiat is obviously bad.
* Any asset you would try to store long term is subject to market volatility at the least and potential obsolescence at the worst. You simply cannot guess what anything will be worth decades from now.

The current US administration knows full well that throwing tens of millions of people off insurance will probably cost them the disenfranchised working class that elected them in the first place and lose them their majorities in congress and the presidency. I fully expect them to stab themselves in the foot with this, since a lot of monied interests benefit from the absurdly inefficient default state of healthcare where many people depend on emergency rooms for all problems, but in the same vein repealing social security would destroy their voting base unless they made it a grandfathered in shutdown where the next Democratic administration could just reinstate it and nobody on benefits would lose benefits.
The OSD335x-SM contains an AM335x processor from Texas Instruments. This processor has a well established customer base and was used on the BeagleBone Black.
Depending on what you want to do, there should be an example (both bare-metal and linux) for what you are trying to do. Feel free to contact us (https://octavosystems.com/contact/) if you have any specific questions.
Also, it enables working in non-polluting energy sources like wind, sun, hydro, nuclear (depending on your feelings about any of these).
Hey man just cause its PR don't make it not true
The prerequisite for mounting this attack is kernel code execution already [0]:

> We show that a malicious kernel driver ...

As per [1] the Power management unit is shared between the Application Processor (AP) and the Secure Enclave Processor (SEP) so this attack might work against iPhones as well.

[0] https://www.usenix.org/conference/usenixsecurity17/technical...
[1] https://www.blackhat.com/docs/us-16/materials/us-16-Mandt-De...
My wife recently found this on kickstarter, and spent about 2 hours digging into it, raving about it the whole time. We have two small kids, and finding a suitable breast pump is a source of consistent challenge. Who ever cracks the code -and this firm might - will have a huge market.

Being "non-consensus" and "right" is how the great investor Howard Marks determines opportunity. Seems like this is as non-consensus as it gets...with a huge opportunity.
That is not true. iCloud Backups are encrypted using the device's PIN. The only data that Apple would be able to provide is SMS data because that is not encrypted when it's sent and it's not encrypted when it's backed up.
Last time I contracted for IBM I was paid 150/h and I heard they billed 300$/h on their end to the federal government.
It bothers me how people scan faces voluntarily now.
1) The total addressable market for a $1,000 breast pump might be outside of VC spectrum and more up small business financing or "Shark Tank" alley.

2) Women don't breastfeed their entire lives, so the units hit the used market pretty quickly, generating pricing pressure. Sales figures might look spectacular year 1, but what about year 5? VCs have access to market research data and executives at medical device companies who can probably provide them with better statistics.

3) Typical setup involves a hospital or a medical group buying a bunch of high-end pumps and renting them on a monthly basis (PSA for those who might need it: Kaiser Permanente will rent a breast pump to non-members).

4) Their main innovation seems to involve a different suction cup design that performed better for the target group they chose. How much a competitive moat is there? What's stopping Medela or a third-party parts supplier from building similar suction cups for a variety of breast pumps that's already out there?
I think this would have "fixed" this book. I actually liked the major concept shift for the second half. It was totally different and unexpected. But it also felt rushed and really heavy on some of the "sciencey" type descriptions of how various things were possible.

If it had been split into two releases, both would probably have done better, but I bet they would have sold less as well. :)
Every technology has negatives that companies try to turn into externalities. The ones that hurt their non-customers are the most egregious and should be subject to the highest corrections. Hardly a new theory.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_contract

To give an example, we should be paying more for many electronics as the result of suits against most existing companies for not dealing with Tantalum sourcing.
> consider air travel

With air travel the people bearing the risk are the direct customers. If I'm uncomfortable with the safety record of airlines I can simply not fly. How do I opt out of the risks imposed by a credit rating agency?

The closer analogy, I think, would be if cargo planes were routinely crashing in populated areas. The air freight company and its clients may well be completely comfortable with their loss rate, but the unaffiliated third parties living underneath would have a pretty justifiable reason to complain.

> Truth is, nothing can be done safely. Not travel, not business. There is always a tradeoff between risk and benefit.

This is absolutely true, but as currently constructed credit agencies get to reap the benefits while pushing the risk off onto the general public. If we regulate to internalize that risk and the agencies still think it's a good risk/reward tradeoff then that's fine. If they no longer think it's a good tradeoff that's fine too.

> So you don't like the bureaux; well, nobody does really. But what is an alternative which allows lenders to compare applicants on a like-for-like basis with some degree of confidence?

There's several suggestions elsewhere in the thread, but I'm going to go out on a limb and suggest: nothing.

On a macroeconomic level, easy availability of credit increases average growth but also increases total risk, and therefore volatility. It's not apparent to me that that's a good trade.

On a microeconomic level, the benefits I receive from being able to get credit easily have to be weighed against both the suboptimal personal accounting I have to engage in to keep my credit score up and against the long tail risk that a third party can open a line of credit in my name. It's not apparent to me that that's a good trade either.

Maybe lenders should be much more conservative with who they loan to. Maybe they should price in a much higher default rate. Maybe individuals should seek a single line of credit from their bank of choice instead of expecting expenses to be financed individually. I don't know, I'm just some guy with 2 semesters of college-level economics. What I do know is that the status quo isn't sacred and the arguments explicitly in support of it seem to boil down to "growth is good and change is scary", which seems like really weak rationale for giving someone most of us don't even have a business relationship with essentially unilateral control of millions of people's financial fates.
Clang has better support for plugins and calling it as a library; that sort of thing was resisted by GCC. Google has a bunch of large-scale tooling based on the Clang frontend which AFAIK wouldn't be possible with GCC.
Can you post the source code?