skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Sure, the military had lots of helicopters. Also, portable radios, intercontinental aircraft, and space rockets.

These were not a relatively affordable part of daily life, though. Now if I'm in a crunch, and the roads / subways get clogged down for some reason (not a rare event), I can theoretically quickly get from my office to JFK airport on a helicopter for $100 (more like $30 from 1968), if I share the flight with 3 other people. Also, for the same money I can get a half-decent RC quadcopter with a homing ability and a camera that spies from 1968 would kill for.

No flying cars, though. Blame air safety regulations.
I'm not an expert at all, but your response made me curious as to why that (presumably humorous) aside would have been thrown in.

Anyway, my research, such as it is, took me as far as the Wikipedia article on Ecclesiastes[0], which maybe provides soft support for the claim?

The presence of Ecclesiastes in the Bible is something of a puzzle, as the common themes of the Hebrew canon—a God who reveals and redeems, who elects and cares for a chosen people—are absent from it, which suggests that Kohelet had lost his faith in his old age.

Anyway, I hope that this won't discourage people from reading the entire thing, which I thought was well written and well worth the time.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes#Canonicity
scaling doesn't work because our screens are different form factors these days. You'd get really fat characters (I've tried it).

2. it's a bug ... I'll fix it

3. sure. it's the microsoft style to be more specific. the manufacturers had their own 'branding' in this sense. I had to pick one of them due to time being a finite resource.
Keep a log. Makes things way easier.
Well, it happened in the original article. The driver was not charged with killing someone.

Even if blame is cast, in the autonomous future that blame would be upon a company, or multiple companies, whose legal departments will spend great effort diverting the blame onto other people or other companies. No one individual will be charged with killing someone, and no one person will have a death on their conscience.
The steamboat willy identity mark at the beginning of recent disney movies is probably working toward this
There is nothing in my comment to suggest I hold the opinion that everyone who has a positive opinion about what happened didn't read the document. Rather, I just stated a fact: Very few people read it, relative to the number of people who have opinions on it.

His lawsuit is not BS; you should try reading the court filing. He has multiple examples of Google HR officially condoning systemic racism and sexism. Who knows how it will come out, but he has a case.
> For the first one, that might be a net win.

Yeah, I'm sure that reducing economic output and driving a lot of creators out of business reducing in increased unemployment and poverty will be a net win for everyone!

Wow, can't believe what I'm actually reading...

> But there has been an era before the internet and I was doing just fine then.

With ads.
Vanity, vanity, all is vanity.
All of whom are managing money for other people including pensions, 401k, and mutual funds.

If you chase it all the way down the chain, I hold funds that track the S&P500, which includes Intel. A tiny portion of that money he makes by insider trading comes out of my pocket.
This was a great talk!

I really think more of the ideal this presentation expressed needs to be shared. It's very easy to be a cold, hard reasoner when your life is reasonably safe, comfortable, and your belly is full. It's very easy to forget the larger picture.
Depends of what you mean by Europe... For example, in Romania it's a few hundred euros (~300-400€).
Microsoft Says No More Windows Security Updates Unless AVs Set a Registry Key
> I understand your scepticism about my ability to grasp basic differences, considering that we have never met nor interacted before.

Since we have never interacted before, I have to rate you on the basis of your few sentences which I read here, don’t I?

> Hence, this clarification...

There's no clarification in your post. You still don’t get the difference between the two things. You don’t have to explain me which kind of vulnerability "drama" there was, I know about that.

> […] I was trying to clarify that there have always been dramatic posts/comments on HN. Therefore, sharing an article from r/Drama sub-reddit didn't seem sacrilegious to me.

I know that there are "dramatic" posts on HN, but what kind of justification is that? If you want to talk about the personal life of a mentally ill homeless person, the main source shouldn’t be a site where people have an interest in "blowing everything out of proportion and making literally everything as dramatic as possible". It has nothing to do with any technical topic and it’s not funny. That’s my whole point.

> I apologise if I have offended your sensibilities...

How old are you, 14?
Rwanda and Paul Kagame's development model wouldn't work elsewhere in Africa
3.x is better ... I haven't updated the demo page ... this thing becomes randomly popular every couple of years or so ... I should probably make that demo better.
Everyone responds differently to diet and exercise. For me, intense 30 min cardio makes me not hungry, which is probably counterintuitive for most people.

And for any nutrition plan,ensure you get all your macros in your feeding window too. I've totally found that hunger is suppressed by IF though, but only after a week or so of doing it. Even if you did everything right, maybe it's just not for your body.
> What the ad networks want...

What advertisers want is a real, credible KPI.

When it's television, and you can show evidence that 2m people watch this program, so sponsoring gets you 2m of your target audience (or whatever you want to argue).

With online, there are few web pages that get 2m people to read them in a day... and surely there's some effect from all those other sites out there. Some of them are even niche, so they might be a hard audience to get...

Ad networks offer "all those other sites", and since you can't verify that the 50 people who went to that web page aren't included in the 20 people who read that other web page without "cross-domain tracking" you can't piggy-back on that argument being made in Television.

Then you've got the second-screen phenomenon: Few people had two televisions in the same room, but almost everyone has at least two screens. Did I get this part of my target audience on their phone or on the desktop. Choices are, buy everyone twice (halving the advertising budget), or be a little more efficient: Ad networks know what they'd prefer, so they want that tracking to personally identify you now. These ad networks are the ones convincing advertisers they need a super mega cookie to track everything.

And so on.
Here is an experiment that seems to have gone well (banning outdoor advertising)

https://99percentinvisible.org/article/clean-city-law-secret...
SKIIN Internet underwear debuts on CES
"Borderline criminal" tends to be a rhetorical way of saying "they should be ashamed". Even if it was literal, states can be liable, and as the primary folks in charge of road infrastructure, they'd be the targets.
Were you there to hear it in person? Even just reading it online, I found it really, really well done. Both in terms of content, but also structurally as a presentation itself.
And? If they play an important role in the difference, we should adopt them.
This is what I see at the bottom of the page. https://imgur.com/a/xL5oC Advertising revenues are falling fast.... If everyone who reads our reporting... helped fund it, our future would be much more secure.
Uphill Effort to Reverse Net Neutrality Repeal Has the Early Votes
yes, the fact that I also run http://unreadable.website along with having written this is not-so-much-a-coincidence.

note: A number of the authors seemed to have found out they were listed on that site and increased their contrast. Mission accomplished.
Reduced economic activity, increased unemployment and poverty is for you an acceptable outcome so that you personally don't have to see ads?

Wow...
There's a tendency to think of copyright mostly in money terms. For the big earners like disney, and certainly for most of the middlemen you mention it is mostly money.

For some creators though, it's different. I heard George RR Martin comment on this once. Tolkien's family (according to GRRM) did a great job guarding and protecting his works. He's horrified at the thought of a descendent making selling Targaryan cream buns or allowing shitty derivative novels. That isn't a money concern, but it is a property rights concern of sorts.

In any case, I think the sorts of right GRRM feels are his could still be preserved, without keeping all copyright the same.
I agree this is definitely a step in the right direction. At very least it (hopefully) makes the public at large aware of the issue.
Intel has a never ending parade of security related bugs that get fixed and nobody cares.

This isn't meaningfully likely to affect any of the contracts that Intel has with it's major customers, and it's not like competition is going to spring forth in a meaningful way because of this bug.

It's not like he sold his stock while the company was secretly on fire and about to collapse.
Even if it won't be extended, the damage has already been done.
Imho this whole complex around "copyright" and "intellectual property" is probably the biggest "capital bubble" in human history.

Tangible goods are finite on this planet, intangible goods (like IP) are not, so they are the perfect tool for keeping this "perpetual growth machine" aka world economy going, even if actual resources become scarce, we will never run out of ideas to "monetize".

In that regard, I don't think it's a coincidence that most of the developed economies have moved from manufacturing industries, dealing with actual goods and finite resources, to "service industries", where most of the value is generated through "ideas" which are infinite.

It's easy to put a value on something tangible, you can calculate the resources that go in there, the man-hours needed to manufacture it, the costs of the manufacturing facilities. The same does not apply to most intellectual property, its whole value is pretty much an arbitrary estimation with no limiting factors in terms of real-world resources, as such there are no rational limits to how much one could charge for them.
The First secret sauce of startup studio success: Entrepreneurs-in-Residence
Entrepreneurs-in-Residence is one of the key ingredients that enable startup studios & corporate startup initiatives to effectively expand with startups.

A best-of-breed of the traditional startup founder and the corporate innovation manager, a well-trained and enabled EIR will:
1. Discover what the market needs - by using fast and lean startup methods;
2. Translate what needs to be done in a language that senior management understands and commits to;
3. Does whatever it takes to build and sell your product and win the day.

A startup studio is a great place for talent to become an EIR. An organization that mass-produces innovative companies will teach how to
- be bright enough to gain big traction on a budget;
- take direction from the studio's leaders and act on it;
- transform yourself along the lifecycle of the startup, going from an early-stage builder to a later-stage scaling CEO.

The 1st challenge is to build up the selection, onboarding and training program that nurtures EIR-s in a sustainable manner. Best practices are available. How Betaworks creates a balanced environment for idea owners, how Efounders select business and technical cofounders; how Midealab builds a sustainable studio culture are all examples you can get inspiration from. All described in the book.

Finding the balance between a pure entrepreneur spirit and a disciplined management attitude is a great challenge. Thos who are up for this challenge make excellent CEO-s for any startup studio.

I hope we will see more thriving startup studios and then a new generation of entrepreneurs-in-residence who were nurtured by these studios.

If you can think of a way to sway more startup decision makers to embrace this new way - like sharing this thought with them, please do so. It would be amazing to see conventional entrepreneurship education places opening up to this mindset.

Attila
@aszig
The legal system has already solved this problem because liability isn't exclusive. For a product that the operator and owner are required to maintain in safe condition, where there is contribution of a defect in some component, it's possible for the operator, owner, the whole sales chain, the manufacturer and the supplier of the defective component to all be fully liable, and for none of them to be able to avoid that liability because the others also could be held liable.

Autonomous cars aren't special, even among cars, in this concern, and it's not a remotely new problem for the legal system.
"Please don't complain that a submission is inappropriate. If a story is spam or off-topic, flag it. Don't feed egregious comments by replying; flag them instead. If you flag something, please don't also comment that you did."
There's a chasm of difference between electing not to consume some form of entertainment, and refusing to listen to an argument or speech in a university environment.

Most of the time when harm to a child is depicted in a film or television show, it is sort of a cheap, unfair way to get at the viewer's emotions.

What is suggested here is nowhere near the same thing as having a "safe space" which restricts the speech of others.
SpaceX says its rocket performed exactly as intended in Zuma launch
There's no reason self driving cars/vehicles can't be public transportation. Most likely there will be a segment just like that.

A slightly larger, electric, van type vehicle, that holds ten people, for public group commuting. It would be a solid improvement over present circumstances and would probably work quite well, and cost effectively, for poorer working class people.
> which threatens with jail time

Enforced by none else than the FBI.
A Tiny New York Town with Not One, but 5 Indie Bookstores
Google is combining Android Pay and Google Wallet into one service
Smart lock maker August launches in-home delivery service
99% of Sweden is rural, most of it with a significantly lower population density than the areas you're referring to, and they too had a lot of people that lived directly on their main roads.
Perhaps there is a birth order perception effect in parents.
The only c/c++ code is code I downloaded and installed or that my OS vendor trusted to include in the OS.

You never brew install anything? Or brew cask install, or git clone followed by make, or...

Even npm install sometimes compiles C.

It's hard to get away from c/c++ code.
This was a great talk indeed. Highly recommended read.

I liked the story from Poland near the end. I'm Polish, and I've never heard of it before.

Regarding the ending, 'idlewords, you say:

> I tell this story to reassure you that just because everything is heavy and political right now, it doesn't mean we can't also fight these fights on our own terms, as nerds.

Does this mean a departure from your usual views that we should stop trying to solve political problems with tech, or am I misunderstanding either your usual views or that line in the presentation?
I didn't say it should be free. But they have one of the best assets.. location and space.
Yep, for local development it's the same, a lot easier to just rebuild and run. Haven't thought about `gcloud docker pull`, thanks!

I guess this is also quite important with any other registry such as jfrog, quay, etc. And it's good that credentials are safer (I hope so) in the osx keychain rather than Minikube.
Thank God for zero-zero ejection seats... unless you get sucked into the turbine of an overflying jet.
The state constitution and precedent based on it may provide additional protections that the federal one does not. (It does in Washington, for instance, as the city of Seattle learned when they tried to inspect people’s garbage and fine them for not recycling or composting.) I’m not familiar with the nature of the situation in Oregon.
What JSC is doing is addressing a problem that exists in today's CPUs. I'm saying what future CPUs need to do to avoid certain classes of sidechannel attacks. That list isn't sufficient, but if it isn't done it seems like inviting other future attacks.
> Most countries are fairly homogenous, which lends itself to a singular-ish mindset and culture.

I see this stated a lot by folks in Europe vs. the US discussions, but having visited both I'm pretty baffled by it. Switzerland has four national languages - hop on a train for an hour or two and you may go from French to German areas. The folks in Paris would laugh at the idea that they've got the same culture as Provence. Same with northern vs. southern Italy, Moscow vs. Siberia, etc.
Krzanich says company will update vulnerable hardware by the end of January
Note: this was posted under the much-more-useful subtitle, "Portland's top brass said it was OK to swipe your garbage--so we grabbed theirs".
You can by this as a print:

60 inch print is $210
14 inch print is $40

https://davidrumsey.reprintmint.com/002-default.html?varific....
Note that the book was released 2009 and the draft is from 2007. While most of the content is still very relevant for understanding the basics and challenges in building TTS systems, recent progress in DNN-based synthesis (including WaveNet, GANs, and end-to-end approaches like Tacotron) is obviously not covered.
Haven't read the story yet, don't know if I will. I just wanted to reply to your comment with a personal anecdote.
My eldest son died in an accident when he was about 2 ½ years old. The dread wasn't there before. I didn't think anything like that would happen to me.
You do learn to live with the pain, even I sometimes cry for what would have been futile reasons. But I still couldn't bring myself to enter the church at an acquaintance's funeral. The pain was too much to handle.
It's the guilt that's harder to get rid of. Everything you could have done to prevent it. Eventually (therapy does help) it softens a bit. So I don't think it's ever possible to get over something like that. It's been almost ten years. Maybe in another ten it'll have passed.

Edit: just wanted to add, spend the most quality time you can with your kids. I resigned from my job when my eldest was 1 year old to be able to spend more time with him. Best decision of my life in retrospect.
But it also comes down to trust. I would rather "trust" (in a sense that Apple's business model does not explicitly benefits from selling my user data) than any other business. And yes, I would much rather pay for any service than have it for "free".
The fake ad is just a photoshopped version of a real ad. I may have scanned it myself. I don't remember.
Want faster data and a cleaner planet? Start mining asteroids
Except reducing speed limits really don't change the speed at which people drive.

https://priceonomics.com/is-every-speed-limit-too-low/
I think the pain of loss was just as severe, and the past was just more miserable than we think.

Someday our children and descendants will look back at our time period in horror at the atrocities we continue to allow happen globally.

300,000 children under 5 die every year of malaria. The extensiveness of the agony that causes is difficult to comprehend.
Tracking improves targeting, increasing ad efficiency and increasing content revenue.

Lowering it would mean less revenue for content creators.
There's no law against processor bugs. Especially ones you fix when you're informed about them.
Making Sense of Meltdown/Spectre
>While they may not have formulated a valid argument, I think there is a valid argument to be made, so I will try.

Excellent.

Television was a broadcast medium, its increasingly becoming an on-demand medium with streaming services. You make valid points about it being less interactive, but by the same token, the interruption driven forced marketing/forced viewing of content X (advertisements) in order to consume content Y is a staple of the entire advertising industry. Targeting advertisements based on demographics, location and other admittedly wider and less specific metrics happens in television, even in print media. The difference with smartphones is the metrics are more specific, as is the ability to target individuals rather than groups.

But that difference doesn't hold up to laptops. The entire argument about mobility, reward based gaming (see DLC and online gaming, as well as the huge number of people that play basic games on facebook not using mobile), feedback loops, highly specific metrics and targeted advertising exists there, as well as on tablets, yet were sitting here trying to blame smartphones as the issue.

Personally, I have office on my phone, as well as google docs, regularly edit/collaborate on documentation, and have even used a keyboard and mouse with my smartphone to connect to work through vpn's and do sysadmin and scripting work. Admittedly I'm the minority there, but a large number of laptops and desktops are dedicated gaming/fun machines, not everyone is an office/word/programming monkey every time they sit in front of a computer.

My argument is smart phones are NOT the issue, the internet, with its highly specific individual metrics and targeting abilities, applying the same marketing tactics used in print and television media as well as used in interactive tasks, is the issue. Exposure to that through desktops, laptops, tablets, smartphones etc... is the problem (scale). To focus on just smartphones ignores that a significant portion of people interact with these same highly targeted, manipulative and distracting applications through multiple devices, I don't know anyone who uses facebook solely on their smartphone, but I know a number of people who only use it on laptops/desktops and refuse to use it on smartphones due to security/privacy/battery life and other reasons.

Variable ratio scheduling and all other methods in question apply to every device you use to access the product using those methods. Smartphones amplify this to a degree by portability/access, but we shouldn't pretend that smartphones themselves are the issue, or the sole source of the issue.
In this age of political correctness, who needs testicles anyway?
What will the freegans do if we outlaw trash picking? Not to mention, I've found some awesome working computer parts (1000W ATX power units, with cool looking internal cables, fuck yeah!) and completely reasonable, non-branded, desktop chassis on the side of the road.

Surprising as it is that a blood test for drug use gleaned from one's bio-waste is slightly rotten, maybe it's the vice laws that should be thrown some shade. Fourth amendment, sure, but I think it's worth noting that it's still the burden of the individual to render their discarded waste non-incriminating.

What this means for genetic privacy, finger prints and other powerful personal identifiers (the what-you-are authentication factors), I simply don't have a good answer for.
Jimmy Hendrix managed to put out a fair number of new albums after his death.

I'm hoping to get more creative after I die. Don't have the time for it now.
I diff'd the text with a Wayback archive and it appears to be nothing more than minor formatting and sentence structure changes. Nothing of substance.
I much rather pay (I already do) for quality, non-bullshit, level headed content than consume lots of meaningless articles that server as click bait.
I generally try to be aware of copyright enforcement related issues, but haven't heard of SWAT operations in direct response to copyright incidents.

Is there a source you can link, or were you just exaggerating for rhetorical effect?