skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
IMO, the problems that [U]EFI introduces (that far exceed the historical limitations it overcomes) should be self-evident.

IMO, he should not have to argue against having multiple, redundant copies of drivers, shells and utilties each accessible only in its own "OS" (UEFI, GRUB, OS). It should not be a debate. This is definitely not "defense in depth". IMO, whomever controls the first OS controls the computer because there is no need for the second and third OS in order to do work (make network connections, move files across the network, etc.).

These "hardware features", whether its [U]EFI or ME or whatever acronym, IMO is a land grab by hardware vendors over what we know as the "OS". Less computer owner control, more vendor control. The sum effect of all these "features" is that verification that something is the way that the owner wants it and has not been modified is far too complex and is ultimately under control of the vendor, not the computer owner.

I do most work on the commandline in text-mode (no graphics layer) and as such I only need one OS, with some basic utilities. When the news came that new computers would have [U]EFI, I considered whether I should just switch from the OS I am using to [U]EFI. It seemed to have all the utilities I would need to do work, along with the ability to extend with new programs.

I only need one OS to boot to a working environment. I should be able to choose that OS. I hope that Minnich and Hudson and others will consider that the user may want to choose a kernel other than Linux as a source for drivers, e.g., BSD, Plan9, others incl. future OS not yet written, etc., even if it today it has inferior driver support compared to Linux, or Intels UEFI, or whatever.

The speaker seemed a bit perplexed when someone in the audience questioned whether Linux is a "TCB". What is and what is not a "TCB" should be the computer owners decision, and not anyone elses. If the computer owner wants to cede authority for that decision to a third party, then she can make that choice. But IMO it should be a choice made by the computer owner, and not anyone else.
Ubuntu on a MacBook Pro
Ask HN: With a pace of job automation, can we still afford PHD's for a good job?
I have been closely watching the publication of research in Artificial intelligence compromising of job Automation at really fast pace, and i have been wondering can we still afford to spend 4 or more years to fetch the knowledge to get into our careers.
I think it can, but it will take time. It is up to the community and userbase to adopt it as much as it is up to the team behind the software.
U.S. Soldiers Accidentally Reveal Secret Bases with Jogging App
What is weird, they even don't follow easiest to calculate path. Let's say there's an officially signed route following top-tier highways. Nope, it's suggesting a random dirt road. I'm pretty sure it'd be easier to hardcode the "official" routes and then check alternatives whenever there's a problem (crash, slow traffic, etc) on it. Nope, "official" one is all green and no constructions and crashes. Yet it's still suggesting the random dirt route :/
tldr: it's about the journey, not the destination.
Fuck you Gates
As a programmer approaching mid-life, I haven't found myself succumbing to this crisis. I wonder if that is largely due to the fact that gaining and maintaining expertise in programming is much more akin to these atelic activities he discusses. You can never really be done improving your skills.

Projects come and go, but the buzz and hum of the new is constant and unreachable. For an autodidact like me, the thrill of learning something new is also a process I enjoy.
Aha, great point! Fluxx is fantastic...it reminds me a bit of Nomic [1] and 1000 Blank White Cards [2].

Have you tried making your own Fluxx deck?

[1] http://legacy.earlham.edu/~peters/writing/nomic.htm
[2]
Sanders: Trump not consulted on McCabe
compiling it with something that makes it memory-safe

Isn't it true that there is a bit more work to do to a program to make it memory safe than just recompiling?

Like if the original is in C, recompiling it in C++ won't whisk away unsafe memory access without significant architectural rework, no?
What make and model is your vehicle? If it's newer than the mid 2000's it can probably talk to the internet.
Last I heard, Alphabet's solution to the problem of self-driving was a tying the cars very tightly to Google Maps - reliably using just camera and lidar to make driving decisions apparently still isn't sufficient for self-driving but having a map showing the logic of traffic flows makes the process much easier (quick googling seems to indicate many self-driving solutions are similar here).

Thus it is going to be hard to avoid a network connected car and it seems likely that network will be the Internet.
> you could stop at the first Linux system without ever booting the second

Someone did that! Well, something like it, anyway.I have an Asus EeeBox sitting on my desk, gathering dust, that has something called "SplashTop" - if I hit the right key during the POST screen, it boots into a minimalistic Linux desktop in about 2 seconds.

There is networking and a browser. I haven't used it in ages, but I think the problem was that it could not access the file system, so one could not do very much, and I think settings did not persist across reboots. But the general idea seemed appealing at the time.
This is where purchasers of Garmin sat navs are laughing because their map format was reverse-engineered years ago and OpenStreetMap on garmin satnavs is quite a well trodden path: https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_Map_On_Garmin
Introducing the new Sia Brand
IOW, if competition ensures efficient markets, i.e. low profit margins, then money spent on reducing competition is money well spent.
I like the idea of writing Web Components with TypeScript. Are Web Components (or the frameworks pushing it forward) good enough for production use? Any issues worth considering before diving in?
Show HN: RepostLoop – Soundcloud influencer marketing done right
Using change-data-capture for real-time user behavior analysis
> In general, undeveloped countries seem to have fewer problems with psychopaths (disregarding the ones in charge). I find this immensely curious.

My pet hypothesis on this is that humans are wired to cope with extreme stress, scarcity, and violence. In an environment of relative peace and abundance we develop a whole host of neuroses. Most cope through entertainment, drugs, and other outlets, but some just totally flip out.

It's like what happens to hunting and working dog breeds when cooped up in a little apartment. They start eating the furniture, digging holes in the walls, chewing lesions into their skin, etc. Watch a large predator animal walk nervously in circles in a zoo.
Networking, Data Experts Design a Better Portal for Scientific Discovery
I was a fan of MirrorLink because it would both let you have a built in display and integration with the rest of the car, but the protocol is basically VNC++, so you can use any computing device you prefer for entertainment.

Doesn’t seem to have caught on though.
Apple Reportedly Developing Three New Macs with Custom ARM Co-Processors
I was under the impression that AMD chips weren't vulnerable to Meltdown or variant 1 of Spectre. Only variant 2, Bounds Check Bypass, could be achieved on an AMD chip.

Is that an incorrect impression?
This strategy might work semi OK for the same vendor, but I struggle to see how it works for Android vs iPhone since iPhones typically have half the RAM (since it's all native code instead of GC'ed Java) & a drastically more efficient CPU (i.e. runs faster with less battery use at a smaller clock speed than other ARM manufacturers). Moreover, the Apple chips (at least in the past) are able to run all cores at their full clock frequency whereas other vendors have had to throttle down drastically which makes for a pretty large performance/battery life gap that isn't visible from just the GhZ/RAM size/mAh. Even Android vs Android this is difficult to compare as even SoCs from the same ARM family will vary within the same family for the same reason (better thermal design, optimized for GPU performance vs CPU compute, etc). Once you go across ARM families, GhZ numbers are generally not useful for relative comparison & definitely not for power numbers.

I agree you can kind of estimate the charge time via mAh if you pick one charging speed (most now support multiple charging speeds & there's also wireless charging in the mix) but most vendors provide guidelines of charging times you can expect & there's a crapton of benchmarks by independent third parties validating those claims & providing a more complete set of results. Same goes for battery life claims. As for powerbanks, I guess the mAh is useful but there's plenty of info online outside of the vendor's website for that.

If I were the vendor providing this kind of in-depth detail that's demanded by/useful to a very small percentage of the customers would be counterproductive (if I'm providing the info in the best interest of the majority of customers) since it would be more likely to confuse customers who want to compare on just raw specs rather than what the device actually delivers. I can just rely on third parties to report that info for the people who care.
There are two types of articles those that are read, and those that have email pop-ups. (Penalized by Google and and readers).
This would incentivize black hats to frame innocents.

I thought of that too. This also happened with bounty hunters. There will need to be safeguards.
If you're not in an area experiencing explosive growth (Seattle, Austin, Raleigh-Durham, etc) then the risk of having stale map info is pretty low. If you lease or only keep your cars < 10 years, the risk of stale maps is low. Will the directions have features like taking typical traffic volume into account? Probably not. But they'll get you there, and you don't have to spend an extra 20 seconds when you get in the car getting your phone out of your pocket and plugged in.

(currently in a 14 year old car whose maps will never be newer than 2015, and that's OK with me.)
Which perhaps explains the purchase of a Corvette?
“America will now always be the country that elected Donald Trump.”
Ironically, when things were MORE political, they cost less.

Adding all the oversight in order to "prevent" political cronyism just made things worse by increasing the barrier to the small guy being able to compete.

(Normally, I'm a big believer in oversight to avoid corruption and graft. However, I have a friend who tried to bring broadband to his little town. Between the open meeting laws, requirements for bid, big telecoms swinging in at the last minute when they couldn't care less until it looked like something might go through, etc.--he'd have received less grief if he just murdered everybody involved and went to prison ...)
Mapping Medium’s Tags – Medium Engineering
The ATMs built into walls tend to be larger / heavier than the standalone ones. You gonna fit a crane / forklift truck on that pickup truck / trailer too?
Jailhouse Guest Support to Be Included with Linux 4.16 – Phoronix
US military reviewing tech use after Strava privacy snafu
I like the simplicity of the UX, I would find it much more usable open source so I can adjust the template easily.

I wrote a similar thing for my board game site [0], using yml files as data sources with jekyll includes to generate the html and a html2canvas conversion to make printable images of individual cards that I have to manually put on a print-sheet -- not quite as streamlined as this, and I would love to learn from the rest of this person's flow architecture on how to generate a pdf, make it downloadable, expose the json editor. I know I could learn each of these on my own, but this is so close to my usecase it would be nice.

[0]: https://gitlab.com/keerthik/dicestorm/
Downvoting this because it made me feel UNEASY /s
My point was that it's not a "supposedly efficient capitalistic market" that we're dealing with in the U.S.

I didn't even mention Europe.
>It is no accident that the young and the old are generally more satisfied with life than those in middle age.

I was sitting in my car looking at a stop sign the other day, and all of the sudden it started shaking uncontrollably. Immediately I knew it must be a child shaking it, as there was simply no other possibility. No other person would just stand there and shake a street sign for no purpose beyond its' own sake. There is no benefit, no reward, no ultimate reasoning beyond 'I want to shake this street sign". As I looked down, I was right, and the kid was grinning like crazy.

We lose the ability to think like that as adults. It's not even that we have the thought and then consciously decide against it; we're incapable of even conceiving it. To just 'play' in life. And I think it's the most important aspect of our humanity. It is the very genesis of all our innovative and creative ideas, yet we treat it as something to be expelled in the process of "growing up".
It is because they are so corrupt. It has nothing to do with safety 99% of the time, but ensuring they need more workers on the job site. The mob got heavily involved with unions in the USA fairly early on, and influenced their tactics to what we have today. Europe didn't have that same issue.
At least one answer to the conundrum of "not getting what you want is suffering; getting what you want is, too" that Schopenhauer identifies is serendipity.

life/the universe/fate/god/chance/whatever will cause positives (and negatives) in your life that you didn't actively want. Since you never sought them out, not having them wasn't suffering. Now that you have them, appreciate them!
I play the game (obsessively) and I still didn't it was going to about smash.
How the European Union Became Divided on Russia
""War is illegal. This idea seems obvious."
Well, was has always been a privilege for countries. It is absurd that some German generals were executed after WW2 for "fighting an aggressive" war (not talking about war crimes).

Obviously the WW3 will make look WW2 like a piece of cake.

"Increasing speed of operation marked each new weapons system, particularly the decision-making function (to strike or not to strike, where, how, with what force held in reserve, at what risk, etc.), and this increasing speed also brought the incalculable factor of chance into play. Lightning-fast systems made lightning-fast mistakes. When a fraction of a second determined the safety or destruction of a region, a great metropolis, an industrial complex, or a large fleet, it was impossible to achieve military certainty. One could even say that victory had ceased to be distinguishable from defeat. In a word, the arms race was heading toward a Pyrrhic situation." 1983
>Nuclear and coal are available now and are known to work.

Nuclear is not available now in the sense that you can order a plant and have it running in a year or two like you can with solar. More like a decade

Coal is available, but more expensive than natural gas. Coal is dead, did you really not know that?

>Utility-scale battery farms of the magnitude necessary are not.

But rapid progress is being made, and the utilities are planning for the future, which is only rational.
Not yet but I very much want to; I'm thinking of doing one for the Star Wars universe :D
This is very interesting, thanks for sharing.
Although this does list prices, it seems to me that these are mandated/set prices, and not necessarily reflective of the true cost of the care provided. Unless... these prices are set with the goal to reach at least a break-even on any care provided? I suppose the overall health system has to break-even, unless it's running a deficit, but I honestly have no idea how that corresponds to the listed prices.

Apologies if I'm way off on this, I'm by no means an expert or have much experience/knowledge on this topic, but attempting to make some sense of it for comparison.
Even back in the "dual system" days when two companies operated the majority of the subway, most of the lines / tunnels were built or financed by the city: https://www.nycsubway.org/wiki/Chapter_1:_Dual_System_of_Rap...

Later on, the city built its own third competitor to the two private operators, and eventually ended up purchasing them both. These days the entire system is owned by the state of New York (which took over when the city was out of money during the decline of the 1960/70s).

(There is a lot more nuance here... but the highlight is that the city/state often directly or indirectly financed capital construction regardless of whether they were the operator of the system at the time)
Looks exciting!

What are the things I should look out (and around) for when I'm reading this (for example, specs that have changed drastically since this book was written, etc.)?
I don't know how this will end up, but thank you for taking risks supporting open-source federated comms. I hope this will give a mature, free alternative for those of us who are not enthusiastic about the ubiquitous centralization and vendor-locked technologies.
Filing under "Windows has always been a clusterfuck"
DevConfCZ 2018
Well that explains why it won't die. I suppose the contract is such that, if the firm were to throw their hands up, and walk away, SCO could sue the firm itself for the funds they "expected" to get from IBM?
https://www.denexa.com/

Not my company, but one ran by a friend I used to game with in the early 2000's, they print some very high quality cards at a good rate.
Another factor is that there exists a massive advertising industry in developed nations whose goal is to convince everyone they can't be happy unless they are X or have Y.
I am so fed up with the healthcare situation here. It is absolutely terrifying how this is remotely legal or even acceptable.

The game theory is plainly there: people are going to question or refuse to seek emergency treatment simply because they will be afraid of the cost. Now you get to add the stress of which type of care you should be getting, in the middle of a fucking scary medical emergency!
This also assumes a consistent natural gas market over the next 30 years, which is far from certain. Gas prices can fluctuate greatly, and the global political climate is increasingly hostile to fossil fuel sources.

The theoretical solar plant at $.05 is unlikely to change, but the theoretical gas plant at $.04 is a variable that could very well go way up.
Crowdfunding round for my startup
Getting your License requires a significant money and time investment. The kind of investment that a significant amount of people cannot make. Meanwhile FSX is under 20 dollars and runs on a laptop from 2007, which a nice joystick costing about 30 dollars. It even lets you turn down the simulation-ness, if you just want to play around instead of follow checklists.
While there certainly is some overlap, the investors in this round were venture capital most likely funded by institutional capital such as pension funds and endowments, rather than corporations who might be clients: see http://www.theequitykicker.com/2010/12/01/where-do-vcs-get-t... . And as of earlier this year they counted 450 unique customers: https://techcrunch.com/2017/04/05/snowflake-rakes-in-100-mil... So the extent of self-dealing is limited.

IMO, every company in every industry will need data warehousing at some point in their growth, if they are to survive in the modern world. It's difficult to get right, and Redshift is far from a white-glove experience for those attempting to navigate the space. Compared to B2C deals of this magnitude, this is significantly more sane.
Please share your results.
You've revealed the Blockchain gnomes' secret business plan!

I'm guessing Netflix will be fine, especially if the rumors of them being bought out by Apple are true.
Agreed 110% on the ability to include images, maybe a key for an image URL and another key for the location on the card using a simple grid-reference?

Great suggestion, hope OP sees it because I'm already very interested in using this tool.
I've read a lot of the discussions regarding Pinker's work in both books (but particularly his position in Better Angels), and I've always found his position to be slightly disconcerting.

Pinker attempts to make a specific argument, that violence has decreased over time.

Violence is not a first order phenomenon at a social scale - it's presence is predicated upon the existence of other key criteria, largely the existence of conflict within or between societies.

Better Angels indicates that violence has gone down, but does not sufficiently set out the basis to indicate that conflict is being better managed over time. If anything, it indicates that conflicts are being 'won' as the winners are increasingly able to ignore the plight of the losers.

On the micro-scale, in law we've been faced with a tremendous crisis - that of Access to Justice. In short, the courts are simply too expensive for normal people to avail themselves of, outside specialty practices like family or traffic issues. The result being that the majority of people do not actually have the ability to enforce their legal rights. The response of most legal institutions has been to decry the issue, then do nothing substantive to solve it.

We can pretend things are getting better but absent thinking about what 'better' means maybe the lid on the boiling pot is just getting heavier faster than the heat is being turned up.
This piece hits close to home, as it's really clear to me I am going through a midlife crisis and have interesting parallels and contrasts with the author in terms of my career and next steps.

What seems to me to be the heart of this piece is the telic-atelic distinction, which seems useful and deserving of more attention. There's some parallels, it seems, between the telic-atelic distinction on the one hand, and the distinction between more stereotypical "western" goal-oriented notions of success or happiness, and recent foci of mindfulness and other things having a kind of Buddhist bent. To me the telic-atelic distinction seems useful if for no other reason than to provide an additional historical and philosophical context to something gaining in the public consciousness. The atelic ideal seems similar to the mindfulness goals, but framed differently, in terms of types of rewards.

For me, although useful, I'm not sure this explains all of the midlife crisis. Maybe a big chunk, but for me personally at least I'd say more of it is about feeling like I took a wrong turn with certain choices, and feeling like there's no way to get out of it due to the limits of lifespan and sociocultural failings (e.g., stereotypes about age, gender, and profession, and ability to change, etc.). For me it's been less about asking "is this all there is?" and more like feeling like I've come to the conclusion that my vocation is a fraud, or that I'm not a good fit, and that humans in general are far more flawed and darker than I realized. There were similar feelings about other things in my early adulthood, but I always felt I could change my life, improve things, and move to something else; the difference is now, I feel like the change is more substantial due to the costs and investments involved, and I feel like societal stereotypes and failings make it harder. There's also the limitations of lifespan which are very real and make things difficult.

I feel profoundly disappointed in life and people, in the sense of being wronged, not in the sense of being bored. I don't want to feel this way, but am not sure how to get out of it.
So are you saying that the conservatives have it all wrong when they say that coal in the US would be healthy if if it were not for the actions of the federal government?
Waze used to (still does? I don't know as I don't use Waze any more) display dots on paths and as you drove it scored you and also used the data to confirm maps. Is there anything like this in the OSM world?