skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Maybe a large part of why hardware buttons work so much better than software buttons is that they just are there. They do not pop up whenever you enter a new screen, and usually, you can't miss them (as in 'oh, I didn't realize that bar was clickable'). They are also much more restrictive than software UI's - so the designer really has to put in effort since you can't replace the hardware interface by putting out an update.

I can't resist to draw a parallel with programming. In the early days, where binaries consisted of carefully handcrafted code, they were in the range of kilobytes. Nowadays programs are in the range of megabytes to gigabytes due to all the libraries that are statically included (and possibly duplicated). When I install Xilinx ISE (no support for anything above windows 7) or Visual Studio (both 2015 and 2017, because both have features that the other one does not contain), I have already used more space on my SSD than I'd like.
Last year I wrote about the AWS spend of my SaaS business, Cronitor [1]. I couldn't imagine building a service like this without modern cloud providers, but it is no wonder to me why AWS generates all of Amazon's profit.

Essentially our migration over the years looks like:

1) Moving to EC2 from a VPS, The Ec2 instance with same specs is notably slower and you need to add a second instance where one worked before.

2) Moving to a managed service like RDS after running the service on Ec2, managed service with same specs is notably slower and you need a second instance where one worked before.

In the end, it's worth it, in the RDS example you're getting millisecond replication times, point-in-time database recovery, hot failover, etc. But still, it would be great just once if you got the same performance from an RDS 2xl as you'd get running your own DB on a 2xl of your own.

[1] https://blog.cronitor.io/the-aws-spend-of-a-saas-side-busine...
Search that page for “open office will never print on Tuesdays” to find the good bit
Ok, if you read the article then you've missed the context. She's pretty clear as to what she's meant by born which I've quoted above i.e born with a silver spoon. She's also made it clear as to what she meant by 'biological factors' which others have already commented on as well as quoted, which is definitely not how people today would interpret it.
It’s near the end of this article, Chinese bikeshare companies are having similar vandalism experiences in China:

https://qz.com/919739/chinese-bike-sharing-startups-like-ofo...
Tech billionaire, ordered to reopen public beach, appeals to supreme court
Why do you think companies jumping on some hype train is indicative of much at all? For Bosch, for instance, it was the VC part of the company making an Iota investment - I'd say investing in unproven tech is their thing. Deployment in actual products would be something else.

Also, it seems logical at this point to disregard anything coming out of the cryptocurrency subreddits. They drink their own Kool-Aid.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Srinivasa_Ramanujan

"Though he had almost no formal training in pure mathematics, he made substantial contributions to mathematical analysis, number theory, infinite series, and continued fractions, including solutions to mathematical problems considered to be unsolvable. Ramanujan initially developed his own mathematical research in isolation; it was quickly recognized by Indian mathematicians."
> Since the 40s people have been hyping them without any sort of clear understanding.

Groan: it's going to be Cloud/Big Data/ML/Blockchain hype all over again except possibly worse. I don't mind the technology, but the tsunami of vapid content (and conversation) that comes with it wears me out.
Meh, I wonder how much of it is rose colored glasses. There is one KQ (forgot which one) where you have to walk through a bunch of thorny bushes to get to a castle. Any touching of the plants = instant death. This was essentially an exercise in 'take a few steps, save game, repeat'. Where was the fun in that? There were many things like that, although I forgot most of them of course. Many of the mechanics just felt like 'hard for hard sakes', not 'hard for fun sakes' - of course with the idea that harder is more fun, but still.
Upcycled bridge timber breakfast bar construction and install
Ha, 248 days is the point at which a 32bit signed int wraps round if counting in milliseconds.
Things I Learned Managing Site Reliability (2017)
In the pre-Smartphone era (not really, but I didn't buy one back then), I built a printer that would output a daily report every morning that I could just take with me:

https://www.flickr.com/photos/sfg/albums/72157623026358605

I used an old POS printer from eBay and an Arduino with an Ethernet shield. It was a fun thing, but was made obsolete by smartphones.
CTTK: Constant-Time Toolkit
Muslim immigrants helped a lot I see.
>given the objectively horrify safety of cars which we've managed to psychologically lock away in modern culture.

Ab out the car safety, I see your point mentioned every time selfdriving cars are mentioned but we could remove the bad drivers from the road today without having to wait 20 years or more until all or most cars are self driven. My solution would be to have mandatory systems to check the driver for alcohol or drugs and a system to check for the driver attention plus the collision detections and other driver assisting technology. I know there is a privacy problem but I think is not larger then the selfdriving cars one or we can adopt this technologies in countries with less bad governments.

My point we can improve car safety today if we want and not wait for selfdriving cars.
I wonder whether we'll first use quantum computers to perform cryptanalysis against archived unencrypted traffic.

We've conducted ourselves for decades underthe assumption that the cryptographic invariants securing internet communications would hold. Looking to the future, we can switch to quantum-resistant ciphers and go on with our lives.

But the past? Mass decryption of archived communication would lead to learning things we never wanted to know. It would cause economic ruin, social turmoil, and worse on a huge scale. And it may now be inevitable. Everyone has secrets.

We should start moving toward quantum-resistant cryptography now so that by the time these machines become practical, sensitive information will have fallen out of most archives.
Well said but I disagree that AWS is some magical solution it's in your context just a scapegoat to catalyze change in general or a mulligan with brownfield and greenfield. It'd be far more effective to simply hire competent people to fix the organization, but that requires competent people somewhere in the governance of an organization (i.e. a board or major stakeholders).
Not really accurate in the context of your parent. 82% of people might live in HDB, but HDB has long expanded beyond providing affordable housing to the poor. Further, these units are sold and can be rented out. In Singapore, you can be living in public housing, and still be paying 5000/month (or more) for a smallish apartment. So really, we should be looking at the % of people who live in HDBs that are at or near the poverty line.

As for cars, it's long been capped (both explicitly by a limit on the # of available licenses and implicitly by the fact that taxes and levies make a $20_000 car cost over $100_000). What's changed is that they've stopped annually increasing the cap (it was only 0.25% before though).
Enough certainty for us to have now solidly moved from prisoner's dilemma to campers' dilemma http://cassandralegacy.blogspot.ch/2017/06/facing-climate-be...
Prototyping an ltrace clone using eBPF
And I thought the car analogy was bad. Imagine hearing that excuse at 30,000 ft. (or being the pilot and having to give it) as all the lights in the cabin go off and the actuators stop working (would the turbines stop firing?) "Have you tried restarting it? Maybe boot it in safe mode." Loved the bit at the end 'Operators will perform periodic power cycling at scheduled intervals until incorporating a software update.'

Sad that this story's "thought experiment" https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16393740 from 8 days ago may be the future, not a joke. Sorry you couldn't drive to work, we're pushing an update to your car by the middle of the week.
Is it possible to massively speed up ray tracing by representing geometry in a quantum program and then using superposition to evaluate many ray paths simultaneously? That would be exciting in <N> years for real time accurate ray tracing.

This is just a wild guess without much knowledge of quantum computing at all though.
In inland southern California there is (or was, last time I was there) a Polynesian community that's established enough for similar container-shipping companies to arise to send things to their families still on the islands.
Original twitter thread:

https://twitter.com/mipsytipsy/status/960769649351602177
I'm always a little skeptical of these sorts of surveys because it's hard to tease out what people believe about themselves because it's true vs. what people believe about themselves because it's useful.

I remember that when I was a new grad, there was a very large part of myself that held a realistic appraisal of my abilities and was therefore scared shitless about my ability to make it in the working world. I was very careful to never let that part of me out in interviews - or, for that matter, to anyone. Confidence only works if you keep up the illusion so thoroughly that it ceases to be an illusion.

And it worked. I got a job at a financial software startup, and then was put in charge of projects that no new grad should ever have been put in charge of. I grew into the role. I left to go found a startup, which is also something that someone with 2 years of work experience had no business doing. That worked too - I may not have been qualified to found a startup, but when I folded it up, I was a lot more qualified as an engineer than most of my other peers with 4 years of work experience. So Google hired me to work on the front page of the search engine, and I grew into that role too.

The majority of my classmates let their accurate perceptions of what they were actually qualified to do govern what they applied to do, and as a result, many were still struggling to get into a career 10 years later. By that point, your self-perception has become reality, and it's much harder to convince potential employers to take the risk that you'll grow into the position. Then they wake up and realize that everybody's faking it and their new manager isn't actually all that much more skilled than them, but (barring a career reset like going to grad school) it's difficult to reset people's perceptions.
heh, when s3 first came out they didnt have per request charges. then someone built a fuse fs on top of s3, and adding those charges was largely to convince people not to use s3 as a filesystem
We can barely even get people to sort their trash or turn off the lights when they leave a room.

So yeah, we're doomed.
First, you’re comparing to the United States which is a very high-crime developed country. Second, this data is before France let in zillions of refugees and other Arabs who commit far more crime than white French.
The problem is that the several people he knows are not the average architecture astronaut. It takes a lot of taste and experience to design a usable language.
Finally someone mentions this, everyone seems amazed about Tesla’s big iPad, where you control everything in your car, I haven’t tested it yet, but for me having controls that require taking my eyes from the road sounds like a really bad idea, regular buttons give you touch feedback so you don’t need to look, why is everyone so obsessed with touchscreens?
The motion activated taps in public bathrooms are to prevent people from wasting water, not for convenience.
A Swedish company has overtaken Tesla, already won Lidl as a customer
A friend of mine has Hue lights in his bathroom. The fact that they operate like normal lights when the power is interrupted is the only reason that guests have any chance of succeeding in using the bathroom without instruction.
How does that work out? In situations, granted only a small handful, I've worked where AWS has been extensively used what ends up happening is everyone ends up doing "devops". Whatever that might mean in a formal sense, the way I see it playing out in reality is that every engineer ends up having to spend time tinkering with the infrastructure, so does it really free up valuable engineering time?

For personaly projects, I use AWS and Azure (though am likely to migrate everything to a single box at OVH because it turns out to be cheaper for better performance - go figure) and it's made a certain amount of sense (up to now). At work we use dedicated hardware, because the cloud can't deliver the bang per buck.
Yes. From the linked page:

> Sensitivity analyses on a representative subsample of the cohort observed only small attenuation of the estimated effect of intelligence (by 10-26%) after adjustment for potential confounders, including three indicators of childhood socioeconomic status. In a replication sample from Scotland, in a similar birth year cohort and follow-up period, smoking and adult socioeconomic status partially attenuated (by 16-58%) the association of intelligence with outcome rates.
That was a painful read. Considering the amount of money invested into this coin, someone should have coughed up travel expenses to get these guys into a room together for a few days so they could more efficiently clarify themselves to each other, maybe establish a bit of trust and rapport from working alongside each other on a problem, and reach consensus as to what facts and opinions they agree on vs. what is in dispute. I would have loved to see some of that energy they spent fretting over optics instead put into solid engineering work.

Just my two cents. Most of this is over my head as I'm not by any means a cryptography expert.
I think the author and you are targeting slightly different things: she identifies who is amongst the vanguard who bring it into power, you are observing that once in a Nazi state, most people will go along with it
The Logitech harmony remote also works over radio so it doesn’t need line of sight.

But it’s not so small that it gets lost.

I never use my Apple TV remote. It’s not practical enough.
2 Weeks After Trump Blocked It, Democrats’ Rebuttal of G.O.P. Memo Is Released
Have you even read the article? The only reason AMP is perceived as better than anything out there is because Google aggressively preloads it.

At best it's not better than anything else out there. Solutions to slow loading pages are well known and have nothing to do with AMP or "other web frameworks". Even Google themselves lay out the solutions: https://developers.google.com/speed/docs/insights/rules. Nowhere does it say AMP. And if you bothered to read the article, you'd see that Google's own tools consider Google's own AMP to be bad and non-performant.

> Less talk and politics, more shipping code.

That's exactly how and why we ended up with AMP.
Except with the right (obvious) non linear filter you can easily extract orders of magnitude smaller signals randomly inserted in a white noise

That is the basics of how people in astronomy clean their signal.

http://beauty-of-imagination.blogspot.fr/2012/09/fun-with-si...
My first question too:

> In the absence of individual level data on socioeconomic status in the full SMS1947, we used school attended as a proxy measure to adjust for potential confounding by background socioeconomic status. A Scottish cohort study has shown that primary school has moderate correlation with paternal social class.
How common? I just ask because I moved from a country where many people I know, including myself, have been violently robbed or attacked at one point in their lives (england), to Germany - where I've never even heard of somebody getting mugged.

The Germans are pretty unaware of how safe it is here, on the whole - they'll often explain to me a particular street is dangerous, or an area is bad - but honestly, if you're from any other country, it's a bit ridiculous.

I mean, feeling unsafe is bad - but to put it in perspective, one of my german friends lived in Coventry for a short while. On his second day there, he was beaten up at a bus stop for having long hair. That's what an unsafe area is like in england, which I'm sure is far more mild than most places in the world.
Uber does the same. It the good old "buy it or build in-house" question. If total cost of ownership is more, you want to change.
This[0] is a great book for people who do not know the history of gaming and the struggles devs had in early pc game dev when you had no gpu’s and very crappy graphics cards.

[0] https://www.amazon.com/gp/aw/d/B0768B3PWV/ref=mp_s_a_1_1?ie=...
China proposes change on Chinese president's term in Constitution
Comodo Secure DNS Review: Recommended Public DNS Server
The Mischling test checked for one grandparent of Jewish confession. Even Nazis would not consider him the same way they did their victims.
You can say, "Just force them to put deposit, and if the bike is damaged, deduct their deposit." Well, how do you know if the bike is damaged by them, and not random bypassers?

You don't but the point of the deposit is simply to act as a deterrent. When your deposit is on the line, you have an incentive to look after the bike while it is in your possession. You wouldn't purposely seek to damage it if it is going to cost you. It takes the "fun" out of vandalising and that is usually sufficient.
The alternatives aren't either AWS or host yourself. You can rent managed servers for a fraction of the price of AWS instances.

Granted, if you need 1M+ cores, you're going to be dealing with humans most places (including AWS) to get the best deal possible, and that also means the cost differences can change fairly substantially (e.g. the instances I know of that are in "ask us" territory are not paying anywhere near published prices)

That said 1M cores is not that much. Depending on your needs it's as little as "just" 500 racks. Plenty of managed providers will be happy to provide customized service to e.g. design and/or manage a setup for something that size.
Trying to solve it with technology is naive. If the governance of a company can't regularly align and improve itself, no technology will solve that problem.
Legacy maybe? You could only buy from iTunes in the beginning.
But it makes sense to spend $100m on a painting?

Not all money is going to be spent productively, and not everything needs a clear purpose.
I think it's been working fine in Berlin for fifteen years.
Using the cloud is a waste of money as long as you don't need to scale up and down, or change the infrastructure frequently.

Bandwidth has always been insanely(!!) overpriced with most cloud providers.
I want to believe that GPUs can accelerate databases but I rarely see head to head comparisons. Is 100ms for this query really that good? With only 4mm rows how would vanilla Postgres hold up, not to mention something like Citus or Memsql (both of which are at the core my startup’s big data pipeline).
when you are being 'cognizant and honest', it is not about labels anymore. sticking with labels is exactly what 'politicking' is all about. 'Communist' is a label. Belief in voluntary mutual help, freedom of thought (i.e. right to know, to have free access to full information), freedom from coercion and manipulation (by deceptive misreporting, or forbidding access to some info, etc.) actually clashes with accepted practices by political communism as observed in recent history, but is goal- and values- oriented. So my thing is, let it be not about labels but about values - specific values, about sum total of our stances on specific issues. "To be" a "Communist" is thus a self-deception, substituting labels of political party affiliation for the true and real values. We as people often mix the two - we search for groups of people sharing our values to join in with them, and use labels as approximants, but this vague thinking usually / always leads to confusion and self-delusion. Same with religions. We sink into the details of a particular myth and forget that it was the shared values we were after, in the first place.
And yet intelligent people are said to use more drugs:

https://www.psychologytoday.com/blog/the-scientific-fundamen...
You still need to engineer devops yes, so having an engineer allocated to that still makes sense. If "everyone ends up doing "devops"" you might not have a general infrastructure strategy (what your engineers need is a CI/CD pipeline) or doing something like microservices (which might or might not make sense depending how flexible you want to be and how many teams you have/need to have).

At growth companies using cloud makes complete sense because it's all about time to market and iterating on your business proposition. Requirements change all the time and having flexibility of cloud offerings gives you the velocity. Whether at scale/in maintenance mode it makes much for sense to cut corners and optimise spending.

Either way you want to focus on what brings the most business value.
‘Cracks down on abuse’ doesn’t really sound like an attack.
I'm not sure, but presumably all branches of science that deal with conditions in pre-history have testability challenges. Doesn't mean you can't build theories, reason about them, devise ingenious and indirect ways to test and experiment. Humour me. I assume you don't dispute that modern civilization has been conincident with only a tiny fraction of human evolutionary history. Why isn't it reasonable to assume we are well adapted to pre-civilization environments and that sometimes this is not helpful in modern life?
Ray tracing is typically the kind of things you want to do as fast as possible, ideally in real time. Quantum computers will never work fast.

Also if I'm not mistaken ray tracing scales well with conventional computers : the quality of your output is proportional to the number of rays you simulate. So it's not an appropriate use case for quantum computers.
Apple to store iCloud keys in China, sparking privacy fears
From what I've seen while working for large companies, the problem is most likely incompetence and/or quality not being a priority.
Someone didn't read the article.

"Checking things like temperature, blood pressure and respiratory rate every four hours on hospitalized patients has been the standard of care since the 1890s, yet scant data indicates that it helps."
More than just general purpose languages, the article highlights how creating small languages that integrate well into the host language is a powerful way to layer your system.

I've experienced this first hand in making a DSL for sophisticated video editing and "style authoring" [1] in the context of muvee, and it was all much inspired by Racket (then known as MzScheme). You can tell based on the fact that the docs were written yet another embedded language "scribble" that's available with Racket/MzScheme.

The speed of iteration and ease of discovery and abstraction of patterns in lisp/scheme is hard to do justice to in a descriptive article. The Racket team has taken that to a whole new level that you'll be hard pressed to find in any other "batteries included" system.

[1] https://srikumarks.github.io/muvee-style-authoring/
(disclaimer: I used to work for muvee)
driving across Spain I found the wind turbines a pleasant part of the landscape

Don Quixote, not so much.
Dozen Vulnerabilities Discovered in #TrendMicro #Email #Encryption Gateway
Hope it would be available for other languages.
I have a Ford Fusion 2013, AC and radio is controlled with those soft touch buttons, man I hate those buttons, I don’t want to take my eyes from the road just to change the radio! I don’t get why the obsession about putting “touch” functionality to every single damn thing, they don’t provide a single UX improvement.