skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Palantair supplies tech, agencies use them. How does this make palantair terrifying? As long as the agencies need the tech some company will supply it.

I don't see how Palantair is like Facebook - Facebook acts on it's own
I don't think so, reading real statistics on this kind of thing instead of alarmist and politically slanted headlines paints a very different picture of how the world is doing.

https://ourworldindata.org/extreme-poverty
If it stops growing and the "massive amounts of money" it generates result in a profit, then shareholders like the parent could vote that the company starts paying dividends to shareholders. So to answer your question: Yes.
We're definitely at the point in history where we have to get out of these app stores. I get it if you're doing a game or something that's fine, stay in the app store. But I don't know how many times I've been extremely frustrated with a website telling me to get their app.

* They break my in-browser password store

* They introduce extremely complicated "app-only" device links for Oauth

* Updating your UI for most apps shouldn't require an app-store push (don't talk to me about ionic)

This is the same fight but different players that we're currently facing in getting away from Social Platforms.
Insufflating 15G of anything is physical a feat in and of itself
Do you not have cable as well as the phone system?
Do you not have sewers a competitor could run fibre through?
Do you not have unlicensed p2p wireless?
Hm. The thing about costs is interesting. (That spending so much on terrorism is why we see so few deaths.) Evaluating counterfactuals is always hard. If I were to tackle it, I'd probably look at what we're spending the terrorism budget on, what the upper bound of deaths might be, and if it'd be reasonable to think that whatever counterterrorism measures we're taking could actually save that many lives.

I think there are more nuanced views that are worth expressing, as some commenters have already pointed out, for example, looking at years of life lost (i.e. controlling for age of death).

While I think the data we got was in broad strokes representative, I'd be curious to see what it looks like in other countries, as I'm wondering if cultural bias plays a large role.

I'm not too sure if I'll write many more blog posts exploring this dataset in the future; the data is all there on GitHub, though, if anyone else wants to play with it. :)
> I don't think this is a good sign for Western countries to be honest.

Agreed, but the writing has been on the wall ever since the first set of Rubbermaid molds shipped to China (iirc on account of Walmart pushing them to lower their prices).
That could change. They can invest into kernel engineers as well.
Who is dying in the street in substantial numbers?
The author is Igor Pavlov, the creator of 7-zip. He's eccentric and very Russian.
This was a really big deal when I read it back then. It led me more seriously into robotics and ai and the discussion of the singularity and jobs. But Bill Joy's essay was not just waiting for the AI to become super-human he was aware that way before it would be dangerous to humans.

One of my favorite quotes from the article which really has informed a lot of my thinking later:

"Clarke continued: "Looking into my often cloudy crystal ball, I suspect that a total defense might indeed be possible in a century or so. But the technology involved would produce, as a by-product, weapons so terrible that no one would bother with anything as primitive as ballistic missiles."
:lightbulb: thank you
Which is basically the MO of those who are in power and control resources since forever, or at least in the U.S. - divide and conquer, project fault on outsiders, etc. For all that the internet has done, it has made weakening local communities easier.
Oh, yeah, that seems like a good way to help with clarity. Thanks for sharing. I'll see if I can make some minor edits this week to help with that.
Script doesn't appear to be formatted for copy/paste...
what is a high-roller database?
I excited by the combination webassembly+pwa, which should enable truly cross platform, language agnostic, client development.
Modern Android has a f.lux-like effect where it changes the colors on your screen to be warmer so they don't affect your sleep as much. I assume that's what he means by 'dark mode' (it's 'night mode').
Well, Marx and Engels did accurately identify that a large reserve of under-employed workers, or people who didn't previously participate in the labor force, is what enables the most exploitative jobs.

All necessities in life cost money: food, housing, childcare, healthcare; and those in the most precarious social positions are the people most willing to accept abusive employment for reasons directly tied to their survival. This is a natural consequence of a socioeconomic system that asks everyone to fend for themselves.
Why would reference counting increase cache misses?

> One of the interesting advantage of erlang is that its processes are small and mostly fit in L2 memory.

Are you talking about data or are you talking about execution? I wouldn't think execution would need reference counting.

> So you can load a whole process at once, then compute for your whole slice, all in cache.

Whatever data is being loaded still has latency. If it is accessed linearly it can be prefetched. If it is being copied around, that won't won't put it into a CPUs cache any faster and will require using writeback cache, not to mention all the cycle of copying.

I'm not sure how data that already exists in memory and potentially in L3 caches, etc. is going to be hurt by reference counting.

> The result may surprise you.

Do you have results that I can look at? If not I think they will surprise both of us.
Awesome. Thanks for sharing
https://www.psychologicalscience.org/news/releases/experienc...

Ibuprofen actually does work, believe it or not.
I'd like it.
Hi Peter,

I am giving a talk on my Masters project this week at the University of Hartford. I was doing some background reading a found this thread and your comment! Interestingly the Atlantic published article last year abut a new report (Nature Scientific Reports) that hinges on my Masters work:
https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2017/11/the-exti...

We need to have a beer some time and catch up!
I am not. That reinforces a iOS/Android ecosystem lock in. I personally want to see web apps succeed so it would be easier to move off of those platforms. If that happens, then I would foresee that web apps get first rate treatment and won't be "clunkier"
> I'm OK with that. Web apps are clunkier and provide a worse experience. That Google makes this easier speaks to the sort of UX you get with Android.

Chicken and eggs argument here: web apps are clunkier and provide a worse experience because they are not well supported by the OS or the OS does not provide better support for web apps because they provide a worse experience?

Hybrid app frameworks exist because phone operational systems lack proper support for web applications.
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Also as a paying premium spotify customer, I can say they still serve up ads, they're just incognito...

1.) I recently had a splash screen for a Hulu partner "free trial" membership. Turns out it's actually a bundle, but I don't want to pay more for Hulu so keep your "ads" out of my premium feed Spotify. Put it in a special offers section where I can peruse at my liesure.

https://support.spotify.com/us/account_payment_help/subscrip...

2.) My email is constantly bombarded with ads like "[pick a artist] wants to say 'thanks' with presale tickets". I already get presale with Amex. Again, these ads can be placed in a 'shows near you' section vice shoved in my email face.

No ads my hiney.
Raspberry Pi + https://pi-top.com/ + sugar on a stick (https://github.com/sugarlabs/sugar/blob/master/docs/rpi-soas...)
So begins the conglomerate
Clickable: https://NativeGap.com
Me too I didn't suspect that was even possible. If it's not a hack maybe PWA are not that far from mainstream.
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> I know I'm a strange fellow, but I am having a hard time to understand why consumer grade routers are such garbage.

i work at a contract engineering firm which employs a lot of folks who've stuffed linux into embedded products (frequently ones expensive enough that if you have to ask the price, you can't afford it), though not afaik any routers.

in general:

this kind of work is done by firmware engineers who were hired because they had "linux" on their resume. they have no networking experience, and know less about security. to the extent that the project manager is aware that security is a thing, they assume any "technical" person is as good as any other on the subject. how the devices will be kept up to date is not discussed until right before the software is delivered (if ever).
With truly advanced multi-purpose robots (like in sci-fi), it would take just one donation of a robot to a charity to start a 'robot self-replication for poverty movement', where one robot build another with its own labor, doubling, and doubling again, until every down and out has their own pool of robotic laborers.
> It would have been easy to attach a camera to a small hydrogen balloon, with a clockwork device to puncture the balloon to bring it down in a reasonable distance.

Maybe, but homing pigeons have a few advantages. They return to their home "automatically" and they are not as conspicuous flying through the air.
Sure, when they start putting lifting racks in concert venues.
It seems unlikely that all these countries would refuse to make chips for ZTE, though?
As someone who's not very familiar this area of US government, was this more of an autonomous prosecution kind of like "you broke the law you pay"? Or was this more motivated by the recent trade skirmish with China, being used as a pawn so to speak?
...Porque no los dos?
Insightful response in the linked thread: https://sourceforge.net/p/sevenzip/discussion/45797/thread/e...
My dev team each have their own bottle. It's the most expensive bottle on the market and is provided/cleaned/maintained for free as an employee benefit.

It is an IOT bottle, connected directly to the employee's primary work station/laptop. Cleaning/emptying of the bottle is automatic and triggered by employee engagement (eg LOC written/pushes to Github). It can also be triggered manually by the team lead.

Employees who wish to take the bottle home/on vacation with them may do so (same trigger rules apply).

Since implementing our new bottle infrastructure, we've been able to acquire several new key hires from companies where employee benefits aren't taken so seriously.

Furthermore, assigning the emptying of the bottles to our management team has helped balance the company and improve morale significantly (now that we've switched from a unilateral to bilateral flow of excrement).
> What? China has numerous barriers to being "open for business", from requiring partnerships with local entities to even operate in the country to forced IP sharing to quotas on imports, and has been increasing those restrictions under Xi, not loosening them.

Yes, and you're free to buy as much of their stuff as you want, single piece through Aliexpress at prices your local store can't even match including delivery, by the box, container or trainload.

> Your statement is so inaccurate that I suspect you're pushing some agenda.

Hilarious. And pray what agenda do I have?

FFS I've been on HN for almost a decade, are you seriously suggesting I made this account so that I could push some silly talking point or that I have a stake in the outcome other than that I'm a citizen of a European country that sees more and more of its manufacturing capacity moved to the far East?
The sad irony of Uber et al is that it's only a matter of time before those drivers are replaced by AI.

The point being, those drivers are doing more for the (short term) future of that company than any other entity. In the long term? For those drivers? The long term is not being an Uber driver.
I think they are probably better viewed as a good option for part-time courses in technical disciplines for self-motivated people. At least as a potential applicant (have never taken a bootcamp) I didn't see them in the same light as Hack Reactor, for example.
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This happens to mine if I have an update pending, worth checking if it's an intermittent issue.
Sounds like your answer is nationalism. We could just as easily be talking about laws and candidates who want to improve our trade agreements such that workers in China, Mexico, etc. get better working conditions.

I don't particularly like the conditions at Amazon either, but I see it as the obvious result of globalism. When 70% of the world lives on less than $10 per day, what we call decent conditions is really a fantasy. We're not likely to get away with our relative standard of living forever. Eventually we'll average out.
Ah, I see.

The charting library I used (charts.js) didn't come with an easy way to have a time axis, so I rigged up some stuff with JQuery and a slider.

I guess something that could have helped with accessibility would have been a dropdown box instead to select the years.
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I honestly don't expect it of ordinary users.

I was explicitly pushing back against your depiction of contributing: Learning the complexities of the OSM API's and toolings is even lower. The process is complicated with many moving parts and tailored toward commercial level development not end map users. OSM, like any sophisticated database is complex and requires a substantial degree of technical commitment.

20 minutes for a moderately motivated person is worlds away from what you said.

Of course OSM would benefit greatly from further lowering the bar, but like you say, that's a lot of work.
This appears to have happened months before Perry became the DOE leader.
I think this misunderstands economics. The day robots are in the market the value of what they produce will drop to nothing, much like most things done in high scale by machines today.

The value of things are proportional to the human labor expended to make them, if robots do free shipping and all of that, their cost will tend to drop to the cost of making the robots.

The public narrative that robots should be taxes is as logical as saying we should tax computer, or hammers. Its not economics. A more compelling argument is that the shift of work in the future will be even more detrimental than what we know, which might be true, but it has also been true in the past.
Some of the scenes in the demo remind me a lot of an old "game" I played with as a kid, Burning Sand. It's a Falling Sand game.

- http://burningsand.de/

- https://www.wikiwand.com/en/Falling-sand_game
It’s a lot to do with what you’re used to. As an Apple user bought into their ecosystem and tools, I find developing for their platforms dramatically easier and more straightforward than for other targets. I can basically do Android development with some pain and confusion, but on Windows I’m totally stumped/useless.
That's an easily remediable fix!
Now you can easily create content curation website
To put it a bit more clearly, your stock only makes you money if Amazon keeps growing

No, I think you have it incorrect. As long as revenue > costs and internal expenditures, you make money by dividends. That's the whole reason we buy stocks. Price growth is ultimately just a projection of the belief in higher future dividends.
> Don’t make me pay you to make my app available to your users. My app enriches your platform.

It helps to prevent spammed low quality apps. If there is a monetary barrier to entry, it helps curb that.
What do you think these people were doing being being drivers for uber?
> You claim we need to change the business model. I claim the business model is irrelevant if we instead focus on open source and distributed platforms.

I think the organizational model is relevant. Would we be having the discussions around the most popular social network selling our data and completely disrespecting user privacy if the most popular social network were a non-profit organization?

I have to think there is some middle ground between publicly traded megacorp and complete decentralization.
Yeah. But now that pertains to many more technological gadgets than in the past. It's the same cycle as done by Germany and Japan in the past, i.e. first flood markets with laughable but cheap stuff, then continuously improve, stop being a laughing stock but a decent though cheaper alternative, then start getting into high margin stuff and unseat leaders (which is the current phase of China), then take over quality production, raise prices and become rich (which is the game we are starting to see being played right now).
In the article: "Aside: I guess Apple won’t let you submit an app unless you have a registered, legal company?"

Although it does seem to be this way, you can submit an app to the store without being a registered, legal company. The most common route is to just mark yourself as a sole proprietorship using your own name. No need for an LLC or anything. However, this may vary from country to country.
Is it possible to ask a question in a patronising way?
> I don't understand how managers at amazon can believe this is okay

They probably don't. They have stringent targets for their team to meet in order to get their bonus (or not get promoted over, or not get moved to a worse area, or...). The pressure is passed down the chain.

> and that it won't blow off in their face.

Maybe they expect to have moved on before that happens? Or simply feel that have no choice because of that downwards pressure and not being able to afford to risk losing the job (a morally corrupt job pays the mortgage better than no job at all does).
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Around 80% of stock is owned by the top 10% wealthiest individuals[1]. More recent work[2] puts the percentage even higher. You might own some of the robots but most people don't.

[1]: https://appam.confex.com/appam/2012/webprogram/ExtendedAbstr...

[2]: http://time.com/money/5054009/stock-ownership-10-percent-ric...
It’d be nice if there was a possibility of real competition at the basic platform level. The browser model is so entrenched, yet it still amazes me that we’ve been stuck with it for two decades.
Reverse engineering the client ID generation would be more useful (maybe their web clients just grab from a pool, I have no idea).

Stack Overflow is full of questions regarding app registration and rate limiting. If writing audio service integrations, steer well clear of SoundCloud.
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My super hitech code editor (erm...gedit) highlights FIXME and TODO in comments so you can easily find them while scrolling. Doesn't know about BUG though so I guess it just assumes you write bug-free code.
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Liked this quote:

"Regardless of how the knowledge spreads, agile teams don't end up with critical-path developers who can't go on vacation because they're the only ones who understand a particular area of code. Because nobody wants to be that developer."
>I have been using 2x wall-mounted industrial mini PCs

Can you share the manufacturer/model # of the devices you are using?
I describe that in the article, but here's the short of it:

iOS: You have to use Cordova plugins. I used RemoteCommand[0] and NowPlaying[1] that lets me write JavaScript that calls into native iOS functionality. Once the Cordova plugins are installed, you write JS to talk to them. Source code for that here[2].

Android: Google has submitted a web standard[3] for this. Integrating with it is simple[4].

Windows: Microsoft automatically injects the Windows API into the JS global namespace. So you write JavaScript that looks like window.Windows.Media.SystemMediaTransportControls.doSomethingHere(). You can see the code for that here[5].

[0]: https://github.com/leon/cordova-plugin-remotecommand

[1]: https://github.com/leon/cordova-plugin-nowplaying

[2]: https://github.com/JudahGabriel/Chavah/blob/master/Chavah.Ne...

[3]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/API/Media_Sessi...

[4]: https://github.com/JudahGabriel/Chavah/blob/master/Chavah.Ne...

[5]: https://github.com/JudahGabriel/Chavah/blob/master/Chavah.Ne...
Vi is an example of the Lindy Effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindy_effect
I work at an Amazon warehouse. I'd rather be able to do that and write code on the side than be unemployed and have to live with my parents in the middle of nowhere. My parents don't even have an internet connection.
I think we need to democratize the means of automation.

Building blocks spanning microcontrollers to motors to power converters to lighting to the rapid fabrication of small parts have never been cheaper or more accessible. And why would you buy remote-controlled lightbulbs from BigCo if you could make one yourself (or get a friend to) for the cost of a sandwich?

Because you can't spare the extra $3 to buy a fair-trade organic lightbulb every few months, would probably be the answer. And that would probably be because you're stuck in jobs like these. So maybe I'm just spouting baseless optimism.
Or perhaps they felt that as a foreign entity the US laws did not apply to them? There are lots of commercial transaction that may or may not violate US laws, typically those companies that engage in them are not aware of the reach of the long arm of Uncle Sam (not saying that's the case here, ZTE absolutely knew they were violating the embargo but still, you have to wonder to what extent they felt that being in China was protection enough).

The more layers you use to obfuscate a thing like this the clearer it is that you know that you are doing something you should not be doing.
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Maybe it's changed since I lived there, but I don't really think Seattle is "one of the highest cost of living cities in the world". It is (or was) quite a bit cheaper than NYC or SF, for example.
Yep, that's a classic case of an engineering trade-off. The thick A-pillars in modern cars are a real detriment to visibility in a place where we need it most, and can not only cause more crashes due to low visibility, but also more impacts with pedestrians since they're frequently hidden in that spot. However, they're also a real boon for crashworthiness: thicker pillars are structurally essential for surviving a rollover accident, and they're also good for holding airbags which can prevent deaths or maimings that the front airbags are insufficient for.
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I see, I see. Thank you for clarifying.
How you keep yourself updated in ever changing Software Industry?
Whats the strategy ? Is it
Books,
online,
Feeds,
community meetups,
talks,
courses,
certifications ? which helps the best ? References if you have other preferences.
Yeah, I would hope that we find more durable solutions.

I know some people have been on it for an extended interval without any sort of tolerance problem, which is how I initially heard about it firsthand, so it's one more of those strange biochemistry things that's inconsistent, because of course it is.

The interesting thing, to me, would be figuring out what the method of action is for the effect, in order to replicate it in other drugs, but we'll see.

(I'm also curious whether repeating the dense dosages would be effective again for me now, over a year later, or whether the tolerance would be, indeed, permanent.)