skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Remember, I don’t need your product, but you need customers.

This becomes much less compelling with apps built to be used within a large enterprise. At this point cost of development and maintenance become much more important, because you can always train your workforce to fudge their way around the suckass user-experience.

(Although, in principle, I agree with you and am generally not a fan of systems and products that sacrifice UX for developer expediency.)
Huawei's Kirin SoCs are developed through their HiSilicon subsidiary and are highly competitive with flagship SoCs from Qualcomm and Samsung. MediaTek are a major player in the budget and mid-range smartphone segments.

China lacks mainland fabrication capacity, but Chinese fabless IC companies have very good working relationships with TSMC. Tsinghua Unigroup's bids to buy Micron failed, but they're building a $30bn 3D NAND fab which is due to go online this year. The Chinese government are very serious about building up modern fab capacity.

ARM are British, so there's nothing stopping ZTE from licensing the technology they need to develop a flagship SoC. TSMC will happily fab it for them on a modern process node. Huawei have done it, ZTE are undoubtedly doing feasibility studies as we speak and I wouldn't be at all surprised if Xiaomi and Oppo are thinking about it. In the long term, this sanction could massively backfire by pushing Chinese manufacturers to reduce their dependence on American suppliers.
Eh, I like it. It loads quickly and doesn't tap resources. I typically use Visual Studio as well, but I do it when I need to do a quick edit of a file or quickly see syntax highlighting on something to review. Basically, Electron isn't bad. It is most likely the fault of the implementer if it goes that direction.

I think Brackets is served in Electron as well and that seems to be a lesser quality implementation. I like Brackets, but the performance is somewhere between VS Code and a full fledged IDE.
I'm largely ignorant of how this all works but what about somebody just going door to door with a Geiger counter to spread some awareness?
Have you clicked the link in my comment? Delivery of books is cheap in third world countries. OLPC was not targeting American students!

Also, you don't buy 100 books at once. A year in school will need about 10 books. Send the next 10 next year.
In the long run this is true, but in the short run ignorant shareholders overlook the dilution and just focus on the reported cash profit.

I do say I find it interesting that people even think that if you are going to be paid $x in total compensation it is better to be paid $x-y cash and $y in stock. I guess this sort of magical thinking is why companies do it.
Knife, rope, car accident, drug overdose are significantly less likely to be successful than a gunshot. They also take longer, and the longer it takes, the longer the person has to reconsider.

Also, you don't often see a knife, rope, car, drug overdose, skydiving, or assisted suicide used in a murder-suicide scenario. (Murder-suicide by car certainly happens, but not as often as with a gun.)
AACR meeting in Chicago is the real event. If you're a science junkie, http://webcast.aacr.org/s/2018annual/PL01
Java: Stewardship, the Sobering Parts (Brian Goetz)
Many if not most servers are more idle than not in my experience. I haven’t seen many servers that utilize > 50% CPU on average.
The refactored page brings up good points. Git has undeniably improved the world of software development, and is de facto the version control system to use in the majority of cases today.

That said, that doesn't make the points SQLite makes invalid.
There's something similar in New Mexico.

http://thesingingroad.com/
Details on the April 9 Asana outage
I'm guessing they mean the lack of memory slots in the current model.
> One of the things the NYC region could do is unify operations and planning of NJ transit, LIRR, and Metro North into one through running network

How would this address the principal problem identified in the article, the rising cost per mile of building new track?
What's Bill up to these days? I haven't heard anything about him in a long time.
I made the switch a few years ago. (Got disgusted with myself for neglecting my kids to check work emails). It was much easier than I thought it would be. To your points:

1) Maps - I try to look at an online map before I leave for a place. If the directions are just too complicated I'll print the last leg or so. This has gotten me temporarily lost before, but figuring it out on my own makes for an adventure (definitely not for everybody) and significantly increases my retention of the geography of the area. I do miss real-time traffic-informed routing, though (i.e., Waze).

2) Podcasts - My dumb-phone has an MP3 player, but the UI was so bad (especially for longer tracks like podcasts) that I ended up buying a used iPod Nano. Works great for me.

Downside is the phone is thick ("is that a flip-phone in your pocket, or...") and the UI is clunky, and sometimes it crashes when family send me large files over MMS. I'm seriously considering that Light Phone 2 someone linked above. Seems about perfect.
The goal is to cure, from the article, quoting the head of lung at Yale:

> “Chemotherapy has limitations. Immunotherapy has the ability to cure. I lead the Yale lung team. We have patients on these immunotherapies alive more than eight years.”
Are you saying that because you cheated and didn't get caught the company running the game is shady? That seems backward.
I think what the parent post is saying is that exploitative labour practices enable the existence of elites with enough leisure time to create philosophical and technological progress. It's basically the argument that there would be no great classical civilization without slavery, so slavery is justified by the achievements of the civilizations that used it.

I would like to think that in the 21st century we could have idleness for many, and abusive exploitation for none.
You're conflating two different problems. OLPC was never meant to replace food (or other necessities).

Additionally, having a dictionary, spell checker and encyclopedia at your fingertips make a laptop a great addition to a classroom.
You're moving the goalposts. The person I replied to implied that people are literally dying in the gutters, so of course future humans will look at us with genuine confusion -- who steps over a dying person in the street? How does that make sense? It trivializes the problem and handwaves away the millions of people who help the poor/homeless, and the millions of dollars we spend on that.

If future historians look at any part of this with confusion, it'll be the part where we ignore mental health and think dumping cash/housing/whatever on a person will solve everything.
HPE donates 3 mini-supercomputers to UK universities boning up on Arm
Argument ad hominem: The author's character and actions bear no relevance to his arguments' validity.
It basically looks like a smart contract-powered decentralized escrow service, but the impression I got from their main page is that there isn't a specific end user or market for this yet, although that didn't stop the VCs from funding it.
I think my actual position here is a little more nuanced than it came across before, and I pretty much agree with you.

I find it silly to blame individuals (if only they would do better!). The law of large numbers applied to these cases guarantees that there is a systemic issue, not an individual one — however — I think this sort of "you all should do better!" campaign can be a perfectly viable solution to a systemic issue in some cases, if it can effectively shift enough mindsets to turn a cultural tide.

Blame is a ridiculous concept when talking about large-scale social dynamics, and effectively shuts down the search for any systemic adjustment that would constitute a fix.
How are developers not free to make their choices? Who is forcing them into what eco-system?
I recently watched this incredible documentary about BBSs: http://www.bbsdocumentary.com. It’s free to watch on YouTube or download on torrents.
Once we all agree that you can't do anything useful with the blockchain except buy drugs, there will be little resistance when a bill gets proposed that bans the purchase and/or mining of bitcoin, "the payment currency for illegal drugs that uses more electricity than Ireland". And then that final use case is also gone, hence why I said "no long lasting use case".

And nice try with calling this contraband "medicines". The way to get legitimate medicinal drugs legalized is through careful analysis and discussions, and then you use democracy to make it happen. See California. What you DON'T do is invent some tech that wastes our planet's resources and invent some story about a decentralized future to fool regulators and then enable all kinds of illegal transactions, from human trafficking to terrorism, just so you can smoke a joint effortlessly.
Then they should have spent $200.
> So, the news about them using spyware to ban bots is kind of expected I guess? So people keep buying powerleveling.

In the in-game store they sell an instant max character boost that's 100% legal within the games terms. Why would they also be selling powerleveling or botting services?

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/Black_Lion_Instant_Level_80...
The bigger problem for Apple here is users. A huge number of addicts have been asking for a dark mode in iOS for quite some time. If enough people ask for feature X enough number of times, it is hard for a public company like Apple to resist. I mean it is so easy to at tim or at federighi and get such features these days.
> so something exogenous got people to use it. And to develop the technology to do so.

That was James Watt's steam engine, which was efficient at turning combustion into mechanical motion, and it was happenstance that it was invented in 1780, and not 1580, or 1980. People didn't suddenly develop a need to move heavy things in 1780 - it came around then because of advances in steelwork, precision manufacturing, and general refinement of the idea (Such engines were around for over a century, but were not compact, or efficient enough to be very useful.)

All of a sudden, the labour of a coal miner was enough to feed a 10, then a 50, then a 100 horse-power engine. It was the AGI of its era.
Yeah for sure, and even here on HN. I don't reply to comments older than a few days because the only one who will see them is the person I'm replying to. And if my comment is a correction or a clarification, the person I'm responding to may not take it well, so my comment hits 0 or even negative numbers, without the possibility of the general population correcting that (then again, without the risk of them further correcting me if I'm wrong). It's just not worth it.
Especially when you have things like this https://www.ibm.com/blockchain/

Buzz buzz.
> It's the business model.

Absolutely nailed it. Although I'd go further, and say this cuts to the core of human nature, and perhaps speaks to how fundamentally bad actors can lead to a general degradation of behaviour and standards across the board. So much behaviour in business is driven by the feeling that you have to do something because everybody else is, especially in industries that are in a downward spiral already (publishing!).
Fine, but what can anyone do to reach someone in that situation? Could we maybe start with people who work 8-10 hours/day, make enough for beer money, and can leave their children with friends or family to make room for maybe 4-8 hours out of a month?

Or should we just look at the situation, throw up our hands, and
It's not as straightforward as using a printed image; fingerprint readers are designed to detect only fingers, but it is possible to fool them:

https://www.theverge.com/2016/7/21/12247370/police-fingerpri...
> Judging from some of the comments here, software engineers working in Amazon must either be stupid or irrational to continue working there

This is sparing the employer at the expense of the employee. Employee's employment status is.....far more sticky.
well, when its the 'good guys' doing it...
Not many places offering 10% ROI to people who can invest $500 a month.
I just saw this the other month after sitting on it since it came out in 2005. Couldn’t agree more. Not only worth your time but a must see.
The people in my recent college graduating class who were planning on going to Amazon for software engineering were going there with a plan to burnout after 2-3 years and take their experience elsewhere. It was seen as worth it for the money + resume, even knowing those years would suck.
So what's the solution? Throw out all evidence that isn't incontrovertible?
How a Millenial Entrepreneur Built a Learning Platform with a $134m Valuation
Not so much. The "flair" I've seen is very, very limited (so a bunch of people will end up with the exact same ones; there might only be a handful of choices). And part of the usefulness of Reddit is having the same user account across the entire site, so you don't have to separately log into a dozen different forums about different topics. A creative username for a car-related subreddit is going to be pretty useless when you browse over to some subreddit about programming, where no one cares about your obsession with Skylines or whatever. Finally, that stuff isn't really visual the way iconic avatars are, where someone has some small picture for their user account.
They seem to have an union at least here in Spain, and maybe in other countries as well. Last month, workers at a local Amazon ware house in Madrid did a 2-day strike, which was pushed by a national workers union as a complain on the working conditions [1]. I've been out of the loop on news so I don't know how things are going since then.

[1]: https://www.reuters.com/article/us-amazon-com-spain/spains-a...
And how would you react in such a case? If not by being tolerant to the fact most communication is ambiguous and learning to deal with it?
Ask HN: How to monetise my list of hackers and engineers?
I have an email list of about 10k hackers & engineers who I send educational stuff to now and then. I've tried sponsored ads, which was fine, but the amount of ads you can show without making your users angry is pretty limited, so I'm wondering what else I can do to monetise my list in a bit more scalable way?
Yep.

I'm still waiting on my transflective screen, though.

And on world education.

But hey, these people tried to create a solution. How many people talk and talk, but never do anything?

And even if they didn't succeed as originally intended, all you people typing on your oh-so thin and light ultrabooks, can thank OLPC for helping get the ball rolling.
The whole lower and middle classes? What do you mean by this? What does "quietly" mean -- there's been a ton of activity on the opioid crisis in Washington lately?
I seriously doubt that photo had enough of the fingerprint in it to get a match. I'm not saying this can't be done - I just don't see how that particular photo offers enough data points to uniquely identify someone.

But if anyone has more details on the technical analysis they did, do tell!
Does any cross state combined public transit effort even exist in the US? Maybe DC, I am not familiar with Washington DC.

It’s a nightmare in my city just between neighboring counties. Only 2 counties were included in the initial build out of public trains and not any significant expansion since. The other counties vehemently reject any such proposals. One county is going through expansion talks again but the train will only go one stop to their bus hub. I bet they will end up rejecting all of it.

NIMBYism isn’t very strong in my city but it certainly is regarding public transport, trains especially.
The markup is there because western sellers need to comply with western laws, namely that they need to include tax with the final price and they accept responsibility for replacing faulty and defective products. These are the primary things Chinese sellers avoid, as the responsibility for paying tax ends up on the end consumer which usually means it isn't paid unless customs are doing their job well, and while most Chinese sellers will accept returns for replacement return postage to China is usually cost prohibitive for most items. Not to mention that western sellers are usually acting as resellers or middlemen, regardless of where the product originates it's always cheaper to skip the middleman and buy directly from the manufacturers but this is something that western businesses and manufacturers tend to avoid.
„Congressional staff say the contamination is not surprising because the Energy Department offers bonuses to contractors if they meet tight schedules. But there are no bonuses for preventing worker contamination or preventing releases to the environment, they say.“

So that’s how it works, huh?
I don't think anyone seriously argues that kids should receive laptops over food.

But your argument is exactly that: You're implying that books and pencils are more important for education than "high"-tech.

Do you really think having a pencil, textbook and a notepad is more important than having access to the internet with countless, excellent free resources of education (e.g. Khan Academy).
It was meant to be an analogy.
That unfortunately is an American centric problem, it’s particularly bad in NY but other parts of the country aren’t immune to it either. There’s a lot written about that elsewhere.

My point in this instance is that even at the inflated construction costs you could still accomplish a lot more with better planning and linking these systems up. A tunnel and new stops in manhatten connecting them is going to accomplish a lot more for the same price as capping a huge rail yard. Building new tunnels that terminate three separate systems in different locations. And building a new Penn station.
It seems like this would have leaked if Earn.com had earned this much, or if A16Z had earned a large distribution in one year (like last), it would have had to have been reported to their LPs in the net asset value update.

And perhaps it did leak, because we're talking about it. But then I would still guess there would be more discussion about this if an LP leaked it. There would be ample documentation of this.
The OLPC has most of the characteristics you ascribe to books:

* it works even after getting a bit wet

* it works even if I sit on it (caveat: the hinge will definitely snap if I sit on the screen while it is open)

* I highlight, underline, and annotate documents with it

* I can do useful work in it. (As an example, I made [0] on one of my OLPC XO-1 laptops. I also developed a patch for ico [1] on the same laptop.)

* I can easily copy and share my work or other people's work with it.

(If you want, I can post some videos to defend this. The OLPC is a really well-designed piece of hardware, and too few people have gotten to experience it.)

[0] http://bloominglabs.org/index.php/Logo#Animated_Logo

[1] https://linux.die.net/man/1/ico
A Not So Revealing Story
At how many points of the finger print they look is a whole different story and can vary widely.
I live on this line (Oklahoma). We go through feast or famine with water here and have for 100s of years.

Here's a nice graph from OWRB (old 2011 data but still shows the swings): https://i.imgur.com/vLA1hAk.png

Source: (slow loading) http://www.owrb.ok.gov/supply/drought/pdf_dro/DroughtFactShe...

It's on page 2.
This sounds like a acqui-hire, highly doubt that Coinbase would have paid 200-300M (representing a 2-3x investment multiplier) - BTC or otherwise?
I've made a YouTube playlist of all HN's favorite tech videos
I think I'd be much more concerned about digital fingerprints that come from the lenses and sensor than physical finger prints. Anyone smart would hide revealing details. Sites who offer services like this should introduce noise to the images that distorts at least the digital artifacts.
OLPC had an Open Firmware Forth bootloader. True? False?

Why did OLPC require a "developer key"? (develop.sig)

Will there ever be OpenFirmware-compatible hardware where the Forth bootloader is signed by the owner of the computer?

Will the buyer ever have the option of owning and controlling the so-called "developer key"?

Will there always be a requirement for the seller to retain a "developer key" and for the buyer to request it after purchase? Why or why not?
This is absolute nonsense.

Most web technologies are supported by Safari.it has lagged behind other browsers for a while - not terribly so, but enough that it can be a little annoying at times. But the comparison with IE (or rather Edge now) is just wrong by an order of magnitude.
> Do a lot of long-haul truckers falsify their logs? So I understand.

Companies have been moving to electronic logs to try and stop this. I don't know how successful this has been.
Hmm...excited to hear that I can stop devoting time to figuring out why my wife's laptop constantly runs its fan due to service processes that constantly burn CPU!
>unify operations and planning of NJ transit, LIRR, and Metro North

Everyone agrees but insiders who know about the current state of the transit organizations consider this suggestion so absurd as to write an April Fools post[1] about it.

1: https://pedestrianobservations.com/2018/04/01/new-york-area-...
Their hardware device was stupid though. A headless linux server combined with some shitty bitcoin mining hardware and software. It served no purpose.

It was 100% obvious that it was DOA. I can't even believe that the people at the company thought it was a good idea.
Another developer whining that they don't have free range to do whatever they want.

There are a multitude of reasons why Apple doesn't allow Safari sites to do whatever, namely security, power management, feature duplication/user confusion, etc. When you pay to deploy a native app, you are paying for hosting, the reviewers, payments, availability, etc.

There is no control over when a website may change and at any time your server can be hijacked to distribute malicious content vs an app, which is much more protected by layers of security and process.

Your priorities are definitely not priorities of the end user, where Apple, a company that has millions of customers is. If they were irresponsible and distributed iOS in the way you want, it would be Windows XP all over again. Viruses, security holes daily, etc.
You're right, the analogy is not good. I was more thinking about making an app for fun that solves some problem, makes you and your users a little money on the side, mostly intended for teenagers/college students, etc., but then the masses move into to squeeze every last cent out of it and I get demonized and accused of exploiting workers, etc, when it was never meant to be a life-sustaining employment opportunity to begin with.

I.e. "biting the hand that feeds you" syndrome. Can't we just make cool things that don't require you to give 401k matching to everyone who touches your cool thing?

Again, maybe this doesn't apply to Uber and they totally could be giving full benefits to all drivers, etc., but I'm just saying in general
I think it largely comes down to a few factors: Amazon does a lot of hiring, changing jobs is a hassle that many people won't do just because of momentum, and we naturally only hear about the very worst of what it's like to work at Amazon. If you keep hiring enough developers, enough of them will stick it out thanks to momentum (through possibly sub-optimal but not necessarily tortuous conditions) for long enough to have a large number of developers at any given time.

I worked at Amazon for ~5.5 years, and it was fine. I wasn't in bliss, but it wasn't awful, it was fine. I eventually left not because conditions worsened but because my team's responsibilities eventually shifted to work I disliked enough to overcome the momentum (web ads), and I found out they have a very generous severance program if you know what to ask about.