skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like throw-away statements like this almost come out of a different era, like the platform Reagan ran on, "government isn't the solution, it's the problem" or whatever.

They're claims that are so simply phrased, people can repeat them without thinking critically about them, but if you do, and start unpacking them, the claims are either wholly unsupported, or unknowable.

"Taxes == get fleeced" ... no. Or, at least, not as a matter of course. Maybe some taxes are bad, or unfair, but we can judge each tax on its merits.

"Government program provides worse services" ... no. Or, at least, not as a matter of course. Maybe some things the private sector does better? But a huge swath of civic life relies on government services because, well, that's by definition what government provides, the building blocks of civic life.
Why would mathematicians take precedence over people who navigate ships and airplanes for a living? Also, ellipsoidal geodesics aren't always circles.

"Thinking long and hard" isn't actually much of a qualification, if you think about it long enough and hard enough. Playing around with the definition of "straight line" is just an amusement, putting different theoretical constraints on the recreational problem. The whole thing is pedantry to begin with, so don't be surprised when someone pops their head in with something unexpected just to show off how clever they think they are.

Launching pointless academic arguments is almost the whole point. It shows the audience that everyone involved is very smart, and all possibilities have been duly considered, and therefore the agreed-upon answer must be very significant, reliable, and noteworthy.
did not help.
Having been a fan of Apple for over a decade now, over the last year I've come to the opposite point of view. Their iPhone and airpods are great products and of course they can ride a long time on those, but in every other area from Macs and accessories I feel they are falling flat on delivering great user experiences. From FaceTime to Siri, to crappy Apple TV remotes, Home Kit... there are just a LOT of mediocre products that sit idle for years. Of all times, the company is at the point most worth criticizing. I do blame Tim Cook for this stagnation in product development. And indeed their lack of ideas means they have nothing better to do with their cash, that they are buying back shares. Ehh, I'm so jaded these days on Apple.
" then a full VM is your only guarantee"

VM's on commercial and FOSS platforms have been unable to ensure security as far back as first pentest of VM/370. They were too complicated depending on a lot of privileged code. The founders of INFOSEC took aim at it with KVM/370 and VAX VMM Security Kernel. One example (see esp layering and assurance sections):

http://lukemuehlhauser.com/wp-content/uploads/Karger-et-al-A...

Even those systems had too much complexity by our standards. They aimed for nearly-perfect implementation of the core kernels mediating everything. That led to separation kernels like INTEGRITY-178B, LynxSecure, seL4, and Muen. They're usually just 4-12Kloc. Whereas, projects trying to achieve similar assurance activities on KVM and Xen mostly gave up due to complexity. If aiming for correctness more than security, projects like Nova microhypervisor and GenodeOS show similar partitioning can still help.

Although separation kernels succeeded, their requirements assumed hardware/firmware that was sane and would work correctly. What people are using for virtualized workloads has been overly complex with shoddy implementations. Bypasses keep happening via everything from CPU's to RAM to peripheral firmware. Although methods exist to assure them, the companies providing them are not using them.

So, if you want anything close to a guarantee, you have to use physical separation with strongly-mediated, communications systems over optical links. The boards need to be electrically isolated from each other in their own TEMPEST boxes or safes. Alternatively, use old technique from separation kernel era of putting all the complex, enemy-facing stuff on their own boxes that interpret stuff down to requests in simple protocols interfacing with the trusted boxes on better hardware. Reduces hardware cost but what you get is nothing like a Google or Amazon cloud. It's more like a partitioned version of SoftLayer.
Isn't it naive to criticize cashierless stores and automated cars as "stupid areas"? Arguing that those will cost jobs is akin to saying a 100 years back that the "iron horse" will cost jobs. Mankind has to continue to innovate and it is disingenuous to argue that a cashierless store is a "minor convenience".
Best part:

1. We do not like to pay for content on a per-item basis. See Mental Transaction Costs. Similarly, we have only limited willingness to contribute to a patronage model.

2. We do not like to pay subscription fees for content.

3. We do not like having to wade through a lot of irrelevant, annoying advertisements.

4. We do not like the feeling that we are being tracked in order to be served fewer, targeted advertisements.

5. People and firms that supply content typically should be paid.

We cannot satisfy all five of these desires. We have to give up at least one of them. We have to compromise.
Rust in production at Figma
Great, we'll make it happen. It will probably be a video call since our CTO and co-founder is living in the Ukraine.
It's a two way street. Improving one's listening skills and not reacting emotionally is just as important. The general tone of the article sounds to me as if it does not give much priority to the latter. This strikes me as an expression of an over protective approach to people's emotions that limits rational discussion. I see this often and in my experience I find that it has negative effects on organizations and relationships and, in cases like the one in the article, quality and business success.
Apple’s market cap will keep rising for the next few years without any innovation through buybacks and service revenue from existing devices. But the fact that they’re not talking about new products or hinting at anything down the line concerns me...
Thanks for the link, it's very easy to read. I still have some questions about data deletion request:

- How will this affect invoices that have to be kept for accounting purposes? Even if a customer wishes their data to be removed, we should not remove accounting information.

- How will this affect Internet archives and caches?

It seems removing all traces of a customer can be a very hard thing to do.
The controversy that surrounds universal healthcare systems goes something like this:

"I am disappointed by my treatment in the system!"

"Do you want to privatise it?"

"Absolutely not."
Always nice to have book recommendations, but you learn programming by programming.

Download whatever you want to code in, work through "Hello World", bash your head against walls, come out more experienced on the other side.

The CS side of it is definitely interesting, but you can get quite far without knowing what a hash map is. The opposite is not quite true, as you won't be able to test your fancy CS stuff without having bashed those often trivial walls.
If you are a paid developer your apps don't expire (at least not for a year or so).
It's important to have a central, regulated allocation of some resources for a society as large as America-- and for that matter, any society. The point of group living (where any society is group living) is that everyone has a safe place to return to and can count on at least most of the other members of the group to help them out when they need it. The point of universal healthcare is that you pool your money with everyone else so that when you get sick, you get care, and when your neighbor gets sick, he doesn't spread his infectious disease to you, and when someone else in your work place gets sick, you spend less time making up for their missing days.
Shouldn't that be inverted? Your iCloud Addressbook backup isn't a liability.
If you think small doses of Adderall make you more productive, you should talk to a good psychiatrist and get a prescription. And then you should re-evaluate with them frequently, watching out for the downsides. The downsides vary between people, and it can be hard to see them yourself, so you need an expert to help you evaluate.

Productivity is important, but so is your personal life. Stimulants make some people more prone to anger in interpersonal relationships, which can really hurt people around you. So keep an eye on any changes in your behavior. It can help to keep a log of daily mood, productivity, and relationship drama. They can affect sleep, so you end up stimulated but sleep-deprived and less productive after a while. And they can be habit-forming, which means that you'll have trouble being honest with yourself about their effects. So go to a good psychiatrist.
It isn't awesome, but the best all around one I have seen is LastPass.
Not directly. You can configure w3m to display HTML email, and it does a nice job within the constraints of text mode. Most normal mail, even with tables, renders well. If you get something really crazy you can pipe the message to a graphical web browser to view.

Native Emacs in a GUI can also show inline images (but not when running in a terminal, obviously).
I use gccgo to bootstrap builds of the real Go releases.
BitMEX Technology Scaling: Part 1
No tips, but I think this is one of the best ways to learn electronics. I took electronics classes in university but it wasn't until I actually had real circuits that I wanted to build (in my case amplifiers) that the material really started clicking for me.
Oh, thanks. (It's still safe, because the inability to execute system calls basically translates into an inability to do anything the process was not previously authorized to do via... mmapped memory, and I think that's it.)
China has a lot of rich people even if they are far from a majority. It isn’t poor taxi drivers and ayis using iPhones, but more like those who are driving black Audis.
>...like smart speakers, with their threat of big brother-style surveillance in exchange for a minimal increase in convenience

It seems like everyone in this thread is forgetting that the HomePod[0] is a thing. Apple's privacy practices are better than the other listed companies, but they do have a smart speaker just as capable as the others.

[0]: https://www.apple.com/homepod/
Jamie from DigitalOcean here. Yes users won’t pay for their workers, Block volumes or Load Balancers in early access until the end of September 2018.
Choosing the right mobile developments tools – Part One
Does the healthcare marketplace of every civilized country of the world outside of the United States not count as research or an experiment in real life consequences?
It's foolish to believe that private actors can by definition ever be as efficient as the state.

Private actors, by definition, must extract something from any service to pay themselves.

The government has no overhead. It can run with absolutely no profit and that is its intended model.

A private health care company that returns zero profit to its shareholders? Shut 'er down.

A private transit company that returns zero profit to its shareholders? Shut 'er down.

And yet, government services can run indefinitely at break-even because they're not beholden to the market.

Only government can be so efficient--the private sector always loses efficiency through someone scraping something off the top.
You should read the article more carefully. Poorer countries are working under difficult constraints, but leaving $1 on the table because you don't want to spend 10 cents is not helpful. There is a line of thought poorer countries are poor because they don't invest in healthcare, education, infrastructure, ... and that the real problem is governance.
A front-end JS framework. Every time I look in to it there's 328 new ones and 5,149 reasons not to use the old one.
> - Rust, although this is similar to Clojure above; I don't know what I'd actually use it for.

Not for network applications. It's nearly impossible to make async tcp server right now. But it's promising language. So let it mature.
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This looks awesome. I liked the demonstration of real-world applications with the water tank.

From a deep-learning novice: Can you give a rough idea of the processing cost of doing something like setting up your water tank level recognition?
I read this as "if it is on the stack and looks like a reference when you squint your eyes, then we treat it as a reference" compared to objects on the heap where the GC seems to know the exact location of all references.
The point of this report is that the empirical evidence contradicts your hypothesis. These sorts of broad-strokes, ultra-rationalist arguments should be set aside whenever data is available.
https://www.health-tourism.com/medical-tourism/usa-research/

The ultimate market victory - completely avoiding the destroyed free market healthcare system and travel abroad to parasite on universal healthcare.
The war against cars will ultimately be won – and that’s good for everyone
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network engineer here: nobody connects a 200 or 400GbE interface linecard off a router to a single anything... The purpose is for ISP-to-ISP interconnections for truly huge amounts of traffic. For example direct peering in the same IX/carrier hotel between a huge source of content (youtube/google, netflix, etc) and a huge ISP (comcast, centurylink).

For a big ISP, also things like 100GbE connections from a city's pair of core routers to slightly smaller aggregation routers.

edit: I don't know that anything "consumes" data in the way that the questioner is asking. It's more about the aggregate amount of data. One netflix 4K stream to an xbox one s is about 15.75 Mbps. Now multiply that by a hundred thousand netflix subscribers in a typical comcast service area, any of whom at any given time might be sitting around and watching Altered Carbon or Breaking Bad.
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Most of Apple's R&D spending is not categorized as R&D. R&D spending is for basic tech research not product development.
Yes, the guy's logic is whomever spends the most on R&D generates the most innovation (or something). How does he know what Apple is working on with R&D? What a silly statement.
One of the things that bothers me about the ICO world is that even those ICOs that are not scams seem to mostly be trying to boil the ocean. I see a ton of massively over-specced ICO projects with huge road maps about how they are going to get somewhere very far away. That somewhere is usually blah blah AI blah blah smart blah blah IoT blah blah global blah blah blah-- in other words a vague mirage that might not even exist.

This approach to engineering rarely if ever works. The first casualty of contact with the enemy is the plan, and in engineering the "enemy" is the problem domain and/or the market.

I see a lot of ICOs that have raised a lot of money that are going to spend that money doing a ton of engineering to build the wrong thing.

This is the real reason ICOs are "cancer" insofar as cancer is a disease where a bunch of cells over-replicate and over-metabolize and crowd out the body's legitimate activity. ICOs are sucking all the air out of the room in terms of not only angel and VC capital but also talent and trapping all those resources in long death marches to nowhere. In the end we're going to end up wasting vast amounts of capital building things nobody ever wanted or that solve problems that only existed in the minds of their creators.

Meanwhile well-scoped competent projects trying to solve real world problems are starving for capital if they don't have "block chain" or "AI" somewhere in their name. I have actually seen investors' eyes glaze over after they ask if something is using "block chain technology" and get an answer in the negative.

Last but not least ICOs are legally questionable. This means that if you want to raise money this way you're exposing yourself to the possibility of lawsuits and even jail time. In other words the investment climate is now such that if you're not doing something possibly illegal in many jurisdictions you are not investment-worthy.

This isn't dot-com all over again. It's much, much worse. While I think cryptocurrency tech is awesome and does have some fantastic use cases, this bubble around it is indeed cancerous in the extreme.
His argument that Amazon is not innovating to solve real-world problems seems grossly uninformed. AWS is putting out new features almost weekly that solve lots of real-world problems across all industries.
> But some of them truly do offer superior care to a typical private hospital

Which ones? Because that has not been my experience at the hawaii facility. From my appointment time being written down on a piece of paper then they send me my actual appointment date a few months later to the doctor being an hour+ late, my personal experiences have been subpar.

Add in how doctors/nurses at multiple hospitals do comically incompetent things like reusing insulin pens/colonoscopy bags/not washing equipment, the general sense of incompetence when they lose my records every few years, or talking to my buddies who got out and ended up working at the VA and have told me that they'll never get treated there, and I do not have the same sense of "superior care" that you're talking about.

If I want hep C, I'll go to the VA. If I want medical care, I'll go anywhere else or just not go to a doctor.
Those products were cancelled but his death accelerated the round of products made by young people inspired by his legacy. We’re in the lull of Jobslessness; the shock of his death.
On the other hand: if he could hold his nose and hang on for another 7 months, he'd make $1B, which, if he donated to a cause, could really change things.
- Anything with Dylan Moran in it (stand up, Black Books)

- QI

- Have I Got News For You

- Trailer Park Boys

- South Park (earlier series)
That's the first topic that came to mind for me.

Second was authentication using PostgREST.
I don't understand how that could be possible.

I'm assuming the companies running these illegal calling scam operations, don't share a DO NOT CALL list.

I could see this working against each company individually. So if its only one bad actor that has your phone number, that would work.
When did that change? I wrote an app that I use every day and have been for about 4 years now. The most recent time I've had to load it on a new phone was in Dec of last year.

My apple dev account was originally a paid one though so maybe that has something to do with it?

I really hope I don't run into this deactivation thing.
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iPhone SE, or previous models are definitely affordable, and it seems like a good investment considering these devices are supported for 4 years on average, so on a 2 year-old second-hand device you’ll still get 2 years more of security updates, which is something Android can only dream about.

Will you also complain about Samsung because their flagship is too expensive?
I have no idea how you can say that... just look at the original (business) ideas out of Hollywood in the last few decades:

- pretty much any popular movie got sequels (whether or not there was more story to tell was irrelevant... an innovation in itself!)

- which led to trilogies

- which led to series of trilogies

- then became never ending series

- which has morphed into endless reboots of never ending series

Aren't you looking forward to seeing the 14th Spiderman reboot in your lifetime? Revel in the fact that Hollywood has perfected the audiovisual version of Coca-Cola: no aftertaste... 10 minutes after the movie ends, you forget what you watched and are ready for the next installment/reboot!
If by CIA you mean Criminal Internment Area, I'd wager yes.
There are others who say it's Youtube's responsibility to be a bastion of free speech and not censor people. Different groups of people want different things from Youtube.
You can use SECCOMP_RET_TRACE to kick complicated cases back to the ptracer but handle the easy cases without the slowdown. So you can write a seccomp policy that does something like this pseudocode:

if syscall == SYS_open:
if flags == O_RDONLY:
return (SECCOMP_RET_TRACE, 0)
else:
return (SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO, EPERM)
else if syscall in (SYS_read, SYS_write, ...):
return (SECCOMP_RET_ALLOW, 0)
else:
return (SECCOMP_RET_ERRNO, ENOSYS)

and it would be much much faster than tracing every system call, since most programs call open() rarely and read() and write() very often.

That said, the ptracer's job here is kind of hard, because the kernel still gets an untrusted userspace pointer, and another thread, another process, etc. can modify that memory in between the ptracer okaying it and the kernel getting to it. (See "Argument races" in Tal Garfinkel's 2003 "Traps and Pitfalls" paper.) So you either want the filtering to happen in the kernel after it's been copied to kernelspace (which is Landlock's approach), or do the open from a trusted process and send the fd over (which is I think gVisor's approach).
IMO they are luxury as running shoes or fresh legumes are luxury.

It costs more, but can be prioritized on a budget as an expense that makes a difference.

Actualy I think even for very tight budgets, investing in a good phone might have more impact than a lot of other purchases (even a computer depending on the case ?).

Very recently a lot of French towns added mobile payment options to coin meters. An iPhone SE is supported by most apps, I have now idea for the limit for android phone, and I wouldn’t imagine it works on the lowest end ones. I would imagine being able to run that app or mot could make the difference between being ticketed for overdue parking or not.
"I think a good culture makes shit work, not the process itself"
Ya this is genius. I also think this is why no finite amount of laws can solve corruption issues.
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Salaries vary not just on individual skill and talent but also on the city of the job.
This will make all the H1 jobs go to Bay Area, may be some to NYC, LA & Boston too. But primarily Bay Area.
I wonder the same about Alan Turing.
From the perspective of the vendor, it would be a cost center rather than a revenue generator (thus a liability). From the perspective of the customer, it's an asset because he isn't selling personal info for backups (which would be a liability).
As an expert in solar, this looks like a refreshingly honest and innovative approach in an ocean of same-old bunk and bunkum.
With $10.4 billion, that would make it the annual return on his investments.
I can only imagine how Gerald Sussman and Hal Abelson (SICP) feel about the state of computer science education.
iPhones are somewhat more expensive than their competition. But the iPhone SE or 6S are decent mid-market smartphone choices.