skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I personally went from original in 2008, to iphone 4 in 2010, to iphone 6 in 2015, to iphone 8 in 2017.

I would have kept using the old phone in every case, but: they each became too slow with os updates.

In the case of the 6 I think it was exacerbated by battery issued. So probably you've taken better care of your battery? (Or stayed off ios 11)

But, if you look at that record, it is:

1. Not an upgrade every to every model
2. Still a fair number of sales for apple

I skipped the 3g, 4s, 5, 5s, 6s, 7
I honestly don't think it would be a bad thing if there were ten times as many lawyers, so that the cost of using the legal system became affordable to the vast majority of the people living under it.
cyber-xyz is the other new white-collar goon job
This is also common in higher-end nightclubs and bars in the U.S., although these aren't full-time jobs and the attendants work mostly for tips.
EFL is famously known as not being a good example of good and safe C quality.

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
But it is overridden by more primal signals.

If I lower my chin (widening the face's aspect ratio), clench my fists and muscle in up close to you, and say "Nice to meet you" through gritted teeth, what message do you get?
might be slightly off-topic, but what are your thoughts on those air purifiers that people can get for their office/home?
I agree that the doors are idiotic, but they serve to make normal people who don’t care about cars want to spend >$100k on a vehicle. “It opens like a lambo!” Silicon Valley had a bit about this too: https://youtu.be/_ih1ptOguaM (warning: they swear during this)

The “autopilot” is obviously oversold and mislabeled, but again, it’s a way to get non-car people with too much disposable income to want one. “Can your car do that???!”

Free charging some places, HOV stickers, tax credits on >$100k vehicles (the Porsche 918 was also eligible)...and smug owners believing that they’re really helping to save the planet vs riding a bicycle / walking / using public transit / carpooling / not living an hour away from work.
I still do cold showers, but just finishing with cold water for a short interval, 20 seconds or so. That seems to be entirely beneficial (I don't remember were I read it but there's some other cold shower expert recommending not going longer than that)
Seems sensible to have some solar panels. Even to make power for living quarters.
>> If bounded by the speed of light, could a planet-sized computer ever make any sense?

> No, because even at the speed of light, a trip around the earth is 133ms.

Sure you could. End-to-end latency isn't necessarily a deal breaker. There would be big design problems for sure, but there are already CPUs that have nearby circuits running at higher rates than further away circuits, with async communication in between. And there have been clock-skew tolerant designs for decades to get around speed of light problems even at ~1cm distances. It's common to use the H-tree to ensure that all clock paths are the same length from the clock source, in other words the latency is factored out by making it uniform across the die.

Some references & examples:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/H_tree

http://users.ece.utexas.edu/~mcdermot/vlsi-2/Lecture_8.pdf

https://web.stanford.edu/class/archive/ee/ee371/ee371.1066/l...
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Facebook app was 600MB on my girlfriend's phone. Unbelievable. What the hell does Facebook need 600MB for? (granted it was the mostly the data but it made her phone run like crap because the data is stored in internal storage, not on SD card). I cleared the data and it was back to 150MB in less that an hour. So off course people feel like their phones run like crap with apps like that.

I mean even a $50 phone today is extremely powerful for its price, but developers have no consideration for mobile constraints (then blame web techs...).
What would be the point of benchmarks? Benchmarks say pretty much nothing about distributed databases.

But you do want to know how such database behaves in general and during failures with some load and some data, say 100M records and 3 nodes. What kind of latency it has when nodes are added, replaced, moved etc. Including 90th percentile latency. How long does it take to move 1 TB worth of records, what if this process was interrupted, can it resume later or not. How does it deal with HDDs and bad sectors, especially wrt to performance, since disks like to retry bad sectors for a few seconds, completely blocking all I/O, requiring special handling. Or is it only suitable for SSDs.
>They found that people given a flu vaccine interacted with significantly more people, and in significantly larger groups, in the 48 hours after being exposed, compared with the 48 hours before. The infected hosts were more likely to head out to bars and parties.

That's amazing
Met my wife on OKCupid. Admittedly, it was quite a stroke of luck, but you only need one.
Pulling out my curmudgeon hat for the sake of argument... I read GEB in college and actually bought a copy about 10 years later, to see if it resonated more. But I ended up barely re-reading it.

I don't remember anything that substantive about the connections. "Internal looping" seems like a vague connection.

The Godel sentence is self-referential for sure. That's a concrete and specific property.

All I remember about Escher is that there is the picture of the hands drawing each other. OK, it's a great picture, and a nice analogy. Is it profound? Did I miss something besides that trivial observation?

I don't recall how Bach is supposed to figure in. How is Bach self-referential or how does it display "internal looping"? (And what does that even mean?)

Computer science is full of better examples than Escher or Bach, IMO. For example, C compilers written in C, which lead to the Thompson "trusting trust" attack. Compilers are mentioned in GEB, but it's done in a way that I didn't find particularly helpful (probably because I already know something about the subject.)

I also experienced this with my Python compiler written in Python [1]. There were some interesting cases where knowledge of the variable names used in the compiler "leaked" into the compiled output via, I believe via the string intern table of the Python VM.

[1] http://www.oilshell.org/blog/2018/03/04.html
> [2016] Tesla owner killed in crash was watching 'Harry Potter' while using car's autopilot
Then he went working for Tizen.

https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
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Not quite the same, but that game Plague Inc. has a "neurax worm" that does the whole taking over people's mind. It's pretty neat.
I often have conversations with some of my juniors about imposter syndrome. It's interesting how each of them think of it differently and apply it to themselves differently as compared to their peers.

Some don't seem to have it at all and I've been unable to grasp why one is different than the other. Sometimes it seems connected to self-confidence and sometimes it is not.

Personally, these days I'm feeling it's connected to their seniors and how they interact with them. Or at least how that interaction goes. It's something that I've been pondering over but haven't gotten far enough along to have a theory worthy over a blog post or anything.

As for me, a senior with a dozen plus years experience; I don't feel I've really suffered from imposter syndrome. I've always felt comfortable in what I know and the role I play in each of the positions I've had over the years. I've always been honest with myself and others in what I know and don't know. I suppose that helps in that aspect.

The only times I can think of that I felt the pains of imposter syndrome over the years is during interviews. Mostly trying to equate what I know and my experience with the expectations of people I don't know in an environment I'm not familiar with.
Fascinating article. I was glad to see toxoplasmosis mentioned since when it comes to humans I think it’s relegated to being “a cat thing” and solely viewed as something only pregnant women need to worry about it.

I read an article years ago about how there’s a high incidence of toxo in motorcyclists who ended up in the hospital ERs (and had blood tests detecting toxo), which suggests how in humans toxo correlates with reckless behavior and wanting to go fast.

Relevant excerpts and links:

“Between 30 and 60% of people are infected by T. gondii. But it's less clear that the parasite affects human behaviour. In 2006 Kevin Lafferty of the US Geological Survey in Santa Barbara, California found some evidence of personality changes in people infected by the parasite. So far this is only a correlation, which is far from conclusive. Nevertheless, Lafferty says: "my money is on cause and effect".

http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2006.3641

“Toxoplasmosis is also unusually common in people with schizophrenia, but again it's not clear what that means or how significant it is. ‘Schizophrenia is a complicated syndrome, perhaps with multiple causes,’ says Lafferty. He adds that there are plenty of infected people that don't have schizophrenia, and plenty of people with schizophrenia who aren't infected. ‘Still, I am comfortable in saying that Toxoplasma is a correlated risk factor for schizophrenia.’”

http://dx.doi.org/10.1242/%E2%80%8Bjeb.073635

Now what I didn’t know about and am utterly fascinated by is how influenza affects infected human hosts. Holy shit! Including here for those who skipped or just skimmed the article:

“ … people given a flu vaccine interacted with significantly more people, and in significantly larger groups, in the 48 hours after being exposed, compared with the 48 hours before. The infected hosts were more likely to head out to bars and parties.“

http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.annepidem.2010.06.014
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I'm curious how do you manage to confuse the two...

Oh, in the Dvorak layout, "n" and "s" are next to each other. Maybe that's how.
> Unfortunately, the market seems to be rewarding features that attempt to replace, rather than augment, situational awareness.

So true. Shortly after back-up cameras came out, there was a terribly sad story in my hometown about an older driver leaving a church service that had gotten used to just looking at the camera instead of physically turning their head before backing up and wound up hitting and killing a child that was behind the car but not in clear view of the camera.
Incorrect. They're saying that the military is a "goon" type of job, in that it involves aggression, and you have to do it because others will plow over you otherwise. It has nothing to do with the character of soldiers. This same underlying logic also applies to corporate lawyers and advertisers.
Provacy policy in my hairy bottoms
Ask HN: Do you have a side project you want to sell (2018)?
A thread similar to this gets posted every now and then. I think it's time for an updated 2018 version.

If you have any side projects that you've built and that you no longer have time for, list them here and let's see if others want to buy it from you.

I'm personally interested in anything security related (SaaS preferred).
One theory is that it is supposed to reduce tissue inflammation.
Last time I looked, the SQL layer was really slow. I know they invested a ton of effort to improving it, but I don't think they ever really cracked the problem and I think you're likely better off with CockroachDB, as mentioned in another reply.
Paris Syndrome
For a view of what this looked like on the ground, you should check out "Musui's Story: The Autobiography of a Tokugawa Samurai".

It's the autobiography of Katsu Kokichi (Musui is another name he was known by), a samurai born in the early 19th century to a very low-ranking family. It's a firsthand account of life at the very lowest fringe of Shogunate society at the very end of that system, and is quite entertaining because Katsu is a lazy good-for-nothing who can't even get one of those pointless bureaucracy jobs and survives by doing "lowly" merchant work. I think it would make a pretty funny TV show because the protagonist is such a hapless loser.
> Governmental navies don't experience these risks?

The number of nuclear navies numbers in the single digits, and of those, only a handful use nuclear powered ships in any sort of numbers.
I don't actually oppose development (in SF, or California at large). I just hate the hypocrisy and callous, self-interested rhetoric around this subject, and don't believe construction will be effective at lowering prices on timescales meaningful to any of us. SF will have to continue building through at least a few more boom/bust cycles for that to happen.

"Socioeconomically it's a city that is (was?) poised to become an "alpha global city," but it's possible that the NIMBY-driven excessive and premature housing cost explosion has destroyed that. I already feel like a lot of what made SF great has been driven away."

I completely sympathize, but here's the thing: now that I've lived in a number of different cities, it's become obvious to me just how comically limited San Francisco actually is. If you go to London, Hong Kong, Tokyo, Paris...you see these massive, sprawling cities with incredible transit systems and infrastructure. SF is a dinky little geographical backwater. It's landlocked (i.e. "supply limited"), with terrible transit and worse traffic. It's not a place that wants to be a global mega city, nor could it be one if it wanted to be.

I firmly believe that the real solution to the acute housing crisis in SF is other half of the demand equation: eventually, the tech industry is going to come to its senses and begin relocating. It has to happen.
The UI was great, it had some kind of Amiga feeling with its gorgeous graphics.

The actual internals not so much, to the point not everyone is pleased with its use on Tizen.
Jazz has lots of parentheses: changing to another key, doing your little ii-V-I or whatever, then popping back to where you were.
Impossible to know in principle is different from impossible to know in the physical universe.
> I can see why you'd want to avoid scattering dire warnings all over the place, but it skips blithely past a whole host of hazards

Much like the enlightenment codebase itself, unfortunately. If you want to see some quite bad C code, just check out the source.[0]

[0]: https://what.thedailywtf.com/topic/15001/enlightened
There are plenty of bullshit jobs in the software industry.

Many things designers and graphics developers do is goon-ish. Design is mostly an arms race. Employees of big companies create new design languages and at some point the rest has to adapt or be left behind. Of course, marketing is 99% bullshit anyway, and that's where a good deal of the design goes.

I doubt games are more fun now than 10 years ago because graphics has gotten better. If anything, games from 10 years ago have gotten worse because we're used to more complex graphics.

Almost everybody here is a duct-taper. 95% of our time is spent dealing with technical debt. We're using decades old technology that was never designed to solve the problems we face now. Take the twitter password problem on the front page: This would've never happened had we just adopted a more sane approach to authentication. When you wait for hours on your windows updates, think of the poor souls who know that none of this is necessary but can't entangle the mess that makes this necessary (apparently). And think of the poor souls in testing who can't report the real bug that is a broken code architecture which makes automated or more fine-grained tests impossible.
> ... and foobar2000 on my computer.

> I of course could have done this myself, but it was a pain in the ass, and the 5 minutes it took for iTunes to finish its job and close it was almost worth it.

I hate to sound contrarian, but the author really needed to leverage foobar2000 better, because it can do all of that with the masstagger extension and its very simple macro language. Granted, that extension hasn't been included by default for a while, but it's highly popular for good reason, and the macro language is simple enough that it should be a cakewalk for any developer (if not the average person).

Unless you actually require something that iTunes provides, foobar2000 + masstagger is a far more useful and efficient way to organize your music library.
Are you actually going to address the points I raised, or are you just here to make unjustified inferences about my philosophical background?
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Sounds like a keeper. The first PI I worked for as a research assistant was similar.
They are actually much more similar than most people realize. However, people usually burn more calories total on cycling because it's easier to put longer time periods into cycling than it is for running.

Put another way, an average cyclist will find a 2 hour bike ride to be an average ride but an average runner will consider a 2 hour run to be quite long.
Further investigation required: are humans worse at driving or statistics when loss of life is a factor in each?
Good idea but I see one big difference.

In the post-PC era we have the smartphone as a sort of replacement for a lot stuff that a PC does ( communication, web, sharing, photos, apps. ).

In the smartphone plateau we're maybe not in post-smartphone era as there's nothing yet to steal engagement from the smartphone ( watch, wearables, VR not yet..)
Is there any suckerberg free versions ?
I like the addition question if you are using C/C++:
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Well of course. The popularity of web-based SaaS is in no small part due to the fact that having AGPL dependencies is a much more avoidable situation than having GPL dependencies. (cf LLVM) If only the AGPL had been invented along with the GPL, we wouldn't have this problem.
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Surely the most effective way of improving shipping efficiency is to stop shipping as much? The principal of locality can be applied to far more than memory architectures.
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emoji don't help you express precise rational statements. they add something that text lacks: the subtext that people normally express with tone and body language. emoji aren't a replacement for your day to day unicode symbols, they are something you can add to make your messages more expressive.

technically you can express all of the same things without emoji, but there's a limit to how subtle you can be. by adding an emotional cue using an emoji i can completely change the meaning of a statement by adding contextual subtext.
You make a good and valid point. But I think I'm just refuting his/her authority, not establishing my own. Also, there's so much pushing and shoving lately it's hard not to get caught up in it. Lately HN has a very policed feel to it. I think I'm entitled to be honest about how I feel. (We all should.)

In this particular case, I felt the parent to my comment was basically invaliding the honest feedback of its own parent comment. To me, that comes off as "conversation shutdown" and that's somewhat unsettling.

As an aside, the more educated the arena, the worse conversation shutdown seems to feel to me. My city, for example, has a major upper-end university at its heart, and it's very on-edge right now. You can feel it, and people are talking about it (and fighting). It really affects me and seemingly the student population too. It's as if we're not allowed to be honest with each other, or audible about what's happening.

I'm also wondering if these forums are worth visiting these days, for the sake of conversation. It's hard to have open, honest discussions and sometimes I get frustrated and lash out. That's my own fault. (Moreover, I'm not sure if there's much constructive conversation to be had at the moment.)

Oh, the times we live in. Guess I'll log off and read some Dickens.
Open hardware and software for PLCs for manufacturing.
It seems they are all images - not OCR'd, and the task requested is to manually read and type summaries. That's useful but it seems like a good place to start would be to OCR it and provide a searchable copy.
Depends on how you look at it. I can bike all day without getting tired, but there's no way I can jog all day. If your definition of efficiency includes duration of effort, or distance covered, then cycling is very efficient.
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