skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I want to echo a lot of what was said here.

I've moved around in roles and duties a lot over what is now almost a two decade long tech career. I'm only in the fourth year of it actually paying well, but now it feels like I can do anything I choose to.

That's not to say that I know everything, but I'm pretty sure if I target a specific job, I can learn what's needed in a reasonable amount of time...enough to get hired.

I've had jobs from laptop hardware repair, syadmin for banks, software developer, malware research, NOC tech for an ISP and now systems engineer. Not in that order and I could see doing almost any of these again someday.

Do whatever in this field interests you and you'll be around a long time. When you're doing something that doesn't interest you, work towards the things that do.
Superconducting Optoelectronic Neurons I: General Principles
The plain joy of solving problems via code. I'm 55 and wake up every day with another set of problems to code against, it never gets old. You can also make a lot of money along the way if you take some risks.
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Reminds me of comfort noise in the telephone system.

Even though the system encodes silences noise free (so improve compression), it deliberately inserts noise because otherwise people think the line is dead.
> Har har, yeah, point taken, but many constitutional monarchies are de facto republics.

No, they are just representative democracies. Which aren't coextensive with republics: you can be either without being the other.
I think someday in the future I'd be willing to pay for an ad-free social media platform. I wouldn't do this for facebook though, they just aren't trustworthy as a company.

Whether or not Facebook is paid or free or not, it would still be a place populated by a list of friends/family you either barely know or don't see IRL, spouting unsolicited opinions or posting uninteresting baby pictures, etc. And I think ads would probably still sneak in, via fake accounts that just spam and share products. Maybe some of the noise would be cut down via people quitting the platform, but the worst offenders are addicted to facebook, so I think they'd stay.

I quit facebook probably two years ago and there's really not one thing about it I miss, so I certainly wouldn't pay for it.
I feel the same way when writing golang code.
This is misleading... Whales and Dolphins ARE the higher intelligence, we just treat them as fish / playful things to be corralled. A serious attempt to communicate with THEM would be more helpful than using them to contact extraterrestrials. They can help up with our numerous terrestrial problems that we face, because they spend less time worrying about survivability issues than we do.
Seems like they run the Debian in a KVM virtual machine, and containers inside that?
https://academic.oup.com/aje/article/161/7/672/70862
"The Nurses' Health Study was initiated in 1976 when 121,700 female registered nurses aged 30–55 years completed a mailed questionnaire about their lifestyle"

The same for the other paper done with the male population - mailed questionnaire.

The problem with both - these are population studies, you don't have a control group for correlation and people can report whatever they want.

And here is Dr Meir Stampfer leaning towards a more plant based diet https://youtu.be/LUYwMsFuQ1o
Because businesses can offer Duplex for customers to call and speak to after hours if they still want to keep a human phone assistant. It's modular, not Rube Goldbergian.
I haven't seen much info yet on TPU 3, but TPU 2 was:

- 64 TPUs per pod (11.5 petaflops)

- 4 chips per TPU (180 teraflops)
While running a Windows app through Wine inside....
I’m not sure what is a 4 star restaurant given that the Micheline guide gives maximum 3 stars, but pretty much all starred restaurants want a deposit when reserving.
If seriously there was someone dumb enough to do something like this, booking and cancelling continuously restaurants, then probably everyone would require a deposit when reserving and the deposit would be much bigger than today.
Honestly I'd appreciate it if Maps stopped giving recommendations. They always pop up whenever I open the app, and I never want them. Unfortunately there's no way to turn them off, so every time I need to open Maps, I'm forced to wait for recommendations to load, and then swipe them away, before it's useful to me.

Terrible UX, thy name is Google.
That was an absolutely delightful read. Thank you so very much.
> An inalienable right to self-defense is not an inalienable right to specific weapons or an inalienable right to wield them in all contexts.

Like all rights it is not limitless.

However, if you have no effective way to exercise the right then clearly it has been infringed.

In the same way that your free speech rights have been infringed if you are only allowed to exercise free speech in your own home.
Using a CA instead of proof-of-work, I could see the underlying concept being useful in chain-of-custody type applications or limiting the attack surface of a compromised server.
Privilege Escalation Through AWS IAM Instance Profile Role
This is an opportunity to stand out by using less common phrases.
You're not going to be jailed for being disrespectful (or "un-pc" if you like); but other people might not want to spend time around you anymore...
I moved to uMatrix because of this[1]. That doesn't seem very practical to me. Don't you need javascript to view, say, youtube videos? Also to make almost any sort of purchase transaction too. I do think it's a shame that that's the kind of internet we have to deal with now.

[1]https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12624000
Most sites don't have those anyway.

I think the biggest security differential is the fact that a compromised password reset generally is harder to hide, because the attacker cannot replicate the original token.
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Apple's direction on privacy and using their premium brand image to look after their customers first is refreshing.

I just wish there was some way they could also play fair with their tax responsibilities. Rather than having the EU force their hand and showing the Irish deal to be illegal for example.

Granted the governments that enter into such deals (or refuse to fix the loop holes) are also part of the problem.

Considering the pile of cash they sit on if anyone can set a good example it's Apple.
I only write my bespoke contributions with my gold-plated Lamy chisel on Italian white granite.

I think children these days do not appreciate the art of text.
If you're just trying to see how much time you're spending on things, and you don't want to be locked to Google/Android, I highly recommend RescueTime. It tracks how long you are active (i.e. not idle) on apps or websites. You can see how much time you spend on Hacker News by month, week, day, or hour.

https://www.rescuetime.com/
Looks like Project Treble actually helps with faster updates - The beta is available on 11 devices from different OEMs. Essential said they were able to put out the beta for their hardware in less than a month's time. I did not want to put it on mine though after reading the known issues.
Also the plot of Her.
SureFly Goes Airborne with a Pilot Aboard
I see it as a natural result of the "Windows Subsystem for Linux" effort. Also Azure Sphere uses Linux.

I expect Windows to become more Linux friendly.
77,000 votes

Silver didn't call a close election, though. That would have been impressive. All he said was that it would be closer than a landslide.
Please go and convince the mom and pop hardware store or bakery in your town to use an API instead of answering the phone.
I will point out, NitroKey also doesn't have a USB-C version.
> Lucky for you I'm not selling anything

Hmm there is a pretty big "Pricing" section in the middle of the page for me
Ask HN: Good jobs with boring infrastructure
Name a great company that has boring systems infrastructure?

I have to imagine the big players (Facebook, Google, Amazon) all have such sophisticated systems infrastructure that it’s virtually impossible to understand how the entire stack “works”...

Or am I entirely wrong?
Well... I'll concede that 2-instructions that aren't reading or writing memory is a pretty narrow set of operations. But it's also much more generally useful than computing one specific hash function.
I grew up in a third world country in conditions that would be considered poverty here. Every day I'm thankful to be part of the 1% of the global population whose skills are in demand and who earn big bucks (relatively). I don't need much more motivation than that.
> I don't really understand your complaint. "What about going outside or spending time with your family and people you love?" - that is exactly how they pitch this initiative. They want you to feel that their technology is going to allow you to do exactly that.

Well maybe because the pitch is different from what they actually offer. In effect you are going to spend ages monitoring shiny graphs that will not tell you anything of substance, as opposed to free more time for you to do something more interesting.

For example, suppose said Google app shows that you have spent 3 hours watching Youtube that day. Well that's pretty bad for your productivity, right?
Except if you were writing a novel or working on something while quietly listening to Vivaldi. You didn't even watch it—many Youtube "videos" are just sound recording, with static images or slideshows that you wouldn't bother to even look at.

Again, we can (almost) all agree that

> technology should improve life, not distract from it

This is a very good pitch, great copy.
You have to wipe the phone to upgrade to the release version? Might change my mind about installing the beta.
No, I hope they don't do this. I hope the concept of personal responsibility gets cleaned up a bit and served in a new, cool jacket which makes it the thing to do for those who want to be part of the new wave. Not just as a fad but for real, the idea that the individual is responsible for his or her approach to all those life & love & happiness-sucking lures out there on the wild, wild net.

Most people will be able to learn, some will not and they'll get hooked, just like most people learn to handle alcohol or marijuana or exercise or food or... well, all those other things which - when taken to extremes - can ruin lives.

The scenario of the AI-equipped device which tells you it is time for bed reminds me of the space ship in the WALL-E movie where humanoid slugs zipped around on powered chairs from entertainment to entertainment. This is not a future I want to be part of.
Material.io got a major refresh today
~8x speed with 8 chips of the same generation would obviously be very impressive. But 8x speed with 8 chips compared to a last year's single chip is definitely not the same thing.

Pretty sure you can get more than (or around) 8x speed up when comparing 8 V100 vs a single P100 for example.
Just to make sure everyone on HN knows you can get real pithy with PowerShell, this also works:

PS C:\> cd hkcu:
PS HKCU:\> ls -r | ? name -m 'HeidiSQL'
It’s been my experience that many first-time entrepreneurs and in many cases first-time managers / executives, operate from a place of fear. They are scared about their burn rate, about whether the team is working, whether they have the right team, about countless administrative details, and on top of that the good ones are hopefully out there actually talking to prospects and seeking customer feedback. What this means is that many are scared of remote because they feel like they need you there present next to them in order to feel like there is forward momentum in the business. It’s a trust problem and a management problem; maybe not even a legitimate problem so much as an emotional burden. Is there a technical solution to that? Some might say the solution revolves around time trackers and project management tools, but I’ve seen those just become a further burden to the team without actually relieving anyone’s general overbearing need to micromanage the team (something they can control) over engaging with prospects / trying to grow the business (something harder to control).
This is not the case if you installed the beta via the beta tester program (and thus received the beta via OTA) and wait until P is released.

If you flashed the beta manually or want to downgrade, then yes, you need to wipe and flash.
You also seem to completely miss that outside of silicon valley, large portions of the population actually want to interact with things by phone.

That's changing for sure, but the demand for phone based services is still very high.
I suspect some of the less positive comments are folks commenting are likely on their 15th or 20th laptops, over just as many years.

When the death count gets that high - it's easier to call it buying the eventual death of a new laptop. Buying a new laptop has become a somber affair to go along with the eventual reinstall of your entire setup far too soon.

Luckily there are tools today that make this much less painful.

This particular bug, however, required use of Notepad++ instead for years. Repeat for every other missing or broken piece of MS tech. Vista was so bad I was willing to suffer on the spot switching to Mac.

I'll accept this is as a symbolic peace offering - years of having to install a separate text editor and lots of other unnecessary won't get back that time.

There's a lot of innovation coming out from MS, something we normally wouldn't have said even 3-4 years ago.

Looking forward to the increased linux integration to continue, and have a good look. Until then, MacOS, despite it's aging warts, just works and stays invisible for the most part.
Google's robot assistant now makes eerily lifelike phone calls for you
I've strived to do what I enjoy. When that hasn't worked out, I've done whatever necessary to pay the bills. And, as others have noted, doing shit jobs has kept me looking.

There's been a general pattern. I would get tired of my work, and would put more and more energy into hobbies. At some point, then, I would leverage a hobby into a new career. Usually not exactly what I'd focused on, but something that a friend or mentor pointed me to.

So maybe coding per se isn't the rush it once was. But is there something that you're deeply committed to, where coding could make a huge difference?
Many crimes are easy to prevent, yet, still committed!
Have any examples of things they've gotten wrong?
"Yo dawg, I herd u like browsers..."
So we can't improve the current situation at all until we solve all the problems?
What do you think the likelihood of an open source implementation of this would be in the near future? Either by them or, by them releasing the research?
It's pushing me to buy more things from brick-and-mortars, because an actual store MUST apply some curation, and they're highly incentivized not to carry crap that someone will have to return the next day.
CDS: Continuous Delivery Service
But we're you called by a robot at your job it was it interrupting your personal time?

I agree with you in the latter case, but the former seems like a win win assuming this system can deliver on what they are showing off here.
Same—we just draw our lines in different places.

It's been 15+ years since I've worked in the service industry, but from what I remember of it, I think I'd prefer to take reservations & catering orders from a Google Assistant.
Thou shalt not bear false witness
Woah, you're not exaggerating. It weighs 41 lbs!!!
I am a human, and I develop software. This is a moronic statement.
Perfect use case for the endangered fax answering sound.
I'm just old enough to remember the ridiculous "hunt and peck" style of typing nearly everyone around me employed in the 90's.

They may have had fabulous penmanship but I could tap out Morse code faster than they could type.
They're all in D3.js and available on GitHub.
Usually, practicing being mindful just brings about more anxiety than if I were to lose myself into doing something that has the capability of swallowing me whole - such as playing video games, running, driving, having long walks.
This will break in humorous ways.
For all the google hate, nvidia is too blame as well. Their ceo running around saying 'we saving you money every time you spend 10k on a gpu' is getting old. The should have been far more aggressive price wise with this biz considering the resources of their target customers. Almost every 'choose not to use a gpu' use case being touted by msft/goog etc is about cost. Meanwhile nvda busy tweeting stuff like msft seeing ai app for blind powerd by nvda gpu. Soon micron will be tweeting they powering all ai as well, and then arista...all the way down to the power companies. Watching goog today its not looking good for the competition, by the time all these ml/dl accelerators are commoditized google will have one hell of a moat.
Thanks for pointing that out - fixed!
Well yeah, when it's done. As in, no time soon.
In general HN has a strong bias toward Apple over Android RE: security. Many of the points are entirely valid, but it's also true that some important advantages on the Android side (such as those listed above) as often understated or overlooked here.

For me, a closed-source OS is a dealbreaker on its own, regardless of any other major HW or SW advantages.
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Show HN: Google Sheets Add-On for Sentiment Analysis
Last I checked, DO still fails to allocate as little as a /64 to droplets. They provide a shared /64 out of which you are allowed to use 16 individual IP addresses.

In IPv6 land, that can introduce a lot of pointless complexity.

It would be reasonable for customers to be able to expect the ability to get /48s or /56s. Instead they don't even get a proper /64.
Eh? The vast majority of bodegas in NYC take credit cards. Many have minimums, or charge a fee if you don't hit the minimum. But I've not been to a bodega in the last ~5 years that didn't accept credit cards in one form or another. > 5 years ago, sure, but now pretty much everyone's got them (even in the rougher neighborhoods).

If they don't accept cards, they almost always have an ATM.

My complaint in NYC is the uptick of "cashless" places, that don't accept legal US tender. I like using cash, I don't want it to go away.
True, nobody seems to offer USB-C. Also, I have to point out that YubiKey 4C [0] is not sturdy either unlike the rest - it disintegrated on my keychain in less than two months without any abuse.

[0]: https://www.yubico.com/product/yubikey-4-series/#yubikey-4c
I've been building something similar to this for a while called Interval - it's a plain booking engine for small businesses. Obviously nowhere near as good of speech recognition, but it's also not tied to Google, or their baggage. Works over SMS or fbm.

https://www.interval.org/
The biggest win is that you won't get this email anymore (I got this from Twitter recently):

"We recently identified a bug that stored passwords unmasked in an internal log."

Because all they will have is a public key, not your secret password.
The biggest impact of this announcement will be in the consumer education about digital wellbeing and the pressure on Apple to compete on it.

The app dashboard is the only major new feature, which will likely be helpful for some but is only a small part of the equation, which Google acknowledges ("The first step toward digital wellbeing is often understanding more about how you interact with technology in the first place").

Siempo launcher (http://www.getsiempo.com) believes the design of the home screen is the root cause of the smartphone addiction problem. Stock and third party launchers have no protections against the persuasive techniques of engaging apps. Wind Down is a step in the right direction here.
> Especially anyone who doesn't have kids, or only has one kid.

People say this all the time even though it ignores the fact that virtually anyone has parents even if they don't have kids. Having a kid doesn't make you better at parenting. At best, it forces you to think about parenting but there was nothing stopping you from doing that before.
From the paper you cited:

> In our analysis we treat words with equivalent meanings but with different spellings (e.g. color versus colour) as distinct words...

I think it's a bit of a stretch to use that to say that English lexicon is shrinking. The number of different spellings for the same words is, yes, but that's not necessarily bad. Other articles suggest that English vocabulary is still steadily growing: https://www.theguardian.com/media/mind-your-language/2016/fe...

I think you made good points regarding QuickType though.
I meant far more the former.

The Debian - Canonical distinction is milder, though the latter has at least some centralisation. Nowhere near as much RH's.
With all due respect, you sound like Homer bemoaning the advent of writing and it's effect on memory.

> Composing text deliberately by hand forces a more measured pace of thought and development of ideas

Penmanship is orthogonal to the ability to write by hand. I for example have atrocious hand writing and can still easily write my thoughts down, and often do. Other's will have trouble with my written notes, but they're not meant for external consumption, I type for that purpose. Cursive versus print style writing are mostly interchangeable for writing down ideas, and learning to write well in cursive takes up to a few years. It may not be time well spent.

> I've even heard educators say that it's not worth teaching arithmetic anymore because everyone has a computer, or a phone with a calculator.

I know a number of teachers, and try to follow trends in US education, and I've never encountered this idea. Are you sure you aren't constructing a straw man here?

> Spelling is also not given much importance these days, with "creative" spelling being acceptable at least through the elementary grades. Even in high school it isn't given a lot of weight.

At least in the US, this is not the case. Any state that uses the Common Core follows these [1] standards, including phonics, building words from stems, and differentiation of homophones.

>If you don't learn the meaning of words

Who's saying anything about this? This tech looks like it just guesses at the banal pleasantries you type at friends and colleagues 1000s of times per year. I know I write the same phrases almost to exhaustion, I'd love to autocomplete the trivial stuff, and spare my hands an wrists. *note there's a great accessibility story here, where people with manual impairments will be able to answer emails more easily.

> Students are losing the ability to think.

Are they really? I'm not sure there's any evidence of this actually happening.

> More and more we are having our worldview formed not by critical thinking and development of our own opinions, but by what Google and other big media companies tell us.

How is this any different than mass media dissemination of information from the previous generation, when everyone watched the same 4 TV channels and read the same 1 or 2 newspapers.

[1]https://www.spelling-words-well.com/common-core-standards.ht...
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Maybe there will be an affordable version of the upcoming Pixel 3.
Plus, I think Windows strives to not be "batteries-included" in some ways, perhaps in order to encourage a healthy third-party software ecosystem (and perhaps to follow the spirit of the anti-trust ruling.) Windows 10 has fewer bundled apps than Windows 98 did. Nothing is an "optional feature" any more; it's all App Store packages [that happen to be made by Microsoft] now.
But would these cost $200 like the original chromebooks? The entire sell of Chromebooks to me was that they were really cheap. The newer models tend to cost as much as a macbook.
My Google calendar has an occasional duplicates problem, I'm not so sure that Google won't one day make 3 identical restaurant reservations for me by mistake.

Hoping that once they've solved robot calls, they'll probably have a go at some of the harder things like synchronization ;)