skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think it's mostly humor. Bugsmithing and interoperability impedance of this form was almost Microsoft's raison d'etre in the 90's. Stuff that was simple and obvious everywhere else just didn't work on windows, even though the fix would be 100% trivial and probably result in better standards compliance. And MS liked it that way.

So sure, this is good. It doesn't exactly undo all those decades of grief. So we're laughing grimly at the "progress".
While they're at it, they could discuss what WINE is, and more specifically, what it is not ;)
Your own personal robocaller. Your droids we don't server their kind here.
> I still use Google Authenticator myself, but I dread the day I lose my phone.

I use KeePassXC, and always add the Google auth code to both my phone and KeePassXC, and I back up my password DB (got burned big time there once....).

But yeah, your point is valid. As a tech savvy guy who thinks about this stuff, it's a pain but works. But for most people manually managing and backing up multitudes of keys, passwords, and login data is just so ridiculous a thing to ask that I can't believe it's 2018 and we haven't solved this yet. There must be a better way!
It is based on Gentoo as software can be based on make and gcc. But the user only sees the resulting binary.

AFAIK Portage, Gentoo's package manage, is used only to build the rootfs image. Because Gentoo is really a meta distribution. This distinction is not an empty slogan. You can use Gentoo as a build system to create separate operating system, just like ChromeOS does.

You can use of course use Gentoo directly and prepare tailor built binary packages to distribute them to users. Then it would be a bit more similar to other distributions. But ChromeOS is not an ordinary distribution. It's update model is not really compatible with typical distribution model. It's one of the greatest strengths of the system. You could shoehorn packages meta data, but it would be pointless, because whole image is updated at once.
On what grounds? Caveat emptor was the rule for a long, long time. It was only later when regulation and standards started coming into play that it was a thing. The courts can't just declare a legal thing to be bad.
In most circumstances it's not clear to me that a >48 hour timeout is really a major impediment to law enforcement in a major metro. Of course, if they arrest like 10,000 people on the same day from a major protest or something it could create a capacity problem, but otherwise it seems like more of an irritant - a new time constraint - rather than a truly effective countermeasure to vulns in their LI/USB stack.

I would be much more impressed if they allowed users to wholesale disable all non-charging functionality.
Posting on the phone! I have just upgraded and the update is absolutely flawless and can be considered as a dail
Yeah, no. No, I don't wish this was real. I want a real keyboard. This one looks even more ridiculous than the current disaster that is the butterfly keyboard.

Current trends are leading us to a laptop that is basically two iPhones (or tablets), connected with a hinge. The upper one being a display, and the lower one being a touchscreen, on which some neanderthal users will choose to run a keyboard/trackpad app. No thanks. I want a real keyboard. I think I lucked out -- my mid-2015 15" MBP turns out to be the peak MBP.
I'm 50+. More and more ready to chuck it. Or at least take a long sabbatical.

I have the funds to do it, probably. My parents both worked until they were about 70 and neither lived to see 75. So I'd like to avoid that ending.

If I do, I think I will go tech-free for a while. No internet, no cable TV. Books, some other non-tech hobbies. If I really need to look something up I can go to a coffee shop with a tablet. Sounds very tempting.
I miss Obama. Jesus christ, I can't believe i'm saying that now.
I work frequently with startups / early-stage companies and have not found remote to be a legitimate problem or any different than the experiences encountered by established companies with regard to working remotely. Managing international payroll, or frankly even dealing with tax and regulatory differences among the 50 states is likely something many startups would be willing to outsource. Just dealing with several states was a burden, plus the administrative costs of a payroll service felt like a lot for the service received.
That end game seems very wasteful and Rube Goldbergian. Why use an 1800s technology as the transport layer when salons, yoga studios, and more already use things like MindBody, which already has an appointments API? I’d honestly be way more interested if this integrated with MindBody, OpenTable, DMV websites, car dealer appointment systems, medical office scheduling systems — all of which already have APIs or at least web pages. But then, saying that you wrote and will maintain some WWW mechanize stuff that posts forms is way less marketable to the general population who see this as magic.

Also, they’ll discontinue it after a year once it gets enough negative press about how it doesn’t work well and loses business for businesses.
I wonder how many of these features could be implemented (far sooner) if a universal UI scripting language was available for users...
This has to my favorite part: https://youtu.be/ogfYd705cRs?t=2536
I think it's hilarious this announcement is in the middle of 30 different huge GoogleIO AI and Machine Learning announcements.

Confession: This is the one I care about.
More details in XDA Developers interview with Kan Liu. Also suggesting GPU acceleration support later this year

https://www.xda-developers.com/chrome-os-linux-app-support-g...

My prediction: VS Code / Pixelbook becomes a formidable devenv for many in the coming months ;)

You can always try Neverware on a live usb to get a taste

https://www.neverware.com/freedownload
I assumed those were recorded with consent (or in jurisdictions where unilateral recording is legal).

Unilateral recording is old law; I wouldn't de-facto assume Google is just blowing past that without some much stronger evidence.
agreed. auto suggest or auto correct for searches means we only search for things Google recognizes
I meant that since pacman is not available, then use a different one entirely (not both). It seems it's a moot point b/c of the sibling comment saying the disk is read-only.
Well, I don't think there's a need to judge so fast. This is a first step. If we see more steps, we will be able to tell if they are going in the direction they say they want to go. I would just encourage them to do it right.
Is there any information about when this might be available? Or is it just the demo for now.
Mark pegs himself as altruistic and wants to 'change the world', he's also a proponent of guaranteed basic income... I'd like to see blockchain used as a sort of gbi dole system, but it'd need to use reputation / social network effects in order to block 'sybil attacks', ie the bigger your score the more people have 'vouched' you're a real person not a bot or spammer, the more you get out of the daily dole. They also have marketplaces/ads/etc that they could make required to use fbcoin, in order to prop up the currencies prices...

Just speculation obviously, lots of others are trying to figure out a way to do this, but the imposter thing is very real and hard to stop obviously in crypto.
Relevant link:

https://books.google.com/ngrams/graph?content=surfaced&year_...
Should we get rid of places like CBC, BBC, NPR? Those are “government defined truth”, they are also highly respected journalists.
Har har, yeah, point taken, but many constitutional monarchies are de facto republics. The UK, Sweden, the Netherlands, Japan, Norway. I was trying to distinguish from the hereditary monarchies that aren't republican, like the People's Democratic Republic of Korea.
Oh my gosh, I was so annoyed by their utter lack of competency that I didn't even catch that they did call it an emulator. Classic.
No USB-C version and no way to upgrade my other 4+ YubiKeys I've got for more than $50 each! I think YubiKey has been abusing its monopoly recently! They've been working on this for quite some time and clearly new they're not going to make their old premium keys support it so that people can waste time and money to upgrade! Is there an alternative more conscious company - I'd pay even $200 for the piece of mind that I won't have to change this key 1-2 times per year!

P.S. Obviously, no. Neither Nitrokey [0] supports it, nor it's a sturdy one!

[0]: https://www.nitrokey.com/
As a programmer, you have a highly leveraged ability to affect change in the world. Some people are driven by the programming itself -- the art of it, the isolated problems to solve in a satisfying and elegant way, and the decent salary that comes with it. But for others, perhaps including you, it's a means to an end. What's your end?

Do you want to change people's lives, or make their lives better?

Do you want to have an outsize financial impact on a company and be appreciated for it?

Do you want to create something new alongside people you really enjoy?

Do you want to help shape the world in a positive way using technology?

Do you just want to have a comfortable, secure living and focus on other things (family, hobbies, etc)?

Are you driven by being the best at what you do?

Etc

I'm a PM, not an engineer, but I love creating things that materially improve people's lives in some way. That brings me deep satisfaction.
I see what you're getting at. That the next character would start to be printed before the carriage return had completed with the sending side not respecting the fact that it had just sent a carriage return by waiting for a bit.

From what I remember most TTY drivers would automatically insert an appropriate delay after a CR because the LF is optional, you can happily overprint a line if you want.
An up-and-coming project in an up-and-coming language:

ArrayMancer: https://mratsim.github.io/Arraymancer/

Written in Nim, which looks and feels a lot like Python, but runs a lot like C++ or Rust, especially in the speed and FFI departments, and deploys like Go as a small single fast executable. Already supports CPU, CUDA and OpenCL. Still early, but with a lot of promise. Use is modeled on some mixture of PyTorch and Keras.
Genuinely asking, what makes apt-get that much better than other package managers? Outside of Slackware I think good dependency resolution is pretty much universal at this point, and I can't say I've ever noticed any major problems with pacman, for instance.
You care from a technical standpoint.

But, if you insist on going by the cost metric, you've already lost because you can buy nVidia GPUs and that's a lot cheaper than any of the TPU instances :)
The ironic thing is that VS Code is made in web technology.
This is about scaling. Since you usually can't achieve 8x speed with 8 chips (there will be issues with interconnect, algorithm, etc.), 8x speed with 8 chips is noteworthy. Although I wouldn't describe that scaling work as "8 times more powerful" myself.
Free Japanese and Turkish courses that include proper grammar lessons and SRS
Can you give a list of all these places?

Gandi doesn't even have a non-human method of recovery.
This thing is ugly, unusable, un-manufacturable. And the title on this clickbaity garbage is every bit as hideous...
Did I suggest that?
What I have noticed is apps are still to hard to download for the masses. Throw in free space problems/confusing app stores and people have stopped downloading new apps for everything & anthing and now really only download the top 10.
I want this to not suck. I have my doubts since gmail is ridiculously buggy with automatic syncing turned off. Only notifying for 'urgent' notifications reeks of just not getting it. That's just to pick on one of many examples of how their services are meant to be disruptive and are defective otherwise.
If your source is just a faceless worker who happened to overhear something about their boss, then all they need from you is a burner phone, an email address on a public server, and GPG keys—all of which you can give out the public halves of.

But then how does that prove anything? I can give you an email address and phone number of someone who will tell you anything I want.
Abdul-Jabbar could say something awesome about dragging someone or something back and forth across the Atlantic, which hopefully people would understand was a movie reference.
I enjoy it, I'm good at it, and it pays well. It's rare in life that all three line up.

IMO: That's the best way to pick a career. Find something that you enjoy, you're good at, and pays well. It doesn't have to be exotic, BTW. Electricians and plumbers get paid well, and don't have much student debt.

BTW, even when you pick something you enjoy as a career, your job won't always be fun. There will be times your job isn't fun, times you aren't good at your job, and times it doesn't pay well. Part of being an adult is being able to manage the natural ups and downs in life.
But the TPU actually is: it's a systolic array matrix multiply ASIC.
my nexus 5x suddenly died one year ago, before I can get my pictures out etc.

since then I got a cheap moto phone($200) with pictures backup etc, so far so good
You kind of summed it up right there...'it's just an arithmetic logic unit for tensors'...whether its a matrix multiply engine or implmenting sha256 still a custom rapidly iterated chip for narrow very specific use case. Google accomplishment here clearly the software, but doubt they only ones going to crack asic systolic arrays. At some point china inc figures this out in mass...maybe bitmain themselves.
Thanks so much for the feedback and encouragement! Good point on 'nearby' being locked.
All the best luck to you as well!
Damn that sounds even more dystopian, can you imaging it

"Hello how can I help you? - Hi, beep, I like to reserve a table? - Ok, beep, beep, on second - Mhm-mm beep, beep, sceech, 011000101010...."
Bills. Mortgage. Family. The individuals in the development team I lead. All of these things make getting up in the morning and coming to the office well worth it.

Having a hobby that isn't coding, but just as intricate and puzzle-solving, is another outlet I have. I restore and refurb old video game consoles in my spare time. It restores my sense of patience and want for a carefully-deliberated project with problems to solve and no time horizon should I want to step away for a bit.

Coding used to be that hobby growing up. Then, in the dot-com boom, I made it my career. There are rare times I regret ever doing so, but on the balance I make an excellent salary, have benefits, a lot of flexibility, and I realize I easily made the right choice.
> every device I own is has access to it

and this sucks. Why can't I use my google account with my tablet without it automatically getting access to gmail sync?
That's a good point. We don't suffer from all those things mentioned. We have a living API that's meant to be very flexible and adaptive.
Pretty sure that Google is advertising a service that you might pay for, whereas Microsoft is adding a new feature (in reality, many features) to an OS you already paid for.

Full disclosure, I work for Microsoft, this post doesn't reflect my employer in any official capacity, etc.
Google voice API, like a real API but much slower.
Firefox 59 on Linux. Font is reasonable but zooming the page does nothing except scrolling up and down.
Honestly Android 8 was already horrible on the 5x. Android 7.x was lightning fast, super responsive, everything was great. After the upgrade to 8, I had less than 500MB of memory free after boot, and maps could take 30+ seconds to load, and I frequently had pauses ranging from 10 seconds to over a minute.

If my 5x could have stayed on 7.x I would still be happily using it today.
Very telling that this is downvoted.
There may need to be some sort of compromise however if only this regard: We should not let hostile alien actors have free access to manipulate the political discourse.

Edit: this compromise, to my mind, would not involve the government approving stories, but perhaps restricting internet connectivity to and from those hostile nations.
> If no, leave your morals out of it.

Why?

Effective monopolies should not be able to shut down free speech.
Re Google Authenticator, as an alternative have you tried Authy? It offers a far better UX, and if you lose your phone you can easily get everything back without doing a backup/restore before hand. Plus you can run it on as many devices as you require, including desktops.
because x230 is ugly pos, heavy, big while buttons still feel cramped and has bad battery life (compared to any new chromebooks)
Too bad "Ingredients" labels like they have on food are impractical in the App space. But maybe Apple could highlight key APIs and net connections that it finds in use during app review. Something like, "WARNING: This app makes silent, background connections to [Google, Facebook, etc etc]"

Like In App Purchase warnings, but for background net connections.
Likely it'll be a transition technology for businesses still using phone appointments as their primary API, and eventually it'll ease the path for more direct integration.
So is "US government supports governments committing atrocities on a daily basis. E.g. Saudi and Israel".

That doesn't mean that this political statement belongs in the manpage for "kill".
This is a really odd place to leap to from "google is going to show how much time you spend on the phone and in each app".

It's also a good reminder of why having a bit on your phone that reminds you how long you've been on it is a good idea.

Too much of the internet is toxic.
Wasn't this being done by a YC combinator funded company, doing it as a gmail plugin, within the last few years? did they get bought out? or are they now competing against google?
Nice link, but even COMMAND.COM would see CTRL-Z as special, so I'm not sure why the author saw fit to make that claim, it's fairly well documented that plenty of DOS utilities did that and together with the core they make up the OS.
Cavium Announces ThunderX2 General Availability
Oh good grief. "Kremlin line", really? Why are we even worried about what she thinks on topics besides the one under discussion? Does this person's suspicions of various war pretexts have anything to do with her disapproval of a proposed truth ministry?
Yeah I love this, 8x PFlop improvement per pod, but the pod size has increased 4x. That 8x speed up is now mystically halved.
Parsley. They’re going healthy.
> Google hardware with Microsoft software praised on HN

:)
This is a perfect combo with the always on screen of the Pixel 2. Up for awareness, down for focus.
The typography in Android P looks strange now with the addition of Product Sans alongside Roboto. The old graphic design rule of "never pair multiple sans serifs" is hardly absolute – different sans families can often be successfully paired as header and body, for example – but in this case, there are headings rendered in Product Sans with barely-smaller subheads in Roboto, which just looks jarring.
I've gotten burned out pretty hard before, and also struggle with depression.

It's not a very exciting answer, but mine is "I'm good at it and it pays better than anything else someone would be willing to pay me to do every day." It supports me and my wife in a comfortable lifestyle, and I can work from home in my pajamas if I want to.

If I had all the money I could possibly need, I would probably take a very long break from programming, maybe a year or two. Then I would still code, but it would be only fun little personal projects, game jams, stuff like that. Things to stretch my skills and creativity because learning is fun.
Three new potential resolutions for the Fermi Paradox
Their spend on nvidia gpu's...how it's shifted as they have progressed tpu wise. I think you go back 18 months google was their biggest here.
That's something worth quantifying. Google produces a report of the percentage of incoming and outgoing email it sees that travels over a TLS secured SMTP connection here: https://transparencyreport.google.com/safer-email/overview

It's currently about 90% for both directions. If you change the start date on the graphs, you'll see that figure was about 50% 4 years ago.
That's funny, but just because it says it's not an emulator... Well, see this page where it used to be short for Windows Emulator. http://www.faqs.org/faqs/windows-emulation/wine-faq/
add to 1) the economic and cultural fad about how awesome it is. Or stay ignorant and go with the flow. If you ever know history, the repetition is rapidly draining your mind.
It's awesome tech, sure.

But it's also "Your scientists were so preoccupied with whether or not they could, they didn’t stop to think if they should."

They shouldn't've.
I have a deaf friend who would love this feature. Sure, a lot of stuff like this can be handled online now, but not 100%. Sometimes you really need to make a phone call, and for some people that's difficult.
Twelve states in the US are two party consent states (both participants must consent), including California.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Telephone_recording_laws

https://codes.findlaw.com/ca/penal-code/pen-sect-632.html
linux -> android -> browser -> linux -> browser -> VS
I make tens of thousands of people's lives easier, safer, and less stressful every day, and I help keep 450 tons of CO2 out of the atmosphere every day.
I'm not sure. I was thinking about it in a type-theoretic sense: argument x being a function over (A Evidence) to give (A Conclusion). The type-class of A can be large or small: some arguments have an abstract structure that can be applied to all sorts of things, while other arguments are constrained by a bunch of qualifications to only be about rather particular things.

What I meant, to be clear, is that the two arguments I was referring to both are of the structure that starts with "people are dumb, and there is an agency that saves them from themselves" but then diverge by assuming different universal properties of organizations, using a concrete example of a good or bad organization and then assuming that those properties would always apply to an organization in such a role.

The SEC and MiniTruth effectively "do the same thing." The SEC is a bit more specialized, but it still does have an information-control/censorship role, saying what news the officers of a public company must always, and must never, publish about said company. So it's interesting, in my mind, to ask what "an SEC doing MiniTruth's job" would look like, and "a MiniTruth doing the SEC's job" would look like, and then to try the two original arguments again with those altered visions as their subjects.
True enough, batteries are a really bad example - although companies like Panasonic have started signing on to the 'fulfilled by Amazon' program with good prices - but it is genuinely useful for a wide variety of small parts and electronics that aren't carried in any local stores and which often require high shipping fees from specialty retailers.

For the specific parts I mentioned, I'd probably go to Pololu, but you get the idea.
While DGX-2 includes 16 V100, you can't replicate DGX-2 performance with 16 V100. Much of its performance is due to NVSwitch/NVLink. I think it's same with TPU.
I didn't realize the URL was related to Android P (just above https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17024245)

That release seems to add some late but useful ideas (launcher with useful action for the selection, really worthy in real life). The timers, the shush or fade out feature. Technically simple, but really valuable as a user IMO
Slack Passes 3M Paid Users
We also know the cost of rapidly disseminated lies. Especially the effect those lies have on trust in mainstream news media (helps fox, hurts everyone else).
There was a (bad) book written about this, basically how Gmail's AI took over the world by sending email on behalf of people.
You're very lucky then! I'd think that most Nexus 5x phones are stuck in the bootloop by now.