skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Old chips are rated for 10k erases. Newer is 100k+.

Isn't this backwards? I was under the impression that as NAND moved to store more bits per cell (SLC -> MLC -> TLC), endurance went down, not up.
you are missing nothing.
>So fix that instead of introducing even more unstable elements by allowing ‘everyone’ to own guns?

Doesn't seem to be working for london:

https://www.cbsnews.com/news/london-murder-rate-higher-new-y...
That's the joke.

Startup idea: accelerate paying customers on the ground to Mach 1 to make the sonic boom go away.
>Stallman, however, replied that "a GNU manual, like a course in history, is not meant to be a 'safe space'". He suggested the possibility of adding a trigger warning about functions that create child processes, since childbirth is "far more traumatic than having an abortion"

"It is better to remain silent at the risk of being thought a fool, than to talk and remove all doubt of it."

-Michael Scott
> Self defense and self determination are human rights.

I don't see "owning a gun" there, which just makes this just your interpretation, nothing more.
For anyone who is interested in a CPI inflation adjusted view of those numbers, "$900-$1000" for rent in North Beach in 1985 is supposedly worth about $2100-2400 now.

Their combined salary of $30,000 per year would now be about $71,000.

https://www.bls.gov/data/inflation_calculator.htm

However, the article says "$900-$1000" was for "an apartment" without specifying the number of rooms. It seems reasonable that it might've been a 2 bedroom apartment.
Pi1541 (rPi3 to 1541 disk drive emulator conversion)
> Either people get what he's writing, and the term is irrelevant, or they don't get what he's writing

People are emotional animals. When trying to persuade them, disregard this fact at your peril.
True but now they can offer their own systems that integrate far better with the car electronics. Such as controlling the HVAC or offering rear view camera in the in-dash system. Those are good opportunities for lock-in which they'll no doubt take advantage of.
Is the site still running on Node.js with Hapi?
It's kinda evergreen, as the global gag rule is, to notable controversy, retracted or reinstated with each change in Presidential party since Reagan, most recently reinstated last year by the Trump Administration.

Of course, it's still inappropriate for glibc docs.
The whole thing is silly. A storm in a teacup.
I don't think it's really as easy as you say. At the same time, it wasn't really hard to self-publish in the 20th century either; even self-marketing could be a matter of buying mailing lists and paying for help with bulk mailing. I had friends who did it and sold their books in local bookstores too.

Putting a book together, as compared to many things, takes a lot of time and energy and definitely sends social signals. Just last night a friend dropped "he just published a new book" in conversation where Stack Overflow creds would have sounded like a joke. SO just isn't known the way book publishing is. Since the comment was an effective social cue to the audience, she freaked out and asked a bunch of questions. It still works just fine.
FirstEver Ransomware Found Using Process Doppelgänging Attack to Evade Detection
Correct, although the creep and go after the light is also practiced. Main reason for the Pittsburgh left's popularity is that there are a number of roads in and around the city where during rush hour it's otherwise impossible to ever make a left and have no turn lane.
Not unique to Pittsburgh (also prevalent in Rhode Island, among other places), but more importantly, letting the first car turn left first is useful to keeping traffic flowing on narrow roads—which, in the areas that use this tactic, rely on it. So, not following local customs is a good way to snarl traffic (since the oncoming traffic will be waiting for the car to take its turn).
Microsoft CEO says Amazon and Google are rigging the device towards stores
Atari's new console
The point is not to rewrite from scratch.. the point is that your judgement to use a piece of technology should come from your understanding of the problem and direction and not based on what is a legitimately a hot topic in a context that does not apply to you.. in other words do not let google search results be the bar you meet in solving your problems..
Hi Domingo, This is Dr. Ferrer. I am pleased to tell you that I am still at Hendrix College, now completing my 16th year. We're doing well. We hired Dr. Mark Goodrich after Collins retired (2014), and we hired Dr. Brent Yorgey (the author of this blog post) in 2015 after Burch departed for Google. Both have been fantastic contributors to the CS program and to Hendrix College.

I'm glad that your education has served you well! I'd love to hear an update from you when you get a chance.
In a few years that statement will be completely mainstream. ZKPs are going to revolutionize finance and other accountability structures, with or without blockchain.
What's the difference in problem statement between k-bandits and the expert's problem?
> Writing an essay to persuade someone means talking to them on their terms. If you start off with the "Micro$oft"s and the "Windoze"s you're going to lose the people you want to reach, especially when it reeks of childish namecalling.

I can't say I'm mourning the loss of people who think it's childish, or that it's a bad thing--at most it's a silly distraction. If you care, why don't you rewrite his stuff to be more friendly? I'm gonna go ahead and guess he licenses his content liberally.

I gotta say, his essays don't come across as intending to be generally persuasive, and I'm not sure how you could come to that conclusion. His audience is fundamentally one that self-selects to think for themselves, and his diction is one way of achieving that.

What you are suggesting is making a non-compromising person into a compromising person, which we have far too many of already.
> It seems we ought to either believe companies are legally required to provide their service to all comers or they're not.

Both of those positions are completely unworkable.

If businesses may always select which people to serve, you can end up with de facto racial segregation. We know what that looks like. The illegality of this sort of discrimination by businesses is a direct outgrowth of that historical moment.

If businesses may never select which people to serve, you'll end up with protesters clogging everything from the meat aisle at Wal-Mart to the local church's bible group.

So we end up constantly revisiting how to resolve this fundamental tension between the owner's right to free speech and the customer's right to equal protection.

The line today, as I understand it, is that businesses may discriminate against people for what they say or believe, but not for explicitly enumerated aspects of their person (such as race, sex, age, and now(?) sexual orientation).
I'm pretty sure this is sarcasm.

I really hope it is anyway, because otherwise it stinks of "long live the king"
I don't see what is so wrong with gentrification. As the economy expands and people become more prosperous, it restores blighted parts of the city to their full potential.

I also think that rent control is disrespectful to the rights of the property owner. Other than making sure that there is no discrimination, and that properties aren't fire traps, government should get out of the way.
> If a company wants to maintain the legal immunity for user generated content, then it MUST be content neutral.

Sources, please? Can you show me a court decision ruling that such companies can't have content policy?

So, no, they don't have to be content neutral.
Gitlab CI has excellent support for k8s but it requires buy in to the whole ecosystem to be truly useful...
>Within the company, resources are shared and divided in a top-down approach, everyone working to a common goal, using the company's funds to do so.

That's what they try to achieve, but they fail to do so, because the labour relationships are still fundamentally transactional.

Workers aren't working for the common goals of the company, they're working for their salary. And since the primary goal of the company is profit, they are fundamentally in conflict with the goals of the company.

The goal of the employee is thus to seem valuable, and get promotions. Sometimes that means working harder, but often it means making sub-optimal decisions for their own benefit. This isn't always conscious or intentional, but nonetheless, it's what people end up doing, and it leads to a lot of inefficiency: Workers not mentioning difficulties for fear of looking incompetent. Managers insisting on impossible deadlines and so on.

Competition pushes systems to be more efficient, but the problem is it never stops pushing.
Four Women Accuse New York’s AG, Eric Schneiderman, of Physical Abuse
I'm not sure that anything about staying on Earth 9000 years obviously or necessarily implies extinction, so I definitely prefer your actual explanation to your original remark. Thank you for it. However, it must be admitted that there is some time before 9k years where a 1.1% population growth rate becomes a problem, not to mention the fact that the 9k-year result is not about a sustainable population, but rather about the point where every particle in the Universe would be a constituent part of a human body. A great many doublings (multiples of ~65 years) before that, we've exhausted the local resources of this star system and have to put growth "on hold" to reach another one. We don't seem to be able, right now, to put either our growth or industry on hold long enough to save the planet we're on.

Furthermore, it's not at all demonstrable that we can move a significant fraction of 8 billion people off of the planet in a timely manner, even if we could get them all to volunteer. Using conventional rockets, it's going to be like 10 tons of CO2 per person per trip in fuel, and that's just to lift the passenger's weight, to say nothing of the fraction of the weight of the spacecraft per passenger. And that's just to LEO. A low estimate is handily 4 or 5 years of current CO2 emissions just to move half the population. (Launch guns and the like could possibly reduce this, but there's certainly going to be a CO2 cost to building them if they are possible.) The remaining 4 billion would, presently, need to learn the lessons that neither the 9k-year discussion nor this discussion seem to have landed for you: growth, per se, is unsustainable; and we will have to manage both growth (into territory that oscillates about 0) and efficiency to survive. In reality, we're just boxed in on Earth, waiting for a miracle like fusion.

Whether this discussion turns out to be productive or not, the fact that steady positive exponential growth always overtakes resource availability for any finite set of actually finite resources is germane. In other words, there is no real difference between "in the Solar System" and "on Earth" as far as our ability to live within foreseeable constraints is concerned. If we "move out into the solar system" now and behave as we do now, we will just die a few hundred years later (subject to even being able to meaningfully get there). Sci-fi futures don't arrive just because you're on a rocket. You still have to learn the lessons and build the systems with the political will you can muster. That's the point. Just because you can't or don't want to take in the implications of growth at a rate proportional to the amount present doesn't mean that I'm not making productive points.

I would, however, appreciate more precision from you in the future, please, just by way of striving toward being productive.
Well, this may be contrary to the flow here, but I think the problem may be you.

Please, allow me to explain: you asked a question portraying yourself as the victim in the relationship. Then bunch of people are trying to help you out, but you didn't respond to any of their questions.

For anything to succeed, you will need synergy and thus, communication.

I respectfully advise you to engage here with the 35 people that are trying to help you out.
It is a little interesting to me that the joke in question is making fun of a US-right-wing political position, so the fact that it's clear to everyone that this atmosphere disagrees with the joke would seem to remove some credence from the "FOSS is turning into a liberal echo chamber" argument that's been getting popular. There is a political shift / push happening, but "liberal echo chamber" isn't it.
LGBT* is most definitely political - I think you just proved that.
Some quick notes:

- Feels a little _too_ mobile. Menu on left requires a click and should ideally be a hover. I had to check to make sure I wasn't on some mobile site as it looks like the mobile version just enlarged.

- Search bar touches the top of the page. Needs some gap above it.

- Navigation even on top right requires far too many clicks for basic functionality (sign-in, etc). Desktop should take advantage of hover.

- Was clicking around products and the experience feels a bit jarring. The page loads and menu color changes are sudden and feel like a full page refresh. I'm sure it'll get better over time but just mentioning.

Nice redesign overall! Looks more like Amazon's latest refreshes.
That's not entirely accurate. The article says that "state-run and private manufacturers are unwilling to invest in research and development because, in most cases, it won’t bring profits and extra market share, owing to the lack of protection for intellectual property and rampant plagiarism by other competitors" – i.e., it is not just a public funding problem.

It goes on to state that the government has invested in "a RMB$60 million program four years ago to facilitate the research and development of strategic industrial materials such as high-quality steel so as to reduce the country’s reliance on foreign imports, because it is not only an industrial issue but also a national security concern." And then note that, "four years have passed, and the program seems to have achieved nothing."

Clearly there have been some very successful funding initiatives in China, but clearly others have not panned out. I think it's fair to say that time will tell whether the semiconductor investment pays off.
If anyone from flutter can answer: by reading a little about map integration in the flutter sdk, i came to understand that there was some kind of design issue with the way flutter exposed the underlying open GL layers. Making it hard to plug anything wanting to use this layer directly (due to layer compositing ?).

What i just said is obviously pretty vague, so could anyone knowledgeable provide some answer to this long-term architectural concern ?
I would like to know who _has_ been the most unbiased source of news in your opinion.
Microsoft is moving Kinect to the cloud
Money has always been around, but even "corporate" was not nearly as stifling. 90s era Microsoft code is quite colorful - as I'm sure it would have been at most other companies of the era.
Start your ENGINEs: dynamically loadable contemporary crypto
That’s a poor response. Major engineering advances that nobody sees coming are exceedingly rare. By the time an advance is close, it’s usually apparent to other engineers. For example, Samuel Langley’s unmanned engine-driven plane flew seven years before the Wright Flyer. It was quite clear by the late 19th century that human flight would happen and we had a pretty good understanding of how.

Will we have supersonic commercial travel at some point? Probably. But that’s not a very interesting statement. Are we close to supersonic commercial air travel and do we have a concrete idea how to get from point A to B? That’s the interesting (and very different) question.

(That is not to say I think Boom will or will not get there, I havent’t studied it closely. But I’m an aerospace engineer by education and history is littered with failures in this space, and progress since the 1980s has been grimly slow.)
For those who don't know who Eric is around here, he five months ago AMAed on net neutrality: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15853374

Wow, I thought he was a good man. guess I and many others were wrong.
What’s worse, it saw it but misinterperated or sensors has a blind spot and missed something?
> some people want an egalitarian project rather than an authoritarian one

Plenty of us prefer the authoritarian model, rather than the chaotic model of arbitrary consensus.
Apple's MacBook Pro vs. Microsoft's Surface Book 2
I think there's a difference though between "a small town that has very little in the way of services because the population won't support it or the people who live there don't earn enough to support nice amenities" becoming more prosperous, and a town where nice amenities are already possible, but building is prevented as people move in so prices get driven up without (as much as would be natural) corresponding increase in amenities.

That's not to say that nice amenities are what everyone wants. Some people want to keep the character of their small towns no matter what. But in the former case there's a loss of small-town-ness for amenities that theoretically benefit everyone, whereas in the latter case it's purely an extraction of money from the young to the old.
Today we discover why EGCS required a way to appeal Stallman decisions as a condition of reunification
No, what you're describing sounds a hell of a lot safer. (It's also how people make left turns in Vancouver. The fact that it's illegal in Seattle infuriates me to no end.)

The Pittsburgh left sounds like a recipe to get T-boned by an inattentive driver. Pulling into the intersection, and making a left turn when it is safe is a much better alternative.
Specifically it probably refers to the "Mexico City policy", which is a US government rule that has been in effect under Republican presidents and rescinded under Democratic presidents going back to Reagan.

For most of its existence, it basically said that no foreign NGO could receive US funding for family planning if that NGO performed or promoted abortion for family planning.

President Trump has expanded it to say that no foreign NGO can receive any US global health assistance if it performs or promotes abortions.

Providing accurate medical information about abortion is interpreted by some as falling under the Mexico City policy.
>state lawmakers mandated raising speed limits in opposition to the Highway Patrol's safety recommendation for lower speed limits and increased enforcement. The speeding laws and their enforcement are lax here because of politicians

"Your comment seems to indicate you might not know how traffic laws are made or enforced. They are rarely touched by elected officials."

>I would hope that in doing so, all participants might be willing to offer constructive ideas and not just criticism.

People try to dismiss criticism by saying "well do you have a solution?" but that is fallacious and you can make a valid point without offering a different solution that addresses that point
> in which case I doubt that it would be because they were so distracted by a single word they couldn't focus on anything he's writing at all

Well, you'd be wrong then. It's like people writing "Micro$oft". No I can't focus on anything you're writing after you use terms like that because I'm picturing an immature child. And why would I listen to an immature child's arguments?

Put it this way, it's like giving a talk with your fly open. Your fly being open is technically irrelevant to the entire talk you're giving, but that's still going to distract people from the content. (Or, in the case of Richard Stallman, eating stuff from your foot. No I'm not making this up; google it, I won't link it here.)

I hugely respect what Stallman has done, in the past, for free software in general but I have a hard time believing that he is a net positive today. Between "free software champions" being associated with someone who's extremely antisocial, and his refusal of pragmatism, it's hard not to be grossed out. I know that the "Stallman attitude" has been a serious roadblock to getting people to adopt free software in general: I've very often seen people get turned off from talking about open source, for fear of dealing with someone who insists on prefixing GNU/ to everything, and scoffs at any license that isn't GPLv2.
It only took them 10+ years but here it is, finally.
> The baker could say hey doesnt want to bake cakes for "a type of wedding", not against "gay people that wed". The declared intent is irrelevant.

The courts are endowed with common sense; e.g., you can find many examples of courts rejecting various attempts at "literally equivalent to <insert protected class> but I never said <insert protected class!>".
> 10 min travel to gate, 5 minut security

Many small/medium European airports manage this for flights within Europe. At least in Dublin, Gatwick, Frankfurt Hahn, the security has been under 10 minutes for me, without buying any fast track passes. Add to that mobile boarding passes from most airlines eliminating the need to do anything beyond "weigh bag at automated machine without a queue, put sticker on, drop at bag drop" in the check in area, and it's a much faster experience.

The issue comes when flying to the US, where at least in Dublin, there's a second TSA-run security station behind the main security for flights going to the US. This is the only one where I've had delays of over 20 minutes for security in Dublin (which is still much better than I've had in the US, including a 1hour security queue in JFK once).

This is also where online check in is usually not an option, where there's a long queue, and where I get US customs interviewing people in the line to make it even longer.

So it seems to be the US specifically causing this problem
It is sometimes a bit stunning to me that people look up to someone who is constantly willing to place his own opinion (and in this case, his own sense of humor) above everyone else. Perhaps RMS is the original real world House M.D., but I don't really think so.

IMHO, if he places his own joke over the views of all of the developers doing the actual work on glibc, those developers should leave/fork. If RMS was, indeed, right, then GNU's version will win.
It's kind of like when someone tries to talk politics, but they can't stop using terms like "libtards" or "conservatards" to belittle their ideological opponents. They can't effectively communicate their actual message to you because they're too busy denigrating everyone who hypothetically disagrees with them.

By referring to Facebook users as "Useds", he's trying to belittle anyone who happily uses Facebook by suggesting that they're just a hapless pawn of a megacorp. That is a terrible way to convince someone that they ought to rethink their Facebook use - it just makes anyone currently using Facebook without worry ignore you because you're being condescending to them.

And just because RMS is massively influential on the world of FOSS doesn't mean that his political musings get a pass for being childish and one-sided.
This sounds =EXACTLY= like a company I was doing some product consulting with recently.

Sounds like a fairly dismal working relationship. Since you're technical, I suspect you wouldn't have too much difficulty finding other work.

My experience reminded me that entrepreneurs get to work on literally whatever they want so it makes little sense to work on something that is obviously not working.
> Imagine a world where cybercrime got so bad power plants went down every few days

The solution to this kind of problem is to harden and isolate critical infrastructure, not impose a bunch of restrictions that mostly impact non-criminals in the hope that criminals will actually obey them.
And this is why I love Hacker news