skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That isn't true. I use Google Authenticator with them.
Yes, sorry. It was a poor attempt at sarcasm.
I live in Guadalajara where I'd be hard-pressed to find a jogging route free of diesel fumes. But I find it sheepish to invoke it in these discussions because I know why I have a treadmill and don't need to defend it.

While I think OP is misdirected, I knew all sorts of people when I lived in the suburbs who had exercise equipment they bought for the idea yet it was left unused year round. And the idea of taking a walk outside through the clear air of suburban Texas seemed lost on most of my neighbors who, of those I knew personally, did not have the excuses we like to make up for them in these threads.

Though I'm not so sure guilting them in these threads is the most effective way to change behavior -- we probably both agree there.
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What's the failure rate of the abort system?

What's the failure rate during fuel loading?

That is, if we assume 0% failure rate of the abort system then your scenario works.

If we assume (for argument's sake) a 50% failure rate in the abort system, and a 10% chance during fueling, then there's a 5% failure leading to human deaths.

Without those numbers, it's hard to draw a conclusion.
When you make a lot of money you realize how crucial it is to learn how to optimize your financial life. Unfortunately, a lot of rich people are rich because they learned how to deal with “too much money” type of problems. I don’t want to mention it here on HN, but setting up a smart tax strategy is probably on top of the list. A lot of (not all) rich people get richer because they endup paying less taxes. I’m not an advocate of that strategy but when you face it in real life, there’s no more “rich people need to pay more taxes”. It really hurts when you understand the potential of that big pile of money you could invest in creating more jobs, innovation, etc. Again, I’m not against paying taxes... just sharing a learning experience.

Also, donating money becomes natural when you get a lot of it. You become more generous, which I thought would be the complete opposite. I guess if you weren’t born rich, you’d most likely give back by becoming rich.
Even if we choose not to have things because they're expensive, it doesn't mean we should not complain about the prices. Companies make changes based on feedback so if there's good evidence that people think something is too expensive, the company may consider changing their prices or have offers.

I don't think people don't complain about stuff enough, we get taken for rides by big companies all the time while their CEOs take home massive pay packets. People should fight for better services and lower prices more; it works!
Does anyone do it right? Gmail used to be a rare example of a non-dreadful SPA app, but I gather the new one is pretty bad (I’m still on the old interface for now). Beyond that, I can’t think of many.

The dreadful new Jira is a good example; much, much slower than the old one, less information dense, and more confusing.
When I saw GopherCon I thought it was talking about Gopher: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gopher_(protocol).
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I disagree with the author that subscriptions are objectively and inherently the superior model for web monetization. An unsung virtue of the ad-driven web it's is inclusiveness and strong worldwide redistribution effects. Everybody sees the ads, however the actual value of a pair of eyeballs is widely variable, by orders of magnitude so. It's therefore profitable to make the content free and distribute it as far as possible, to have the best chance of catching high value visitors that covert to ad action and revenue.

The net effect is that large swaths of society and indeed the world get the internet services for free, subsidized by purchases made by richer westerners, purchases and services they themselves could never afford. This model works well with the economic structure of web publishing, where marginal cost of serving an existing page to a new customer is essentially zero - even for the obese, media rich pages the author is referring to.

Once you move to a flat fee, this massive redistribution ceases. There is a clearly defined model of customer, say, those living in the middle class of an OECD country, that is targeted to maximize revenue, and a paywall is put in place that excludes 95% of the rest of the world. These are people for which 9$ might represent a tenth of their wage, and who might not even have access to modern banking through which to purchase internet services.

The open web was created by hacker ethos, but paid for using ads; a flat tax against widely variable income is strongly inequalitarian and exclusionary.
More relevant now than on 07.31.17; see, for example: https://www.wsj.com/articles/tesla-cant-make-its-cash-proble... and https://qz.com/1260135/will-elon-musks-tesla-run-out-of-cash...
> A safety function designed by the manufacturer had taken its cue from the sudden current running through the house and caused the device to switch itself off

The way this is worded seems as if the device knows what current runs through the house wiring, through sensors in the house communicating with the device. Is that the case? Or do they simply mean the electromagnetic field of the lightning caused current in the implant?
FWIW (and because I didn't know it), https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RP-1#Fractions_and_formulation comments:

> For a short period, the Soviets achieved even higher densities by super-chilling the kerosene in a rocket’s fuel tanks, ... The latest version of Falcon 9, Falcon 9 Full Thrust, also has the capability of sub-cooling the RP-1 fuel to −7 °C, giving a 2.5–4% density increase.
It seems you're getting a little caught up in an assumption that I posited who "he" is. It's not important... what's important are the questions themselves. For example, if you truly intended to gain what I have then you should either (a) prove that there is no such dire wrongness or (b) provisionally retract your claim that the result of such wrong thought is not actually huge. I'm not commenting to be treated well by humans. If you can't show something which you need to know which we can exchange in real conversation, then I'm going to remain wary of the actual meaning of your reply.
Don't forget this one:

>"Consumers want immersive experiences, well-designed pages with fonts, graphics, photos, and videos coming together into a compelling format."
True. A subscription to Office 365 comes down to 99 Euros per years. Of course you’d pay maybe 150 every three years or so for a new version back in the days, but still that’s double.

Also, I wonder whether this will lead to a slower development of the software. Before you’d have to create a leap forward to impress people to buy the new version, if the old version was still good enough.
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Firtstly writing Qt desktop apps in Python is pretty popular so we don’t need to stick with C++ to write Qt app.

It is hard to understand people cares about memory useage when desktops nowadays have a lot of RAM. What average Electron apps annoys me is their constant high CPU load. Some apps take ~10% of CPU load all the time.

I think Electron itself is fine. Look at VS Code. It is fast even though it is written in Electron. The real problem is the bad habits of average Electron apps developers. The Electron devs usually come from Web where users can just press a refresh button or close it when browsers are slow. They don’t care about optimizing stuff.
To me, and I'm not a professional anything, illness is when a bodily function is not preforming as intended. I believe I'm functioning as intended, just that society is not geared for how I function. For me it's ok, I get by, for others I'm sure reality must feel like insanity. I'm grateful for what I am, and I'm sad for people who do not get to experience being grateful for what they are.
> they should presumably have the device warn of this happening

How? Shock your brain? It's an implant.

> What if it had been a pacemaker or something?

The same question stands. How do you make the device provide reasonable feedback? Make your heart skip a few beats? How exactly is a pacemaker going to warn a user about an error condition?

Given the circumstances, and the rarity of the error case, it sounds like the device switching itself off is the best course of action.
There was a short period of time when companies competed for monopoly status.

That time is now almost over - we have established monopolies.

Established monopolies use their power - that's why they fought so hard to become monopolies in the first place.

This article is saying 'gee, I liked it when Uber kept giving me really cheap rides, but now it doesn't anymore, such hell!'

The only reason you were getting cheaper rides was because it was a mafia deal, I help you now, for free, but when the time comes, you do something for me. That's how it works folks...
That source code seems very strange. I'm not even sure what language it is.

On one hand, some things feel a high-level as C - such as many of the procs starting with "proc oops". On the other hand, things like "proc netloc" seem to have a chunk of assembly embedded in the middle of it. The use of symbols in the code (e.g., "←", which seems to be the assignment operator) is also interesting.

Even though I don't fully understand it, I find old code like this absolutely fascinating. I also feel the same way about old electronics/electrical manuals.
edit: disregard my comment below, as others have reminded me, the yearly charge is for updates and will not stop you from using it completely if you decide not to renew it, you just don't get any more updates. So this isn't the best example

> I have noticed this as well, that a not-small number of software programs have turned from "give us one money for this version" to "give us slightly smaller amount of one money per month, but do it in perpetuity if you want to keep going with the data you've entered."

Like Sketch App which used to be just US$99[1] and is now US$99/year[2]. Although in this example, "slightly smaller" doesn't apply

1. https://web.archive.org/web/20160416212244/http://sketchapp....

2. https://www.sketchapp.com/pricing/
> Beyond that point you can hire.

Which is a skill of its own.
> Smartphones will be built again in USA when USA workers will accept to be payed as much as their Chinese colleagues.

smartphone manufacture requires a significant, specific, miniaturized, electronic-industrial ecosystem AND a large number of trained industrial, electronic and other engineers, not just cheap labor. (Africa has cheap labor but where are its smartphone manufacturers?)

China has a city like Shenzen with thousands of electronics makers. China has lots and lots of engineers of various kinds. China has pro-industrial development governmental policies, labor rules and environmental rules.

We cannot simply look to labor pay rates. It's a much larger system.
To be fair it's the comments that count. HN could randomly generate topics with a markov generator and still retain 80% of the value for me :)
can the title be changed to implant?

I first read it as brain simulator, and was expecting a eulogy for her dead ai
I think it's more ironic that your example of a site doing it right is one run by a company with deep pockets that can afford for the site to not print money directly. That's not the future of the internet that I want. In fact, it's terrifying.

This misunderstanding is why the internet is gradually becoming more and more centralized. People don't want to pay money and they don't want to see ads. The only sites that can brave that reality are charities, sites that confer other benefits to the organization (like HN), and the few major services that people will pay for (like Netflix). Not much in between, and the sites in between were basically enabled by ads like the collaborative writing forum I grew up on.
How the Language of Self-Driving Is Killing Us
Your argument would be much more convincing if you shared with us what your company is doing with its users’ data. The fact that you’ve failed to do so suggests that your use case might not be that innocent, in which case it’s a good thing that GDPR makes you cease it.
> How could the Washington Post print this?

Washington Post has consistently shown their standards for journalism to be below the worst in the world. Even Al Jazeera is better. So I don't see any reason to be surprised. At least TFA was honest about the caveats.
How do they win if they end up making less money? What you are paying for is journalists doing research every month to produce those articles so you could access them on demand. If you want that on demand access you need to pay them for the work they do every month not the work they do one off.
> From what I understand, autism can't be viewed as a "rating" of better or worse autism.

For the sake of making a pedantic and spurious semantic argument, you are willing to ignore the life-altering severity of jklinger410's brother's symptoms.

> I don't believe this is much different than trying to direct a conversation about autism to making it a conversation about how hard it is to be a non-autistic and live with autistic people.

Here you are not only ignoring the very severe consequences that autism has for jklinger410's brother, you try to dismiss jklinger410's evident distress and concern as self-serving.
Challenger, Columbia, and now NASA is concerned about astronaut safety? Hah.

There is always risk; simple rockets are (probably) less risky than the shuttle program. More unmanned launches will help quantify that risk; NASA can then determine whether the risk is acceptable, or not.
There I agree with you.

This is one of the reasons why the process model is actually a much better approach.
I don't mind subscriptions but I do fear the day when my favorite subscriptions start to run ads on top of their monthly fee.
The thing I don't understand about this article is the author makes out like he's been forced into this situation, the "hell" he talks about is entirely of his own making.
I like that you mentioned Office 365 because I see that as "subscription done right." You can still buy perpetual licenses for the components of Office, you can easily store the data you created with those components locally, and if you stop paying for Office-as-a-subscription the same programs still let you view (but not edit) your data.

Carrot Weather App is another good one. Pay $5 once to get a really polished weather app with some basic "cloud" functions thrown in, like notifications to a phone device, some fun "achievements," and a pretty good weather data feed. If you want the super-accurate feed or if you want more advanced notifications and mobile device access (e.g. repeatedly on your Apple Watch), pay up for the subscription because it costs the dev more. And, if you stop paying, that $5 you initially paid is still valuable because the underlying app still works.
When I read the title, I was expecting it to be a tongue-in-cheek futurist reference to a television.
> Sure, have a subscription service for something that needs upkeep, like a syncing service (but get out of here if all you do is just lump it into the user's iCloud storage) or a data feed.

This. If you sell an app and service together, you can charge a recurring fee. If your app is more traditional, then a one time fee for the app is appropriate. Note, this does not mean that you can just add a service willy nilly like and start charging a recurring fee. That's crap.
The biggest hurdle is not price elasticity between getting someone to pay $10 versus $35, it's getting people to pay anything instead of something.

Look at the App Store as an example and how hard it is to get people to pay $1.

Besides the people who are willing to pay are by definition people who are willing to spend money - the same demographic that advertisers covet the most. Meaning they can't target their best customers for advertising.
Honestly I don't know if I do anymore!

I've been on HN for nearly 8 years now. I felt like HN used to give me a big edge in tech. Much of my value system around architecture, engineering, and working were at least partially formed and shaped by reading HN - articles and comments.

These days, I feel like HN has degenerated substantially. If you have an opinion that goes against the majority's view, you will get downvoted rather than argued against. The echo chamber on HN is bad these days.

I feel like many articles on the front page are not original (reposts, celebrity person/company worship, mass media links, etc.). There is a lack of any original insight.

I still stick around though - occasionally there is that gem in the rough. And it gives me some practice to voice my own opinions, like I'm doing here.
Running draws pollutants and allergens deeper into your lungs. You dont aspirate as hard when biking so you're breathing less of either in.
> I said "judges" because I understand them to be the final authority, since the regulator's number can be appealed. If that's wrong, then substitute whatever party does make the final decision.

The precise mechanism isn't defined in the GDPR, but I suspect it'll operate similar to judicial review - a court can determine that a reasonable decision was made by the authority, and thus allow the fine as is, or they can determine the authority acted unreasonably or did not take into account the proper factors, and thus quash the decision and order it to be remade. I'd be somewhat surprised if the courts were directly setting fines.
"launch frequently, and recover as much of the rocket as you can to inspect the parts so they can be improved"
> It's possible that at $10/month they'd get 5x the signups.

I highly doubt it. Also, while it is possible that the people at bloomberg are so incompetent that they did not consider how to maximize their profits, I'm going to give them the benefit of the doubt and say that they did.
C declarations are easy to parse
What’s the issue with making sure it’s on when your server is up? I assumed it’d just be a case of setting up a simple systemd service that restarted it in case it died
Can you describe how the snoo is different from any other bassinets in this manner and what your control options are?
>weak hairless ape body

lol i get your drift but i don't see what hair has to do with it (unless we're all biblical samson)
There’s an external charger, per the article; it could presumably feed back to that when charging.
Downvoted? Really? I wonder if that was done after the mods also changed to the link to point at the pdf instead of the PS file originally submitted.

There are times I really don't understand people on HN. I don't care about the downvote, because I don't care about the karma, I just don't understand why people would downvote this.

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People are weird - I guess I will never understand some of them. But as an engineer at heart, a model-maker and problem solver, it's like sandpaper on the brain when people act in ways that mystify me, and for which I have no effective, working model.
I notice when discussing this topic, irrespective of pro or against, the image people have in their minds is some form of science fiction version. Whether it be the Borg or the Matrix or otherwise, it's immediately that.

I'd propose however that instead of imagining that in comparison to the human of today, compare the most technologically integrated common human of today to what we know of cro-magnon [1], the closest anatomical modern human.

Compared to Cro-Magnon we today are transhumanists. Our technology of polymer based footwear and textiles, hormone pills that prevent pregnancy, vaccines/prophylactics that let us go places outside of our territories without dying or becoming sick, hybridized foods, contact lenses or glasses, artificial hips/shoulders/knees, other permanent medical devices like IUD's, teeth braces and retainers etc...

Not to mention all the "add-ons" of our cellphones, watches, and the associated support.

So is it that crazy that we will continue progress in integrating engineering with biology to the point where humans of 1000 years are practically distinct from humans in 2018?

[1]https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cro-Magnon
We also have Launch HNs for YC startups, which are like the job ads in that they get a placement on the front page to begin with. After that they behave like regular threads though.
> And it's literally that kind of nitpicking that keeps science on track.

I don't want to be nitpicking, but can you provide citations? How has nitpicking on popular science articles kept science on track?
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> If you are bright(ish) you can figure almost all of the needed skills with a bit of reading and practice.

Fair point, but one should beware the survivor's bias. I've seen so many people who have won the talent genetic lottery, and practising something they're talented for seems so natural and easy to them, and they can't understand why would others have trouble with the same.
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One con of the pay per article is that it siphons money into the money making kinds of stories. The sports and celebrity pages can do a lot of funding for the slow grind investigations that are important for holding those in power accountable.

It’s not like an a la carte model couldn’t also fund profitless journalism, but I think it might push things even more in that direction.

I think they do understand what people want, but they have a healthy, eat your vegetables kind of take on things too.
Ah ok, I must have missed it, sometimes hard to tell over the internet. And, FWIW, I would agree with you, except I find it hard to believe that as many people as are invested in apple, with all the money they have, are so stupid to throw it away.
That’s a good point. I suspect the abort system is much less likely to kill you, since it’s fairly simple, but it would be good to actually quantify that.
I once saw a paper proposing a generic system connector type for composing systems-of-systems (it was much more sophisticated than just I/O) - I can no longer find the paper, do you know it or what is the state of the art here?
There's always more to be made. Every time you think you're at a good rate or salary, you'll find there's another bracket of people even higher than you. It's a vicious cycle to get trapped into if you let it weigh you down.

If you try and be the best person you can, keep learning, and work on yourself, it will unlock more for you and you'll be happier than going down the road of thoughts like "well if I make $X00,000, what do I need to do to be making X+1 or X+1.5."
I think the last paragraph really says it all:

> Before the very first shuttle flight, NASA estimated that the chance of death was between 1 in 500 and 1 in 5,000. Later, after the agency had compiled data from shuttle flights, it went back and came up with a very different number. The chance of death was actually 1 in 12.

The fact is, these numbers are made up because the systems are too complicated to calculate based on individual components. Until they have something like 50+ launches (after the kinks are worked out), we wont really know the actual chances of blowing up a rocket are. Further, how well do the escape capsule(s) work? If they work the majority of the time (saving astronauts from he explosion), that'd also dramatically drive down the risk.

If say, there was a 1 in 30 chance of a rocket exploding using the method described, but the escape capsule failed to save the astronauts 1 out of 10 times. Then the real risk of killing the astronauts is 1 in 300. Unfortunately, we simply don't have either of those numbers, so the actual "risk" level is essentially made up.
Got it, Fair enough :-)