skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We are talking hypothetical here -- all things being equal. Apple doesn't have anti-trust problems, they've closed off hackers, etc. Apple might not have a monopoly but closed-platform mobile OS is basicaly the whole market.

But that's all beside the point, the web was a killer app because it was available. Microsoft could have killed it with the same policies as iOS long before it was ever popular. And not by targeting it specifically for competitive reasons but just because it would have been against the very same rules we take for granted now. It wouldn't have even had to be conscious effort.

You can't even get another web browser on iOS! We literally can't even invent the "next web" on mobile. There's no point even trying.
You could run System 7 via Executor under Windows 95.
As a movie though, I think the material is so dense it can't be expressed in a movie setting especially with today's need for everything to be about action and special effects.

I just finished reading The Butlerian Jihad and even though it's not the same as the original works it's more suited for today's audience.
1MM+ per employee is common in some industries; finance and energy being two examples.
The Apache Software Foundation Announces Apache HAWQ as a Top-Level Project
That would have pushed Microsoft even further into the anit-trust shit they were in.

Also you had more technical users back then as the majority of the base who really wouldn't have stood for that. Hell, most probably wouldn't have stood for mandatory OS activation via modem if Microsoft had required it.
Seems like overkill for shooting down satellites. IIRC the US and China have already demonstrated this ability so I don't think it would add that much as a weapon.
Thanks, I hadn't heard of AppDaemon. It looks a lot like what I found lacking the last time I tried to set up Home Assistant.
> Natural Selection: Languages and systems that are of sound design will persist, to be supplanted only by better ones.

I loved coding in Smalltalk years ago. Guess “better” turned out to be rather subjective...
http://hawq.apache.org/

Apache Hadoop Native SQL.
Advanced, MPP, elastic query engine
and analytic database for enterprises
They won't pull the Netflix app, they just won't let it update until they've made changes. Spotify tried directing users to the web and that's what happened with them.
30% is the expected amount for an entire marketing budget. Back when the app store wasn't so overrun, it may have made some sense. (Remember, Jobs justified it when facing initial criticism by saying that most people were going to use mobile web sites anyway so the app stuff isn't really a big deal.)

Now, you have to give the cut and do marketing. It's usurious, and we need to stick to other channels.
There’s plenty of dark plots and action for a movie. But his philosophy and pernicious stuff could be hard to convey.
This is going to be useful!! What goes into ranking each library?

It would be cool if I could check the overall ranking of all projects and also a Popular and/or New section.
Twin Mustang? https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/North_American_F-82_Twin_Mus...
Yeah. When I realized the animal agriculture industry is institutionalized animal abuse/torture/exploitation (this is extensively documented and can be learned about using something called the internet).

Go vegan, be cruelty-free. For the animals, for the planet, for yourself.
What does this have to do with the Jepsen test discussed here? I'm pretty tired of so many comments sections turning into philosophical debates of open source licensing terms the past few days.

Maybe this will naturally bubble down so that the far more interesting technical discussions can bubble to the top, but I fear this sub-thread will eventually drown out the on-topic discussion.
MVP - Most vulnerable product? Yeah, it is easy to cut the corners that the public won't notice.
Vicilook is what true social networking should be
I visited this platform and saw what social networking should have been. It focuses on connecting people at various individual communities and I think they are doing a great job. I also heard it’s based somewhere in Africa. Kudos to them.
OAuth implicit flow and confused deputy problem
To an extent, but there is a reason why unions don't let middle managers be leaders in the union.
In Australia it's ~50% and I've never heard of anyone getting it paid by the employer, it's an alien concept.

Even that 50% is with the government abusing the tax system to force people to take out basic private insurance.
iFixit videos have becoming better and better. I really like this teardown where they explain the technological motivation behind the placement of parts. One thing I do not get is why the control board seems so weird. It's as if different teams worked on different parts and just decided to slap things together on a board without any sort of optimization. Have anyone seen something like this before?
> So, exactly the same as it has always been!

Not really. Apple's Secure Enclave is resistant against many side channel attacks, including differential power attacks.
That's not what orthogonal means. It doesn't mean "opposite".

Being a good person and being a high achieving person is very possible. Not necessary, not guaranteed. They just have nothing to do with each other.
They also often get their own rules. I've designed apps that onboard exactly like the big boys, and been rejected.
Iirc, the Google Glass system used a (weak) laser to "write" directly onto the retina. Wouldn't such approach be superior?
Debunking the Myth of the 10,000-Hours Rule
Totally meant it as a compliment and an honest question. I am in awe.
Hmm. I like your argument, but the more I think about it, the more I disagree with it. :)

I think you're correct that the smartphone was a phenomenon because it put the internet in your pocket, but we already knew the use case for the internet. People use their smartphones to do everything computers do, and sometimes more: browse the web, read books, find restaurants, make reservations, get directions, use social media platforms, pay for purchases with NFC, listen to music and podcasts, manage their calendars, control their home entertainment systems, check the weather, (...deep breath)

Anyway: "Great dopamine hits, man" falls, I think, into the "necessary but not sufficient" bucket. AR needs to do that, but it needs to do more, too. I agree with "the smartphone was a phenomenon because it put the internet in your pocket," but I think we're still looking for the correct X and Y values of "AR will be a phenomenon because it puts [X] in your [Y]."
Visualizing process with ES6 Generators
Designing Solo, a new U2F/FIDO2 Token
Accuracy is a good choice of word. It doesn't come with the baggage of being a binary classification.

The terminology I jump to is "approximation error", where error is some quantified measurement of (in)accuracy. But using the word "error" might lead one to think of e.g. "having erred" or "being in error", which is unhelpful.

There's a quote from Box I like: "all models are wrong, some models are useful".

I guess this might be rephrased less snappily as "no model is completely accurate, but some models are useful".

Replace "model" with "theory", "belief" as desired.

That said, some models or theories fall into the category of being "not even wrong", i.e. to be so incoherent or unfalsifiable that it isn't even theoretically possible to measure how accurate they are.

Pauli: "Das ist nicht nur nicht richtig; es ist nicht einmal falsch!"
Show HN: The Abstract Calculus, the language of optimal λ-reductions
Assuming well defined problems have a single solution, how exactly is the solution domain different from the problem domain?
It entirely depends on whether the phone itself has Google Play on it or not. When you distribute through the Play Store, you know that's true. When you distribute through other means, you can't be sure of that.
I actually just let my membership to their developer program lapse after 4 years.

In addition to having to pay money to develop on their platform, the return I get is questionable.

The straw was that they're forcing me to republish old programs, just to force them through their new compliance tunnels.

Frankly, I'm sick of their hoops and their walled-garden. I'm ok with forcing users to the browser now. Amazon does it for digital sales.
That seems like a reasonable definition. In my view, temperaments only apply to keyboard and electronic instruments. String instruments are tuned so the open strings are in perfect intervals, then we just cope with it. Wind instruments are all over the place, depending on how you blow and how loud. I saw a viola da gamba with double frets, and the gambist told me it was so he could manage different temperaments. An orchestra is untempered, for all practical purposes.

I think that a scale and its temperaments are in addition to being an artistic choice, also a technology. Prior to electronic music and professional technicians, a tuning system had to be something that a musician could carry out themselves, possibly quite frequently. The 12 tone system is the simplest consonant system, possibly making it the easiest and quickest to tune.
Corporations pool resources to make things or offer services. Unions are just bargaining devices that attempt to tip the scales.

If you want to compare unions to corporations, consider this: What if all the local companies got together and agreed to only pay tech workers minimum wage? By pooling their bargaining power, they can achieve a far better result!

This is of course illegal (at least I'm pretty sure it is), but even if it weren't, it would be easy for startups to take advantage of: Suddenly, there's a surplus of tech workers looking hard for different work. Unions have the same problem: Some people might be happy to work for wages that the union considers unfair, causing the union to collapse. Unless, that is, there were some law requiring the businesses to only hire from the unions.

I'm extremely happy to be employed in a field where I have natural bargaining power that doesn't need to be augmented by legislation. The day programmers unionize is a sad day indeed: It's just a few years before the whole profession is automated or outsourced away.
Yeah, we did talk about Badger a bit, but I think Dgraph's internal testing was likely going to stress it more than I could over the network. We have occasionally found storage-engine level bugs with Jepsen (Tendermint, for instance), but usually the low request rates mask race conditions in storage libraries. :)
This is a life worth living, thank you for the perspective.
> It is. Just that it's the first such pair of aircraft that stay parked next to each other in all regimes, not just the one.

Apparently not! I learned from the video embedded in the article (just before the paragraph starting with "The Next Steps") that Scaled Composites has already built one: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scaled_Composites_White_Knight...

and from there I found a wikipedia category about them: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Category:Twin-fuselage_aircraf... including another Burt Rutan design: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rutan_Boomerang

The Stratolaunch is just so much bigger.
Yeah, it's called Primitive Technology. https://youtu.be/VVV4xeWBIxE
Just like in real life (:
There's a reason I put it in italics, to be sure. :)
User experience is better in apps
One way to achieve something similar would be via a software tool which would set the process affinity to only run on real cores.

Or you could only run Chrome (untrusted JavaScript) on core 2 and 3, and run the app that has your secrets on core 0 and 1. (It is my understanding that 2k cores are real, and 2k+1 is their matching, "virtual" core) This way you get both hyperthreading and security. I'm not a security expert though.

https://bitsum.com/docs/pl/Using%20the%20GUI/using_the_gui.h...
what's the relevant law here?
poetry for some and all?
poetry fore aft and sed?
poetry awked and tarred and backed quick up?
welcome poetry to HN, if s/sed/aid/g aloud,
for an orator's supp.
Ray Peat anyone? :)
How to Build a Natural Swimming Pool (2002)
Yes.

I realized that I was having increasing concerns that a previous employer was on the gray side of US ethics, but more importantly was on the black side of my personal ethics. The feeling that I was actively enabling (and successfully making more efficient) something I personally considered wrong to do contributed additional anxiety and stress I didn't need to what was often already a high anxiety/stress workplace.

An anxiety attack over snowy weather lead to a lot of soul searching over all of my anxieties/stress with the job, and directly lead me to very actively seeking work elsewhere.

I don't entirely regret my time working there, as I worked with some good people, and made some useful connections, but I'm very glad for my self-care/mental health that I left just in time before I broke down in less "silly" ways than yelling about mistakes in snow plowing, and I do sometimes wonder if I should have left earlier than even that.
By an Android phone. There, you've now exercised consumer choice.
Is a Startup, Vicilook Trying to End Facebook
I saw a post online about a Startup called called Vicilook and I discovered that they are connecting and networking people in a given geographical locations and I think this is very cool and innovative. I believe it’s smart to get networking to a grassroot level before extending globally.
Yes, I$ and D$ are the instruction and data cache respectively.
it should not be an infeasible goal

There's been a lot of work on both of these problems, but right now, proving concurrent algorithms correct, and proving equivalency of those algorithms to executable code, are very much open research problems.
> Had they made Android a walled garden like Apple, they wouldn't have been fined....Android is free, which unequivocally is a net positive for consumers

It's unequivocally a positive if they play by the rules. They fell foul of Europe(who was protecting it's consumers).

Google's not a charity and made the choices they made to get to where they are. Making Android free ensured they quickly became relevant in the emerging mobile market without having to invest massive amounts in designing/making/manufacturing devices (alongside the risks), if doing Apple way. Or if they went the MS way and tried to sell a closed source OS to device manufacturers, those device manufacturers may instead have chosen a different, more polished OS from a company who had more experience/better reputation in that field.

> Google places some terms of use to their software and suddenly they're being "anti-competitive."

You can drop the scare quotes, it's not "anti-competitive", it's just anti-competitive.
I think calling their language "deliberately misleading" is deliberately misleading when there is a representative from the project here telling you that they do not intend to mislead (thus even if it is misleading, it isn't deliberate). But I guess you just seem comfortable calling that person a liar. From reading this one thread, it seems like a bummer to me that you're assuming bad faith. But I had never heard of Dgraph until this thread, so maybe there is history that I'm naively ignoring.
Aw, thank you! :)
I watched with fascination on Twitch the other day someone programming a point of sale system, the dev was an older guy who said he'd been programming from 85 and was coding in C# (which is similar to me). First thing that struck me was the file he was editing he had a connection string embedded in the code, with what looked like the real plaintext credentials for the database. I then watched with interest as each query he copy pasted the connection string and other code for querying and then tried to create new queries by appending strings together with variables. I tried to give him some constructive advice, but he said "I'm in a bit of a rush, I just want to get this working". I watched for another 30 minutes or so as he tried to get it working. It was trivial what he wanted to do, he annouced how he hated SQL and has spent years writing sql and huge massive queries. Yet his problem was easily solvable with SQL. Looking at the code, it seems to have been done over quite some time and was really really really bad and really insecure. But the "just need to get it done any way possible" attitude means it will get deployed like that.
What are they supposed to do, just let clothes pile up forever when they don't sell? They only have so much space to display clothes, and if there are more donations than things people want to buy, they have to do something with the excess. If you don't like it, go the the Salvation Army and buy something.
If you work for a large public company, it's a fun exercise to add up all the money the corporation has spent on dividends & stock buybacks for the past year (such info is publicly available) then divide it by the number of employees. You often end up with a truly staggering amount, on the order of hundreds of thousands of dollars per employee per year. Some might object to such extravagant handouts to people who (by a vast, vast majority) played no part in the creation of that wealth.
Links to the code are throughout the "test design" sections of each report. :)
Designing Access Methods: The RUM Conjecture [pdf]
Is this a real problem or just a tempest in a teapot? Many anecdotes != data.

About the only thing that popped out at me is the line "She makes about $1,400 a month after taxes, but nearly half of it goes to the rent on her one-bedroom apartment."

Maybe housing costs are what's causing the slump (if there is one)? Around where I live I see stores closing all the time and I'd bet the #1 reason is that rent is too damn expensive.
Thanks! The ranking takes into account the last commit date, the project creation date, the number of forks, stars and open issues, and a couple of other metrics with smaller impact. We will be writing about it soon and showing it on the website :) Also, you can get a few more metrics inside the project view, including github info and npm stats as well as npms ranking (these two are only available for npm packages for obvious reasons :)).

Those ideas are awesome, we will definitely work on providing those two sections and an overall ranking. Thank you once again!
IIRC, even YouTube subscriptions initiated on an iPhone don't transfer cleanly over to the web.
This would be a small supplement to actually building some basic projects out, but one thing that I've found helpful in the past and continue to find helpful is to play around with modifying the CSS and html within chrome's devtools. It's a great way to see how certain properties in CSS affect their respective elements in real time without wiring up project files and development environment. This little guide is a good start: https://developers.google.com/web/tools/chrome-devtools/css/
There's a similar festival in Norway where they climb up 30m to burn a tower of wooden pallets. And another in Ireland IIRC.

The unique aspect of Burning Man is the self-assembling, temporary community/world diaspora.
There are people in this world who have no creativity. They are desperate not to be living the lives they've chosen. Eventually, they are going to show up in your creative venture with their other, not creative friends. They are going to bring the money they made doing their not creative work. They are well-intentioned but they are going to ruin everything. They are trying so hard to escape the assholes that ruin things. They don't realize they are the assholes that ruin things.
physiological reason is the pressure of water at 4000 meter is 5846.27 PSI.

some simple depth pressure calculator

a heavy duty pressure washer is about half that 2000-3000 psi. Industrial pressure washer is 3500.

The deepest-diving large, military-style submarine was the Soviet submarine K-278 Komsomolets, with a hull made of titanium, making it very expensive, but able to withstand significantly deeper dives than the best submarines made of high-grade steel, like American nuclear submarines. The Komsomolets was a nuclear powered submarine specially designed to make trips as far down as 1300 meters (4265 feet) below sea level, definitely less than the Trieste, but very significant because the Komsomolets had to "defend" a much larger air bubble against the encroaching pressure of the surrounding ocean.

Compared to the best American nuclear submarines, of the Seawolf class, Komsomolets had about 78% better diving capabilities. Seawolf submarines have an estimated crush depth of about 2400 feet (730 m). The Seawolf submarines are constructed of a high grade steel called HY-100, capable of withstanding 100 atmospheres of pressure. As a rule of thumb, the pressure increases by one atmosphere for every 10 m of descent.

http://military.wikia.com/wiki/Submarine_depth_ratings

no matter how many downvotes there are, you can't change the laws of physics away, this isn't some magical harry potter button
> What happens when whole generations view computers as black boxes of consumption rather than tools of creation

You're already seeing it. Most people under 35 have likely spent most of their "computing time" by playing games on game consoles, which are precisely black boxes of consumption. And this is the result: walled gardens.
With Facebook, you get the worst of both of those.
I don't read anyone else defending china here.

They have and will continue their plans for mass surveillance and corporate espionage for the foreseeable future. It makes absolute sense that we don't want chinese hardware/software running our communication infrastructure.
I understand that buybacks are good for executives and good for buy-and-hold shareholders. Executives benefit because a large part of their comp is tied to stock performance. So if companies couldn't do buybacks all of a sudden, executives would have less comp. Shareholders benefit because they can defer the taxes until they sell – instead of paying taxes each year on dividends.

If companies were prevented from buying back stock, then executives would ask for their compensation packages and targets to be restructured to take this into account. So at the end of the day, executives would get the same amount of benefit, more or less.

Ordinary buy-and-hold shareholders wouldn't be able to rejigger their affairs in the same way, so they'd be somewhat worse off. It's not clear to me that this solves any big problems though...
Neither one of those questions is relevant, though.
Everyone in Japan uses tabelog, and they are very tough - a restaurant with 3 out of 5 stars is an excellent restaurant.
US and France Use the Most Nuclear Energy – Can This Be Changed?
Show HN: Shared inbox for your team; in Slack
That's brilliant, but probably a little too clever to be the reality.
Why physical stuff? It's just atoms arranged in some fashion. It's not rocket science.

You can believe that physical things have more value than virtual things, but like so many other things in life, believing it doesn't make it true.
Sounds like a very common story of people living in SF, NY, LA, Seattle, Portland etc. unless they're very successful, even by the standards of that city. I hear the same can be said of Paris, London, Berlin, Moscow, Tokyo, Hong Kong etc.

Shoot, having a place all to yourself is one heck of a luxury in those cities. Plenty of people there are having to skip nice things if they want to live in a place like that. All while paying off student loans, while their careers are still in the early stages.
Perhaps it's an idealism that shouldn't be temporary like "Earth Day." Live consistent to one's ideals, such as say going vegetarian, everyday rather than temporarily going on a The Purge sex and drugs bender.
Isn't one of the issues that many of the people who come now don't bring their own experiences? Are they there to consume experience rather than creating it?
Sounds like they've completed the upgrade to Western status.
"suck my dick" is considered more than mildly offensive.

Go say it to a 20 year old girl at work and see what happens.