skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Wow, I didn't tie these two events together until reading this comment. The flash floods last night were quite awful. mySA, a local news site (which I don't necessarily trust), has said that the daily rainfall total was 3x its historic record in the 1800s. [0]

It's always quite fascinating whenever cloud platforms like this have "leaky abstractions." GCP had a very long storage service degradation today, as well. [1] I don't know if it's related.

[0] https://www.mysanantonio.com/news/weather/article/Several-re...

[1] https://status.cloud.google.com/incident/storage/18003

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Yes I will post benchmarks and rulesets. I plan to make equal rulesets for each OS if possible.
Yeah, it sucks. But I don't know if a solution is possible.
I really wonder what the software world would look like today if the Smalltalk environment had predominated. It seems like various ideas from the Kay's group get reinvented from time to time, but we it's not really mainstream. Even the RAD tools from the 90s somewhat fell out of favor, partially due to the rise of the web, which meant reinventing everything in the browser.

From hearing several talks by Alan Kay since then, it doesn't sound like software quite turned out the way he envisioned it, but he still thinks there's a better way to do things that's related to what he was thinking in the 70s with a living environment of little computers sending messages to one another. He's talked of the idea of modeling biological cells since then.
Oh gosh what a mess of an article... completely undecipherable. There are many kinds of universality... this article concerns the flavor where many kinds of physical systems appear to be shockingly well-modeled as random matrices. But doesn't manage to convey a single kernel of what this __means__, it just plops information on you like a high-school math class. Tells you the name of things and some basic properties, leaves you with the misleading impression that you have come away with some better understanding...

Here's something more substantive to chew on, about universality in transitions to chaos: [1]. Turns out that many chaotic systems 'descend' into chaos in the very same way. What does that really _mean_? I have no idea, but at least this discussion rigorously explains what this universality class is, instead of dousing you with feel good science-hoodoo-voodoo quotes.

[1] http://www.cns.gatech.edu/PHYS-4267/UFO.pdf
Just saw this, so sorry for the late reply: https://undeadly.org/cgi?action=article;sid=20180418073437

Unfortunately I was wrong and the post is just for cryptography acceleration. Will have to check the commits to see if any other work has been done.
This video they made is absolutely hilarious, and shows just how un-hilarious and fucked up these proposed changes are:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eW-OMR-iWOE
From trying to hold remote meetings in Skype, I've learned that the number of versions of Skype that a colleague has installed is inversely proportional to the their technical ability. Usually it's easier to get someone to install Skype on their smartphone and call in that way than to sort out the confusion on their computer.
You assign the A-team to work on other products while the B-teamers work on Skype and create their own unholy mess.
In Theory: Does religious belief make the world more violent?
Really haven't had any issues with Node, Git, VSCode and Git Bash on Windows... at least not any that you would fault Windows for. Cygwin/mingw works just fine. The ubuntu subsystem is about as 1st class as you can get, you don't see Apple providing anything like that (or a windows subsystem for that matter)
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The blow back on this change was so bad the ratings in the iOS App Store tanked to 1 Star. It crept back up over time.

Early testing indicated people were not happy. The people involved made their impact, got their promos and moved on.

When Skype was acquired by Microsoft, it was flooded with PMs (primarily) and devs rolled in. I think LinkedIn has done a better job shielding itself from such.

I’m glad to see the rollback, but from talking to friends and family, a lot of damage has been done - mainly around rolling out new design above all else despite degradation in features and quality.
If you live in the Apple ecosystem, I highly recommend mweb[1]. It ticks all the boxes I've been looking for:

- intuitive UI: lets me see 1) raw markdown syntax or 2) formatted preview... no weird in-betweens
- sync to/from mobile, with preview & edit support
- markdown support with nice preview and support for code (similar to github style)
- search
- support for folders (and potentially tags, if I ever find a good use case for them)
- pdf export
- no subscription model

Alternatives I've tried which haven't done as well for one reason or another:

- Bear: confusing preview/editing mode
- Evernote: no markdown
- Ulysses: subscription model shift
- Standard Notes: confusing/buggy UI
- Quiver: poor mobile support

[1] https://www.mweb.im/
I wouldn't call that a counter-anecdote, but more of the same.

Following the previous example, the iPhone pretty much dominated the smart phone market when it carved it out, but now iOS is at about 16% of the global marketshare.
I think he is trying to say is that this is not a cruel and unusual punishment. Its not unusual because putting people in jail is a usual affair in US. Now in terms of cruelty, the only cruel thing according to him about landing up in jail is your right to freedom is taken from you. Even though I agree this is a big punishment but taking your freedom was never considered a cruel punishment even if the crime committed was small.

Aside from freedom, he believes homeless are well off in prison in certain states rather than being on the streets.

Personally, my only perception of US prison system if through movies, so I cannot comment on it. But I have personally seen homeless people committing small crimes in developing countries to land in prison for a month or 2 in case the weather becomes extreme outside ( Rains , snowfall etc).
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Indeed. As far as I can remember its been a source of pride to have managed to keep an older version and avoided updates.

This last one on OSx has been particularly bad though. Its just so slow at doing even basic tasks like chatting.
Looks like an HDMI mini is confirmed, which means time to build my own in-car librem-based infotainment center, starring Kodi and Home Assistant!
Speaking as one who was homeless for several years, yes, you do live according to a different set of rules when you get poor enough (or rich enough, for that matter.)

Society's rules are different from society's laws.

There's a place in Vancouver where you can walk around naked and buy dope and booze in public and no one will blink. Some people know about it, some don't, the police don't care.

Law is a fiction, a tool we use to manage human wickedness (good folk need no law.) Sometimes it works and sometimes it's stupid and vicious.

Throwing people in jail for having no better option than to sleep in the street, instead of giving them a house like Utah does, in this country, this richest of nations, is pathetic, and should not be lawful.
Ya Canada got rid of pennies a few years ago. I see the uselessness of them, but I kind of miss them. Plus, it's a little odd being charged a different price if you use debit or credit than if you use cash. I know it's only a few cents but it still feels weird. Though i suppose when you find a penny now it's extra lucky. Though strangely, i've probably found more American pennies in my change than Canadian ones in recent times. I had one automated machine give me some instead of dimes recently...that was somewhat disappointing...

I dunno there's just something about your money having a physical representation down to the lowest used value in general business. Though, as far as I know, it actually cost more to produce pennies than they were actually worth.

So many things feel less tangible now than when i was young I guess it's inevitable money would go that way too, but it's still a weird feeling. I remember the days when using a debit card was a strange thing to do and many places didn't accept anything but cash.
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that was just a marketing gimmick, it's not like core engineers will be busy knitting the socks.
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> Realistically the security research community who find things like phone exploits are very well accustomed to a lack of source code

Realisticaly, though, a manufacturer or intelligence agency will be the one paying security people for thorough reviews. Anyone doing this in the open would do this to build a reputation or for their own security, and will need much more time to review something that first needs to be reverse engineered. They will almost certainly not be able to look at everything.

It's not a logical argument to say that we security people are used to reading obfuscated binaries anyway and conclude that therefore no fewer bugs will be found compared to the situation in which it is open source.
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I'm taking a look at SciHub based on your suggestion. I see that they have journals for various biology related fields.

I decided to take a look at the biotechnology journal
https://scihub.org/ajbms/current-issue/

However, it seems the current issue is July 2017? Is it not updated frequently?

Thank you.
> but all that really means is: "I don't know how to do this in a simpler way, so I need the "advanced" language features..."

I disagree with most of your comment, but I want to respond to this one section in particular.

I enjoy using PureScript in place of languages without the "advanced" features because it lets me express things that are otherwise _not expressible_. That doesn't make the language more complex, or less "simple" if you prefer, but it _does_ arm its users with the tools necessary to create more powerful abstractions, should they need them.

Will some of these abstractions end up introducing more complexity? Perhaps. However, one can write simplified code in a language that admits more powerful abstractions while the reverse _is not true_.

When someone decides that they don't want to use higher kinded types or typeclasses in PureScript, they can _choose_ not to use them.

When someone runs into a problem that would be made easier with higher kinded types or typeclasses in Elm, they _cannot choose at all_.

Nowhere is this point driven home more clearly than when deriving JSON encoders and decoders. The last time I checked, users were advised to codegen complex JSON codecs using a web app [0].

Compare this with PureScript, where the language's features can be used to automatically derive JSON codecs from a simple type alias that looks nearly identical to the JSON itself [1].

And these are just two features that are directly comparable. A few months back, I gave a talk on how these "advanced features" can be used to construct functions that can be combined to create complex pieces of input validation logic. These functions can be safely mixed, matched, and extended with strong guarantees that any and all failures will be propagated back to the caller in the form of typed error messages [2].

Anyway, I'm sorry if this rant was just the result of me having read farther into that one part of your comment than you intended. I don't think there's anything wrong with people using Elm, and I'm glad that there are more avenues into strongly typed, functional programming than just Haskell and PureScript.

I just see this line of "Elm is simple" brought out in response to these other languages, and feel that it entirely misses the point of why those languages added the features in the first place.

[0] https://noredink.github.io/json-to-elm/

[1] https://github.com/justinwoo/purescript-simple-json

[2] https://www.slideshare.net/JosephKachmar/lc2018-input-valida...
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I wasn't remembering whether any projections have been as specific as Kansas. But a quick search says likely drier, but no clear impact on tornado frequency and intensity (increased atmospheric instability, but decreased wind shear).[0,1] As I understand it, decreased wind shear follows more or less from lower temperature gradient between equatorial and polar regions. Also, more days over 38°C.

0) https://www.kansasforests.org/resources/resources_docs/clima...

1) http://www.ipsr.ku.edu/conferen/kepc07/Feddema_KEPC.pdf
Jane Jacobs said this decades ago -- cities (well, towns or trading places) came before agriculture. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jane_Jacobs
But that still doesn’t explain why. Hero of Alexandria created a rudimentary contraption that was an obvious predecessor to the steam engine nearly 2000 years before the invention of the steam engine. Why did it take two millennia to build upon his ideas?
Please don't cross into personal attack, regardless of how bad you consider another comment.
By "some sort of checksum verification by users", I guess you mean some sort of informal alternative / addition to this:

https://wiki.mozilla.org/Security/Binary_Transparency
The Constitution and Declaration of Independence are legal documents setting out the foundations of a government and a nationstate, not some divine text from a higher power. The founding fathers were not a group of infallible prophets.
Well, no, it's not a warranty question, but if you want to trade the car in (or if it's a lease), the dealer will make you install N-rated tires at that time. Otherwise they can't sell it as a certified pre-owned vehicle, which costs them (and you) a lot.
The most successful founders now would be in their early 30s, as that's the range that captures die hards that started just early enough to have the most thorough perspective while still being younger. On the other hand, any successes can only really come from "the chosen" (ie, whoever VCs decided to fund).
Its really crazy how a company like Toyota insisted on it for so long.
Please don't cross into personal attack either. That's not why we're here.
Happy dealer == happy manufacturer, in this business.
As long as you can run your own software, you can build what you want. Not to say it will have the polish current solutions offer, but I don't want current solutions. I want mine.

There was an article recently here about someone using a RasPi (with golang) to build a custom GPS mapping solution. I've been doing something similar (though using raspi connecting to my head unit via composite video) as well as pulling sensor info from ODBII and currently looking into CanBus.
Relevant concept is called "Purchasing Power Parity"
>The people of Boise decided how to govern their community.

Overturn Citizens United and you may see the people start deciding in other directions that actually benefit the homeless & poor.
It's become clear, as some, myself included, have been saying for well over a year, that federation and decentralisation is no silver bullet, and will not by itself prevent abuse. It does in fact facilitate certain types.

This is not a specific failing of Mastodon, however, and has affected other platforms as well. Many aspects of wilw's experience on Mastodon resemble my own on Imzy two years ago.

There's no substitute for effective administration of instances.

User-level blocking tools are not, of and by themselves, sufficient.

Admin tools are insufficient. This is a fairly frequent occurrence, and on virtually every social media platform I've seen, including staff-level access to several, this has been the case.

The early stage of system development is typically about user features. Then performance issues start to hit. Then abuse.

Mastodon have been encountering the performance and abuse problems, and no, they haven't handled the first encounter particularly well. This doesn't mean that the system as a whole has an invalid model. There are numerous people, many with years and decades of online experience, taking part in that conversation.

Throwing in the towel at this point is highly premature.
Immunity, impunity, and ignorance are superpowers enabling some good, and far more harm.

Costs do not have to entail financial transactions, though that's one option. Devising a hard-to-establish reputation, which can be lost on signs of clear anti-social behaviour, is one approach. Accounting for the inevitability of Sybil attacks is a challenge.
I don't think there is a good spot to watch just yet.

There will be traffic on https://lists.openstreetmap.org/listinfo/imports and some pages on the OpenStreetMap wiki at some point.
There are many things to admire about Australia and many reasons that I am grateful that I grew up in Australia.

But the ongoing ritual humiliation of Australian technologists over the past several decades is really tiresome.
Please don't do tedious flamewars on HN.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
The security of an iPhone is completely dependent on what Apple decides to do with iCloud and with the applications that come from the app store. Sure, Apple may be more secure against $random_blackhat, but the user still isn't in control of what is happening on their phone.

Most users care much more about the decisions that Apple and Google make with their data than they are about $random_blackhat.

Even more, a lot of the security features you mentioned are very difficult for an open source phone to achieve because the hardware ecosystem is so endemically closed source and proprietary. We can fix that by pushing hard for open source hardware that starts to make inroads and break those barriers down.
All these had a huge impact on me. The descriptions are inadequate, I've just tried to mention the subject matter.

Deborah Tannen, You Just Don't Understand - how males and females talk different languages.

Lakoff & Johnson, Metaphors We Live By - how our language and thoughts are built from a fabric of conceptual metaphors. Philosophy In The Flesh is about the conceptual metaphors that philosophy is built from.

Jonathan Glover, Humanity: A Moral History of the Twentieth Century - WWI, WWII and other wars, nazism, communism etc

Plutarch's Lives - biographies and stories from famous ancient Greeks and Romans. Amazing how little's changed.

Lin Yutang, The Importance of Understanding - introduced me to ancient Chinese philosophers. The Importance of Living - introduced me to ancient Chinese writers, poets and the Chinese way of life.

Hofstadter, Gödel, Escher, Bach - read it when I was 14, and I was into music, art and programming, so it blew my mind.

Susan Faludi, STIFFED - men, work, jobs, masculinity, 20th C

Walter Lippmann, Public Opinion - media, war, propaganda, democracy

Noam Chomsky's political books

E.F. Schumacher, Small is Beautiful - the world, development, government, planning, organization, humanity, sustainability

J.R. Saul, Voltaire's Bastards - power, history, democracy, technocracy, reason, rationality, history from late 18th C until today.

Raymond Williams, Culture and Society 1780-1950 - the anti-industrialist tradition, politics, culture, society and the new language describing these things

Clifford Pickover, Computers, Patterns, Chaos, and Beauty - programming, mathematics, art, fractals, dynamical systems etc

Ben Zander, The Art of Possibility - hard to explain, kind of advanced self-help, the magic of changing attitudes, expectations, habits.

My favourite non-fiction books of all time, though, are the essays of Emerson, Hazlitt, RL Stevenson, GK Chesterton, Santayana, Bertrand Russell. And the books of Nietzsche, SARK and Robert Fulghum.
> Ok, so in the dev kit/final product will there be a physical switch to turn it off?

As I understood it, yes.
This is awesome, I been looking for something like this.
Put yourself on there.
Flamewars, especially these tedious tit-for-tat ones that go on forever, are just what we don't want on HN. We penalize and eventually ban accounts that can't or won't stop doing this. Please stop doing this.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
Money is a big part of it. We still don't have a good way to monetize open source applications.
Lots of criticism here focusing on use of the word ethical. I don't care to argue semantics, I'm just really excited for this phone!
No, you don't. The following,

int *i = malloc(sizeof(int));

is valid C, and will compile just fine. I think it's considered good form, too, as the cast doesn't really add anything not already present, and might even drift out of date with the surrounding code. (And just gets in the way of legibility.)

IIRC, it is not valid C++. But malloc()/void * is somewhat rarer to find there, as you have better options.
The us constitution explicitly states the powers the federal government are granted. The bill of rights guarentees that all powers not given to the federal government are guaranteed to the states and people (9th and 10th amendments)
>Since there isn't an alternative, C needs to be that language.

I'd be interested in your ideas as to how this would be possible.
Where have we heard this before?
I wish them well. I was a paying customer for many years but a few years ago I backed up all of my notes and cancelled. I noticed that I spent much more time creating and curating notes than ever using them. Now I use org-mode and occasionally Apple Notes and Keep.

I re-evaluated the utility of long term curation of notes and working material.
This is mostly about "terrorism", right?

And for Australia, about immigration from flooding areas in Southeast Asia, right? Which arguably has follow-on roles in "terrorism". [I use scare quotes because the definition of "terrorism" is so politicized.]
https://discourse.org/ is one of the only OSS ones I can think of that's really good, and they've been doing this kind of thing: https://eviltrout.com/2016/02/25/fixing-android-performance....

So... yeah. Getting acceptable performance with a complex SPA is hard.
They seem to be focusing a lot on phones nowadays. What about the laptops? No progress on that?
We all have our own strengths and weaknesses.