skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Your phone/laptop is not especially precise by modern standards. They are often nothing more than ordinary crystal oscillators, with frequency errors somewhere around 10 or 20 ppm (very roughly, sometimes worse, sometimes far worse--the Raspberry Pi is awful). You may intuitively think of this as "very precise" but these are not really much better than quartz watches made in the 1970s.

Note that this is nowhere near precise enough that you would worry about leap seconds. Your computer might gain or lose 5 or 10 minutes every year, so leap seconds just get lost in the noise. Of course, you won't notice this due to NTP... but at that point, you're not really relying on your phone or laptop, you're relying on atomic time standards elsewhere in the world.

If you had a TCXO (temperature-compensated crystal oscillator, relatively common in watches and RTCs), you could get better accuracy, maybe down to 0.5ppm or 20 seconds per year. These basically work by adjusting the oscillator in response to changes in temperature. This is on par with the best quartz timepieces available today (0.1-0.5 ppm), but still not accurate enough to worry about leap seconds. You can check the actual drift on Linux systems with NTP by running "cat /var/lib/ntp/ntp.drift", which shows you how many ppm your particular clock is off by. For me, I see a value with magnitude around 1.2, which is ~38 s per year. I can conclude that my motherboard probably has a TCXO because otherwise the drift would be larger.

If you had an OCXO (oven-controlled crystal oscillator, note that the "C" is different), you could get down to 0.005ppm, or something on the order of 200 ms per year. At this point, observing leap seconds becomes mandatory. These work by maintaining the crystal at a predefined temperature using an oven. However, this takes up more space and requires more power, so it is out of the question for laptops or phones.

(As a minor note, the very best modern mechanical "chronometer certified" watches are somewhere around 10ppm, making them worse than all but the worst quartz watches.)
sorry, what does Screen Time have to do with law enforcement/privacy?
> I'm saying that the independent distributors of gasoline have no monoply on the market, but still manage to ensure that they all get the same cut anyways. There's nothing stopping them all from agreeing to fix the market far above what the price could be because they see an opportunity for profit.

Except for the fact that

(a) it's completely illegal

(b) every individual player has an incentive to undercut the others and profit, making the collusion unstable

The second is actually more significant than the first, because even if it weren't illegal, this setup would break apart pretty quickly at scale. (That bears out in practice: collusion with many parties tends to be unstable in the long run, and usually is only successful as long as the colluding parties can find a separate motivation to justify the collusion).
Anyone can be properly motivated when compensated appropriately, regardless of nationality or location.

Somewhat relevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8afqoDL3Qsk
I believe that it is true that nobody has died from acute radiation exposure at a civilian US nuclear power facility. There are still fatal industrial accidents at nuclear facilities from more mundane causes, like accidentally falling equipment:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arkansas_Nuclear_One#March_201...

Or being scalded by steam:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Surry_Nuclear_Power_Plant#Even...

The reason I bring this up is because the "deaths per terawatt hour" comparisons often used by nuclear proponents omit non-radiation fatal accidents in the accounting for nuclear but include those accidents for renewables. See e.g.

https://www.forbes.com/sites/jamesconca/2012/06/10/energys-d...

It says that US nuclear has a mortality rate of 0.1 deaths per 1000 terawatt hours. Since US nuclear power generates about 800 TWh per year, that implies a fatality rate of about once every 12 years across the whole US fleet. But as shown above the Surry Nuclear Power Plant alone has had 6 workers die from accidents (though none involved radiation).

Nuclear power is very safe in any case; the real menace is combustion-based energy sources. It's just going too far to say that "not a single person died" from US nuclear power. Job site deaths from crushing, burns, falls from high places, etc. are still deaths. That modest number of accidental deaths would be a rounding error for coal, but it really matters at the low end with nuclear and renewables, precisely because the indirect pollution deaths are so much lower for non-combustion electricity sources.
You're ignoring the fact that 30million people already live there by posing that people shouldn't be doing that in this day and age. It doesn't matter what your opinion of those 30 million people are, the fact is that it is the current condition.
Uh, that 3% includes the amount they are passing on to the credit card company. Which, for a little guy like me, is around 3%. It is literally no more expensive to go with Stripe than to roll my own.
The best you can do as an IPFS gateway operator is block particular hashes.

I have had to do this when a botnet was fetching its code from my public gateway and accidentally DDoS'ing my server :).
When I think of “idle rich” it’s always the 2nd+ generation. Arguably it takes work and lots of luck to get rich, but hardly any work to be born rich and stay rich. When your passive income exceeds your expenses, you have to actively screw something up in order to not get richer and richer automatically.
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Worth mentioning that GEOS itself has been completely reverse engineered and the fully commented 6502 assembler source is up on github: https://github.com/mist64/geos

In theory quite portable to other 'new' 6502/816 systems.
FastMail is based in a Five Eyes country, ProtonMail is not.
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Is Cloudflare doing this in partnership with Protocol Labs, the company backing IPFS? Or are they doing it on their own?

I remember that the way Cloudflare communicated around Nginx rubbed a lot of people the wrong way, because they aggressively positioned themselves as "the de-facto Nginx company", to the point where they would sometimes announce a new Nginx feature on their blog before the Nginx developers themselves had a chance to announce it... And of course nobody was more pissed off than Nginx.com, the actual official sponsor of Nginx.

I'm wondering if they will behave the same way with Protocol Labs and the existing IPFS community? I sure hope not, I like Cloudflare and love IPFS, and would like to see everyone collaboratig in good spirits, and not competing for cheap marketing points.
A lot of these sort of features engage in bad science for the sake of shocking numbers and headlines. For instance is that 30x more likely compared to juveniles who were tried and convicted of the same offense, but avoided detention, or is it compared to the general population? I expect we're almost certainly looking at the latter, but then suddenly it's a completely meaningless statistic meant to mislead rather than inform.
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> Let me put it more bluntly - rich kids are the ones taking the unpaid internships. Nobody can survive off of a $4/hr internship. The $4/hr might as well be $.50 an hour.

What you're really saying is that $4/hr might as well be zero. But it's different -- by $4/hr. There is not a brick wall separating rich kids from poor kids, it's a wide spectrum. There are lots of in between kids who could swing $4/hr but can't get away with working for free.

> They will, but its worse for their careers in most cases.

Then why are you advocating forcing them into that? If the choice was $4/hr now for $50/hr later vs. $10/hr now for $10/hr forever, how is taking away the first option supposed to help them?

> Thats why they're restricting unpaid internships - if you want to offer them you can't just offer them to wealthy people's kids.

Except that the wealthy people's kids are the ones whose parents have the influence to get them a paid internship, or at least one of the few remaining unpaid ones after the others are destroyed, so all you're really doing is screwing over the people in the middle.
I think it is/was difficult when the product was just a plastic card. I agree that, as the "card" is increasingly becoming a smartphone, something better should be possible.
One also wonders how a few high profile prosecutions of judges referencing kids to prison for kickbacks might have had an effect.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kids_for_cash_scandal

Another reference showed "peak juvenile incarceration" at ~100k kids, and 2000 cases were identified in this scandal alone, so 2% of the peak population were touched directly - and this was the most publicized incidence.
A "looming quantum engineering gap"?
Seems like you need a working technology before you can have a looming engineering gap. Which we don't have yet.

I'm surprised they didn't mention a looming gap of cryogenic maintenance technicians. I have no idea how a server farm operating at 15 millikelvin is to be maintained.
The Jeep Grand Cherokee has always been a unibody SUV and it came out in '92. You could make an argument that it was the first crossover, but it certainly wasn't the first unibody SUV.
How is capitalism "supposed to" work at all? That concept exists entirely in our heads, in fact in Laissez-Faire capitalism, this seems like a good outcome.

And it's hard to say that Amazon has no competitors. MS and Google have very similar cloud offerings, and there's always baremetal and running my own DCs as an option too. On the retail front I can shop on any number of e-commerce stores, and there's still physical retail as well.
It's a problem with the law. Prop 47, specifically.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/California_Proposition_47_(201...
Chrome for iOS just went through a huge UI redesign a few days ago. It autoupdated the other night and really threw me off.
Did PG make an angel investment in Airbnb?
Property crime is rampant in a lot of the Bay Area. Violent crime has hit historic lows. I've learned to never keep valuables in your car and always lock your doors, but I also feel safe walking around in a number of places that historically have had really bad reputations, like even the Tenderloin.

I wouldn't be so quick to blame changes in laws, though. In my experience, property crime is up because the police don't do anything when they get a report of a theft or burglary. If there's a fight, drug deal, or even just a drunk person stumbling around, the police will be out in force. If somebody got robbed, well, good luck, they'll take your statement and then you're on your own.

Now, perhaps that has to do with incentives and the police knowing that the offender isn't going to jail even if they pick him up for burglary. But it seems like there could still be a healthy middle ground where property crime offenses still result in fines, restitution, community service, and probation without needing to lock kids up in prison.
GEOS felt kind of pointless to me, like early Windows but worse. It ate so much of the limited resources on the machine that you wouldn't be able to do much while it was still in memory.
The slow cyclists ride at 10/12 km/h. The fast ones at 20/25. It's still much slower than cars. Obviously it would be too fast for bike lanes, that's why I stay in the road.
Demand for web developers increasing in New York City
There's almost no reason to think this is accurate. The problem is not that people vote down nuclear proposals or protest them so aggressively that they cause delays. There isn't enough money in it and very few funds are willing to invest in 50 year terms for power plants.
That's how we ended up with private prisons which in turn has a profit motive to lobby to criminalize more things so they make more money.
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Though not "skills", skepticism and empathy.
But, they have to maintain a system to deal with that. Also, if they pass all fraud back to the merchants, at the levels that would happen if they had no good fraud detection, then merchants would stop allowing credit cards. We take for granted that most transactions are valid. If the credit card companies did not invest a lot in automatic fraud detection, the percentage of fraudulent transactions would be something like the percentage of email which is spam.
Lead and Roe v Wade are often discussed, but it's one of those issues that's really hard to gain confidence about any particular explanation. It appears likely that both played a role, but to what extent is more difficult to say.
My point is: Bing also personalizes results and has 20% of the US desktop traffic. Did you ever see DDG advertizing that Bing is tracking you ?
Let's stop repeating this myth: https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2013/12/switzerland-wont...

I am sorry I am pasting an article instead of making my own point but the fact remains that just because it's Switzerland doesn't meant it's any better.
It could be done in javascript at the time the user logs in.

Also, protonmail can see the contents of the email "in-flight", so they could filter spam at that time.

I've only used protonmail briefly and didn't notice any spam filtering features.
> I'm saying that the independent distributors of gasoline have no monoply on the market, but still manage to ensure that they all get the same cut anyways.

Naturally. That has to happen if you are selling a commodity. By literal definition, there is no way to differentiate yourself in the market. You cannot build a better OS for your gasoline or wheat to try and extract more profit. All you can offer is basic gasoline or wheat. The exact same gasoline or wheat as the guy across the street.

Why would a customer ever pay you more for the exact same thing as the guy across the street? Matching the price of your competition is the only hope you have of making a sale. If you don't take an identical cut, you won't have a business at all.

> There's nothing stopping them all from agreeing to fix the market far above what the price could be because they see an opportunity for profit.

You mean other than the practicalities of the real world that make it almost impossible to pull off?

Milk is another commodity. Being Canadian, you likely know that subject well given the events that are going on right now. Why do you think Canadian dairy farmers are shaking in their boots right now given that they can simply get together as a group and fix the price to fend off any changes that may come? They've already had decades of practice.
If you have 1M+ and still working you are rich. If you have 1M+ plus a constant income stream without working you are wealthy. The idea comes from wealthy people, not people that work hard and get rewarded accordingly.
I have a 6s. iOS 11 was pretty annoying and my battery drained noticeably quicker--I was bummed with the upgrade but I think I wanted it for AirPods support. Also I remember the "instant camera" was a feature demoed when the phone was first released and iOS 11 took 5-10 seconds to bring up the camera.

I've been using the 12 beta for months and it immediately fixed those things. I'm not sure if the camera is as snappy as the original iOS, but it's less than a second. I'm not sure how this all compares to the original iOS it shipped with, though.
For sure the banks make good money, but the question is whether or not a company that is new at it, would be able to make a profit on 3%. I submit that it is a difficult task, and a new company would struggle. Not saying it's impossible, just that it's hard.
Partially due to an archaic corporate structure equating desk time to productivity.
So they want users to ditch one centralized service provider with another?

I have no Google/Microsoft/iCloud account, ProtonMail has been covering my (pretty basic) email needs for well over three years now, and now I'm leaving them.

Proton has been talking about adding calendar for years (unreleased), then they started working on ProtonDrive (unreleased), now they talk about an office suite... Then then flirted with the idea of doing an ICO to fund themselves, at which point I decided to leave. I don't want to be in a ship that sails in circles and doesn't have a clear direction.

ProtonMail free has 500MB, no IMAP, and max of 3 folders and 150 emails a day, versus Google's free, familiar, full-featured set of well-integrated services. Will they convince the average Google user to leave productivity behind, and pay in the process?

And again, they are a for-profit. What will happen the day they realize they can't pay the bills at the Alps with free users?

They can promise whatever they want, Google's motto was "Don't be evil".
This is good advice for startup founders. Sure, you can nit-pick the examples used in the article, but you'd be missing out on the wisdom you could gain from it.

Innovative pricing can lead to completely new startup opportunities. Salesforce is an older example. Robinhood and Divvy[1] are recent examples.

Not everything has to be a per user subscription.

[1] http://getdivvy.com
I disagree with that. Implementing Bittorrent is relatively straightforward, it has specs and a bunch of independent implementations exist. While IPFS is mostly a single code project with obscure docs and push to use that code, rather than making your own implementation.
Unfortunately, that does not answer the question: is iOS 12 slower than iOS 8? Sure, 12 is faster than 11, it's what Apple has been touting. But maybe 11 was a dog, and 8 was a speed demon.

That said, I sure don't know the answer, or even much of an educated guess.
(Disclaimer: I work for Protocol Labs on IPFS and other projects [not Filecoin though])

I'm not sure I understand what's different in the way "seeding" or "hosting" of data in Dat and Torrents compared to IPFS. All those requires you to initiate the transfer, nothing gets transferred by itself (unlike FreeNet for example).

Blocks in IPFS is just a detail that a file bigger than X MB gets split up into many smaller "files" so they can be reused between files and simpler to transfer. It has nothing to do with which peers are hosting the content.

In the end, in IPFS, Dat and Torrents, you download and share content based on a ID, and that ID can mean an entire archive of content, or just one picture.
Prosecutors decide whether to charge. Cops quickly learn that arresting people that will not be charged is a waste of their time.

Seattle has a similar policy. Property crimes are not enforced.
Just add the screen time widget and access from there, like it’s own app.
>and don't delude yourself, this is a marketing move

I don't think it's just a marketing move necessarily. While power and idealistic managers can have a significant short term impact in direction and culture, in the long term of course financial incentives are generally the single greatest determinator of company behavior. However short term isn't meaningless particularly wrt company cultural values that last longer, and in turn leadership can still matter a lot. I think that may multiply when leadership isn't fighting a company's incentives, but rather there is a chance to bring both together in some ways. All that is leading up to sometimes forgotten (and how great that is!) fact that Apple's current CEO Tim Cook is a gay man who grew up in a time when that was flat out illegal and could be heavily persecuted even in the US, and now lives in a world where it's still something subject to death in many parts of the world. That's not determinative by any means, but I can't imagine it hasn't influenced him at all. One of the core business values of having a more diverse workforce and management team is precisely that they bring a wider set of experiences and viewpoints which can profitably inform the company.

I've seen a number of comparisons vs Steve Jobs that have called Tim Cook more "visionless" and "mundane" and so on and so forth, a "competent manager" but without the same animation. I honestly wonder though whether privacy and personal information security is in fact a real animating motivation Tim Cook's. It's inherently a much quieter, subtler one that doesn't on the face of it have the same end user feature impact (by definition). And it is something that can work well with where Apple gets their money and even their own corporate culture of secrecy. But that doesn't mean he can't drive them even farther and harder in that direction in turn then they might have gone otherwise right?

Maybe you didn't intend it that way, but when I see "this is a marketing move" it tends to feel dismissive and negative, like it's all just fake and manipulative. But something can be "good PR" while also being a genuine value people hold, in fact if anything I think the most sustainable and best win/wins are when it all comes together, when something someone is doing genuinely for real is good and is worth serious value and in turn is totally reasonable to be proud of and "market". That's the ultimate ideal of the market right, that someone is making something good and gets rewarded in turn?
Oral History of Linus Torvalds [pdf]
The anemic JS standard library is a much bigger problem, resulting with bloated bundles with all sorts of basic stuff in them (lodash, timezones, etc). Even worse, the fact that things aren't standard means that multiple "standard" library replacements might be used, depending on the preference of the developers who wrote the library you depend on (ramda? lodash? individual lodash subpackages? etc). Small modules don't solve the problem, because you can still have 5 small modules with a slightly different API doing the same thing, all of them used by different libraries you depend on due to different preferences of their authors.

IMO TypeScript fits like a glove on top of JS and largely gets rid of the language problems, leaving mainly library / ecosystem problems.

Dart did many things wrong, but one thing it did do right was the standard library. If we had a standard library like that in JS, that would change everything.

Another serious problem are modules. The fact that the ES6 loader is "open ended" just means that we don't really have a solution to the problem of distributing JS. The fact that HTTP2 push is somewhat broken means we can't rely on it to load ES6 modules either.

At the very least we need the concept of absolute and relative module identifiers. Even if the specifics are implementation-defined, e.g.

* whether module ids are used,

* or content hashes,

* or absolute paths (or maybe npm module names with the version?)

the ability to provide absolute modules via a DLL:

provides 'lodash@2.0.5' {
export ... // multiple things
}

provides 'other-module@version' {
}

would be of incredible help.

That, or maybe we can fix HTTP2 push.

I mean, JS definitely has serious problems, but equality coercion is not one of them :)
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This is fascinating, but I missed why the trees that didn't have thorns now have thorns?
That's because you only see the super rich with responsibilities, and those who are likely to be active in workplaces and be responsible for the people and companies under them. There's plenty of idle or retired super rich to fill up the highest end yacht clubs all summer.
Thanks for your feedback! Nice to hear some people just enjoy the aimless aspect of it.

I've added a "Zen Mode" that disables UI:

https://bellwoods.xyz/?z
It has the 6S's internal hardware, not the 6's. So it's way more powerful than the 6, let alone the 5S.
So, no need to worry about PCI compliance, right?
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Not if you are using iOS or MacOS with Safari. The ad blocker you install just sends a list of blocking rules to Safari and then Safari implements them. The ad blocker can’t intercept your browsing history.
Any solid UI/UX talks about "affordances". Don Norman's book explains it well:

http://www.ethanhein.com/wp/2017/affordances-and-constraints...

3D Touch offered zero affordances to the user.