skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I must say, most manufacturers sure don't act like they want to beat Apple, they seem to just want to be up to date with Apple's most contentious and unpopular design decisions (probably because they're the easiest to copy shamelessly). At best, they are providing fodder for the next time Apple goes to court to argue that competitors are ripping off the designs.

The Razer Phone is actually interesting for not going the shameless copying of trivial design elements route. In my opinion their symmetrical, reasonably-sized device is very attractive. The one major complaint I have about the Razer Phone is their choice to go with a 1440p display, which more or less forced them to ship the device with the display downclocked to 90Hz (from 120Hz) by default, probably for power issues with scanout; I feel they could've sidestepped this issue by just shipping a 1080p display instead, which they could run at 120Hz with lower scanout bandwidth than 1440p at 90Hz. The display runs most things at 1080p anyway, and 1080p displays are already very high resolution in that form factor.

If they shipped it with a 1080p display at 120Hz, they wouldn't have thrown away the immediate responsiveness advantage they should've won with the other hardware work.
Which people do you think should be paid more? Those who develop useless social media apps or those who discovered novel drugs?
The BEAM is already much more performant than, for example, the Ruby reference implementation. And look at what people have managed to build with Ruby!
Best practice would be for the BMC to not have access to the regular network ports when it has a dedicated network jack. All the ones I've looked at don't have any kind of physical interlock or switch, it's a software interlock.

Now even a hardware interlock could be subverted, but that's harder than sticking code in the bmc firmware, which does tend to get updated during the life of a server.
Any comment on what price was offered?

Curious what the going cost for funding this type of activity is. I assume drastically cheaper than desired result profits, but in comparison to traditional advertising?
That's just not true. Go through the purchase flow for a United flight on Orbitz. Taxes are included and the checked-bag fees are prominently disclosed.
Why nobody considers PHP as a better alternative for this? Concurrency is a solved problem and Go just makes these things too complicated.
Non-AMP link: https://www.cnbc.com/2018/09/27/airplane-seat-sizes-would-be...
For one we are a Republic not a democracy. If we were a pure democracy its arguable whether we would be in better or worse shape. If we were a Republic as our constitution was drafted, prior to the supreme court gutting state and individual liberties with the commerce clause,etc. I think we would be in much better shape
Thank you, this is exactly it.
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Yup. And that single well placed mole could have 100 or 1,000 security experts working on their behalf. It is not as though the mole would have to design the hack, only pass necessary documents to a military grade hacking group then implement their modifications.
For about $50 more, you can get a Nokia 8, which I really like. It's splash proof, has a snapdragon 835 and I've found it to be really solid all around.

It also has a "traditional" screen if that's something you want.
Snowden's documents show otherwise. Here is the relevant document itself: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/special/politics/prism-...
Nightly backups still mean you can lose up to ~24 hours of data.

This is in stark contrast to, for example, AWS S3. From the FAQ [0]:

> Amazon S3 [is] designed to provide 99.999999999% durability of objects over a given year. This durability level corresponds to an average annual expected loss of 0.000000001% of objects. For example, if you store 10,000,000 objects with Amazon S3, you can on average expect to incur a loss of a single object once every 10,000 years.

> Amazon S3 ... storage classes redundantly store your objects on multiple devices across a minimum of three Availability Zones (AZs) in an Amazon S3 Region before returning SUCCESS.

In AWS parlance, an AZ is a physical data center, and they're built far enough apart so a fire, flood or tornado will not affect all of them.

There's a reason S3 (and similar) cost so much more than "hard drive attached to a server" storage. If you don't need the durability than of course it is overpriced -- but on the other hand, if you try to provide that level of durability yourself you'll quickly see it's a bargain.

[0] https://aws.amazon.com/s3/faqs/#Durability_.26_Data_Protecti...
Darn right! I'd cheerfully learn Cobol for a job with the right parameters. I once took an RPG course in order to apply for one (though sadly did not get it).
The simulation hypothesis is pretty much a materialist's way of postponing the "hard problem of consciousness".

It's like Neo when he escaped the Matrix only to find himself in the subterranean world. What if THAT world was also a simulation? In fact it's hilarious because in the movie he would have far more ground to believe that he still wasn't free, seeing as he just escaped a simulation. Of course it's a movie...

I really think that the simulation hypothesis is a positive development. It shows that people are at least considering the question. It's like dipping toes in the cold water. You can see there is the willingness to go there, but they have their feet still firmly planted in the materialist view. It's an attempt at bridging the gap... but like they say in some teachings... to reach the other side of the river, you have to leave this one first =)

So you have guys like Bernardo Kastrup talking about idealism, or variations on it.

There is an enormous difference between entertaining the idea, and actually grasping what it means.

To truly grasp it, your world crumbles down. Everything you've built your life on, you have to see has never existed. Ultimately it's all from the same source. It's all for show. edit: didn't mean to be dramatic, but you would lose a lot of motivation in life, at least in the current paradigm. Or you have to live counter-current. Now you see your life as sacred and completely unknowable, but your values no longer fit in a society driven by separation and profit. A very uncomfortable position to be in?

In fact now that I think about it it's funny, because that's exactly the same with this "simulation" theory. You can see there has to be a disconnect here. There is the idea, and there is what it actually means. In theory it should in fact be extremely freeing to truly grasp that we are "simulated" since that would mean you no longer need to worry about dying, or striving for anything at all. Because by the mere fact of being simulated, somehow someone deemed it worthwhiole to spend the energy to do so. Your entire life purpose and meaning is self evident.

Yet we don't feel free, we still strive to "become" someone.. to "achieve" something... so that tells us two things: 1) we are merely entertaining ideas and 2) we are biologically wired to believe to we do exist, and that we are not simulated (much has to do with the left brain hemisphere, I am guessing).
They do evacuation drills for testing purposes. You're also required to leave all your stuff behind - that's what takes so long during boarding.
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It’s describing events from 2015. Presumably this issue has been resolved.
I don't think that's true. I went to school in the UK in the 80's and my kids are going to school in the US now, and this is far from what I remember then and not what I see now. "Colonial guilt" is how I would sum it up. Not to say there's not a lot of whitewashing and selective reporting, far from it. But it's probably been 50 years since "teach that the colonizers saved the savages"..

You have a point about the economic impact of the colonialism, and the economic value that was extracted. At least in the case of the UK, that was made it a global power. That is usually not discussed much, because it's history, not economics...
Only retards/indians would buy an Android phone.
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Firefox Send doesn't have an explicit limit either:

> For the most reliable operation, it’s best to keep your file under 1GB
A friend and I had some deep discussions about this last year. We figured out the basic outline of an escape plan, but unfortunately there is no way to determine if it actually succeeds.

Essentially it boils down to creating an anomaly that cannot be ignored. Any simulation being run at that level should also have some sort of way of checking the contents and flagging things of interest for whoever is running the simulation.

By creating an anomaly you gain attention. That attention may allow you to be deemed valuable. If you are valuable, then you may be recorded outside the simulation for some purpose. That may be the only route of escape, and it may only happen as the data from the simulation is checked in post processing...

In conway' s game of life the glider is an example of escape. The pattern is useful, so we copy it from simulation to simulation for reasons it cannot comprehend. It has escaped.
That's a fascinating story. Thanks for sharing!
Most of US deficit is internal, not external. Federal reserve is the biggest owner of federal debt. The level of dept is internal issue for the United States.

US has floating exchange rate and it adjusts automatically the international balances. Because US has no debt denominated in foreign currency, it is shielded from hyperinflation and other issues that Venezuela and other countries suffer.
Similar setup albeit perhaps a different (or just earlier?) outcome.

Failed a bunch of classes in high school and flirted with dropping out. Two misdemeanor arrests for underaged drinking and pot. Graduated in bottom quintile of my high school class, one failure shy of being held back. Managed to get into a far away college with a scholarship on the basis of a letter of recommendation from one of those once-in-a-lifetime teachers for whom I'll be forever grateful.

Did fine in college, got a 1600 on the GRE, went into dev work at startups and have since had a quite successful career.

I feel like being smart saved my butt multiple times over. I don't think I would have gotten that LOR if I hadn't made an impression on that HS teacher, wouldn't have been able to self-teach CS as a non-programmer as easily without smarts to fall back on, etc.

Maybe being smart was not a prerequisite for getting where I did, but I think it was a prerequisite for taking the winding path I took.

And also a gigantic, heaping helping of luck as well.
Loose chips sink ships
Furthermore, it's fairly easy to make a giant canister of fuel explode, relative to not making it explode.
Planes don't fly as fast as they can, the key metric that planes optimize for is fuel efficiency. Similarly planes aren't optimized for most comfort - they are optimized for the number of people per mile, as long as it's still comfortable enough.

There is quite a lot of innovation going on in terms of fuel efficiency and minimum comfort -
https://www.theicct.org/publications/fuel-efficiency-trends-...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fuel_economy_in_aircraft#Futur...

The result of these innovations are cheap prices -

https://www.theatlantic.com/business/archive/2013/02/how-air...
Completely agree but don't think that changes the likelihood of future generations looking back shamefully. They'll look back just as we do and say "at least we don't do that anymore". They'll be hypocrites, but it doesn't mean they'll be wrong about us.
I’m always surprised at what people eat when they’re deliberately trying to be healthy. Things like Nutrigrain bars and GoGurt. Really makes me realize what a failure our labeling laws our when both can be sold as anything other than dessert.
One is viewing society as a "body" with computers being its "brain". The other is viewing the human body as a "body" with its brain being its "brain". The comparison is of the energy used by each "brain" relative to the total energy used by its "body".

The comparison is valid if you accept the analogy, although I think you could easily dispute the analogy. E.g. you could just as easily view the network of humans in a society as its "brain" and all the things we build (including computers) as its "body".
It is a hybrid system with individuals forced into highly-disadvantaged market transactions. It has the elements ofboth market and non-market systems which benefit monopolistic suppliers.
This is basically scientists re-discovering the "evil demon" / "brain in a vat" and not realizing it's kind of a tautological fallacy.

If life is a simulation, you can set an arbitrary boundary on how good you assume the simulation is, so any test you do would naturally be inadequate to confirm or deny the simulationness of life.
There have been willpower studies in young children. The findings were something like:

- Willpower at some point (age 4?) actually goes down for some period of time.

- Willpower at (I believe) age 8 was highly predictive of future success. Higher than IQ, but

- Willpower (I think here measured as focus) tends to increase with IQ.
Oberon (which is a successor of Modula-2)
If our reality is built on top of a lattice, there’d be a fundamental coarseness to it, since there could be no details in our mock-universe smaller than the resolution of the simulation.

I'm pretty sure I read an article about some research team starting on exactly that project at least ten years ago. I may even have read about it on Slashdot.
Won't that just get us NSA backdoors instead of PLA backdoors?
Good question. Is oleum used for liquid fat, no matter the source, or is it confined to plant-based oils? pinguis has definite animalistic qualities. You'd think it was oleum nucis indicæ [1], not pinguis nucis indicæ, except when used in a metaphorical manner.

Paging Reginald Foster, Father Reginald please!

[1] nux indica is the coconut
I really doubt that pure eloquence can compete with the visual smorgasbord that modern marketers can create, all learned after spending billions on mass market advertising over decades.

Plato couldn't laser-target his message to 5,000 different segments carefully curated with an extensive re-marketing campaign.
First class on domestic US flights goes for a much smaller premium than in years past. My usual domestic route is DEN-SFO and first class is usually twice the price of economy—or less. Far smaller difference than it used to be.

AA was selling first class for less than coach on DEN-IAD last week.
Ruby/Rails users will say the same.
Glass everywhere makes it nice and easy to slide out of your pocket.
I think your comment is snarkier than his.
And CSP is trivially implementable using the Actor model. What's your point?
This, and the other replies to my question, seems about right. When I fly the #1 thing I'm looking for is cost, following by # of layover(s) and time of layover. Once I'm actually in the air there is not much that distinguishes Delta , Alaska & Jet Blue for instance. Aside from cost and available routes, my main sticking point between picking airlines has been if they have adequate enough TV service.
Fine, so the EU is seiging Gaza with Egypt.

Though I think your data is not up to date the important fact remains the same: Israel does not control that border. Talking about the embrago and selectivly only mentioning Israel is a curious thing and to me it seems biased against that non-EU non-muslim state.
So what's preventing Linux from adopting switchto support? I'd love to see the discussion around it.
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> Backed by major corporation

I don't think Go success has anything to do with Google. Google engineers probably favors Java/Python.

I think the key thing to make Go adopt is because the Docker project and Hashi Corp.

The second most important thing is it is super easy to compile Go program and run it and adopt by DevOps teams
Honestly, to anyone bashing GP, look into your pockets, laptops, watches, cars, TVs, routers, CCs, singing toys, bitcoin mining ASICs. All with sealed black-box chips. Sure we can x-ray a couple of randomly stripped chips, but each one?

Now show me alternatives when most consumer grade electronic parts are fully or partially made in China.
not yet, all is detailled here :
https://github.com/manatlan/vbuild/blob/master/doc/PyCompone...
I did, that's right! Thank you for the correction, I should've double checked that :)
> Energy is energy

Even this isn't quite true, since it's not fungible, except in the narrow use-case of creating heat[1].

> Whether the energy is carried by glucose/ATP or electric current is just an implementation detail.

This implementation detail means that converting between these forms incurs a tremendous cost (in lost energy) and, perhaps more importantly, is nowhere near instantaneous.

[1] Even the slightly broader use case of heating (e.g. increasing the temperature of a home) can be done with a heat pump, and those don't tend to run off of fungible energy.
lol when you have to build a guide to know how to use your product you already LOST.
> Infrastructure is a core component of whatever it is you're building

That's true in some sense -- but you can get surprisingly far using a PaaS like Heroku to abstract that infrastructure away.

I'm a big fan of Kubernetes, and use it in production at my company, but I would not recommend using k8s in a prototype/early-stage startup unless you're already very familiar with the tool. The complexity overhead of k8s is non-trivial, and switching from Heroku to something like k8s doesn't involve undoing much work, since setting up Heroku is trivial.
This seems like a misunderstanding of the purpose of Wikipedia; if it were as you suggest, original research based on primary sources would be encouraged. In reality it is not, because the idea with Wikipedia is to produce articles based on reliable secondary sources, which precludes the use of a source like Breitbart, Occupy Democrats, or Infowars, to take examples from the article.
You can do this with many VM languages too - you package the VM with the code you want to ship. The VM-wrapper still needs to be built for the target arch (like Go), but the code it runs does not (like Go).

I will absolutely agree though that Go makes this easy, which is quite a large benefit. But it's not in any way the opposite of a VM.
There are tons of old SuperMicro computers on eBay for very reasonable prices. They could have bought lots of them of the appropriate vintage (2015 and prior).
It's a troll account. https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=DrVino
Not really familliar with PCI DSS but it might be that the card-readers/terminals aren't PCI-compliant if opened? So not the manufacturer's issue but the customer's.
>Infrastructure is a core component of whatever it is you're building, not an afterthought.

Great, so use something appropriate for a small side project which in 99.99% of cases will not be k8.

Unless the small side project is learning cluster management. In which case go nuts.

K8's operating cost ($) might be manageable for a small project, but that doesn't mean the upfront learning and implementation costs (hrs) don't exist.

Your time isn't infinite.
That isn't a Japanese steel concern though, that's a steel manufacturing concern. U.S. Steel could do the same thing.
Was that a problem before?
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Ocaml has no concurrency options worth mentioning (need to look to PolyML/SML or F# for that). Finding and teaching Haskell devs simply isn't feasible. C++ is way too low-level for most of the work that someone choosing node would be doing.

It turns out that most of the reasons a server needs threads is IO. With node, any IO is moved to a new thread, so you get most of the threading benefits, but are completely safe (provided libuv is safe).

Another consideration is JS being dynamic. It's very easy to create extremely flexible APIs and you can move very fast adding features without breaking things. While That SML or F# app will provide much better type guarantees (and somewhat better performance), those benefits simply don't pay off for a lot of projects.

There's also something to be said for functional vs OOP styles. You will never see a JS dev writing enterprise fizzbuzz. Even in very large projects, those layers of boilerplate abstraction simply won't exist. Part of that is being dynamic and part is being functional.
If you compare today's flight experience and expectations of service to Concorde, you probably should do it against today's business class rates. Which brings you to the same price ranges as Concorde, but with longer flight times.
The Concorde is a bit inapt of a comparison; it had only one class of seating, and was targeted towards business-class travelers. A comparable seat on a modern, slower jumbo would also be in the $2-5k neighborhood, versus sub-$1k for economy fares.

EDIT: So, yes: you can do it for under a grand, but you're not getting the glass of champagne.
It's a fair point. See emulated snes games that fail on some vfx because code relied on ultra specific hardware architecture.
Note that Facebook and Apple have confirmed that they had heard about and actually saw, respectively, security issues with compromised software updates from Supermicro - it's only the chip story they're denying. https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-04/the-big-h...
You're forgetting the vast network of much more energy-hungry computers your laptop is connected to.
This is not entirely true. The preflight's role is exactly to prevent a post request to be sent to the server. There is no preflight only in particular cases.
You're talking to the guy who wrote crash bandicoot
I fly frequently from London to New York and San Francisco. The flights are quite fast - but here's the killer: in New York and San Francisco (and London if you aren't going near or via Paddington) - the trip from the Airport to my next destination - {hotel,office,client...} Can take 1/4 to 1/2 of the flight time!

New York is especially bad (2.5 hours at rush hour).

Would I pay a premium for speed of flight? Yes

Do I think that there are enough people to form that use case? Yes!

Will it work? No - the benefit obtained through a fast flight is obliterated by 3rd world airport links into the major airport destinations.

Concorde had a hard beginning - the French and Brits cooperating? On research?! (It uses the French spelling...)

But when you couldn't fly a helicopter to Midtown anymore, or into the City... The clock started ticking. (This last I have from dear old Dad who was in Finance in the Concorde era and through its end)
Also it forces their customer's customer to essentially subsidize production cost.

Some amount of financial theft happens to random consumers who don't know where it came from and this stolen money is paid in bribes to employees as a subsidy to their low wage.

As a result this immoral company externalizes aspects of their cost structure to greater society.
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Does the security team have any motivation to reduce waste? Unless you're finding hacks in your devices already I see no reason to think they aren't just making you jump through hoops because it's funny.
Hypothetically speaking, because you can get a better support contract with a closed (or semi-closed) source software vendor. Alternatively because closed source software is easier to monetize and likely has better resources to direct to feature development.

But in practice almost all cryptography is deployed via open source software. Large tech companies like Google and Apple can develop reliable and safe closed source cryptography. But most companies don't because that's expensive and usually unnecessary.