skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> many years ago: HDDs died like I've never seen it before

i ve also had some disk problems 5+ years ago, but not recently, even with the cheap bidding servers. Nothing that wasn't justified by their way-cheaper-than-others prices
You would avoid that orange, but you wouldn't say to someone "don't eat oranges, I had one once and it was bad", which is what you are doing.

You can't always do a large study, but when you're presented with one it doesn't help do give anecdotes in response.
You either didn't notice or forgot the bad press Hololens endured for misleading advertising:

https://mashable.com/2015/10/06/microsoft-hololens-misleadin...

https://www.theverge.com/2015/10/6/9465839/microsoft-hololen...

Going back further, Microsoft has a history of this with things like Project Milo on the Kinect. These things really don't matter in the end though. Its the technology itself that matters, and how good or bad it is relative to the market.
Good point! Hadn't thought about the bore wear - if they don't force successive shots to cycle through the barrels, that would be a huge issue.
Perhaps, if you'd look at it this way: Almost every article posted here speaks for the topic at hand.
Many comments provide reasonable counterviews and create a sense of insight and nuance. This creates a sense of a somewhat balanced viewpoint about the topic.
It's not that scoffers or only cynics here are upvoted.
Sadly, cynicism often does seem to be the main emotion doing the rounds.
Not all advertising is tracking and clickbait, but in general it is still a cancer on the Internet, and on the modern society. The world is oversaturated with advertising, and we're all forced to look at it everywhere, day in, day out. Advertising is eating absurd amount of resources directly and indirectly (through support industries - from graphics design to printing, transportation and distribution), mostly to shift the split of a fixed pie of customers, in what's pretty much a fractal of zero sum games.
No. Languages are also, of course, languages, i.e., notation.

If every chemist changed notation every 3 years, there's an off chance that one might develop something better than Hill notation, but it would also make it unbearable to try to read the literature. I don't think it's controversial to suggest that this would be a net loss for the field.

Computer science is young enough that we don't have any universal notation yet, but I've learned a couple dozen programming languages and my conclusion is that maybe 1 new language per decade is worth using. We're churning notation way faster than is productive.
Thanks Angelo. The best way to apply and start the conversation is to send an email to the address on the linked page.
Hi All, I am one of the founders of Stealthy. Unlike Web 3.0 browsers, we have deep integration at the resource level with other dApps. This means you can browse, share, and collaborate dApp content from within Stealthy.

We’re eager to get the HN community feedback on our mobile app. Here are the current features in Stealthy:
- Available on iOS and Android
- Public channels: topic discussion or dApp support
- Private 1:1 messaging: client side encrypted for recipient
- Sharing and collaboration with other dApps (Graphite and TravelStack)

Here is what’s on our roadmap:
- Performance & UX improvements
- Messaging features: Group messaging, attachments, gifs etc
- Deeper dApp integrations: blog or post to social media from Stealthy
- Lightning network integration for transactions
This. It's "engineers" themselves who have degraded the term (once a profession nearly as stringently accredited as doctors or lawyers) by applying it to anyone who can copy/paste stack overflow answers into a text editor.
Well, it seems like you are conflating two very different issues, but anyway, that's not how I behave, personally. I buy more expensive products less often, provided that those are produced in a humane way (e.g. no sweat shops or animal cruelty involved).

A "better product", in my view, is radically different from a "cheaper/cheapest product". The same goes for professionals.
Just goes to show that in top-down organizations, it doesn't matter if they have tons of employees and engineers when the work output of all of them is just a sum and intrinsically limited by their masters at the top.
Lots of interesting things happen when you play with price. Sometimes its higher-paying workers that benefit the most: if you can handle data management manually at 7.5U$S you hire cheap labor. If it costs 15U$S you hire an engineer to make a permanent and scalable solution.

I am not enamored by the concept of minimum wage, and to this day its a fight among economists.
I must have been 12 or 13 years old when I first met an IBM PC. I was used to 8 bit micros having BASIC right away (and colour). But you couldn't do anything with a PC before using two floppies. First DOS then whatever. It just seemed awful. Why would anyone want one of those?
It doesn't matter whether they're doing it for a 'greater good' or not. You should praise them anyway. They took steps to create the world that you want. It doesn't matter why they did it.
Regardless of your skepticism, the benefits are real.

Scaling applications in k8s, updating, and keeping configs consistent are a great deal easier for me than using Ansible or any other config management tool.

In the end, it's a singular platform that one can build tooling against that allows an organization to abstract away the infrastructure. My team has done that (on top of k8s). As such, a developer can spin up a new environment with the click of a button, deploy whatever code they like, scale the environment, etc. with very little to no training. Those capabilities were a tremendous accelerator for my organization.

Sure, you can build something similar with Ansible on AWS, but then you're married to AWS, you have to worry about sizing, and the cost of idle instances. In my experience, it's just a great deal more overhead.
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Equifax is also not under EU (GDPR) jurisdiction afaik.
The very fact that I can say "Screw government Policy X" and "Trump is a liar" or "the NSA's surveillance policy is unAmerican" without fear of being arrested or reeducated, very clearly says we are more free than a citizen of China, without even delving into the threats to freedom faced by ethnic minorities in China.

Effecting change in government policy is a poor metric of personal freedom as there are a number of competing interests, each rooted in their personal freedom to try to effect change. Yes, many of us are disappointed in how things were handled since 2008, but clear policy solutions don't always exist, and I do not think the people clearly coalesced around any set of them and then failed to implement them. Why? Because the actions taken to effect a recovery were good enough that we didn't collectively starve. Revolutions and huge political upheavals take starvation (The Depression), death (Vietnam), or a clear solution to unfair suffering (Civil Rights Movement).
I liked SF and Oakland when I lived there, but I moved to NYC and don't really want to move back.

And that makes me take the comment about whether the tech industry should be in the bay area fairly seriously.

I work for a Big Tech company, and our org, which has highly visible products and exciting work, is struggling to hire people in the bay area. People don't want to move there, and there is huge competition for the people already there, including from other internal teams, so we're expanding more at other sites.
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Corporate firewall rule writer: "I can block all proxy access by not letting folks connect to a site with the word proxy in it." What could go wrong with that?
Billionaire’s Fight to Close Path to a California Beach Comes to a Dead End
I wonder how we'd feel as a species if our star was one of these instead of being the Sun.

We'd see this amazing group of stars and planets, going away from us knowing the more we wait for space travel to less likely our species would to reach any other star system.
All of the downside of a startup (long hours, fire fighting, stress... all of which never ends) without the upside (an exit which is the pot of gold at the end of the rainbow that you put up with the rest of it for.) The way to make a zombie startup work for you is in a role where you're getting paid by the hour or deliverable that you can control (i.e. contracting or consulting) and absolutely do not go in as an employee if you have a choice.
> I use incognito sessions.

If you think these do anything at all to prevent tracking, you're unfortunately sadly mistaken :(

> a bit of information about myself

"A bit"? That's... well, the only thing I can say is that you indeed seem not to care about this.
"You know, the most amazing thing happened to me tonight... I saw a car with the license plate ARW 357. Can you imagine? Of all the millions of license plates in the state, what was the chance that I would see that particular one tonight? Amazing!" —Richard Feynman
The APIs I mentioned in my previous comment don't exist yet. My point is that Google is going to need to _build_ APIs to fulfill all of the most common use cases (including those ones) in order to succeed in their goal of making extension permissions more fine-grained.

So yes, the functionality of most popular extensions will be covered by the new APIs, because Google will designing the new APIs with those popular extensions in mind.
I've meant uplink only, but yeah. That's a lot of free bandwidth then!
>Not really fair, I can walk into a dealer and buy any car from one of those other brands.

That's like saying Amazon won't continue because I can walk to Walmart. If the numbers won't continue give specific facts relating to the market of teslas vehicles. Unless the vehicles become failures themselves, a better alternative is made, or tesla suddenly bottoms up, 400,000 new vehicles isn't too bad.
Exactly! It's like saying today that 64gb of ram should be enough for just about everyone in their personal machine.

In 10 years, that might be a hilariously small number, but for right now, it's way more than the extreme vast majority will need.
Perhaps they raised minimum wages with the future goal to lay off staff that can be "robotized". After that the remaining workers would certainly have a higher load of dealing with the robots and would most likely not be willing to work for less than $15/h. This can also can earn amazon a good guy reputation so that their future move can be justified. I hope i'm wrong but my instinct tells me that Amazon will not loose a cent on this move.
It’s like people who make those posts didn’t remember that the tobacco industry still exists. Literally killing people and lying about it for profit isn’t “company ending” if you have scads of money and lawyers, and a market eager for your poison.
Uh... yes. Let's replace "illogical" by "irrational" in my first question, then. :-)
"no healthcare"

How does that work, exactly? To produce this post I googled up the actual data for the state I live in, civilized area far from the coasts (near Chicago but not too close thankfully).

Hopefully this isn't too docs droppy but where I live any single adult making $1011.67 or less per month, or any pregnant woman or any under 18 year homeless kid making $3035.01 or less per month qualifies for the totally free medicaid. Its not like they cut you off at a penny over, there's a sliding scale.

Its actually much more complicated and for my 4 person household, we would get medical coverage totally for free if we make less than $2091.67 per month and my kids are completely free until we make more than $6275.01 per month, and if my wife got pregnant again she'd also be covered to the $6275 per month limit.

So... what kind of unemployment bennies do you guys get such that an unemployed soon to be homeless dude is making that much money? Actually, if you have that much income while you're unemployed (trust fund baby or whatever) how can you be homeless without a very expensive drug addiction or similar problem, if the average single apartment rent is about $700 around here?

I'm very sad to say that medicaid coverage in my state is not very good, but vastly better than my current corporate insurer; the copays and deductibles are so insane I'm considering signing up for medicaid and not working too hard on contract work next year. My kids would get better medical care, I'd get more time off, I have enough investments that I already make too much money for completely free medicaid without working at all...
C... IDK. Maybe.

But, pointers yes definitely. Even some assembly. You really should understand how things like .size or lengh() aren’t “free” and how they work.
Academic evaluations are very imperfect and are biased toward "what have you done lately?" Major breakthroughs do not count for as much as sustained research output. For tenure and promotion, typically work done before joining the institution is not used in the evaluation, and the prize winning work was done during her PhD research. This is in the US, but I assume Canada is reasonably similar.

Also, see this article by Peter Higgs complaining about the need to "keep churning out papers": https://www.theguardian.com/science/2013/dec/06/peter-higgs-...
Although I don't see this having a huge immediate impact on Facebook, the distinction is that if Equifax neglagently releases your PII there is little fallout as you are not the one providing Equifax with that data and cannot simply stop feeding them data, when Facebook does it their data subjects can choose to stop providing the data by exiting the platform. Facebook needs both the user data, and those same users patronizing their service to maintain the existing revenue stream.
Similar story with me. I got an Amiga 1000 and did a fair bit of assembly coding on it, then ended up writing some 16-bit x86 assembly for school later on. Being used to having sixteen 32-bit registers, then all the sudden having to use AX, BX, CX, and DX (and don't forget they all have slightly different purposes!) was like being brutally shoved back into the 80's.
Perhaps they raised minimum wages with the future goal to lay off staff that can be "robotized". After that the remaining workers would certainly have a HIGHER WORKLOAD of dealing with the robots and would most likely not be willing to work for less than $15/h. This can also can earn amazon a good guy reputation so that their future move can be justified. I hope i'm wrong but my instinct tells me that Amazon will not loose a cent on this move.
>As a resident of a more rural area that has seen a complete economic turnaround in the last few years, which seems to be attributable to people leaving the big city to find more affordable ground, the big city housing bubble is the best thing that has ever happened. It may be destructive at a local level, but I'm not sure it is universally so.

Your town is going from the "boarded up storefronts" phase to the "hardware store and Chinese take out restaurant" phase. You'll probably start considering the housing market driven gentrification destructive again when it gets to the "organic free trade hemp clothing store and bars that only serve micro-brews" phase.
you just gave me a great idea for a new language, Well actually a big library of ASM code that every other language could write wrappers to to get low level gains on all the boilerplate. Then we could all focus on making that really fast.
Just yesterday we discussed this book [1] on probabilistic programming here on HN [2]. That book is, by all definitions, an advanced book about AI. How many people without a PhD can read that? How many people with a PhD can read it?

From the abstract:

This document is designed to be a first-year graduate-level introduction to probabilistic programming. It not only provides a thorough background for anyone wishing to use a probabilistic programming system, but also introduces the techniques needed to design and build these systems. It is aimed at people who have an undergraduate-level understanding of either or, ideally, both probabilistic machine learning and programming languages.

Thanks to the Internet, how many people who have that prerequisite "undergraduate-level understanding of either or, ideally, both probabilistic machine learning and programming languages" now have access to this material, who otherwise might not have? And thanks to the Internet (Khan Academy, Coursera, OCW, Udacity, Fast.ai, 3blue1brown@youtube, etc.) how many people now have the ability to gain that prerequisite knowledge without investing tens of thousands of dollars in a university degree? Especially people who might not have been able to afford to take time off from working to attend University in the first place?

While in the end you may be right that AI specifically does wind up driving inequality, I think there are strong arguments that technology / the 'net in a general sense also serve to advance equality.
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That definition is VERY vague. I asked you to be specific. How many people? What does "live off" include SPECIFICALLY? What are "normal expenses"?

I'm quite certain one can survive on zero dollars, so I assume you're talking about something else. But I don't get what.

The $2400 number is completely made up, it's not even geography-specific. It's a lot in Indiana suburbs and it's barely anything in SF.
Hi everyone, I wanted to just address a few points that arise for decentralized and messaging apps:

How decentralized is Stealthy?

* User identities are stored in the Bitcoin blockchain
* User storage is decentralized away from Stealthy in the user’s own cloud storage
* Stealthy doesn’t require a centralized signalling server for p2p communication (both parties must add each other as contacts, coordinating this outside of Stealthy)
* Conveniently, Stealthy includes a signalling server that can be disabled.
* Push notifications use centralized technology at present.
* Our public discussion channels use centralized notifications to scale at present.
* We build on Blockstack to get decentralized identity and storage (https://blockstack.org/faq/, https://blockstack.org/whitepaper.pdf)
* We have plans to continue decentralizing Stealthy features as time permits and solutions become available, for instance migrating to GUN decentralized database for some features (https://gun.eco)

2. Protocol details?

* We plan to publish more details near the end of this year.
* All data is stored off chain for performance approaching centralized messengers.
* Offline p2p communication is relatively simple and involves polling a contact’s cloud storage for messages.
* Polling scales based on users presently and will see more intelligence in a future release.
* Realtime p2p uses our offline p2p to establish a WebRTC connection (coming later this year to mobile).
* All p2p messages are encrypted client side before transmission.
* Our public channels use a hybrid version of our p2p protocol
* Messages from users use the p2p protocol with a centralized notification for scaling.
* Messages from the channel are written sequentially, unencrypted (it’s a public channel)

3. Encryption details?

* Encryption keys are held by the user
* Stealthy uses Blockstack compatible ECIES for all p2p messaging (SECP256K1 curve, SHA512 MAC, AES 256 CBC cipher, SHA256 HMAC)
* More information here: https://blockstack.org/faq/

4. Surveilling metadata?

Stealthy was not designed to conceal metadata from state-level actors, especially those with a capability of surveilling each node of a network concurrently. There are other protocols with that intent. However, we are looking to improve our protocol in this regard in the near term.

5. Why collect an email?

Stealthy uses Blockstack’s identity solution which collects email in the event that you need to recover your 12-word Blockstack pass phrase. Stealthy does not collect your email.
That's a "Front Panel" and all computers prior to around 1980 had one. It's the equivalent of the BIOS -- the one thing that's up and running when the power switch is flipped on. If the machine had core memory (which was non-volatile) the FP was seldom needed since the primary boot loader would be left in core long-term (after being toggled in once).
Actual bots? I host my VPN on a box from a provider in that list (and I'm not a bot).
It's not absurd precision, it's just what happens when you multiply something by a percentage.
Let's play with that notion for a bit: If technology is a tool, let's say akin to a spade. A spade gets you into a hole. Will more spades ever get you out of a hole? Sounds like you need a ladder instead.
This helps in the human struggle a majority of Americans are experiencing right now.
You missed two that I can think of:
(1) the runtime written in F# that Frank Krueger’s Continuous uses (and I believe also Xamarin Live player uses in some fashion.)
(2) Goa WinForms was a C# compiler that targeted the Adobe Flash Player, and implemented part of the BCL and WinForms UI. If you include the CrossNet I think this also counts.
The voluntary interaction argument falls apart in the presence of a labor monopsony.
Yes, because qubax does not believe that civilization is going to end in 40 years. "The world getting hotter and the weather more extreme" != "the end of civilization in 40 years".
I also expect hybrids to be where it'll be at. The new Kia Optima wagon claims 40 miles pure electric range. Electric cars seem still to be (artificially?) limited, e.g. no station wagons, mostly no roof racks (except Model S), no tow bar (except Model X). All of which means most people 'round here can't have just an EV, it's only useful as a second car.
C is the desert island language
CUDA itself does only one thing better - it lets you write kernels in C++ rather than a fairly restrictive subset of C. Far more importantly, it has a large ecosystem of tooling (including excellent profiling tools), libraries, documentation and open source projects out there. Comparatively speaking, OpenCL is a barren landscape.
"We don't know anything for certain but I'm double-dog sure you should sell all your shares and delete all your logins." There's even nonsense about GDPR in the comments.

This all stinks of shorting... And even if it's not, it's too sensationalist to take seriously without more data.
What is the Infinite Polygon Engine?
Also a 30 year fixed mortgage effectively shorts long-term bonds with an embedded call option (via refinancing) to further reduce the risk of the position. It's an incredibly valuable consideration that's not super obvious.