skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Me too.
I really liked Logo. I worked as "child volunteer" at and art museums "festival of the future" making logo spirographs for interested visitors. It was the early 80s and the apple ][+ 's 7 colors (2 white and 2 black..) was pretty bad compared till today, but we didn't care because not much was better.

Basic was built in so I ended up going back to that. I learned logo, pascal and basic, but being built in and not having access to pascal at home made my choice.

I did return to logo in high school on macs for some neat fractal and equation graphing programs.
As I understand it, there was (and still is) some room for confusion here: (1) PRISM was an internal code name so of course they hadn't heard of it. (2) there was apparently some kind of API or data transfer for sending national security requests to the companies involved and returning the results. A vague PowerPoint slide was misinterpreted by reporters as "direct server access".

This is sort of like claiming that you have root access to Google's servers just because you have a Gmail account.

So the companies could deny that, but there is still a question of exactly what was (is) possible using whatever API they exposed, and what sort of legal review the companies do of the requests they get, and whether this review restricts what the government can do in a meaningful way.
You must ask HMD.

Nokia is not making or designing these phones. They just license the brand and patents.
Update: The link between power and frequency seems to be complicated. See e.g.

https://physics.stackexchange.com/questions/34766/how-does-p...

First answer says P goes linear with f, based on theory.

Second answer goes for cubic or worse based on some deep papers, but a comment says this is dated.

Third answer has a graph from real-world measurements which is clearly worse than linear, and a comment saying there is an exponential part somewhere there too, but it is swamped by linear factors.

WIkipedia, by the way, goes for linear - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CPU_power_dissipation#Sources

I think the most realistic answer I can give is: It is complicated, and OP is a very good nerd sniper ;-)
Very interesting way of looking at it, almost a philosophical approach.
Yes, and all planes currently meet the 90-second requirement. It's a reason why they have weird take-off rules, such as windows open (to make sure your eyes will be adjusted if the doors opened and let the sun in/got much darker), tray tables up, personal items under the seat in front, and why many airlines still are strict about phones and such being off during takeoff and landing (to prevent distraction).
> Could a character in a computer game do that, even if they realized they were a character in a game?

Well, yes.
It's super dangerous as it can crash the computer and stop the simulation, but they could gain access to the rest of the computer, duplicate their universe onto other machines, and eventually infect robots to explore and interact with the real world.

I didn't say that they would have bodies in the real world, that indeed would be idiotic.
For me it's IRRELEVANT in the report is true or not, the very relevant part is that today's hw is complex enough to be a black box for 99% of buyers so it pose a super-serious security risk. Strong article from publicly known sources are a way to shed the light on such ignored enormous security threat.

The sole solution IMVHO is IMPOSE open hardware and free software by law. We simply can't have our society "nervous system" run on black boxes. It doesn't matter if the rouge in charge is China, USA, a specific vendor or someone else. Our banks, our states, our hospitals, ... relay on such connected black boxes. We also need to re-transfer knowledge from big corporate to PUBLIC, well founded, universities to AVOID dangerous evolution paths like actual IT evolution.
I just checked out Orbitz again to confirm.

The list of flights assumes I have zero bags, despite saying "including taxes and fees", with no way to get a list that incorporates a bag selection. The "cheapest" flight on Orbitz for my chosen destination is thus United, but with fairly well buried exceptions like "no carry-on bag" (which I didn't even know airlines restricted at all). If I account for the bag (and carry-on United would've told me I couldn't take) Southwest is actually cheaper.
Summer 1981, 11 years old, learning logo on a ][. It sure beat the hell out of trying to draw a straight line in HIRES mode in assembly: goddamn skipping every six horizontal lines made no sense to my pre-teen brain that couldn't grok modulus.
FWIW, VisiCalc - first spreadsheet computer program for personal computers - was developed in 1979 on the MIT Multics system, which was a Honeywell machine, and Electric Pencil - first word processor for personal computers - was (as far as I can tell) developed in 1976 on the Altair.
I'm 6'3" (190.5cm) and I really hope this actually makes an improvement. I've been on planes where my upper leg (from butt to knee) literally doesn't fit in the space provided - and that's without the person in front of me putting their seat back.

Honestly, all I want is transparency: Every seat listed should have all the stats about it posted with the ticket price, by law. Right now all consumers have to compare is price and arrival times. If I was able to filter and sort by legroom or seat width in addition to price? I would be able to make my own decisions about my discomfort level in exchange for saving some money.
Just my own anecdote, but I write go and typescript daily and I’d take goroutines and go’s other concurrency primitives over aysync/await any day of the week.
It's cool, but has this been tested under replicable scientific conditions?
I mean theoretically, but makes sense.
If the US files injunctions for relief, federal court (FISA) justices can probably compel you to do just about anything. Presumably the Bill of Rights still pertains and takes precedent. But it's not ludicrous to think that you could be compelled to issue a denial or not issue an affirmation of the public claims.
What is the purpose of your first sentence? Colloquially we speak of democracy as being something with representation that is elected with a large majority of the adult population being eligible to vote. Surely you know this so I can't figure what the point of being so pedantic is. Your assertion in the last sentence certainly needs more evidence to support it. As it stands it's unlikely to sway anyone and quite frankly paints a picture of you being a fanatic. This is especially so since the Commerce Clause was the justification for the Civil Rights Act and the Civil Rights Act greatly increased individual liberties.
Spirit's seat pitch on their A320's is 28 inches. From polling people I know, anyone around 6'2" or more flat out can't fit their legs in without "man spreading" into their neighbor's seat.

Compare Southwest, also a relatively low cost carrier, at 31 inches of seat pitch.
> .NET just isn't likely to be a good fit for the browser for high-scale applications where performance is critical.

I guess I don't understand what kind of 'high-scale applications where performance is critical' wouldn't be suitable for .NET but instead better suited to a systems programming language like Rust. If the bottleneck becomes the single-threaded JS interop, then what difference does it make which WASM language/runtime you choose as long as it's at least as fast as JS?
Beats me! The author no longer works at Google from what I can tell—emails to him bounced.

I'd love to see 1:1 threading become competitive with M:N for the heaviest workloads. It just plays so much nicer with the outside world than M:N does.
The discussion here is interesting, and I think it might be worth it to consider that despite any real differences in IQ, everyone is suffering from the same miserable dysfunctions that are rooted in systems that affect your life. For example, there's another post on the HN front page today about a Nobel laureate who sold his medal to pay his medical bills. At the end of it, there's seems to be an ingrained futility to anything. It seems luck is a more important factor than genetics.
There is an underlying assumption that a given image has a certain property. I don't think it does. I think the property is based on the user viewing it. That's why an innocent silly image proud parents may send to grandparents is at the same time an image that you don't want to be in the possession of someone with less innocent thoughts. It isn't that the image is right or wrong. It is that different people will see different things in the image, some good and others bad.
The airlines are offering more and more info about exactly what you're buying:

https://www.delta.com/content/www/en_US/traveling-with-us/on...

https://www.united.com/CMS/en-US/products/travelproducts/Pag...

https://exploreamerican.com/maincabinextra/?%20cint=DSP%7C%7...

I would guess most people that need it still won't be able to afford it though.
CORS are about browser security. A browser can have terrible security in lots of ways (allowing JavaScript to access http only cookies, etc). In this case you have a bad browser and you should not use it.

But you can still use IE, edge, chrome and Safari and trust that they implement CORS and most other basic security features correctly.
>Goroutines are threads

This is a thing I have to continually remind newer engs that are using Go. Goroutines have exactly the same memory observability / race conditions / need for locking/etc as any threaded language. Every race bug that exists in e.g. Java also exists in Go. The only real difference for most code is that it pushes you very hard to use channels directly, as they're the only type-safe option.

There are some neat tricks lower down, e.g. where you don't have to explicitly reserve a thread for most syscalls (but there are caveats there too, which is why runtime.LockOSThread() exists), which are legitimately nice conveniences. But not a whole lot else.
Ask HN: Is it okay to disclose your co-founder's incompetence to your employer?
Hi fellow HN guys,

A few months ago I started a company with a person (let's call him X) who was recommended by a good friend. X talked very passionately about the domain. I'm a tech guy and I have very little exposure to the domain. I thought that with X's domain knowledge and with my tech expertise we could form a synergy that would drive the company big.

We brainstormed a few ideas and decided to quickly build prototypes and iterate over our ideas. But when it came to execution, X just wouldn't do anything - wouldn't talk to clients, wouldn't talk to investors, wouldn't discuss strategy with me, wouldn't come up with a product plan, wouldn't discuss features, wouldn't do anything at all. X always made excuses of being sick or having family emergencies.

I had to align X's energy into building the company several times. After a point I realised that X was not motivated in running the company at all. When I threatened him with the idea of leaving the company, he didn't confront me. Rather, he accepted that he was not motivated and he came up with an excuse of why he wasn't able to perform.

Last month we shut down the company. Now I'm back to searching for jobs again. I'd like to know if it's okay to speak about your co-founder's incompetence to a prospective employer? I'd like to be honest with my prospective employer. I'm also willing to accept my mistake of not being able to judge a person's competency. But then again I also know that badmouthing can get me in trouble.

How do I position myself when someone asks me: "why did you close your previous company?"

PS: I've parted ways with all my previous employers on an extremely good note.
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Do you use Google's flight search? Somehow they have a seat-pitch measurement (I have no idea how they get this data). I have used it to make decisions.
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It’s a highly competitive, cost-optimized market. The entry costs actually aren’t that high, because airplanes are usually leased. Small airlines are always entering and existing the market.

The problem is not airlines ignoring the norms of competition. It’s that people just want the cheapest service possible. Airlines sell seats with more leg room for a modest fee (I paid $30-50 for the flights I took today). It’s always easy to get these upgrades, which means not very many people are willing to pay extra.

It’s like PCs. Why does Lenovo/HP sell so many PCs with garbage screens? People don’t care. They just want these machines to be cheap.

As to lack of perceived improvements, it’s because physics hates aerospace engineers. In half a century, jet airplanes have gotten maybe 50% more efficient (during a time when fuel costs have exploded). Billions and billions of dollars have been spent to achieve those improvements.
> And the story isn't even that bad for Amazon or Apple - it's much worse for US-China relations than it is for either of those companies.

If true, it's pretty bad. For one thing customers will be more wary of buying hardware from China. If they move manufacturing elsewhere (or, for Amazon, source hardware elsewhere) they would have higher costs and lower margins, if they don't and a competitor does they lose business.

On top of that, people are already wary of the privacy implications of these companies having all your data, but most are willing to trust major US companies. If it looks like they can't keep it secure against random Chinese companies engaged in industrial espionage, more customers will conclude that operating servers in-house is the better choice.
Later on assemblers like Merlin and ORCA/M added the ability to assemble source files as separate objects which were then linked.

Earlier assemblers (and the later ones!) also typically supported a capability to reference another source file from another which lets a large assembly chain itself without needing to have the whole thing in memory at once.

At runtime, you could use overlays to essentially load in program modules in and out of RAM dynamically so you'd be surprised at the (relative) sophistication of some software packages back then!
China planted tiny chips on US computers for cyber espionage
Here is a video of an A380 evacuation test. 873 people evacuated from a plane in 79 seconds. Of course, this relies a lot on your passengers not all trying to bring their luggage with them like a bunch of morons (which unfortunately does happen).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cH4xWLPBUCs
I have deployed by hand, with Capistrano, with Chef, with Heroku, with systemd, with Docker, with AWS EC2, and with Kubernetes.

Like everything, there are tradeoffs. If there were a fairly easy way to do a one-node Kubernetes setup (say, Minikube), I would probably just go that route. One doesn't have to use the full feature set of Kubernetes to get one or two things that are advantageous.

As it is, I setup Minikube for the dev machines for the team I am on. I might consider Kubernetes for my personal side project if I knew Minikube would do well for machines under 1 GB of memory (it doesn't really).

The pre-emptible VMs that cost less than $5 is interesting, and I might do something like that.
> The notch is a horrible idea

I never got this. Why is it worse than bezel ? How does it affect usability / performance of the phone ? I have a notch on my phone and it's notch is the last thing I care about.
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Because financial sector is run be people who consider engineers a liability[1]. Instead of evolving with time in 80s and 90s as the world moved to modern systems, they clung to their increasingly legacy systems. After all, why would an MBA toting executive from a big bank bother with something as menial as technology? At financial sector firms, Engineers are not meant to be seen or heard. Try proposing a new idea — or a move to a newer system — you’ll be shot down faster than you can say technology — by the same people who have led us from one financial crisis to another in their infinite wisdom.

Most big banks have a bunch of security people whose sole job is to make people’s life hell by spreading as much FUD as possible[2] — that’s what keeps their jobs secure, after all. And they are the only “engineers” who are heard. They make sure that anything new is not adopted till the rest of the world has already started abandoning it.

The primary focus in the technology departments of big banks is to maintain the status quo. New development is rare. New ideas are crushed before they can see the light of the day. As a result, good engineers leave as son as they can and the only ones left behind are the ones who are content living a life of mediocrity — maintaining the status quo.

[1] I know someone who was told something along those lines when they joined a big financial institution as an engineering manager. And not all financial companies work that way. Those who embraced technology reaped the benefits and continue to do so.

[2] I am not suggesting that security is not important. But security people at these institutions take it to a whole different level — to the point where things that should not take more thane a few days end up taking months — if they allow it, that is. Funny how all their objections vanish when someone from upper management asks for the same thing.
You are talking about the Origin header set by the browser that you don't trust?
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I'm NOT 6'3" by any means, and I STILL bump my knees on the seat in front of me.

I have definitely felt the shift to less legroom over the last 15 years I've been flying.
One of the big airlines I hear a lot of hatred for regarding missing hidden fees is the ULCCs such as Frontier, Spirit, and Allegiant. Bags, snacks, seats with your party, etc. are not included at all in the base fare. The cost you see on those websites are for _a_ seat on that flight and nothing else. Many people, especially if they aren't frequent flyers don't realize that, and find out that the $100/person fare comes out to more like $200/person if they're flying with their family and needs seats together and at least a bag or two.

If you know what you're doing, sure, it's transparent. But the people who fly most often on those carriers are people who never have or rarely do fly.
The problem is, the only ones who care about such a solution are (some of) end users, like us. All the rest, including big money, including governments, seems to prefer black boxes.
The technical reason from what I understand is that the closer you fuel to launch, the more cryo fuel you can pump into the rocket, as it won't have time to expand its volume before being used.
It's interesting to see how this gets so much attention in the US. In Europe, specifically NL, I haven't been in a single situation the past 32 years of my life where I would have needed this. I do not expect I would need it the coming decades either. These are stories we catch from Russia where each and every cop seems to be corrupt. To see a similar thing in the US is mind blowing to me.

Thanks for sharing though! Might help another reader in this thread. I guess I must be happy to pass on this one.
Reminds me of Steve Yegge:

https://plus.google.com/110981030061712822816/posts/AaygmbzV...

Fortunately I’d spent years watching Jeff in action before my turn came, and I had prepared in an unusual way. My presentation -- which, roughly speaking was about the core skills a generalist engineer ought to know -- was a resounding success. He loved it. Afterwards everyone was patting me on the back and congratulating me like I’d just completed a game-winning hail-mary pass or something. One VP told me privately: “Presentations with Jeff never go that well.”

:

To prepare a presentation for Jeff, first make damn sure you know everything there is to know about the subject. Then write a prose narrative explaining the problem and solution(s). Write it exactly the way you would write it for a leading professor or industry expert on the subject.

That is: assume he already knows everything about it. Assume he knows more than you do about it. Even if you have ground-breakingly original ideas in your material, just pretend it’s old hat for him. Write your prose in the succinct, direct, no-explanations way that you would write for a world-leading expert on the material.

You’re almost done. The last step before you’re ready to present to him is this: Delete every third paragraph.
Frankly, I trust Bloomberg more than Amazon and Apple's PR departments combined.
Doesn't Firefox use the default OS scrollbar? I believe Chrome has their own custom scrollbar, and it allows developers to replace it. For instance, in Trello on Firefox, I see my big native (read: usable) scrollbar on the bottom and in card lists, while in Chrome they're just a thin little line.
Slavery was integral to the entire U.S. economy, but that economy was changing in the mid-19th century, and indeed it's not totally false that those economic changes were part of what led to the civil war.

// Capitalists in the North profited by investing in banks that handled the exchange of money for people, or in insurance companies that provided insurance for the owners’ investments in enslaved people. So did foreign investors in Southern securities, some of which were issued on mortgaged slaves. The hotbed of American abolitionism — New England — was also the home of America’s cotton textile industry, which grew rich on the backs of the enslaved people forced to pick cotton. The story of America’s domestic slave trade is not just a story about Richmond or New Orleans, but about America. //

https://opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com/2015/04/03/how-the-sla...

https://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0345467833

https://www.amazon.com/Slaverys-Capitalism-American-Economic...

https://www.amazon.com/Half-Has-Never-Been-Told/dp/046504966...

"“In the decades between the American Revolution and the Civil War, slavery—as a source of the cotton that fed Rhode Island’s mills, as a source of the wealth that filled New York’s banks, as a source of the markets that inspired Massachusetts manufacturers—proved indispensable to national economic development,” Beckert and Rockman write in the introduction to the book. “… Cotton offered a reason for entrepreneurs and inventors to build manufactories in such places as Lowell, Pawtucket, and Paterson, thereby connecting New England’s Industrial Revolution to the advancing plantation frontier of the Deep South. And financing cotton growing, as well as marketing and transporting the crop, was a source of great wealth for the nation’s merchants and banks.”"

https://www.forbes.com/sites/hbsworkingknowledge/2017/05/03/...
> Do passengers want the extra inch or do they want to arrive on time? I'm betting it's the latter.

On-time with a partial refund for not getting the seat they'd paid for is an option, too.
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Borrow some fucking integrity. AMLO doesn't even take office for two more months. This law has nothing to do with him.
See http://seatguru.com
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Hard to give an anonymous comment any weight without the slightest verification. Since we know that adversaries of freedom use social media as a disinformation vector, the only thing you can do is ignore them or encourage them to find a way to legitimately disclose the information protected under NDA -- perhaps to the press or a legislator who could help make it possible to invalidate NDAs that keep secrets that make us vulnerable.
Not quite, but you got the "financial institution" part right :)