skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
"This disk drive is actually a whole PC" was basically Nintendo's entire Unique Selling Proposition for a long while.

Nintendo made consoles cheaply enough to make a profit, because they weren't designed to be powerful enough for the games that would be released at the end of the console's lifecycle, only the games that would be released near the beginning. But they managed to release games as if the console was more powerful anyway. It was basically because the cartridge was a black box, and could contain anything up-to-and-including its own replacement console. Early-in-lifecycle, game cartridges were just a board with plain ROM chips on it, containing instructions to run on the base hardware; but late-in-lifecycle cartridges included all sorts of other chips. (A game released late in the life of the SNES included a full ARM core, several times more powerful than the SNES's own CPU! Though it only used it to draw a few vector animations in a couple scenes of the game...)

The Famicom Disk System and 64DD were "just" cartridges as well, from their host-console's perspective. And I don't mean that there was a complex dance where the FDS/64DD were running a DOS on the host-console's CPU that sent disk commands back to the drive; that logic was all internal to the drive itself, running on their on-board CPUs. It went even deeper than a memory-mapped IO port or an drive-command wire protocol; the console just didn't direct the drive at all. Rather, the firmware executing on the drive detected when the console would want new data, and DMAed in the required data itself, so that, from the console's perspective, the data was just "there" to see. (A bit like the NES's memory-mapper chips, but for full ROM banks rather than little word-sized windows.)

The closest comparison I can think of to how those devices worked, would be to using one of those aux-to-tape adapters—from the tape reader's perspective, the right data is "just there" when it goes to read it, as if it was a regular tape. In this case, the right data was "just there" in response to bus reads of ROM parts of the memory-space on the cartridge port. These devices were, effectively, the original "flash carts."

This design paradigm has culminated in some pretty ridiculous things embedded into a Nintendo cartridge, actually. There is a Nintendo DS flash cart that embeds a full GBA-compatible CPU core within it. Since it's in the wrong port to deliver GBA games directly to the DS's own GBA-compatible CPU core, it just "brings its own" CPU to emulate them on instead.
> The crash in South Carolina involved an F-35B, which is able to land vertically and costs around $100m

And earlier it mentions a total cost of the program of 1 trillion dollars. So we'd have to sell at least 10000 planes to have any hope of recouping the costs??
Trust-by-default is a consequence of the fact that enough people don't exploit norms, don't lie. We're in no need of turning off the gene (assuming it's nature, not nurture, which I'm not so sure about), since if society found itself in a lie-dominant state (as opposed to truth-dominant), we wouldn't be as trusting anymore. (It's self-correcting already, without any need for manual override.)

It'd also argue that it's a lot harder for the majority of people to convincingly act and lie than you think (especially when they don't feel desperate or have grown up in a safe environment that doesn't force them to learn how to behave contrary to their natural instincts).
I heard from my Google friend that SRE besides the on-call stuff was procedural and had no deadlines. Could you elaborate on the mentally draining part?
Pretty much every business copier we've leased in the last 8 years allows you to fax a document that would be printed to the copier.
> iceland has no military, and no real political or economic significance in the world. it has no genuine allies to whom it is worthwhile. why doesn't anyone/everyone invade them? nobody would risk a major war over them. they're what could amount to a strategically useful port. they might have some minerals or something. it wouldn't even be hard.

> the answer is that nobody cares to.

This is an over-simplification of truly mind-boggling caliber.
> Tangential to this when are operating systems going to ship w/ CoW filesystems by default?

As far as I know Ubuntu ships with ZFS kernel module.

Unfortunately, as you undoubtedly know, ZFS support on Linux will always be a problem due to licensing.

As far as I know native encryption is not yet stable in ZFS.
Nothing is "standard". I've never talked to a startup that offered an equity refresh like GOOG does.
I'm kind of baffled by the number of people here opposing investment in technological advancements. You'd think hacker news of all places would understand the risks inherent in investing in an any sort of state-of-the-art technological project. Not all projects are going to succeed; but that doesn't mean we shouldn't try.

It seems the real reason these people are angry is because they hate how strong the US military is. You know they don't actually care about the wasted money because they're also the same people who think we should be spending billions of dollars a year on state-funded healthcare to keep octogenarians alive a year longer.
super cool! can this thing interact with the dom and call javascript?

also, is there a cpython compiled into wasm? hope we could run numpy in the browser.
Ask HN: What's Your Take on the Music Modernization Act?
Not properly understood? No, the bonuses were taken away and the pay rate was raised instead. However, Amazon said people were just getting a raise because of the poor pay they've been getting. They weren't promised a different way of getting paid. They were promised a raise
The argument from Jeff Dean authority suffers from the fact that no matter how smart you are, getting some trade-offs right will require empirical validation.

Just having multiple end-points or doing version negotiation might work fine in some cases, but I can't see a particular good way field-replacement evolution would work with exclusively required fields in general,

What's your suggested approach?
Hey, which linux distribution are you talking about?
We have checked in chrome/Ubuntu and seems it works alright.

However, will make sure it gets tested with all linux dist before next release.

Are you looking for integration?
> Also what is the Reactjs story here ?
Wow, talk about cherry picking.

> The Soviets spent 25% of their national income

> United States spends low single digits of its GDP

Why are you comparing income vs GDP? Apples and oranges, please..

"In FY 2017, the Congressional Budget Office reported spending of $590 billion for defense, about 15% of the federal budget." [1]

[1] https://www.cbo.gov/system/files?file=115th-congress-2017-20...
This surprised me:

"If suspect fuel tubes are installed, the part will be removed and replaced. If known good fuel tubes are already installed, then those aircraft will be returned to flight status."

How do they not know this? What if we were at war?
Now imagine if we paid those people to do something productive instead of wasting so much time. Heck what if we just gave them the money and let them work on whatever they wanted. It would still have a better payoff.
got to appreciate the honesty! i've seen some peers whom i felt really sucked at tech rise through what appeared to be luck alone.
It might seem like stagnation but we have made rapid advancements in other sectors (the mobile computing revolution being an example). About air travel, I think the evolution has been more about safety than anything else ever since (barring exception of concorde which tried to optimize for speed). The modern passenger jet is much safer than its 60s counterpart.
It's the great advantage of Lisp syntax that it supports structural editing in a complete and unified way, and paredit enables the leap from editing code by manipulating plain lines of characters to directly editing code as hierarchical structure.
Might as well kick the old you, it's just as likely to have an affect as kicking that young kid next to you, 'cuz she ain't gonna listen, either.

I don't know, that attitude always struck me as an equivalent to a mechanic that refuses to learn how an internal combustion engine works. Yeah, sure, you could probably get away with being an suspension/alignment specialist. But everything you work on has one of those engine thingies, why not expand those horizons and learn how they work? Know a little C, know how to create a SELECT beyond "* FROM myTable", know the basics of getting a web server up, running and serving simple pages; we need a programmer's equivalent to Heinlein's list of things every man should know.
> The alternative is to build a ton of smaller carriers... but smaller carriers can't launch airplanes.

Outside of the US supercarriers, all other carriers are smaller, and many launch planes (often V/STOL aircraft, particularly commonly Harriers.)
Interestingly enough, while this is as good as it gets, my initial reaction to domain name was negative. From previous experience I learned that domains like that are taken by squatters or companies that... Well, don't really know how to capitalize on them. Kudos to OP for actually offering something to do with charts! :)
Ahh. Will fix this.

For the time being, you can click on the play button on top right corner of the code section.
This is a very American perspective. The article is talking about a global recession.
Regulation kills....
Keyboard Layouts for Programmers – Dvorak, Colemak, or Qwerty?
The Music Modernization Act has been signed into law
Also I believe the seats are all custom shaped for each astronaut's body. I'm sure in dire circumstances they could use a capsule that wasn't designed for them, but it's very much a case of each astronaut having a very specific seat designated for the ride home, rather than "do we have enough seats".
I love the reciprocity approach.
> assumes it is because it is so far beyond what "opposing" forces can field they will do anything to delay its operation

This doesn't hold water; nation-state propaganda doesn't have any effect on the funding this program receives. Nobody should have any trouble believing that an overly-ambitious pie-in-the-sky kitchen-sink project that has been in development for 30 years might be having a hard time meeting its lofty goals, or indeed nailing down its goals in the first place.

Consider the Space Shuttle program, and now realize that in four years the F-35 will have been going on longer than the shuttle program, and that the F-35 has already cost five times more than the entire shuttle program, and that the shuttle is also today considered an overall failure (and this opinion is not ascribed to "opposing forces"). And if the shuttle can be a failure while achieving more than the F-35, while costing less than the F-35, with a smaller (though still huge and confused) scope than the F-35, by what possible metric can the F-35 not be considered a failure?

Sometimes a cigar is just a cigar.
>a great food and music scene up in Northhampton

The food scene in Northampton is great by the standards of rural MA. There are only 2-3 restaurants there that are any good at all.
Appreciate the feedback!

Yeah, the hack you described for CIs is typical of "80% charting". We have a list of probably thousands of longtail visualization requests and we're way past the 80/20 point.

These days customers who want to go 100% use the Python/R editors and do their custom visualization there. So you do your SQL query like usual, but then pipe it to Python/R for the visualization. Have you tried that, and has it worked for you? Or do you prefer another model?
Makes sense. Will keep you posted on the plans.
WhatsApp's popularity originally came from how it ran on many WAP phone systems, not just iOS and Android but also all the feature phones. What they did looked crazy from the outside but they effectively re-implemented SMS at a lower cost, for nearly all phones. That was not a trivial amount of effort, but it produced a lower financial friction than competition.

A disrupter would have to have even less friction but would be competing against a product that already has a significant network effect and a very generous backing by Facebook. I'm speculating that FB will eventually nudge WhatsApp users to Messenger, or find a way to gradually merge the services to the point where they are identical, especially w.r.t. advertisement.

In that respect, it was brilliant of FB to acquire WhatsApp: not just for the users, but to make it hard for any newcommer to disrupt things (hard to compete againsts free and frictionless).
You won’t see a lot of ex-Apple people posting here because of the deeply-ingrained conditioning to never talk publicly about anything that goes on there, even after you leave.

I’ll say I liked the company in general. The rank and file engineers were smart and nice to work with, a real pleasure. But people were meaner and egos were huger the higher up the org chart they were, and I had to interact regularly (daily) with people 2-3 away from Tim.

Ultimately I made it 4 years, pretty much to the day my last stock vested. Manager said they don’t give refreshes, so I’m not going to take that big a pay drop to keep going there so reluctantly quit. I’d go back in a heartbeat if they weren’t so stingy with pay/RSUs.
Singapore Air Takes Delivery of Jet for World's Longest Flight
currency should be somthing physically valuable, barrels of oil, metal ingots, first born, atmospheric oxygen etc.

major educational overhaul that amounts to sedition is required, peoples ideals and aspirations must be re-tooled...

civilization as a global whole must profoundly change...

this seems to point at pockyclypse far and wide, with the subsequent social reordering...
what sort of mythos needs to be promulgated in hopes of preventing a surviving culture from being so distracted and tunnel sighted as to screw it up all over again?

the tesla tunnelings and others must continue, we wont make an easy transition and will have to rely on subterranean refuge. the tesla tunnels [et.al.] are not for today or tomorrow only, as they will persist into the future millenia...
The threshold could be computed batchwise as you aggregate the stats out of band, so it would at least be dynamic, if not instantaneous.
Though you are not wrong in details, reality is a bit more complicated than that. The STS (shuttle) was pretty well engineered for the politically-driven requirements it had, and if not for the stupid don't-upgrade-human-rated-design mentality of space operations at NASA post-Challenger, it could have been iterated towards a cost effective solution (e.g. $150M per launch, 90's money). There were plans in place for this--flyback boosters instead of ocean recovery with impact and salt water damage; cross-fed H2/LOX boosters instead of explosion-prone SRBs; insulation-less external tank design; non-crewed variants with more payload to orbit; v2 of the main engine that would have required less refurbishment; etc. They just all got scrapped. Shuttle got expensive because of a bunch of unforeseen stuff that could have been fixed but they decided to work around instead.

For a look at the design itself and how remarkably shuttle achieved its goals, I'd suggest the MIT engineering course that covered it[0]. Also look at Shuttle-C[1] or Magnum[2] for an idea of how things could have gone.

[0] https://ocw.mit.edu/courses/aeronautics-and-astronautics/16-...
[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shuttle-C
[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Magnum_(rocket)
Apple Signs $600M Deal with Dialog
Confession - didn't read the article because the title shows that the author has its head in the wrong place. There shouldn't be comparisons like these because every ecosystem is different. USA has a mature startup ecosystem and is rather awesome. Also why the competition ? Startup ecosystems should crop up everywhere since these are so healthy for the world economy as a whole.
I hope they are also assessing the risk posed by hardware supply line hacks, regardless if the Bloomsberg article is factual. There are other concerns... https://foreignpolicy.com/2018/10/09/many-u-s-weapons-system...
Which places, and is this personal experience?

Every place around the world I've been to has been incredibly hospitable -- and the more besieged by war, or poverty, the more hospitable places tend to be. More so than your average street in the USA.
I was there at the time too and couldn't believe people were defending required. I had already run into enough problems with it that I stopped using it earlier, and I worked on a relatively small system with not that many moving parts! I can hardly imagine how much pain required must have caused in something like the indexing pipeline.

The thing I realized was that even if a field is present, you almost always still want to do further checks on it before declaring the whole thing valid and good to go. "required" just tells you that it's an integer, for example, it doesn't tell you if it's in the range [0, 1000). Or that a string is a valid filesystem path. Or that two parallel arrays are the same size. You have to do those things anyway, so the has_... check is no big deal. And making everything optional is really nice when you have to make large changes to your protocol and don't want to have to carry around dummy values forever.

Protocol buffers weren't designed from scratch by Jeff Dean, they evolved from various ad-hoc ways of specifying query parameters (which, ok, were probably mostly written by Jeff), so I don't think it reflects badly on him to say that required was a mistake. Groups were a mistake in retrospect too, but no one thinks that means Jeff is an idiot.
>writing off tons of people as untrustwothy...

I think that‘s what most people do. I‘m actually waiting for me to be „completely duped“ one time and deliberately exposing myself to this risk. However, my experience so far has lead me to believe: Most people are really nice and the few that aren‘t shouldn‘t really be tainting your interactions with others that you just happen to not know yet.
I can't find a source for a lot of the things he says... Norway is parking their F-35s outside under tarps while they build hangers, so the 0% humidity thing seems questionable
> especially when wealthy individuals or corporations engage in altruistic acts

I've found that rather than status envy, its cynicism towards the intentions of the person. If they believe the purpose of the altruism is to gain social standing rather than an actual belief in solving the problem they're likely to disparage them. For example - when a company spends $50k to send a sick child on a vacation and then puts down a $50 million marketing spend to show off what they did. It feels like 99% of politics in the US has the same problem.

That sort of leads to the question - what is an effective way to communicate that you want to be an effective do-gooder, without triggering the cynicism? Is attention truly orthogonal to people believing that you have good intentions? I'd argue not, but its been lost. It seems like we don't have many cultural heroes anymore. Einstein comes to mind - Bill Gates perhaps (though certainly not in the 90s)..
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I have trouble understanding the problem. Should Silicon Valley corner the market for startups? I believe in entrepreneurship and empowering people, this is excellent news. It will expand the number of startups exponentially, Chinese startups will learn things from US, and then teach us here few tricks. European startups will bring their own flare, South American ones will bring their own color to the mix. And amount of VC investment will explode, as it will be beyond just what US, or SV can provide.

I see this as a very good thing. What we should do is, find a way to collaborate with each other and to help each other do better.
That's one way to explain the last 100 years, sure.

Another way: militaries around the world stumbled upon a new source of low-hanging fruit (air supremacy), one that could win wars with just the slightest investment, as long as the enemy had invested less/none. Technological progress sped up in the space as everyone exploited the low-hanging fruit. Then, having picked all the low-hanging fruit, further advances in avionics were now just as expensive as advances in any other domain—so the world's military spending moved back to a general balance.

This same thing happened for submarines, and for steel-hulled warships before that. When R&D has higher ROI (i.e. wins more battles for less money) than simply building more of what you've got, you invest in R&D. When it doesn't, you don't.

For the latest 50-year period, the low-hanging fruit in military spending has been satellite technology—i.e., C2 and intelligence superiority. GPS-guided ICBMs on the one hand; reports from spies delivered over Iridium on the other. We got the Internet and cell phones from this one, before it slowed down.

But this latest R&D "sprint" has indeed had most of its low-hanging fruit plucked as well, which is why we've lately seen military R&D spending leak away from satellites and back into other targets—including avionics R&D! (Sometimes a mesh-network of jet fighters works better than a satellite uplink. Expensive, though.)

Not sure what the world's next military R&D focus might be. Cyberwar, maybe, but that might be point-of-view bias.
Apologies. That makes sense to me too off of the way I've heard it pronounced.
Decathlon in Spain has a very similar system. The first time I saw it I had the same reaction. Pretty exciting to experience it.
> 90% of everything is shit

in regulated/safety-critical industries such as automotive, aerospace & defense, medical, etc. where people's lives are at stake, 99% of end-user facing products are fantastic and you generally get what you pay for, with some minimum level of quality and manufacturer warranty

in high fashion, the politics are so vicious because the stakes are so low. and it has stirred emotions here because nobody likes to feel left out, and that's basically the point of high fashion, to appoint a select group of people as "cool" because they "get it" and can afford hot labels

I wouldn't say that this extends all through the art world - good design is key to a lot of functional and utility aspects of engineering or creating anything new. but nobody is going to be playing pick up basketball in their $800 balenciaga, or expecting any level of functionality/comfort from them besides fitting on their feet
You can use a symantec hardware token.

Paypal’s ceo is head of symantec’s board. Paypal must use symantec software wherever it is available, and their mfa is no exception.

This is still baffling as you say though, because symantecs mfa system does allow for other mechanisms.
The approach here sounds a bit like the ApDex metric New Relic has been doing for years? Is there something different I'm missing?