skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The Turing complete one.
The hardware budget for an arcade machine could be higher because the economics are to sell a relatively small number of units at relatively high unit cost. On the other hand the hardware development budget was more limited than for consumer home computers or consoles, as that is spread over only the small number of units.

The effect is arcade machines almost never had custom chips, but often had duck-taped-together designs that threw in extra chips to accomplish tasks.

Contrast to a machine like the Commodore 64 or Nintendo which had custom sound and graphic chips but where the overall chip count and unit cost was ruthlessly controlled.
There are two fact there, neither of which needs further checking. One is that the current glasses don't block OLED screens. The other is that the company owners hope to find a way to block more screens.

I agree that there's reason to think that hope is unlikely to be fulfilled. Talking to someone on staff won't help, though. What you want is for the reporter to interview a few different actual experts on display technologies and optical filtering and have at least one of them say something that dismisses the hope.

From the writer's perspective, I'm not sure what that would add to the article. Wired's whole shtick has been excitement about the possibilities of technology, often at a level that borders on technoutopianism. And smart experts rarely make sweeping statements about what's totally impossible; they're much more likely to say that it can't be done with this technology or that they think it will be a hard problem to solve. So it's not going to be a compelling quote, and it'll be a fair bit of work to get.
I don't doubt demand exists. I'm just curious as to why.
Reminds me of one interesting thing I heard about younger generations - they know social media is a facade intuitively growing up with it. I guess it is the adults who fall for the keeping up with the Jonses facade gilding contests and don't realize their lawyer neighbor managed to get deep in debt despite making six figures in a five figure COL area.

I have noticed a fundamentally disturbing thing about many who are essentially LARPing adulthood by following social pressures blindly - going through the motions of social spending, marriage and having kids not out of a desire for any of them but because they think that is what adults do.
"While Apple, Google, and Facebook are beginning to offer tools to better understand how much we use their devices and services, those companies can’t viably fix technology addiction because their businesses prevent them from doing so."

Apple's business doesn't. I think Screen Time and App Limits will likely become two of Apple's main competitive advantages going forward because of it -- there's no way Google or Facebook could offer such a product for their services in any meaningful way without destroying their core business.
I'd have called it Amber. A natural gemstone, as is a pearl, but takes a lot longer to form :)
The right to an attorney is more complicated. It isnt a free attorney. Only the poor get one provided. If you can, you have to provide your own.

I also hesitate to describe any right at a check on power. That suggests planning, an overall design. There is no grand master plan. We have a series of rights rooted in history and tradition. Religion has played a large part. The system has never been designed. Even the founders writing of the constitution was really just a tweeking of some longstanding ideas.

The percieved "balance" is fiction. Other countries have very different rights and do not tip into chaos. Canada lacks the right to a jury trial, and yet somehow isnt a lawless dictatorship. The UK has a very different concept of free speech, yet the BBC is probably the most trusted source of news on the planet. Other systems work, perhaps better.
I went down a rabbit whole and eventually stumbled upon this small webpage documenting changes from 1900 to 2000.

https://demography.cpc.unc.edu/2014/06/16/mortality-and-caus...

I also pulled up car accident fatalities and found it interesting that we peaked in the 30s and 40s per capita in the US, despite the major investment of the highway system in the 50s which one could have presumed would have made it far worse given the combination of speed and lack of air bags. Then again, my anecdotal experience says that I know far more people killed or severely injured from country driving and small town DUI than highway driving.

I wonder what the 2100 graph will say? Will that cancer chunk be eliminated or mostly scrunched down? Will we have figured out how to grow new hearts so we eliminate heart disease? Hope I live long enough to find out (I’d be 115).
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Seems like ambergris[0] would be rarer since you can’t cultivate it in any way. Just have to stumble upon it.

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambergris
The obvious question, to me, is whether this process can be used to produce a uniform enough product to be highly reliable.
Ok, I'm out of this conversation. I'm not interested in playing games.
Makes you wonder how the previous owner could have not noticed the shredder.
"There is a slot at the bottom of my insanely valuable Bansky artwork's frame and I can see parts of a machinery through it, but it probably doesn't mean anything."
I have a Code Keyboard and a Pok3r keyboard. They are both very good but I prefer the feeling of the Pok3r. Keep in mind that's a 60% keyboard so you need to be good at coding without depending on the arrow keys too much.
In my own experience struggling with addiction I've found that it is a symptom rather than a cause. Once you craft a life that is actually stimulating the tech loses its hold over you pretty quickly, if not instantly (for example when you go on a weekend outing in nature and completely forget your phone). Of course, the time and energy wasted due to the dysfunctional behavior presents a chicken-and-egg roadblock against making this happen.

I recall the studies showing the difference between Vietnam veterans who got hooked on dope and those who didn't, as well as Bruce K. Alexander's Rat Park experiments.

The other thing I've learned is that control or blocking tools can be self-defeating, since they transform fighting the addiction into a perpetually unfinished task ("It's been Y time since I did X") that naturally remains to the forefront of your brain and leaves you vulnerable if you end up in an environment without those restrictions. It's ultimately easier to address the underlying causes of trying to escape through technology.
If you subscribe to the idea that FAANG interviews are IQ tests, then by definition you won’t be able to isolate the effects of the program. I don’t think we really move the needle on IQ.
While I think this is a good thing, an additional requirement is needed. The published notebook should be sequentially executed by an automated tool. Users can execute commands out of order and have artifacts from deleted commands. Without verification, you can be publishing notebooks with bugs in them that you don't see until you re-execute them.
Yes, we had the idea since 2015, sadly we were rejected from a few accelerator programs and even Y-combinator twice. We are only a 2 people team, with less technical skills/self funded. We were tired of rejections then spent time completing university degree and work. Only took it seriously, last year after we got good feedback from tech crunch AUS event. iOS, we are fixing some bugs before we can alpha test it in 1 week.
What if the Chinese social engineered to get people to write this story. Meta.

In seriousness though this is starting to smell like the whole story is plain wrong. Which is fascinating, however it came to be.
I learned perl almost solely because I love Larry Wall's personality.
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The same reason the spiritual successor to Modula was named Modula-2 by Wirth.
Civilians think unemployment means people don't have a job. Reality is its a measure designed in the 30s and heavily gamed and politicized to not mean very much.

A somewhat more realistic measure would be something like FREDs EM ratio. About a decade ago 62% of the population was employed, and after the great recession we've slowly climbed back up to 60%. Flat at 58% from the great recession until 2014, then continuous growth since. Sure theres boomers dying off, but that means demand dying off too, in theory the ratio should be fairly constant. FRED is an online product of the St Louis Federal Reserve; at least semi-trustworthy, surely more trustworth than unemployment stats.

Its not so much intentional dishonest as changing the definitions of what it means to be unemployed with all kinds of moral and ethical boundaries for welfare services etc. On the other hand, the percentage employed is reported honestly as a simple percentage of the population with a job. To have a job is a honest observational result; to be in the legal and welfare state of qualifying for unemployment benefits is a totally different kind of subjective observation. We could have 0% unemployment simply by not providing benefits anymore, which is kinda what we're doing.

Anyway the point is the last time the employment percentage was as low as 60% was after the 1983 recession; the graph is surprisingly not very dramatic and the percentage of employed americans post WWII has never been below 55% and never above 65%. None the less, the current stat of 60% is 3% below the peak in '07, almost 5% below the peak in '99, 3% below the peak in '90... For most of the 80s, all of the 90s, all of the 00s, employment was higher than it is now. Admittedly its better now than at the end of '09, but hardly at a high number.

As such, given that about 3% of the population was very recently working and now is not, we have a long way to go before any wage pressure.
Some 8-bit arcade systems also had multiple CPUs; IIRC Galaga had 3 Z80 CPU's working together and I think Qix had 2. Would have loved an dual or triple CPU 8-bit computer in the 80's.
There are health plans that don't cover a childbirth?
You are not kidding. We have had numerous issues with them lately. Their servers go down. API endpoints that are supposed to return json return cloudflare gateway error HTML instead... We are investigating moving to SendGrid right now. We REALLY need to find a reliable email service. It has been a shit-show and our clients are frustrated.
If you can't immediately figure out how to properly set up and adjust a contractor's table saw, do you blame the table saw for being developed for professional contractors instead of newbies?

User friendlyness is a feature, and like all features it's not always worth adding to professional tools.
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It seems inevitable to me that as ML-based algorithms get better at exploiting the quirks in our monkey brains and keeping us on platforms for longer and longer periods, somebody will need to develop a counter-algorithm that lives in a browser extension or (somehow) on your device and is able to recognize unhealthy engagement patterns and make you aware of them.

Actually implementing such a thing in a way that's performant and trustworthy and marketing it to people who maybe aren't consciously aware of how easily the brain can be manipulated involves a number of tough challenges, but it seems like it'll have to happen eventually.
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It'd already been noted that the frame was unusually thick
In a way, this resembles a technique that is sometimes (but should not be) used in the interrogation of criminal suspects: raise hypothetical questions, and then write up the replies as if they were statements/confessions of what actually happened.
> He wants to do many more experiments because it’s still not clear how, in mass timber buildings, to get compartment fires to reliably burn out on their own, a “cornerstone of fire safety engineering design,” he writes.

In this context, the article's later comparison of this wood to concrete seems exaggerated.
trigger warning: mouse clocks

http://rainbow.arch.scriptmania.com/scripts/mouse_clock.html
Really great advice here. But missing one key area:

Continuous Delivery / Change Management. I believe any policy without change management principles isn't really complete, especially when its about 12factor which is considered a gold standard for production.

* CLIs are notoriously difficult to update because you have to convince every single consumer to update it manually, otherwise you just have scattered logic everywhere. Having an update workflow is essential before releasing the first version in production.

* Closely tied, a clear Backwards compatibility policy.

Apart from those two major items, I have also found one optionally nice pattern to reason about CLIs:

Design CLIs like APIs wherever possible. Treat subcommands as paths, arguments as identifiers, and flags as query/post parameters. It's not always applicable, but doing that for large internal tools helps against the "kitchen sink" syndrome.
One guy named as a source in the original article claims the backdoor sounds too complicated too him, not that he "doesn't accept the story as written".
No, but if members that have security clearances were clued in on it, they would not be able to divulge anything and would be compelled to say nothing.
Please elaborate on why SendGrid was a significant mistake for you. We are looking at moving to them from Mandrill, since their stability has been terrible for us.
Thanks - yes I meant to mention, that statically linked (and stripped of symbols) I get 745k for the C hello world with gcc 7.2, so the gap isn't as big as all that. I understand that shared libraries/dynamic linking is still a WIP for rust so it's not exactly a fair comparison yet. With a shared standard library you also get the benefit of having the RAM shared across multiple processes.

The 145 byte example also not being a fair comparison, since you've left out the standard library! Obviously C can do that too, but it's pretty neat to see the progress rust is making.

(anyway, I'm going off topic since we're discussing kernel programming here).
I do not know about all jurisdictions, but in my region of the world, the high school completion rate jumped by approximately 20 percentage points right around that time (from ~60% to ~80%). Assuming that holds true elsewhere, it stands to reason that with more people graduating high school, more people are likely to be accepted into higher levels of schooling. With more people attending higher level schools, the increase in demand (without an immediate increase in supply – it takes a long time to build new schools and even longer to recognize them as respected institutions), means price is going to rise.
The processor comment is a bit irrelevant, but the argument is about the batteries, not the processor. Besides which, he immediately presents a couple of other theories.
Agree, Bloomberg was a tech company long before it was a media company. And Bloomberg himself would probably be in the top five of the richest list if he ever took it public (he owns 88% of the company).
It looks like you're correct about the mountain pine beetle infestations, which I wasn't familiar with. Not that you can pick trees up off the forest floor, but in some drier areas the pines apparently remain standing and commercially usable for a few years.
> there is far more to life than money

I feel like this is a sentiment that is often missed on HN. So many postings talk about job hopping to optimize money.

To OP, i suggest finding a small company that makes physical products. They will always need people who are jacks of all trades. To me that keeps it interesting.
Why don’t business leaders consider good coder for management?
OT, but not much, if you google for "petrol blue" you will find a lot of colours that many people would call "green" and if you look for "petrol green" you will find a lot of colours that many people would call "blue".

We used to have a car of the exact shade of green (or blue) that people called alternatively green or blue, often only because of different lighting.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/petrol_blue
I think we hate our telephones more than we used to and I have a theory about why. The time lag between saying something and the other person hearing it is very noticeable on cell phones as compared with landlines. This makes conversations very annoying. Person A will begin speaking and then half a second later, they'll hear Person B "interrupting". Of course Person B didn't know he was interrupting because he hadn't yet heard Person A begin to speak. Then they both stop talking, followed by some dead air. And then they both yield to one another. "No, you go ahead, please". For whatever reason, landlines seem to have lower latentency and this doesn't happen.

That and of course there are a zillion more interesting things to do on a smart phone than talk to someone.
example of underappreciation: chrome no longer respects /etc/hosts so I can't block my addictions the simple way
He bought it by proxy.
I mean: these are experts, they sell stuff valuated at millions of $, they must inspect what they sell. It's not about about security at first: it's more about if the thing is authentic, if the thing is in good shape, if it will not break during transport or display, how to store/hang it properly, ...

After that, they must have been suspicious about the weight, the bottom hole, ... and must have done additional, more detailed checks, even a scanner to see what's inside. It's not like it was a simple piece of paper they had in hands, it's a million $ strange heavy thing.

Anyway, it shows very bad about them if they didn't see what was "wrong" with this piece.
I’d guess they don’t believe a one-year conversion course from a university is a superior education to Lambda School (I don’t know about the quality of those in the UK other than that a few universities have already reached out asking us to replace theirs), with a hint of opportunity cost of the extra time. The fact that it can be done from home May also play a role, or maybe they don’t have a degree in the first place.
Also, if you want to be scared straight TV provides no value to your life. Don't get me wrong it is a great source of entertainment, but that's about it.

If you want to grow pick up a book and read. Written word is much more powerful at developing rational thought and conveying ideas.

tin foil hat alert Ultimately, TV is a propaganda machine, every aspect of which is engineered for marketing consumerism. The same artistic tools that are used to convey the emotion of a scene are used to get you to buy a certain thing/vote a certain way/support a certain movement.Think about the last thing you bought, then think about why you bought it.
According to the Code of the Geeks, P+++++ means: I am Larry Wall, Tom Christiansen, or Randal Schwartz.

So yeah, not many people may claim that.
Ironic reading this during an undeserved HN binge...
"putting two pieces of silicone in a single package"

Is it the expert or the journalist who doesn't know the difference between silicon and silicone?
I don't know what they mean, but I know that I really dislike how PS's autocomplete works.

If the possible commands are (for the sake of discussion) `Get-AppLockerFileInformation` and `Get-AppLockerPolicy`.

If you type `Get-App` and hit Tab, it will autofill to `Get-AppLockerFileInformation` which I just really don't like, and I need to keep hitting tab to cycle through all other possible `Get-App*` commands.

What I want is some UI that when I hit tab it autocompletes as much as possible until there's a decision to make, and then shows me the options. So in my example case, it would look something like this:

Type `Get-App` -> hit tab -> shows `Get-AppLocker` -> type "P" -> hit tab -> `Get-AppLockerPolicy` is displayed

bash-ish systems nail this, and they even have the "double tab" to list all options from that point which is normally pretty nice.

The PS idea of "keep hitting tab or shift-tab while you cycle through all possible options" sucks in comparison. Especially with discoverability (There are about 20 commands on my windows system that start with "Get-App", and in order to figure them all out I just need to keep hitting tab until it cycles around)
Not sure about Facebook, but Google is already beta testing exactly what you're talking about:

https://www.theverge.com/2018/8/6/17655520/google-digital-we...

I have it on my Pixel 2 and it works great.
This!

It's not about the mistake that led to the breach. It's about what you do once you become aware of it as a company, as a team, and as an individual.

I am quite confused about how poor this has been handled by Facebook recently and now Google follows suit.
Surely this Apple execs would be the first execs to ever lie.

I'm interested by the Bloomberg follow up or if they fold.
> ...8.5TB in 90 days is less than 10mbps.

The arithmetic is correct but that's not the correct value. The I/O necessary for reconstructing one 8.5TB drive in a (100,20) Reed-Solomon group is 850 TB, which comes out to 875 Mbit/s, averaged over 90 days. It's not uncommon to see data centers with 10 Gbit/s connections, and sure, maybe it's a 10 Gbit/s per link on a Clos fabric but it's hard to claim that this bandwidth usage is trivial.

The point is not that the rebuild is prohibitively expensive or impossible, the point is that as the group size increases, the cost of data reconstruction increases and the cost of the encoding overhead decreases. At some point the cost savings from reduced encoding overhead are smaller than the additional I/O costs incurred by reconstruction. So the ideal encoding size is not as large as possible, but some medium size which balances the cost of the encoding overhead with the cost of reconstruction.

And consider that if any of this data is being served, you incur the 100x I/O penalty immediately.

> Real servers are going to have vastly faster connections and probably a lot fewer drives, so honestly that petabyte of I/O is not a big deal in context. In practice you could replace failed drives in a day, and the limiting factor is the speed of a single drive, not the network.

The Internet Archive has 24 disks per machine, I believe.

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

> In practice you could replace failed drives in a day, and the limiting factor is the speed of a single drive, not the network.

To rebuild an 8.5TB drive in 1 day requires 78 Gbit/s of bandwidth. Even inside a data center, oof.
I am not sure which game you are referring to?

You are quite welcome to explain why everyone should have equal access to guitar school, schooling provided beyond the schooling the government provides to everyone. It is not clear to me why that is beneficial. What do we, as a society, gain by allowing everyone a chance to learn how to play guitar, irrespective of how much money they have?

I suspect the game here is that you are staring to realize that it is not actually beneficial to provide schooling to everyone beyond the schooling we already provide to everyone.
Life expectancy is going to drop due to 150 million premature deaths from CO2 over the 21st century unless we can reduce CO2 emissions. https://www.nature.com/articles/s41558-018-0108-y

And this says nothing about the direct and indirect deaths from rising sea levels: famine, wars, pandemics, etc.