skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
How long will they be supported?

What is the cost per supported year?
No, the time was rather short. Americans made it by 1969 with almost no time to spare, and they arguably had more both time (USSR started working on the moonshot some years later) and resources (the same team which worked on N-1 also worked on strategic missiles). That's not to mention the whole point of JFK plan - to raise the bar high enough so USSR would be unlikely to get to the finish line first. JFK's advisers calculated time right.

The point where we started was that Soviets pioneered the space travel and remained - up no now - comparatively quite good at it. I'd attribute that both to good decisions made at the foundation of the industry - and to lack of commitment to space advancements on the West especially after Moon race and end of Cold War in general.
Yeah, the us invaded mexico in the 1800s and 1900s, and murdered millions of native americans, and uncountable lynching against black people.

Mexico came a long time ago, we aren't doing stuff like that anymore. Except when we invade small countries like panama, that we still do.
Google Cloud First to Offer Nvidia Tesla T4 GPUs
> There is only one significant user space implementation

Only one significant opensource implementation. Behind the scenes, SCTP is used to connect most telephone calls in the world.
It's daunting to think of how many words have been written in titles he cocreated.

He quite possibly helped create the largest piece of fiction humanity has ever written.
Developers can be given various (unappealing) options for everyday work. e.g. "Xcode on iCloud" or an ARM macOS VM on the iPad Pro that is sandboxed and restricted to the hilt with a 'developer App store' bolted on. The App store might include things like Xcode plugins, Unix tools, Homebrew etc. The VM might even even have mouse support :p
Apple announced that they were going to stop releasing numbers this coming quarter. Apple announced numbers during the quarter that just passed.
Obama was not an authoritarian. Bush 2 was maybe a little bit (remember after 9/11 and the spokesman said don't question the president). But trump is far far past all recent presidents in being an authoritarian. He lives for that, and sucks up to leaders like that in other countries. He says he doesn't want to get us in a war, but he seems willing to do anything to divert public attention (like his recent completely racist tv commercial he was pushing before the election).
$300,000 Instant Play Sweepstakes
This offer valid only in America
PLease join its free.enter your email
Users can enter their email for a chance to win $300,000 cash!
https://www.mb01.com/lnk.asp?o=10547&c=918273&a=348281&l=10409
Companies should not have a goal of destroying each other. That is exactly what monopoly law is designed to prevent. They should be concerned with effectively serving their customers. If Intel had stuck to that path, then they would not have been successfully sued for using monopoly tactics.
He'll probably become a spokesperson for Rent-A-Center before that happens.
Go back further and the US has been involved in overseas conflicts every year save for one year in the 1800's when we had a major steel strike, here.
I personally guarantee my work. If they don't like the work, I'll refund their deposit, revert the merge(s), and be on my way. I never bill for work that doesn't satisfy the client.
I don't quite see what's wrong with that part of Gagarin's award. Maybe some items could be of higher comparative value in USSR than they were elsewhere. Military uniform is usually provided by government, and it's not far from that to some element of underwear. What does it mean, in your opinion?
One of the best restaurants in Silicon Valley, Alexander’s in Cupertino is effectively in a strip mall next to a Target and it’s far better than most of the good restaurants in “character-filled” San Francisco locations.

It’s so snobby and inaccurate to suggest a strip mall restaurant is “bad.” With the economics of restaurants, a strip mall location is often a great idea.
A lot of people keep complaining about Apple raising their prices without considering that a) Apple knows people will pay it and b) they're making really solid machines that last longer. The MacBook Pro that I'm typing this on is closer to a decade old than is it new and is showing no signs of stopping. A friend of mine has had three name-brand PC laptops in that time.

I acknowledge the current prices are a hard pill to swallow, but the tool I use to generate my income isn't something I want to skimp on.
Why should small bookstores get a medal for being worse than shopping for books online. I can make dozens of worse experiences than Amazon. Should Amazon have to pay me for each one that is unprofitable?
Amazon Picks NYC and VA for HQ’s
>Google, Facebook, and Amazon control not only what you can do as a consumer...

???

I'm not sure this is true?

I don't feel like they are controlling me when I go to Target or Walmart??? But I'm not sure if there is something maybe with the advertising that is making me go to Target and Walmart? Either way, it's totally up to me as a consumer where I spend my money I would think.
The reason I've been concerned about this for a while is our degree of economic imbalance. War is historically the solution when things get like this. It's a way of selling Keynesianism to conservatives as well as a way to redistribute wealth through high taxes to fund war production.
How is this spurious? The maker of the components used to make FaceID cut their outlook. Since Apple is their largest (if only) customer that's a good indication that sales are slowing. Apple also recently said it will no longer make public the exact unit sales numbers.
> In order to compete with Google effectively, you'd have to build your own crawler etc.. It's essentially impossible. The number of engineers, data centres other components ... my gosh man.

The Internet Archive does this with an annual budget of $10M. That is clearly not a lot of money compared to the amount on the table.

> If Google decides to get into your line of business, and you are small, they will absolutely wipe you out if they want to, and it has nothing to do with having 'a better product'.

That is what happens if any multi-billion dollar company decides to get into your line of business.

> How could a mobile OS vendor compete in a market where Google is using billions from one market, to dominate a different one, like mobile OS?

This is conspicuously disproven by basically every mobile device maker around, who all maintain their own Android forks, plus Apple.

The point of Android wasn't to dominate the OS market, it was to commodify it -- which it did. But that's the opposite of anticompetitive. Now entering the OS market is trivial because you can start with Android, make zero or more changes to it and you have yourself an OS without paying Google or anyone else a dime. You don't even have to use Google search.
There is bit of difference between fitting dataset to some convenient parameterized function vs finding global minima of non-convex function. Also, paper claims that this can be done in polynomial time.

> The current paper proves gradient descent achieves zero training loss in polynomial time for a deep over-parameterized neural network with residual connections (ResNet).
This.

If history is any guide and seeing the iPhone 5s is going into its 5th year of being supported. Someone with an this years phone should be getting updates until 2023.
C# Abstract with Examples
> Because the cola market doesn't exist in isolation. Colas compete with all other sodas, with water, juices, etc. for a share of wallet and a share of stomach.

You don't understand how much Coke owns or creates do you? They own brands that do bottled water, tea, coffee, juice, milk, sports drinks, energy drinks, alcohol and more [1][2]. Hell, if its a beverage, Coke probably owns a brand that makes it. [3]

[1] https://www.coca-colajourney.com.au/brands/ [2] https://www.coca-colacompany.com/packages/brands [3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Coca-Cola_brands
NYC has much much more girls and boys, I know tons of male developer from west coast moving to NYC just to find their partner. And the anecdote is they mostly find one within weeks
> Once they've bled the competition dry, they can raise the prices again and benefit from full control over various parts of a market.

A thing that HNers have been speculating will happen for years, but which has so far failed to materialize.
How is the market missing that? Their service revenue is almost always front and center during conference calls, and what analysts herald as Apple's future.
A big part of the issue is that there is no iPhone XS with 128gb storage, and no iPhone XR with 4x4 MIMO. If those were the real prices then that would be one thing, but they're purposely making their base models all but unusable.
Inside Milan’s Casa Verdi, where musicians retire in harmony
I use Enpass and I like it, though I don't love it. I have a few pain points that make me consider looking elsewhere.

I like: No recurring price just buy once per platform and off you go, no hosted component it just uses my Google drive, ability to add additional items to the things it tracks like the places that insist on 5 "security questions", Android app with fingerprint is nice.

Things I don't like about Enpass:

- No ability to have multiple databases. I would really like to have the ability to have a database shared with my spouse, and one shared with my work.

- I never was able to get the Chrome integration to work on ChromeOS and that is my primary personal OS these days.

Generally it works well, but I'd love to get my wife using one, would like to have one I can share with my wife, and would like to replace our ancient work password vault that is Windows-only.
>No, they're saying a company can have too much economic power without being a full monopoly...

But that's not a problem.

Monopolies are problems, not strong economically powerful companies. I mean, up in my neck of the woods, ADM and Cargill are unimaginably powerful economically speaking. But it just makes no sense to say that they are as dangerous as having one company that IS the entire food market.
There's also those companies that advertise on TV to help inventors patent their ideas. No price is mentioned. I assume they fleece customers pretty hard.
The Signal Network
Why not link to the original source instead of some reddit post crap?

http://archive.wul.waseda.ac.jp/kosho/bunko11/bunko11_a0380/...
I saw a video on youtube saying that the bump in prices is because sales are slowing down year over year.

I have a bunch of Apple devices but haven't updated them in a couple of years. Prices are just prohibited for me.
Functional Programming for JavaScript with Build-In REPL
I can just add 1.1.1.1 as the DNS server in iOS Settings. What's the difference?
Except I think the model has very recently changed. In the past it used to be about “chasing the centre”, and as a result, parties tended not to stray too far from centrist policy positions, because when polled on actual policies, most people tend to be remarkably closely bunched.

However, recent events have proven that (short term) political success can be attained by pushing the edges. Now, instead of parties following the relatively centrist positions of the majority of people, they are actively pushing more extreme agendas, pulling people away from the centre (using various propaganda techniques), and locking large blocks of voters in behind positions quite distant and clearly distinct from those of their opponents. The success of this approach seems to be predicated on creating ambiguities, obfuscation and false dichotomies. I’d suggest that many fervent followers would be unable to correctly articulate actual policies of their parties vs repeating glib partisan mantras.

Or at least that’s how it seems to me.
this may be the first HN comment that increases in sarcasm exponentially with each paragraph.
I've been developing a theory about abduction stories overlapping with MK Ultra-type experimentation. There seem to be a fair number of parallels in the type of activities done to subjects of the MK projects (allegedly) and casting the alien abduction story on the victims makes deniability straight forward.

I haven't thought much about UFO sightings. I always find the ones with video, especially from arial sources interesting.
Heh, and my internet handle shows my position. I originally created this handle years ago because I wanted to comment on a gender-related issue in technology, and I felt that doing so under my real name would only be a net negative for my career (software management). It's not that I felt I would be pilloried for my views, but I certainly didn't think (and still don't) that it would be anything but a neutral-to-net-negative impact, so why risk that just for the edification of making a random internet comment?
No one is claiming sales are falling outright, but that they are slowing...and that is definitely the case. There is a reason why Apple has an incredibly low F P/E. Wall Street loves growth, cash cows usually get less love. That's why Microsoft was flat for ages despite having solid profits but no real growth arm. Then Azure happened and suddenly it's a growth stock. Apple will be just fine, obviously, I actually think the market's overreaction has more to do with overall jitters of the Trump trade war.
u8 exists for string constants, but not character constants.

they're proposing to add u8 as a character constant prefix.
> b) they're making really solid machines that last longer. The MacBook Pro that I'm typing this on is closer to a decade old

Erm... We can certainly conclude that a decade ago, they made long-lasting machines. The newer MBP are apparently defeated by a grain of sand.
How do you do that for non wifi??
Good points. I think we're mostly in agreement that NY needed to put a bid in, unrealistic to call for cities to boycott the bid process. And that the impact of Amazon building a 2nd HQ will be pretty big for the city, if not in $$ terms (which I still believe) then at least in perception and to get access to the young professional talent that would've gone into banking/consulting otherwise. Will be interesting to see how the city handles increasing tech gentrification vs. bankers moving to connecticut
b) they're making really solid machines that last longer.

The concern is their products are no longer lasting longer, they deny there are problems for long periods of time, and make it very hard to fix independently. The higher prices are worth it for quality, but they are cutting corners in places they shouldn’t for quality products.
I'm baffled by the price SAP paid tbh. The price SAP is paying for Qualtrics equates to around 20X sales, and there is no indication there is huge growth on the horizon or that this is a long term market.

Dennis Howlett knows a lot about SAP and wrote these early thoughts which I thought are on point.
https://diginomica.com/2018/11/12/qualtrics-acquired-saps-hi...
Yay! Centralisation
> Nowadays, any cool idea or problem you want to solve already has multiple solutions. Now, that's not completely true but I feel that it is harder to be a solo entrepreneur or have a small, lean, and efficient team that does more with less.

There was rarely a time when this wasn't the case. Hindsight might tell you otherwise, but consider that Wordpress was launched in 2003, long after blogging phenomenon started in 1997. Stripe was launched in 2010, long after Paypal, Authorize.net. Look around you, there isn't a lack of problems to be solved.

And I don't mean to cool-and-sexy stuff like VR and AI, but basic ones. Wordpress sucks. Why there isn't a CMS that combines static file generation with Wordpress' ease of customisability? Why is server administration still so hard? Why isn't there a programmer-friendly search engine that focuses of giving relevant examples (which constitute most of my Google queries)? Google Analytics shows too much stuff, why isn't there something simple for bloggers and publishers?

I accept, these ideas might be not be great, but these are problems I face frequently. Chances are even you (and people around you) would have frustrating problems that can be solved.
No doubt there are more spec differences between the two. I don't know Android hardware well enough to find a proper Android-to-Apples comparison, so I went with a current flagship from Google and the two specs that (I suspect) most users care about: size and storage.
Automating Data Science: Feature Engineering
It's cheap unless:

a) you're a hobbyist/minor (effective budget of $0)

b) you're on cloud hosting and go over without a budget set
Pedal desks could address health risks of sedentary workplace
Interesting. What does `type grep` say? Is it possible that it's /usr/local/bin/grep from homebrew/macports/…, and that /usr/bin/grep is BSD grep?

I found a comment claiming that prior to 10.8 (2012, Mountain Lion) it used GNU grep, but nothing I'd feel comfortable citing.
The details of the NoVA bid have not been released or leaked yet, to my knowledge.
I think many cases of what you hear on Twitch falls squarely under fair use.
30-seconds-of-code: JavaScript Snippets you can understand in 30 seconds
Also London, Tokyo, Shanghai, Hong Kong for some modern contenders. Paris is a close runner up.
Future of work is NOT for freelancers,its time for a better freelancing platform
Please don't slander The Posthuman Dada Guide: Tzara and Lenin Play Chess[1]

[1] https://press.princeton.edu/titles/8846.html
What to Do If You're Abducted by Aliens, According to Michio Kaku
Failed to materialize would be objectively wrong. I even gave you a direct example in the tactics that Walmart pulled in order to destroy local stores.

You can also look at how dreadful the situation is for ISPs in America.
Try selling them both 3 years from now. You’ll get that chunk back.
With current state of things YouTube will be toast virtually with any copyright regulation. Huge amount of popular content on YouTube is stolen and retrofitted for your viewing pleasure. This is a raving cottage industry on YouTube and unthinkable just couple of decades ago when studios were going crazy over copyright infringement. You can find several old TV series, movies etc posted by others and comfortably ripping of ad revenue.
Show HN: DIY motion-detecting security camera
In all honesty iOS 12 rolling out to the iPhone 5s - a five year old device - showed their commitment to that. It will be supported at least until iOS 13 which is next year, giving the device six years of software updates.

And the iOS 12 update was actually quite good and breathed life into older phones.

I don't think there was ever much concern about MacBooks not lasting long - they definitely hold up. The concerns lay with iPads and iPhones, and they're most certainly holding up now.

This shift is actually the reason why I moved back to Apple after leaving the ecosystem back in 2011 or so.
An ESOP is used to allow the owners to sell their stock to employees. The owners benefit by getting a tax break, and the employees benefit because they're allowed to pay for the stock out of the future earnings of the company rather than needing to pay out of pocket. Most co-ops are formed using ESOPs, but not every company that does an ESOP becomes a co-op. For example, a company could just sell 20% of its stock to its employees but still remain largely owner controlled.

Even if you start a company knowing you want it to be a co-op, the best practice is currently just make it a C Corp and keep it that way until it's profitable and stable and no longer growing quickly. Unfortunately there currently aren't really good ways to finance co-ops, so creating a traditional company and then later converting it via an ESOP seems to be the recommended practice. I think there are some people working on better alternatives, but I don't follow the space super closely.
Ecclesiastes 4:6 - "Better one handful with tranquillity than two handfuls with toil and (anxious) chasing after the wind."

In fact, just read the whole book of Ecclesiastes if you want some sobering realities on the nature of the hustle, the grind, the striving for material things:

https://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Ecclesiastes+2&...
While I agree about productivity now (although rewriting a source for cat that is used decades later seems very productive), I think the above commenter has it correct that it was probably a side project that he worked on and released after 6 months and not so much the speed of the CPUs.
You're begging the question by assuming the EU should get to define "responsible" for YouTube, or that they've done so correctly.
the new macbook air starts at €1349 (ca $1500) in Belgium and you really want the one for €1599 (ca $1800).

for the same money, you get other laptops that are really nice with a cost/return ratio that is a lot better.

sure, apple products are good products. but the premium is getting absurdly high
A maker. Are they the only supplier of these particular components?
How much would Google charge me to put a prominent banner next to the search box saying that Google recomends w3m for the best browsing experience on Google search?

My guess is they would have considered it before they had their own browser, but now that chrome is something they've invested in, it seems like something that is not for sale.

How much of an impact is that placement? I don't really know, but I bet Google has data on it. Discovery on a case like this would be interesting.

Anyway, the point is that's something they can do, because they control so much of search. Bing putting up a banner that says hey, why don't you use Edge, pretty please doesn't have as much impact, because Bing has a smaller market share.
Also see his followup post here: https://dbmsmusings.blogspot.com/2018/09/newsql-database-sys...
Problem is on wifi that the whole syn/ack pattern gets lost and has to retry. I could have probably optimized this by having a range, but afaik if any in the range fail it has to still re-send that packet and get an ack.

I'm not sure if HTTP/3 will have a way to do selective re-sending, but that is how very versatile lossy video streams do it. I-frames can get re-sent while normal frames can be lost.
Define A.

A $5/mo digital ocean instance comes with 1TB of transfer. That's a lot unless you're doing something like self-hosting video.

Heroku free tier includes up to 2TB/month.

Even the free tier of AWS comes with 15GB/month.
The Internet is assembled out of duct tape. We apologize for the design.
Apple services are also not very good outside of Apple's platform:

Apple Music - Only major service which requires you to install iTunes to play with all kinds of funky issues. (ex: try to play an Apple music video fullscreen on a multi-screen system and all other screens goes to BLANK, I mean seriously??)
Apple Maps - Not available on non Apple devices
iCloud - You only pay for this when you are heavily invested on iOS ecosystem.

Apple services works best on Apple products today; the real question is whether the price increase just forces your average consumers to buy/keep used/older products or they would switch to alternatives.
C's variable-length arrays are one example. They were introduced in C99, and downgraded to 'optional' in C11. So that's one place where a newer C compiler could refuse old C code and still be language compliant.

Also the draft C2x standard does away with K&R declarations, which will be another compatibility break.
Configuring with iOS settings sends unencrypted DNS requests to 1.1.1.1 and, as a result, the sites you access can be seen in your internet traffic by people like your Mobile provider (when using mobile internet) or the local cafe (when using their WiFi) or your home ISP (when using your home WiFi).

This app enables your DNS requests to be encrypted. Your requests are still seen by Cloudflare, of course.