skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If people like sports, they should express that preference not by spending tax payer dollars on stadiums, but paying higher prices on tickets to fund the increased cost of the stadium. That way, the market mechanism signals what is the appropriate level of resources society should spend on this kind of thing and instead of some backroom negotiation.
That's still 2+ years longer than a non-iOS phone would stay current.
If you're using a decent graphics driver, the mouse pointer is a sprite.
I hope at least some of them are working on Alexa's seeming inability to do any kind of learning on the go. For instance if, as you repeatedly inform me, there's no station called Summer FM Groove Salad, then maybe, just maybe, I mean Soma FM Groove Salad, like the one in ten times you hear me correctly.
Look on eBay; there are a lot of SE's available for a good price. It's a great time to buy one and save it for when you need it. At some point the supply will get low enough that the price for a new one will noticeably increase, but we aren't at that point yet.
I love my XR. The battery life is absolutely spectacular. It’s no iPhone 7 repeat by any stretch of the imagination.
I'm not sure I agree -- reducing the number of round trips is definitely important in reducing latency for the system in the WAN context, a quote from the SDPaxos paper:

> In the wide area, latency is dominated by network communication,which is decided by the number of round trips, and the distance tothe replica to contact. The test for Multi-Paxos is omitted becauseits disadvantage is obvious: client has to communicate with theremote leader, as long as it is not co-located with the leader.The replicas and clients for wide-area experiments are deployedin California (CA), Oregon (OR), Ohio (OH), Ireland (IRE) and Seoul(SEL). The sequencer of SDPaxos locates in CA. The round-triptimes (ping latencies) between these regions are shown in Table 1.

I think this case is even worse than most real world cases people are dealing with today. Google/Facebook might have data centers this spread out, but I feel like 90% of the people who read that post will be worried about multiple regions in America.
I’ve had an SE for almost 3 years and would prefer a similarly sized and priced model for my next phone. I don’t want a giant phone or to pay $1000 for it.
> But don't make the mistake of thinking your wellbeing/happiness is dependent upon XYZ externally.

What do you base your well-being or happiness in?
Ok, I will check these links to try to generate log files.

Because the Linux kernel for sure is going crazy in my new laptop. The lack of AMD support is mindblowing, to say the least.
Just because you come off strong with your counter-opinion doesn't mean you are right.

There is definitely credence to the thought that the notch is horrendous. I along with my entire household and most of my coworkers are, anecdotally, another example that won't come close to owning something that decides to cut into the screen. It's just so off-putting. There is no getting used to it.

For a phone and company that touts its self as a status symbol and the "pinnacle of design" they have made a couple of really bad design and usability decisions of late, the touchbar being the other egregious example.
The part on the placebo SSL certificate is interesting (https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~pgut001/pubs/book.pdf#page37). Do users really ignore the big red warnings that web browsers give for invalid certificates? I imagine that it has to do with the fact that someone would rather be able to do what they want to do instead of heeding a warning they don’t understand.
So the recorded sound appears to be a red herring, and we're no closer to understanding the nature of the attack.
How do you define "throughly" anyway? Just like a comment in the original post,

>>But anything less than 100% coverage guarantees that some part of the code is not tested...

> And anything less than 100% race coverage similarly guarantees a hole in your testing. As does anything less than 100% configuration-combination coverage. As does anything less than 100% input coverage. As does anything less than 100% hardware-configuration testing. As does ...
Even something niche. I want a great course in computability theory. HN is almost 100% ML these days, as if ML is the only exciting thing happening in CS world. Very disappointing.
I've always had impression that in most cars of past 10 years with ESP/ESC it would be impossible to loose control like that.

I've had slipped once on snowy road and ESP/ESC was immediate to regain control. I've slipped maybe 50cm sideways.

Mate tried to showcase this on gravel road and it was impossible to loose control of the car (circa year 2000 Opel).

How is it possible to swerve so much with Tesla? Has anyone lost control this much with ESP/ESC before?
I notice Amazon's wording about this is pretty careful. The device could still be processing conversations locally to some extent and still be adhering to the wording.
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Too bad the CD format makes it difficult to get a perfect rip. I prefer a FLAC (or WAV as I occasionally see) download over CDs, but CDs are my second choice, especially for older albums with used copies available.
> Or did they not look at any data at all and simply go with "we better follow Apple on this, just in case".

It looks that way and it looked that way for years. What a shame.

There are still devices with good designs out there -- Sony, Nokia and Xiaomi mostly come to mind -- but the general trend has been "let's all add a notch".

:(
That's not a problem with the 7 per se, that's a problem with Apple's exploitative pricing strategy blocking a trivial engineering/marketing option.

The glass back thing is a matter of taste, sure, but caring what material is inside the case is a bit silly.
Again, what are you talking about? It is growing spectacularly.

https://www.google.com/search?hl=en&q=apple%20watch%20growth
The obvious answer is size. It's not that I can't carry an iPhone 7 in my hands or anything, but I just have no use for the bigger screen, so the extra bulk is literally useless. I still feel like the iPhone SE is the perfect phone form factor, and it's sad that there are basically no options for those of us who want one.
Nitpick, but I think housing can grow faster than wages by a couple mechanisms. First, if supply is heavily constrained and people are trying to move to the area, what they might do is start sharing homes. Average wage doesn't change, but the number of wage earners in a home increases. Second, speculative investors can raise prices indefinitely since they aren't even earning a wage in that area - but I do think it's often overstated how much of an influence this has had in actual cities that have had housing cost explosions like Vancouver
I've made a lot of progress in my mental models recently by implementing the perceptron in Excel
Your goal should be to find meaning in what you do, not finding something meaningful to do.

Understand the distinction.
Also not the case. In the updated store design there are many tables of them in the center of the store. More than before.
Broadly speaking though, it is because the criminal justice system in the US focuses on conviction as the metric of success, not whether the conviction is of the correct person -- it is simply whether there is sufficient evidence to convince the jury, or sufficient fear to garner an quick plea bargain.

Tens of thousands of people confess to crimes is because they are given the option:

- 6 months for a plea bargain confession

- 10-20yrs if they "fight the charges" but get convicted in court

Many cannot afford expensive lawyers, so often times, the odds are stacked against them in court.

In more select scenarios, people confess to crimes they had nothing to do with because of pressure applied. One of many examples would be that of https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jon_Burge
In summary: [Innocent person] + [cowprod electrocution] = [guilty confession]

Edit: flow
It’s hard to believe we were joking amicably with each other just three months ago. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17962928

One long-time HN user emailed me recently: I would encourage you to work something out with Dan eventually. You both seem reasonable enough that you can probably work something out if you want to.

I’d like to attempt to.

It would be more productive for both of us if we bury the hatchet than continue this. Perhaps we can agree that it’s better to spend our time growing our respective communities than to continue engaging here.

I hope it’s clear by now that it’s harder to reshape behavior with intimidation than communication. And communication – not even justification, just communication – is all that I’ve been asking for.

That said, I’m trying to see things from your perspective as well. You seem to believe that I’m here to cause you problems. I’m not. The goal has been to highlight what can happen when you exercise power without caution. I have been trying to believe that you are simply overworked rather than malicious.

Ultimately, it’s your decision how to proceed. If you insist on continuing this and giving no recourse, that’s fine. I just hope you find this situation as intriguing as I do.
I think a good place to start would be here: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_notetaking_softw...
How do I reach maximum tech engineers/creators?
I want to inform tech engineers and creators about a slack channel I recently created. The channel, mvphacks.slack.com, is for engineers who are working on an MVP to discuss their challenges and share their experiences with other engineers. What all online avenues should I use to reach maximum number of tech engineers who are working on their ideas and trying to build an MVP? What online forums or methods would you recommend to get in touch with fellow engineers?

Thank you!

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Cell phones and tablets could already be doing this, it's not unique to the ladies in cans.
Thanks a lot for all clarifications.
Easy. 50% of devs promoted to management go back to dev within 12 months (or so I keep hearing).
7 is discounted 15% and 8 is discounted 25%, and they aren't so old.
I'm shocked Apple doesn't fill this market. Many of my friends prefer SE-sized phones. I have friends who aren't upgrading from the SE specifically because they can't get a comparably-sized phone.

I bought my wife the XS, not because it has a fancier display, but purely because it was the smallest model available - and it's still too big for her.
A few odd glitched zones and it doesn't cover the whole world but overall this one is pretty neat. With all of the work put in it's a bit of a bummer it doesn't let you select negative values.
That may be so, but the fact is that I can't buy a new 64GB iPhone 7.

The trouble with a glass back is that it can still shatter when dropped even if it has a case on it.
With how easy it is to get a home equity line of credit and/or refinancing, owning a house is not nearly as good a way to "force" savings as it used to be.
Google Made a Typo: "Error 400 (OAuth2 Error)!!1"
This has always been my problem with the "many eyes make all bugs shallow" theory. It's a random walk. The most common features and configurations will get tested over and over and over well beyond the point of usefulness. Less common features might not get tested at all. In fact it's worse than a random walk, because usage is even more concentrated in a few areas. Yes, the fuzzers etc. do find some bugs, but relative to the size and importance of the project itself they're smaller than they would be on most other kinds of projects.

There's just no substitute for rigorous unit and/or functional tests, constructed with an eye toward what can happen instead of just what commonly does happen in the most vanilla usage. Unfortunately, UNIX kernel development - not just Linux - has never been strong on that kind of testing. Part of the reason is the inherent difficulty of doing those sorts of tests on such a foundational component. Part of it is ignorance, which I mean as simply "not knowing" and not as an insult. Part of it is macho kernel-hacker culture. Whatever the reasons, it needs to change.
It should be a feature of the OS/desktop environment! MacOS has this feature (in the Help menu), and I've seen proposals to add it to GNOME. I thought KDE was also going to add it via krunner, but I haven't seen it yet.
Scratchapixel[1] is also a helpful resource for explaining the basic concepts.

[1] http://www.scratchapixel.com/
Is using 4chan known to compromise one's programming skills?
Has anyone tried to build an open-source voice assistant using the $100 Respeaker far-field mike array dev board, https://respeaker.io & http://wiki.seeedstudio.com/ReSpeaker_Core_v2.0/?

> ReSpeaker Core v2.0 is designed for voice interface applications. It is based on the Rockchip RK3229, a quad-core ARM Cortex A7, running up to 1.5GHz, with 1GB RAM. The board features a six microphone array with speech algorithms including DoA (Direction of Arrival), BF (Beam-Forming), AEC (Acoustic Echo Cancellation), etc. ReSpeaker Core v2.0 runs a GNU/Linux operating system ... Our BF and AEC algorithms are provided by Alango, a professional audio DSP company used in the automotive industry.

Voice assistants are magical when they do-what-you-mean. If there was an active OSS community for voice assistants, it would enable experimentation with privacy-preserving architecture and customization for niche use cases and language.
From a student to the director of AI at one of the most innovative companies on Earth in, what, 4 years? Must be one of the greatest untold stories.
Study: number of Monarch butterflies in California falls 86% in a single year
1. Why so many exclamation points.
2. The last examination point is 1.
3. Looks like after all humans also work at Google.
> but cost per square foot is broadly stable

I've looked at this data before and you are correct, but something sits uneasily for me. I think the thing everyone feels as "everything is more expensive" is that cost per square foot anywhere near an economic nexus has exploded since the 80s. The aggregate numbers that make the cost appear stable include tons of expansion in commuter zones.

My parents were successful professionals, as is my family now. But I know what my parents paid for a 2000 sqft house 10 minutes near an economic hub and a top 20 university in 1985 and that was easily affordable on just one of their incomes. My family now faces a situation where to buy something equivalent in terms of size+centrality both incomes are required.
I learn the opposite from NYC: if the city is successful enough to draw a lot of real estate development, the result will be even higher prices.

This more closely matches the actual trajectory of cities like NYC, Tokyo, London, etc.
Oh wow, I had completely forgotten about that station! Thanks for mentioning it!
Yeah it's good but it doesn't have a feature where I can capture the image with my phone. You have to put the board position in manually each time.
The unlikely, eccentric inventor turning inedible plant life into fuel
A good, fully-featured note-taking application is incredibly complex.
FYI, this paper is satirical. Not in the least bit funny, but certainly not intended to be real.
Global Warming Gives Science Behind Nuclear Winter a New Purpose (2016)
anyone knows how peer discovery works without any central servers ?
Search and Compare EC2 Instance Types by Configuration or Budget
SDL also gives you access to OpenGL, so you can do more with it than just blit textures.
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How is using location services "going with the flow", but you using the Internet isn't? Are you ceding to the majority rather than having courage and a strong personality?
Yeah, because listening to crickets or cicadas in the wild definitely leads to hearing loss and brain damage.

Nobody is screaming "CONSPIRACY!" here. But you can't claim with a straight face that such a natural sound would have such consequences either.
The story will be told soon enough once his work has changed the world, it's very much on its first chapters I would imagine.
I experienced this with my PhD topic decision. My focus generally is VR/AR and I was considering looking at health care applications or haptic tech. In the end I decided on haptics because it seemed more interesting however I have often thought my research could have had more impact had I chosen healthcare. Since starting, my haptic research has subsequently opened up doors into possible health applications and research anyway. This was effectively a middle ground because my research is what I want to do but I can still contribute to something that feels objectively more important.

So based on this, my suggestion would be to do what you want, and see if you can find applications in things you think should be worked on.
Prefix sum was my first thought as well.

One approach I haven't benchmarked is to vpmulllq (64-bit in-lane multiply) by 0x0101010101010101. That produces an 8-byte prefix sum in each lane, so then you need to prefix-sum the high bytes (either by mul or 3 rounds of shift/add) and broadcast them back to their respective lanes to sum the whole sequence.

I can't figure out the latencies on uops.info for vpmullq, but it's probably 3-5 cycles followed by a shuffle, ~6 cycles for the high-byte prefix sum, and then a shuffle and add. ~15 cycles including the final vpermb (also forgot timings for that).
Of course, that “dumpster fire” has 50 times as many users as all Linux distros combined.
It all depends who gets the information and if they go after you.

My parents had a criminal gang compromise their information and open up a savings account in their name. They then initiated ACH transfers from their legit accounts and filed a fraudulent income tax return in their name, to the tune of $50k refund.

The only reason they did not get away with it is that the online bank sent a gift to the house and my parents knew people from their careers that could get the attention of law enforcement quickly.

Their bank suggested that a relative probably stole their bank credentials and that it was “nothing to worry about”.
I wish I could understand what this post is trying to say.

What’s the app that was built? A front end for a DB?
What’s crazy for me, after reading all this, is how wonderfully stable my Linux (kernel-level)[0] experience has been. I’ve never used any non-ext2/3/4 filesystems, granted, so I haven’t used this code, but I find it hard to believe that these findings are indicative of the code I have used on a relatively run-of-the-mill amd64 machine. So maybe if you’re like me, using a fairly standard distro with the official kernel on somewhat normal hardware, you would have the benefit of millions others testing the same code.

[0]: I have had more than my fair share of user land problems, but I have come to expect that on any platform.
There are a lot of efficiency, insulative, and electrical system improvements that have been made since then, assuming the developer didn’t cut all the corners.
This is definitely not universally true. I monitor usage on all my devices pretty carefully - I have several Echos in our house and they never use more than a few hundred kbps and that only rarely. Even with several devices streaming video at once I rarely peak above 50mbps. (1gbps FTTH connection).
Where is roadster
Other major life milestones like marriage and procreation are happening later, too. It's data ripe to be stapled into any number of narratives.
That’s fair enough, you know what you’re getting into. Thanks for the info!
Trying to deploy WPA3 on my home network
Literally _the_ reason to buy a home.

In London, with rare exception, you don't get to live in a nice place unless you buy it.

There are some luxury developments with porters and whatnot for trust funders which are fitted well. (They're not necessarily unaffordable, but they're a waste; a labourer will save and buy instead).

But generally, a privately rented flat is going to have multi-decade old everything, walls in the wrong place, crap carpets, bad or no storage, and just generally be suboptimal.

Every flat I'd lived in as a renter I could have trivially made far better if I owned it. It's not a matter of permission; it's about ownership; no-one is spending five grand on doing up their landlord's kitchen; no-one's installing high end shelving or fitted wardrobes and taking them to the next place that's a different physical size in 8 months.

Renting (as a majority thing rather than an option) is pernicious because it reduces investment in one's surroundings. It's not only internal stuff; you won't know your neighbours in six months, you don't care about the outside of the house or the lawn or whatever, etc.
What features would you like in your ideal one?
Surely they could have come up with a name that isn't so close to toxic. I think it will be an uptake barrier.
A similar attack on CSS in browsers was shown recently here: https://cras.sh/
Personally I prefer 4k 144 Hz HDR for most games. The only thing 240 Hz displays have going for them are the frame rate, color and resolution are typically significantly worse. At the same time I was able to get my 1080p 240 Hz G-Sync display for $350 last month while 4k 144 Hz monitors are around 2x, ones with HDR around 5x. Add in the GPUs and CPUs needed to max these kinds of monitors out in a gaming scenario and the cost difference continues to grow.

For general day to day (web, email, coding, etc) 120/144 vs 240 isn't really noticeable beyond your mouse trail and the occasional page scroll having a few more frames.

I mostly got the 240 Hz for avoiding frameskipping in sped up emulators. Before I saw it on sale for $350 I was thinking of getting http://www.zisworks.com/shop.html since it can do 4k 120/1080 240 (and the bonus 540 480 for shits and giggles) for a reasonable price.
The US never accused Cuba of perpetrating the attack itself, but did formally accuse it of "fail[ing] to take appropriate steps to protect our diplomats in accordance with its obligations under the Vienna Convention" [1], and retaliated by kicking some Cuban diplomats out of the US. In remarks to the press, then-Secretary of State Rex Tillerson elaborated:

> “What we’ve said to the Cubans is: small island,” Mr. Tillerson said, raising his hands. “You’ve got a sophisticated security apparatus. You probably know who is doing it. You can stop it. It’s as simple as that.” [2]

[1] https://www.state.gov/secretary/20172018tillerson/remarks/20...

[2] https://www.nytimes.com/2017/12/06/us/politics/tillerson-cub...
You're being tracked anyway just by having your phone turned on.
100 shares of BRK-A in 1980 would have been about $30,000 for your parents to buy. They paid tax on the $30k. You inherit those today and they are worth about $30 million. If you make the argument that one should not pay tax on this inheritance, fine. But don't pretend tax was already paid on the $30 million. How about at least a capital gains tax before a tax fee transfer?
In other markets, homes aren't seen as investments by anyone. For example, in Japan, homes are considered depreciating assets, like cars. Homes are abundant, surprisingly cheap (even in dense urban areas, like Tokyo), and regularly demolished / rebuilt. The reason for this affordability is Japan's flexible zoning laws. In America, urban areas have very strict zoning laws, which do wonders to prop up real estate prices.
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