skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
What drives me crazy is the Jobs idol worship. Assuming that if he were alive that Apple wouldn't still have challenges with its platform roadmap.

He might have come up with some other/better ideas but it's not like he didn't fail and produce plenty of duds too.

I have never been an Apple fan but I'll say this, they generally treat their customers far better than the competition. You'll never go to an Android or Microsoft store (the former doesn't really exist I know) and get the kind of service that Apple offers.

I'll never forget the time I went to the Apple store and returned a used laptop battery I bought off of Amazon. It was painless and immediate. My wife loves Apple and for her and for this level of service, I'm happy to continue supporting her having an iPhone, a Macbook, etc.
josh the webmaster at freedns is a really great guy. and they are very much into the golden rule philosophy. note also that it is trivial to change subdomains, and you can make your parent domain public, or private.
You have just explained to me why I keep returning to Pharo over the years. I play with it, and always seem to walk away with a more connected, deeper understanding or sense of deep organization that I have not experienced with other languages/environments. The only thing is I have not been able to go beyond toy programs in Smalltalk, or utilities for work (I use Storyboard to keep track of my projects at work, since the company's system Vision by Deltek is too complicated, and we don't have full access to its utilities).
Grafana's new Loki [1] looks very promising. It bills itself as "Prometheus for logging". It doesn't index the text of messages, but it does allow fast filtering predicates on labels and time.

[1] https://grafana.com/loki
blogs aren't usually amp, i've never seen reader mode screw up wordpress or anything. i'll concede it's probably not ideal for code blocks though.
Danger of Calling Out Cyberattackers
I keep seeing article after article talking about to slow down of buying phones, but I’ve never seen any mention of the main reason I stopped buying phones every year:

They stopped subsidizing them.

For a while, most carriers (at least AT&T with iPhones) would include a phone with a two year contract as part of your monthly bill. But about 3 or 4 years ago, they stopped doing this. And so people had no incentive to renew every time they were eligible.

Everybody I’m close to stopped for this reason. Now they only renew now when they have to, or when there’s a really compelling reason to. And any more, both of these are becoming less and less of a need.

Why has nobody talked about this?
my point was that getting ripped off wouldn't preclude them from being 'experts'
The materialist philosophy of mainstream science and academia makes this palatable.
You had a radical change of government recently, so I guess it's a matter of time to see if people like it or not.
> Eutelsat Quantum is fitted with a suite of powerful operational software, which ensures that the payload resources are used as efficiently as possible. The software tool predicts, operates and manages the on-board configuration and reconfiguration of the satellite. [0]

That makes it sounds like any other telco-satellite with beamforming.

Edit: More information from [1]

> Guilleux said the first Quantum satellite will have eight downlink beams that can range from a minimum diameter of 600 kilometers to a maximum of one-third of the Earth’s surface (the larger the beam, the more dispersed the signal power), and eight independent uplink beams. Customers can split any of those eight beams into smaller sub-beams and follow assets such as ships and planes, he said. O’Connor said the satellite will have a total of 3.5 GHz of capacity, from which any individual downlink beam could support up to 1 GHz. The first Eutelsat Quantum will function just in Ku-band, but Guilleux said future iterations could support other frequencies, including both military and civilian Ka-band.

[0] - https://www.esa.int/Our_Activities/Telecommunications_Integr...

[1] - https://spacenews.com/eutelsat-adding-two-more-quantum-satel...
I whole-heartedly agree. This is one of the reasons I think that education about AI and ML is important (and, on the flip side, I also think that it wouldn't hurt to educate AI and ML researchers/engineers about humanist issues so that they can participate in non-technical debate).
Incompatible ed25519 implementations in Tor and Golang libraries
if you have enough money, it's a common strategy to make a free product to attract users. Once you have an important user-base, your company has a value
Hey, the same thing happened to me! They asked for my password during a livechat session, and i was like "what the hell".

Also, another time I was having problems with their stupid 2FA app (back when they ran their own app and it broke constantly), and their solution was to just disable the 2FA for my account. They said I can set it up again whenever I want to. So then I told the woman, that if someone wanted to hack into my account, they could just open a livechat and get my 2FA disabled and then log in, why should I even bother having 2FA at all if you're just going to disable it.

To be fair, they finally moved to a more traditional 2FA now, where you can use any 2FA app instead of their proprietary namecheap app. So they might not do this anymore. I think they were disabling 2FA back when they used their own app for it, because it was super buggy and people (like myself) would get locked out of our accounts for no reason other than their app was buggy.
Reclusive Engineer Is Plotting the Death of Blockchain
About Domain Validation and Padlocks
If I understood the article correctly:

1. Black hole gradually evaporates (Hawking radiation) until it's Plank size.

2. Quantum transition and Plank star.

3. White hole is formed and "the collapsed star is bouncing back".

I Always thought that black hole evaporating energy as Hawking radiation contains all the energy that went into the black hole when the evaporation is complete. This theory assumes that there is energy left.

How is the total energy that went in is distributed between the Hawking radiation and the white hole that follows the evaporation?

Are all white holes equal in size and does Hawking radiation account for the black hole size difference?
hehe, I guess it's translated from Chinese
Several are given in this Quora thread [1]. The main ones are:

• No frequency matching issues between systems.

• DC systems appears as an open circuit to AC systems, limiting the spread of faults.

• Less expensive towers and wires.

• No reactive losses.

• No line length limits. Apparently AC has problems with lines longer than half a wavelength (2500 km or 1500 miles).

[1] https://www.quora.com/When-and-why-is-DC-used-instead-of-AC-...
That was a reversal of fraud, nobody was banned from the Ethereum network (because nobody can be banned from the network).
>It'd never be close enough to ground fire to matter.

Famous last words. MANPADS are getting better all the time.
Mostly because the media's memory extends back a year at most. But there seems to be an additional slowdown in addition to the one caused by the end of carrier subsidies.
FYI: If you put a bunch of text files (with formatting in the markdown convention) in a folder, that is, a github repo and add _config.yml with the octobook-book-2018 remote theme you will get a book "automagically" build (and hosted on a content delivery network) all for free thanks to GitHub (Pages). See https://github.com/octobook and for more details the talk notes on octobook https://github.com/geraldb/talks/blob/master/octobook.md Cheers. Prost.
Ricochet-IM: Anonymous, decentralized, metadata-resistant instant messaging
The world is not limited to Europe.

Greek inventions could have been replicated in any other part of the world not subject to the middle ages and also having access to greek archives and knowledge (Middle East)

My argument from good old Civ5: some invention require a network of other advancements to take hold, otherwise they are not good alternative to existing technology and the constraints it imposes (as in, what good would a modern computer have been in ancient Greece in measurement errors made the fine precision of the advanced calculations exihibit more variance than simpler method using rough estimations?)
The Novation Apple-Cat II was the last truly modular Apple phone. You could plug in your favorite stylish handset with a standard connector, and easily replace the screen with any TV set or monitor of your choosing.

https://apple2history.org/history/ah13/#attachment_1622
As someone who was a perfectionist to an unhealthy degree as a kid (and had high anxiety tied to that), this would have been a nightmare.

Our grades and weekly averages were posted on a schedule for certain classes, and I would obsessively search the sheet for my student number to make sure I hadn’t fallen below my personal threshold of acceptability (which was often far too high), but at least I knew the date/time grades would be posted.

If I was especially freaking out, I could sometime cajole a teacher to grade an exam or something early — but having that “you could find out at any time your world is still spinning or perilously out of balance” would have been awful. And my parents weren’t even part of this —- if anything they actively tried to make me care less —- but plenty of parents when I was in middle/high school were obsessed with kids grades and just the thought that my mom would get a text the same time as me as to my grades is flat-out horrifying.
Huawei? I've been very skeptical as to whether recent negative press is motivated [in part] by protectionism. They seem to have taken a lot of telecoms market share (in the UK at least).
>you have to wonder how things would have gone if Shockley's traitorous eight could never have come into existence due to non-competes

You also have to wonder how litigious the society was at the time; the legal framework and protection available was probably not mature enough in a industry going through renaissance. However, it is certainly different today and the poignancy is encapsulated in this quote by Tom Gallo: When you get sued by a big corporation, you lose no matter what

https://www.wired.com/story/book-excerpt-science-of-ultra-pu...
Mikeselectricstuff has some teardown videos of DNA sequencers. Interesting stuff.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XaumUp4GpCw
> Root access is just a platform specific construct

Root access is the machine never being permitted to tell the human owner “no”.

Nothing platform-specific about that what so ever.

On the contrary I’d rather say it’s so detached from platform it’s more like a fundamental principle than anything else, a technological ism of sorts.
> I mean how could you see anything but beauty in that magical little MP3 player

I was given an iPod when they were new. I used it once and gave it to someone else. They were the opposite of "little".

Later, I had a Zen Stone ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_Zen#ZEN_Stone ). That was exactly what I wanted -- tiny with no screen. I used it to play music in the car, where I didn't want to have to look at the device in order to control it.

The "tiny" form factor is still around (though... not for iPods, where the Shuffle is discontinued). It's not so easy to find one with no screen though.
You can see at least some of the old parts of usenet via Google Groups.
Burnout is what we call this thing when we try to solve it by taking a break

depression is what we call this thing when we try to solve it via medical intervention of some sort.

Lazyness is what we call this thing when we try to solve it through force of will and/or shame, or when we don't try to solve it at all.

Being in the wrong job is what we call this thing when we try to solve it by getting a different job.
I'm more interested in the security concern
Neat,thanks.
it starts with a million, then another one - that makes two millions already! then it goes on until there is an AI winter.
I am amazed at how technology and older technology come together over time. I was following Dave Griffiths since my early interest in live coding and the program fluxus [0]started. He has a section on his blog on weaving [1] that is pretty cool. I remember when flexible circuits were starting to be integrated into hats and sweaters (LEDs and such). From Jacquard loom to FM sweaters!

[0] http://www.pawfal.org/fluxus/
[1] http://www.pawfal.org/dave/blog/category/weaving/
I like the format / layout of this site - very low on distractions and easy to look at.
looks like its this "touch folio" wp theme: http://dimsemenov.com/themes/touchfolio/
It’s possible it’s the GHz RF. Even for hardware processing, you have to downconvert to something reasonable like a couple hundred MHz before it’s feasible to digitally signal process.

If your software/processor/bus can’t keep up with that data rate, you can always go lower in hardware and still leave enough headroom for software to tune and process.

I haven’t looked into SDR much though it’s in my “someday” list, so I don’t know how much is typically expected to be handled in software. I suppose it varies depending on the spectrum of interest.

My last project, the GHz spectrum was downcoverted in analog to the hundreds of MHz range, and digitally downconverted further with low pass filters and frequency shifting and then piping out over pcie to a ring buffer for software to do the interesting signal processing.

Xilinx has an RF Zynq FPGA in the works, or maybe available now, that has the analog front end conversion capabilities paired with an fpga with an embedded arm[1]. (No affiliation)

1. https://www.xilinx.com/products/technology/rfsampling.html
The normal case is far better than that. Smoother, faster, you can’t get up and stretch your legs, walk to a shop (or have the shop come to you in many cases), plug in your laptop, no bouncing up and down, no car sickness when you’re reading
Is that in USA? I had to bypass my UK provider to install any updates. I imagine software updates limit hardware updates considerably.
Still have a problem with shared AMP links in that case. I like the Safari approach where AMP URLs get converted back to their canonical URLs when shared.
My thoughts exactly! What do you recommend in terms of IRC bot building tools?
>I wonder how this hibrid airship behaves in high winds.

Worse than an aircraft of similiar capability and better than an airship of similar capability. So somewhere between "tolerable" and "don't even try"
The article makes it pretty clear it was intentional in order to avoid further political strife in the occupied country.
I hear you, and I know why you'd say that, but wow the API surface-area of ES is ginormous. Maybe the 80-20 rule goes a long way here, but I wouldn't expect API parity to be a simple matter of exposing the same REST endpoints -- it's the payload that'll be the headache

I actually strongly considered that just with Solr, which has the extreme benefit of using the same query language under the hood, but the more I scratched the more I found it would be a horrific amount of work
What's your plan if you lose the phone, or it gets stolen?
> And actually talk to those same people in IRC afterwards. Nowadays, there are so many players everywhere that it's very difficult to have a sense of connection to the people, as most times you might never see the same players again or connect with them in any way.

Its not just that theres so many players. The big issue there is lack of server lists and player-run dedicated servers. Matchmaking largely kills that 'close-knit' sense of community where you play with and against the same rotation of players and get to know them. The only way to accomplish something similar is to find a community on discord, make a party together, etc. Its far simpler for everyone already owning and in the game to just click "Bob's great Quake CTF server" and know they'll be with whoever is normally on that server.
Try this. It works: https://dabeaz.com
I don’t think “subsidizing” is the right word as the customer still had to pay for the full price of the phone. The carrier would just spread out the cost of half of the phone across a 2 year period.

Nowadays (at least for Verizon) you can get a phone for nothing upfront and have the entire cost spread out over a 2 year period. Basically the same as before except it requires nothing down instead of half the phone value. If anything I feel this method is more likely to get people to sign up as it requires nothing upfront.
I thought it's about GraphViz dot files
I have had so many problems with 2FA and Namecheap. I use 2FA on any service that will let me. Needless to say, I am very confident in using it. All my 2FA are set up in my Authy app, and i use it many times a day without issue.

But then comes namecheap. They are literally the only service on the internet where I will get locked out with 2FA. It will keep claiming it is the wrong password, when I know its not. I don't ever have a problem with any other online service, but the 2FA on namecheap is a constant problem.
I have been locked out on Namecheap for no reason now 5+ times that I have now just turned it off.

Now that I read your comment, I wonder if I have the same problem. I am sometimes logged in via VPN and I wonder now if that is why it was rejecting me. Its frustrating because i know the password is correct and the app is set up correctly, but it will keep claiming I have the wrong password. Like i said, I now just have it turned off, because I am terrified of losing access to my domains. But I am also terrified of not having 2FA protecting my domains. So its made me consider transferring elsewhere.

I also considered just using Amazon. Most of my domains are already using Route53 as a premium DNS instead of relying on Namecheap as a DNS anyway. So I am considering just having them be the registrar too.
Oh well in that case, you are 100% invulnerable to attack.

^ I know this statement appears absurd to you, so I'm wondering why you're posting as if it's true?
Ask HN: Prediction – Cloudflare will acquire Netlify within 18 mos. Thoughts?
I don't have any professional connections with either company, but I believe this could happen based on the following:

* Static hosting is the next logical progression for Cloudflare. This would allow them to have a nice slice of the developer/devops space, and continue to grow in that market, and may help them dive more into cloud/serverless etc to potentially compete with some of the bigger players in that arena.

* While I'm not sure if Netlify is profitable or not (their free tier provides so much value that it's nuts), they are extremely innovative, and it would be a big win for Cloudflare to be able to integrate Netlify's services into their offerings. The users of Netlify likely overlap a lot with the users of Cloudflare, so it would make sense to combine the users and services of both companies.

* Cloudflare could leverage Netlify's static hosting userbase to push Cloudflare Workers into the market. Netlify already has a dynamic service that makes use of Lambda, so Workers should be able to be easily added as a Netlify dynamic service addon.

Thoughts?
Almost nobody has these though...
Burnout and depression may seem similar on the surface, but burnout frequently starts from resentment and essentially having to “force” yourself through that resentment. Heavy physical and/or cognitive workload usually goes hand-in-hand with the said resentment.

For burnout, rest is important and structuring your work/life systems defensively can help prevent it. Some interesting studies exist on this: https://hbr.org/2014/03/googles-scientific-approach-to-work-...

Depression may or may not be tied to anything a person can control. This is where medication and therapy are very important. Like with most serious health issues, self-medicating and self-treating serious depression can be extremely hazardous.
No matter what, the site you are navigating from will inevitably know the link was shown to you and whether you clicked it. If that site isn't Google, they can run their own AMP cache or use Cloudflare's.
An Agile SRE Meeting Plan
> Hopefully it's just a fad like the rounded display edges.

Edges or corners? I doubt rounded corners are a fad - if you think about the geometry of corners, assuming you need some minimum distance between the edge and the display, and your physical corners aren't a perfect 90°, you need rounded screen corners to maintain the minimum physical bezel size around the entire display.
Since correlation is a consequence of causation, the absence of correlation suffices to disprove claims of causation.
How can the server component of WhatsApp tell that the client is using the Python library you mention? If that library implements the protocol correctly, shouldn't it be indistinguishable from the official web client to the server?
Some schools are trying "Standards-Based Grading", where each class has 5-10 semester objectives. Students receive a proficiency rating (4,3,2,1) for each objective. Essentially a more granular report of your skills, vs a single letter.

Example: https://www.teacherease.com/standards-based-grading.aspx
Clickhouse is a good (self hosted) alternative to Elasticsearch for log storage: it saves a lot of space due to better compression, it supports sql (with regex search instead of useless by-word indexing), and ingestion speed is great.
Certificate Transparency Verification in Java
Yes. Doing the right thing is often less convenient and more expensive than doing the lazy and easy thing. So we have to stop being so lazy and cheap.
Yes, while those states are doing a better job, that won’t do anything to lower the unfunded accrued liabilities. It’s going to come out of future tax receipts, effectively giving future taxpayers the option of paying more taxes and/or accepting reduced services. Other solution will be for Fed to print more dollars and inflate away some of the debt, which I’m sure they will do as they always have.
Friends, Romans, countrymen, lend me your ears
Most people however probably view images on a screen, 4k is only 8Mpx.
Things Exceptional Writers Habitually Do So Well to Achieve Success
> I saw somewhere a paint had been patented that matches the black of the edge of the case but that lets the camera see out (or something like that)

Note that iPads already have some sensors behind the seemingly opaque white paint. (Purely for style reasons, I think.) And it's already pretty hard to see the front-facing camera on a black cell phone.
A Harvard professor on the extraterrestrial origins of Oumuamua
Making a swift macOS password manager for people who hate the cloud
Why not just use common lisp instead? Has Clojure innovated that much over current common lisp capabilities?

Porting existing Clojure code probably isn't a motivation since much of it probably relies on Java libraries.
The Original telephone company bell telephone, didn’t sell phones they rented them. Wiki says it was crucial to their survival in the early days. Not saying I want to lease my phone but it seems a lot of people are willing to lease cars and shop at rent to own stores. Include service as an mvno and might be viable as a business.
This could be a good start, but it also seems to be lacking in some critical areas. Existing molten salt reactors have found the molten salt to be more corrosive than expected. This means that components in contact with the flow of molten salt may need extensive engineering for safe operations. Given the history of unexpected leaks it seems there also need to be precautions to avoid and limit leaks and also to respond to leaks when they do occur. On top of all of this one of the subtle problems with nuclear power is the sheer amount of precautions that need to be taken for reasonably safe operation begin to eat away at the efficiency of the whole operation. Just how efficient such a reactor might be over its operational lifetime is an extremely important question that is also not addressed yet.
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