skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
The manufacturer gets to decide if they're manufacturing a general purpose computing device or not, but they don't get to define what general purpose is. Either it executes arbitrary code or it doesn't, which my Android device does just fine without root access. So I would call it a general purpose computing device.

Root access is just a platform specific construct, and it doesn't necessarily have an important purpose on every platform. Furthermore there are lots of ways that a platform could take away your control even if you had root access, such as through binary firmware blobs (which I'm sure you're running dozens right now, as am I probably).
This is silly. Someone can know something about a topic without being licensed in it. Similarly, someone can be licensed to do something and give poor advice. I don't see why you wouldn't just take all the advice you can get and try to figure out what makes sense and what does not.
Which SIS are you using?
There's nothing inherently wrong with that perspective though, as the benefits can easily be worth it to the individual. Consider that in many places smartphones are the only gateway to the Internet, and that having access to the Internet (and all the productivity that entails) can easily be worth more than 10% of discretionary income.

As one example: https://foodtank.com/news/2015/01/five-ways-cell-phones-are-...
ZoomDB (https://github.com/zombodb/zombodb) offers something like this.
You can't check your email on a USB stick. You still very much need a phone for most uses.
But he said Munich and not Versailles?
There used to be a lot of web hosting companies that offered free hosting and injected their ad frame.
That's quite specific. Do you know what the impetus for them to stop was?
Such great inventions ancient Greek made! I was impressed from an other invention of steam power that was rotating a ball around it self. I suppose that with some more hundrent of years of peace they might have invented steam train or something.
> In this case, he didn't say anything about streaming tech

They did, they commented that iTunes had better streaming than Vudu:

"The system is way more stable at higher quality than competitors like vudu..."
If I may add some context: this was a mandatory project for a course (Algorithms and Principles of Infomation Technology, CS&Eng BSc II year) held last year at Politecnico di Milano
Funny you say that. I'm the exact opposite. I consider my laptop to be much more likely to be secure than my phone.
I used to feel that it was hyperbole when a big deal is made at huge companies that miss earnings but still do significantly better than most. The problem is investor sentiment. All investors want their investment to grow which makes stability (not stable growth but actual stability) seem bad. New investors including hedge fund managers making decisions for thousands of investors will want to choose investments that grow. Less demand will end up decreasing the value of the stock, potentially wiping billions away from the marketcap. The actual company could be making gobs of money but the way the market is, companies get a premium on their valued based on multiples of their future growth potential. If growth potential goes away, the stock price will take a hit accordingly. An investor might see iPhone sales increasing year over year and conclude that their investment will be worth more because of the future value gained from more and more sales in the future so they hold the stock. If the hope of increasing growth goes away or decreases in any way, so does that premium. Dividends help with this reduce this effect but not completely.
"Brilliant" man, 1937 recipient of der Fuhrer's "The Merit Cross of the German Eagle with Star", granted to 'honor foreign nationals who made themselves deserving of the German Reich.' for selling IBM tabulation machines, technology which enabled genocide.
> What people didn't predict: Clickbait, e-mail phishing, viral fake news

Didn't need to predict those. Analog equivalents always existed.

> and people preferring SMS to a voice or facetime call.

Who wouldn't ;-) Thanks to the transition to asynchronous message based communication I can have more and more meaningful communication with a larger part of my family than I would if I had to FaceTime or call them.

In business it is even more useful as it provides a trail of who did what in addition to the other advantages.
That movie is very special. A lot of it’s predictions like flat LCD screens, personal IFE on airplanes, iPads, and kids messing around on FaceTime are so mundane now it’s easy to overlook them when watching the film with a 21st century set of eyes
Here is an observation that I have made: its always the worst countries that are the most patriotic. Nobody pledges allegiance to the flag in the Netherlands or Norway.
Kinda off-topic, but I've had jobs where I've been considered incompetent, and other jobs where I've been considered gifted and visionary. Other jobs have considered me lazy, a hard worker, smart, and dumb. My point is that often we are given labels in contexts - and those labels are totally unrelated to reality except by the specific people in those contexts. So we need to be careful - none of us are perfect, but that doesn't mean that we should believe what we are told.
I searched my city and the entry level job suggested 5+ years of experience.
In Thessaloniki, second largest Greek city, one can still find entire tombstones embedded in houses' yards:

http://valiacaldadog.blogspot.com/2009/02/blog-post_3356.htm...

The blog post above explains that the Jewish year 5676 on one of the stones is ~1915 AD.

Thessaloniki was once the city with the largest Jewish population in Europe, and the one with the largest Jewish cemetary (300,000 - 500,000 tombs) in the world [1].

During the Nazi occupation, after the Nazis abducted the members of the community and sent them to Auschwitz (with the collusion of the puppet authorities and the Greek Orthodox church), the people of the city took the tombstones from the cemetary and used them in their houses. They were also used to line the cobbled streets of the city, but I couldn't find any pictures online showing this clearly. Worse, it seems like the city's Aristoteleion university was built on top of the cemetary grounds [1].

The story of the Jewish community's treatment by the Greek citizens of Thessaloniki during the occupation fills me with shame, as a Greek woman. I prefer to remember the actions of the Archbishop of Zakynthos, Chrystostome: asked by the Nazis, in 1943, to provide a list with the names of all the Jewish Zakynthians, the archbishop delivered a list with only two names: his own and that of the mayor of the city. The two men had previously worked together to help the Jewish inhabitants to escape, by providing them with forged papers, etc [2,3].

________

[1] https://abravanel.wordpress.com/2010/05/15/jewish-cemetery-o...

From the English version:

Of course the city of Salonica (Thessaloniki) has a long tradition in desecrating Jewish tombs – one needs only to visit many of its churches and public squares which are paved with looted tombstones by the old Jewish Cemetery. That particular cemetery, the largest Jewish cemetery in the world with an area over 350 acres and tombs from the 2nd century CE, was destroyed by the Municipality of Salonica in 1942 while his Jewish citizens were rounded in the Baron Hirsch Ghetto before being sent to Auschwitz to be murdered there. Or one can dig inside the campus of the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki to find the bones of 300/500.000 Jews who are still buried there in the grounds the University desecrated to build its buildings.

[2] http://www.kathimerini.gr/832170/article/politismos/vivlio/t... (Greek)

[3] http://www.aish.com/ho/p/The-Jews-of-Zakynthos.html
> Vocabify is a tool to help you remember the words you come across. It uses a basic implementation of spaced repetition to help you remember the words and phrases you add.

Cool idea. I suggest improving the onboarding experience of your product dramatically with minimal effort by adding this sentence to your site. Like so: https://snag.gy/iqOlFC.jpg
> I don't understand the run for GraphQL everywhere, does everybody query sparse and deep nested data on their website? From my experience, Apollo works well except when it doesn't and then you have a lot of magic going on.

I work primarily as a FE software engineer who spends a lot of time researching, using the JS ecosystem. I have gone through graphQL/apollo docs multiple times in order to really understand the value add. Fetching/bandwidth/caching/persistence appear to be the biggest value adds for the tech. To me, these are the easiest things to do in a react/redux SPA. Fetching data isn't difficult, it's all the derived state data that is the hard part. Most of the "business" logic for me is formatting the data in a way that makes sense for whatever UI component I'm building, combining multiple streams of data for the UI, when to refresh data, optimistic UI, and offline support. To me the "declarative fetching" is not really that much a sell to me, because that piece of many projects of even intermediate size is relatively small.

I realize that apollo is trying to solve some of the optimistic UI, offline support, but it does not seem to fit super well atm. The other really big issue I have with apollo is like you stated: it's easy until you want to do something that it can't do. This is the worst position to be in because for 80% of the use-cases it works, but that other 20% where it doesn't fit at all can make a team's life a living hell.

Not to mention most of the time, for any large enough SPA, you will still need redux. If I still need redux then apollo solves nothing for me.
I run a digital agency and employ about 65 people who make more than $150k (product managers and developers, mostly). We stopped putting non competes into our employment contracts awhile ago, mainly because they’re too expensive to enforce. What we do instead is require all of our clients to sign headhunter fee agreements that entitle us to a fee (as much as 100% of salary) if they hire our staff. Much easier to enforce under liquidated damages precedents.
This is not the theory breaking. In your example, the information asymmetry is other way around. 1) The buyer knows more about the true value of the cars compared to the seller. and/or 2) the seller doesn't care.
I use a late-70s direct drive turntable (CEC DD-8200), from before the era of fancy quartz lock tables. There is no cogging at all, speed stability is exemplary and the platter is not some sort of 10kg monstrosity.

The whole thing about cogging in DD turntables was a rumor started by European boutique manufacturers, because they couldt compete with the R&D budgets and engineering employed by big companies like Technics/National, Sony, Denon, CEC, Pioneer, Mikro Seiki and others. It's a non-issue on any decent DD table.

Cogging only happens in bargain basement tables, such as the cheapest modern USB lightweight plastic DJ-marketed tables. Super OEM tables are fine though.
> If they block you from the CDN, what happens then?

That could be an argument not to use their DNS service and their CDN service.

It shouldn't be an issue for the DNS service by itself.
> auto_commit_duration = 10

That's interval, not duration.
OK. I don't think we have to debate this any more. We can just leave it here: you think DNSSEC is a workable solution to our problems as long as the browsers can, if they ever need to, create their own alternate DNS for the web.
That's because IT isn't "properly trained in the nuance of teaching."

There's so much dissonant crap in teaching that nobody really knows exactly what the days pedagogy is. And AB testing is right out. So what do you do? You do the minimum effort to make sure the state or feds don't cut your funding.

Its an ugly spiral, and the students suffer.
You're comparing smartphone to no smartphone at all, which is (unintentionally, I realize) a srawman version of what I'm talking about.

I'm not saying that people shouldn't get a mobile or smart phone at all. I'm criticizing planned obsolescence, "free replacements" and other consumer-hostile policies that are designed to try and force or trick people into spending vastly more money than they would need to if they were simply after an Internet-equipped mobile device, and were allowed full agency as consumers.
All Zeppelins are airships but not all airships are zeppelins. Iirc the term ”Zeppelin” is used for rigid-frame airships only. The term usually used for non-rigid ships is ”blimp”.

So aside from the fact that this is a hybrid that needs power to lift, it’s also a Blimp rather than a Zeppelin.
"Cruise speed: 148 km/h (92 mph; 80 kn)"

What's the market for this thing? Maybe short, over water trips?

It would seem hard to compete with cars or trains once you factor in security screening time, etc.
Injecting is misleading, why don't people just use Amazon, is it just too much work or is shared hosting that much cheaper including cost of maintenance?
The finding that better players make worse decisions is only under very specific conditions where the board complexity is high.

One theory could be that stronger players are going for a win which requires more risk while weaker players are happy to play a non-aggressive move looking for a draw.

Unfortunately the article didn't state if most blunders come from being ahead or behind in material.
There is no point in "upgrading" an SL-1200 Mk2 and onwards. The motor, tonearm and all associated components are already top of the line. But because they were made by a big corp, audiophiles erroneously think they're not high quality.
What about availability of this outside the US?
I'm not sure if I'm reading you correctly, but there are definitely situations in which highly skilled players are badly matched against lower ranked players because the less skilled players don't play according to the expectations of a master. This game where a grandmaster lost 1347 Elo points came up on r/chess recently: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5aI3e8gccro&feature=youtu.be... and anecdotally I've seen this play out in fencing, as well.
Seems like the market alternates between irrational exuberance and irrational pessimism.

And there are rewards for being on the leading edge of both, if others follow.
That depends on the salt and the metal. I saw a presentation by someone from Elysium, who said that chloride salt (which they're using) corrodes stainless steel less than water does. A mix of salt and water is more corrosive, but molten salt by itself is fine.

FLiBe is more corrosive to steel but there are advanced alloys that withstand it fairly well.

Another approach is to use a modular design that makes it easy to replace parts before they corrode too much. Thorcon and Terrestrial Energy use small reactor cores that get replaced every few years.
The constant availability of a phone is a big incentive to make it the central device.
Paying for software
GIL is released when a thread is waiting on a queue. One thread reads UI event queue from the OS and puts user actions into a queue, another runs your code.
Show HN: I made a simple Mac app to listen to NPR
Odi – JSX, OpenAPI and more
Better camera is a big incentive for many people.
Aside, but is there an SRS that will send me flashcards as notifications on my phone? I'd rather not have to set aside large chunks of time to memorize things, I'd rather refresh my memory throughout the day.
But saying that a company is struggling because it stocks price is falling is like saying that a dog is happy because it is wagging its tail. In other words, it is reversing cause and effect. A company’s stock price may be falling for any number of reasons, one of them being that the company is struggling in the market, just like a dog may wag its tail for any number of reasons, one of them being that it is happy.
NASA is currently CLOSED
This is somewhat strange. I mean, low end dslrs generally have good image quality (the d3xxx series from Nikon is excellent technically) but bad haptics (the controls are too modal, terrible menu systems, etc.) - I still think that they feel nicer than grasping a phone to take pictures, but it's debatable. The auto modes on the phone are better but they have a lot less to work with.

I used the example of big prints (big here means bigger than A4) because it's the most immediate demanding application that I could mention. With a phone you also don't have the resolution to spare to apply perspective correction to photos of buildings, dynamic range to deal with less than gentle, bright scenes, etc.
Do you remember what a low percentage of the retail price of software the developers took home in those days?

It was necessary to make a deal to sell through a software distribution company (for example Ingram Micro) because brick and mortar chains would not deal with software developers directly, and they took a cut.

The retailer took another cut and required things like unsold inventory be returnable, cost sharing for newspaper sales circulars in the Sunday paper, and fees for shelf space.
What's the interactive radar thing you mentioned?
You don't think they sit in board rooms speculating/struggling on how to get the stock price back up? Discussing potential non-root-cause fixes like buybacks, PR, etc? Whether it makes sense or not, company leaders do often fret about stock price separate from the actual drivers.
Water resistance is easily prioritized if the previous device failed due to water damage -- this was a big factor in my last purchase
depression is a physical condition where you won’t be able to sleep. Like five days in a roll and because of it, you can’t improve your work performance even if you want to. The only wish you have is a good night sleep.
Total info dominance!

Everything printed since WW II has been vetted and censored, after heroic efforts first by Cisco and more recently by Huawei the Internet's past (search) and future (the Great Firewall) is under full control too.

It's a good time to crack down on older works.
I said that op was wrong, not a bad person for being wrong or something like that. There is a significant measurable technical gulf between the capabilities of a current phone and a last gen midrange dslr.
How does android cap TCP/IP access for the user?
I think it's about stress relative to other jobs. Most of the other jobs on the list are in healthcare, which is arguably more stressful than software development.
That is not at all the experience that quite a few depressed people have.
First time I've heard of the QBist interpretation of quantum mechanics
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quantum_Bayesianism
'In July, it revealed it planned to offer "luxury expeditions" once all tests were successfully completed.'
The point of the paper is not 'cars', it's 'information asymmetry'.
Looks like it's not focused on traditional passenger routes. Their Q&A (linked elsewhere in this thread) talks a lot about bringing cargo directly to where it's needed, with little/no infrastructure. So if you want to unload 10 tonnes in the middle of a primitive area, they can do that. Also 20-40% of airplane fuel consumption.

Seems fairly niche, but potentially very useful when you need it.
Cause or Effect?
I love these type of projects. I am a big fan of Elasticsearch, but sometimes it feels overly complex, bloated and memory-hungry. I hope someday a decent Rust/C++ alternative will take over. I was following the development of Apache Lucy (https://lucy.apache.org/) but the project has been retired now.
The implicit promise that this is a market we want to be in, and buy this stuff, and we'll continue to support it and invest in this ecosystem.
I read that these were going to be used for cargo in hard to reach places. However, if there is a need for alot of cargo then an airport usually already exists, and drones would probabally be more economical for smaller packages. Other than that? I think niche cruises like in that one episode of Archer.
Thank you for sharing!

For comparison, here is an interpreter for non-deterministic Turing machines, written in the logic programming language Prolog:

turing(Name, Tape0, Rs) :-
phrase(turing_(s(q0), Name), [[]-Tape0], [_-Rs]).

state(S0, S), [S] --> [S0].

turing_(final, _) --> [].
turing_(s(Q0), Name) -->
state(Ls0-Rs0, Ls-Rs),
{ right_symbol_rest(Rs0, Symbol0, RsRest),
tm(Name, Q0, Symbol0, Q, Symbol, Action),
action(Action, Ls0, Ls, [Symbol|RsRest], Rs) },
turing_(Q, Name).

action(left, Ls0, Ls, Rs0, Rs) :- left(Ls0, Ls, Rs0, Rs).
action(stay, Ls, Ls, Rs, Rs).
action(right, Ls0, [Symbol|Ls0], [Symbol|Rs], Rs).

left([], [], Rs, [b|Rs]).
left([L|Ls], Ls, Rs, [L|Rs]).

right_symbol_rest([], b, []).
right_symbol_rest([Symbol|Rest], Symbol, Rest).

I have adopted the convention that q0 is the starting state, and final is the final state.

For example, here is a (deterministic) TM that computes N+1, for a natural number N specified in unary encoding:

tm(plus1, q0, 1, s(q0), 1, right).
tm(plus1, q0, b, s(q1), 1, stay).
tm(plus1, q1, 1, s(q1), 1, left).
tm(plus1, q1, b, final, b, right).

Sample query and answer:

?- turing(plus1, [1,1,1], Ts).
Ts = [1, 1, 1, 1] ;
false.

And here is a deterministic machine that computes the identity function id(X) for any natural number X:

tm(id, q0, 1, final, 1, stay).
tm(id, q0, b, final, b, stay).

Combining the two machines, here is a machine that non-deterministically computes N+1 or the identity function at each step of the computation where the state is q0:

tm(plus1_or_id, Q0, S0, Q, S, A) :- tm(plus1, Q0, S0, Q, S, A).
tm(plus1_or_id, Q0, S0, Q, S, A) :- tm(id, Q0, S0, Q, S, A).

Sample query and answer:

?- turing(plus1_or_id, [1,1,1], Ts).
Ts = [1, 1, 1, 1] ;
Ts = [b] ;
Ts = [1] ;
Ts = [1, 1] ;
Ts = [1, 1, 1] ;
false.

Note that alternative solutions are reported on backtracking.
> The auto modes on the phone are better but they have a lot less to work with.

That's probably the basis for my impression. I basically only use auto and am not educated enough in photography to use manual mode in most cases.
What perspective is that? That humanity shouldn't go on mass killings of people or of jews? If it's the latter then lesson learned, if it's the former, the lesson is not even close to being learned thus rendering this whole thing pointless.
They were looking at 3 0 games (3 minutes for the entire game with 0 seconds added per move) with a total of 6 or fewer pieces, including kings. So stuff like King + Rook + Bishop vs King + Rook + Knight. There are a countless number of confounding variables in this study that do not seem have to been given sufficient consideration and this phenomena is likely a product of that. These sort of 3 0 endgames are generally time scrambles. The vast majority of 6 man endings reached without one player having already resigned are going to be technical draws, so the players are generally playing to win on time - not on the board.

A critical factor that the study did not consider at all was your opponent's remaining time. The stronger player is generally going to be the player that has more time left, often much more time. If you have 20 seconds and your opponent has 2 seconds left the easiest way to wrap up the game is to just make a move, any move. This means the quality of move is going to go down in a vacuum. By contrast you won't find this situation as frequently from the weaker player since they'll rarely be meaningfully up on time.

Another related pattern is that in a dead drawn time scramble a weaker player is going to be more likely to make a blunder, such as hanging a piece. And not exploiting that move (such as by taking the piece) would itself be a blunder. But in a time scramble with just 2 pieces vs 2 pieces you're often just making semi-random moves as quickly as possible - meaning you will miss the hanging piece. Again for similar reasons this is not an issue you'll find as commonly from the perspective of the weaker player both because they'll less often be substantially up on time and because the stronger player is less likely to randomly blunder, meaning just making a random move is itself less likely to be a blunder.