skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Fun!

First and foremost, a lot of IRC. Also, a lot of Counter-Strike & HLTV. RFI (Remote File Injection -- r57 / c99 anyone? :P) and SQL exploitation in the wild. Enjoying being a part of actual forum communities with proper moderators and clearly defined subject matters. DDoS'ing other IRC networks that were talking shit. Manipulating Google search results for AdSense revenue and otherwise -- I jumped on this too late, unfortunately. Going to Russian hacker forums to read up on the latest exploits. Learning Perl and Visual Basic to build shitty programs and scripts.

Indeed, the word pure feels appropriate. Sure, in my circles a lot of people were no-lifers (including myself), but I learned a lot and I also got to work on my English skills over the years. It was crazy to look at my writing when I started in comparison to 3-4 years later... astonishing, even!

Fond memories...
These are also Pokemon Go stops, because Niantic ingested some global POI database without considering local contexts. It’s sort of funny, but also pretty offensive.

https://twitter.com/jlev/status/1026068175966928896?s=21
I find the article a bit "light" (pun totally intended!) on information. As usual, wikipedia saves the day:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hybrid_Air_Vehicles_HAV_304/Ai...

Specifically, what I expected from the article:

The original purpose was military:

" programme was intended to demonstrate a medium-altitude long-endurance unmanned aerial vehicle capable of providing Intelligence, surveillance, target acquisition, and reconnaissance (ISTAR) support for ground troops."

Length (to answer clickbatey title): 92 m

Payload: 10 tons (10,000 Kg)
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I went to a high school without public course grades. We’d get qualitative feedback often, and quantitative feedback on tests (eg 78/100) but it was never translated into a letter grade. It was great.

Letter grades were given at the end of the semester to the parents in a session with the teacher. Up to the parents if they shared that with their kids. Many didn’t.
You know what I never expect to do? Use a VPN just to access the websites my Internet provider is too slow to reach. Tried to do that with the link you posted, still to no avail.

Could you repost your image to, say, Imgur? I'd like to see how you'd implemented ligatures.

(Turned out I remember Input because I saw Output, a font by the same author, and thought "Oh, that's nice! I could use that on my webs-- oh, it's not cheap. Bugger".)
Not really sure how to phrase this correctly but say we had a 1cm circle and wanted to get the circumference. What would the level of precision in the answer relative to the size of atoms\quarks and stuff with 22.4T digits?
I used mosaic in 1994. It was bad and good. It was good because it was authentic. It was bad because it was low fidelity but lots and lots of great information. The post corporate Internet is definitely better. It's a good example of a well regulated free market.
There are some real gems among Rust crates. I'm using tantivy[1]. It has been super easy to set up and it's faaast.

[1]: https://crates.rs/crates/tantivy
It was amazing, so much energy and excitement. No one used HTTP, no one was selling anything. It was mainly about communication over usenet , email, and irc. Public ISP's didn't exist.

The corporations were not really the first one to monetise and usher in e-commerce/www, it was porn, this ushered in lots of new tech.

The internet switched from active participation to passive consumption, and now we have both except now everything is monetised, monitored, and moderated.

It was the wild west.
> almost all of whom take calulus in their first year,

What? How can anyone do any meaningful engineering without calculus?
Thanks.. I think one of the cool things is it supports HTML capture so you can take pages you see on Hacker News and store them for posterity!
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For starters, most people on the internet were science/tech minded, since it was rather niche. Webrings were a big thing, as a way to attempt to try to share traffic between similar sites.

As for the websites themselves, it was pure HTML. It generally wasn't pretty, but loaded as fast as it does now due to the lack of JS and CSS imports, ads, analytics, etc. One of my favorite sites to browse to this day is reminiscent of how most pages of that time looked - http://www.thekeyboard.org.uk.

Don't be fooled into thinking it was more innocent, though. But it sure was a fun time, and felt a lot more wild west, in a good way, than it does today.
I think this is a useful analogy since while the old part is still here it is extremely vulnerable to the passing ill informed laws and sadly most people won't notice when it is gone.
Is that a factor beyond high school?
Two words sum up why China would have issues with the Bible: Taiping Rebellion.
IoT is the big market Apple should focus on. It plays to their strengths:

- People want integrated solutions, not one-off devices

- Control of hardware and software, including updates

- High quality cameras, sensors, design aesthetics, etc...

- High price, because integration differentiates their IoT making it hard to compare directly with other products

- Latest technology: Siri voice assistant, face recognition, AI, VR/AR

Imagine if Apple IoT in a home worked with guest iPhones. The networking effect of people talking about iDevices (do you have Apple?) might be enough to create a monopoly.

An example of a simple opportunity: Apple could have in home data caching for music and video where an IoT device acts as a peer server that works with Apple TV -- buy more Apple IoT and all your devices get better.
Reactor design can also mitigate these problems.

Terrestrial Energy and Thorcon use small sealed reactor cores that get replaced every few years.

Moltex uses a pool design, where everything is immersed from above in a pool of coolant salt, and can be pulled out and replaced as necessary. The actual fuel is isolated in vertical rods.

At least three companies use chloride salts. According to a presenter from Elysium, in the absence of water the chloride salt is less corrosive to stainless steel than water is.

I certainly agree that the technology isn't mature, since we don't have any production reactors yet. But we're making good progress, especially in Canada where regulation of new nuclear technology is more rational than in the U.S.
>I wanted the cheapest phone that was fingerprint-protected

Just because it says "fingerprint-protected" on the tin, doesn't mean it has good fingerprint protection.
Operating costs are tricky, a helicopter with cargo lift capabilities can serve many more roles and is much more flexible which means that the total operating costs are spread across a multitude of mission profiles.

Having a dedicated vessel that has rather limited use might have a much higher TCO since it will not replace traditional aircraft but rather supplement them.
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More importantly... why would you want your robots to be conscious?
Struggling to meet high expectations isn't the same thing as generally struggling.
> Creating a stack that complex just to render Static Conten

What exactly is Static Content and are you implying AirBnB has it?

Does its mobile app also have Static Content.
It was designed for the US Army LEMV program as a high-endurance ISR platform. The cargo capacity is/was intended for minimal cargo and mission kit (radios, defensive EW systems, etc.)
Most laptop OSes, like Windows, macOS, and Linux, are a decade behind mobile OSes in terms of application sandboxing and also still lagging behind on restricting OS tampering and implementing reliable chains of trust from the system software to the hardware level, e.g. features like secure enclaves.

Unfortunately, those restrictions also make mobile OSes less useful for the sort of technical work that people use "real" OSes for. However, those restrictions make such devices much more compelling roots of trust for our digital lives.

An iOS app can't extract my contacts unless I grant permission, yet an application installed on Ubuntu via `apt` can casually start rummaging around my home directory which I won't know about unless I spend considerable time on mandatory access control profiles, isolation through containerisation or virtualisation, or something equally esoteric for the average user.

I suppose a phone does hold more sensitive information though, like location and mobile payments, making it a more lucrative target.
It wasn’t THAT much lower, compared to today, if you include things like advertising costs you need to pay today, to get your app to sell.

It works differently and you have different middle mans, but it’s not that much different for an average joe.
Shared hosting is typically a set amount per month. AWS is a mystery on pricing.
“The best way to predict the future is to to create it.”

https://i.giphy.com/media/l3vR6aasfs0Ae3qdG/giphy.webp
That article, despite being only a month old, is out of date or just wrong.

Yes, none of the "Family" products are available for G-Suite. That being said, all of the functionality beyond saving money is there with G-Suite. The saving money part is important, don't get me wrong. But sharing photos, seeing your "family's" (aka, your G-Suite organization's) stuff, etc, that's all there. Its just packaged differently, and in a way that's more expensive and substantially more powerful.

YouTube Music is definitely available on G-Suite. So is Google Fi; I'm on a Fi device on my G-Suite account right now (they enabled this early 2018 IIRC). Google Spaces is a discontinued product that isn't available for anyone.

The Google Home and Assistant is the only area today within G-Suite I've seen really weird behavior because I use a G-Suite account. Things like accessing your calendar just don't work right, and often result in errors. That's a very valid issue.

There are sacrifices to both approaches. I will gladly pay the extra money to, in turn, get access to a higher tier of account level support, unlimited storage, and the custom domain name. There are also a few products that are only available to G-Suite customers. CloudSearch is a single omnibar search service that does deep, filterable search on every resource in your G-Suite across all of their services (Gmail, Calendar, Drive, etc). Vault is also cool; I have rules set up which retain emails indefinitely, so even if I delete them from GMail they're still exportable from Vault. The Google Titan Key was also a hardware product that was only available for G-Suite customers for a while.
I interviewed with quantfund. The CEO straight up told me you will have a 2 year non compete if you take this job and they will go after you if you mess with them.

They don't don't screw around. They will make an example of you.

You can make a lot of money, but you better know what you are getting into.
Yep, and tons of others. And, it seems, they all require the feature to transfer providers. Consumers have the upper hand and should take advantage of it. I guess it requires awareness, though.
Part of every formal job application process that I've completed is to disclose any applicable non-competes. All of those companies will not risk violating a non-compete due to the substantial legal risk, placing the employee in another area, or more likely, declining to hire.

This is largely irrelevant for employees in California, due to its commerce and tort law rendering non-compete clauses unenforceable for employment. In the past few years, however, we have seen companies suing past employees for alleged theft of trade secrets. This chilling effect could end up having the same outcome as an enforceable non-compete.
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a chat client is being pushed into enterprise

a fucking chat client

which was free and decentralized in the 90s, and now pay one company in perpetuity
Every other year. $2400. And that's if you throw your old phone in the garbage.

$20-25 a month lets you trade up to a new $700-900 phone every other year.

You won't benefit from that 40% all the time, sure. But if you get 8%, and you use your phone two hours a day, that's almost five hours saved! Processing is not a negligible amount of waiting. Plus new phones tend to have better radios.
> It is caused by the imbalance of serotonin and readrenalin neurotransmitters.

Totally agree depression is a serious mental illness, but this description is like describing bugs as a "debugging deficiency". We know depression and bugs can be fixed with debugging/ssris but just because we can fix them with it doesn't mean the opposite is the cause.

For instance in addition to serotonin and nor-epinephrine we also know glutamate (nmda and ampa) is involved, as well as opiates, gaba, bdnf, dopamine, and inflammation.
> I also can’t stand the notch....I’d rather they removed the selfie camera and relocate the speaker to the top of the phone.

I agree, although note that on many phones the proximity sensory, ambient light sensors, and/or face-recognition sensors are also located in the notch. Moving those to the edges of the phone, or putting them below the display, introduces additional engineering headaches.

I'd rather they just cut off the display about 5 mm from the top of the phone and put whatever sensors they need in that narrow strip. Turning ~60% of that 5mm strip into display is pointless, ugly, and adds significant software complications. Hopefully it's just a fad like the rounded display edges.
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For comparison: the longest curently operating airplane is the Antonov An-225 Mriya with 84 m (275 ft) length [1]. The longest passenger airplane is the Airbus 380-800 at 72,30 m (237 ft).

1: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonov_An-225_Mriya

2: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Airbus_A380
It may technically be "lighter than air" when only considering the dry mass (I'm not sure about that), but they're definitely relying on aerodynamic lift in normal usage (so, it will glide in the same way a heavier than air plane can glide)
>> If something like grades are causing the parents to lash out at the kids it's a sign that the parents are struggling to cope.

And they strike their children because they can't cope? If they can't cope without striking their children, well, then, maybe they shouldn't have any. That'd be best for their children, and for the parents also. The children won't grow up damaged (and having learned that this is the way to raise children) and the parents won't have to experience such pressure that they absolutely have to strike someone to make it better.
It's just a stone.
Thanks! We've updated the link from https://www.researchgate.net/publication/265403756_SINGLE-WI....
Is this "Object oriented programming in the beta programming language" by Madsen, Møller-Pedersen & Nygaard? ISBN-0201624303. It's available online now.
Like most things are before corporations get involved - a hobby.

That is - it was filled with people who were excited about it and dedicated their time for free to help other enthusiasts and grow the community. It was filled with character and personal content.

It was also hard to use for people who aren't part of a dedicated group and it's utility was limited to the needs those group had and could provide for to others.
One thing that hasn't been mentioned in this thread is chat rooms. It was quite common to enter a chat room with complete strangers and become actual friends with them. The Internet was truly the first "safe space" where no one felt they needed to hide the real part of themselves or self-censor. You might never learn their real name, but you learned the person behind the handle.

I've written about this before: https://johnrockefeller.net/you-know-what-i-miss-the-unlimit...

There were quite a few instances where people from chat rooms on Yahoo and otherwise became real friends separated by distance only, talking on the telephone nightly.
>But by definition, better players take better decisions Ev average.

Note that this is only true when expected value lines up exactly with "increases probability of winning". Lots of value calculations don't, and so better play can look strange in some situations.

Back when I was a middling chess player in High School, I'd pretty much always play King's Gambit as white when it was offered, especially against stronger players. I knew that I didn't study openings as much as other players, so I wound up in a place where I at least had as good opening book knowledge. Plus the opening is high variance, so it gave better opponents more chances to screw up and let me in the game. That said, the consensus high-level opinion on King's Gambit is that white does not get sufficient compensation for the pawn.

Or perhaps and even better example is AlphaGo Zero. When this engine is winning a Go game as it gets into endgame, it will play lines that confuse the professionals as locally sub-optimal. The pros later figured out that these moves would give up points in exchange for removing lines of play that are threatening and uncertain: instead of winning by 2.5 points with a small opportunity for the opponent to come back, AlphaGo Zero would win by 1.5 or 0.5 points without yielding any counter-play.
Toshi is built on top of tantivy if I'm not mistaken...
Do you have any substantiated data to go with your pricing assumptions?
To be fair this has been suggested, at Apple, so many times. Trying to get ideas through the exec team was always problematic.
remimds me of francis ford coppola predicting youtube https://youtu.be/iSePbQVR284
Pardon the nerd-sniping: both Uber and Lyft employees in California can job hop, because non-competes are unenforceable for employment (in general) in California.

Otherwise your comment explains it well.
I read the code gist that someone else posted earlier...can someone explain to me exactly why this is gross in the first place?

I can easily imagine a scenario where someone innocently added this code with good intentions (i.e. purely for performance data that sites can use) as opposed to being evil. It may be the case that there wasn't enough internal review of the code in question, and that's all. Also you have the ability to opt out...
This is actually a great idea. I've never had to take a drug test but I'll remember to mention it if it ever pops up.
Yes, this is exactly how it works. Well, in my experience my CEO threatened me and the new company. I was actually given the choice between a lawsuit and a promotion (with a salary that was almost competitive with the new company) in the course of a single conversation. I chose to stand by my resignation because I'd been very unhappy there and it wasn't going to get any better if I showed them that I could be bullied into line.

I suppose I was lucky that the new company tried to negotiate a bit, but when my former employer refused to budge, they backed out. My lawyer had warned me that this could happen even before I accepted the job offer, right after he assured me that I would be on solid legal ground in taking the job. Admittedly, I didn't really think it would happen because why would they want to be known as the kind of company that does that? Even so, I've never regretted my decision to leave. As stressful as that was, staying would have been worse.
It was sparse. Strip away Facebook, Google, all the phone apps, all the commercial news sites, blogs, you're left with a a few specialist resources. Now imagine without browsers, just ftp and email (for students, academics and a few tech companies only). That is about it. It was exciting and new but not really that useful. Usenet was a bit like Reddit but smaller and text only, and friendly, but that was the highlight for me.
I’m sure there’s simulations for the reality of getting nuked one way or another by someone somehow.

The one thing that seems to catch heat the fastest is nuclear proxy states. China and Russia don’t have to worry about retaliation if Iran and North Korea are the suicidal nuclear combatants.

But nuking populated civilian cities is largely a game of bluffing your opponent. Nuclear assault on targets without direct military value is a tactic of absolutely last resort, at or near the point of total invasion, overrun and occupation.

Occupation, for the victor, is no fun anymore. So why do it yourself. Just encircle the conquered cities with gigantic robotic fire ants and cybernetic killer bees, and let nature take its course.
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We need amp.wexe, fully DOM-based AMP implemented in WASM.
I think that the presence of effectively meaningless warranties is ripe for exposure.

Unlimited replacements for a $40 screen protector? Just send us $20 to ship you the free replacement.

Business relies on government for enforcement of contract and commercial law, but simultaneously creates intentionally confusing terms and fights against the authority of government to enforce the other side (for the consumer).

In addition to the information asymmetry, there's an overall power asymmetry -- both need to be addressed.
Some of the great old sites are still there, for example, The Lurker's Guide to Babylon 5: http://www.midwinter.com/lurk/lurker.html (updated since 1994)
Presumably, if you one use one wire, you will save half your money.
This comment counts as flamebait because there isn't any information.

> Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say. Avoid unrelated controversies and generic tangents.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
I think (medium confidence) the sales pitch is that it can hover. So it can deliver that cargo to wherever you ask. As opposed to the nearest big runway, or the nearest bit of paved road.
Why would that be crazy? Isn't that a circular definition of crazyness? Inflation is whatever statisticians say it is - if inflation stats were very different to how they are now, why would that would be crazy? Maybe it's crazy that we constantly read about asset bubbles yet inflation stays flat? The intuitive definition would imply inflation should swing up and down wildly given the huge size of the bubbles in question.

In reply to your second post, which I think is essentially the same as this one, it makes no sense to say it'd give "a false impression inflation is happening". Inflation is whatever set of prices we want to include. If we arbitrarily exclude some because we think inflation stats should look a certain way, that's the tail wagging the dog - this data exists to inform decision making, not tell us what we want to see.