skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ok, should we end the marketing of cars as fashion devices? So many things could be seen as utility rather than fashion and yet here I am overpaying for tacos in the hipster part of town.

Someone is going to do it and make a lot of money, I'd prefer it to be the company that isn't actually an advertisement company pretending to be a phone manufacturer.
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Everyone here were using their PC with terminal emulators so no need for gaming on the AS/400 :-)
Our definition of life is very narrow, mostly self-referential. Life is everything. Just because we can't consciously communicate with something it doesn't mean it's not alive. Why wouldn't Earth be alive? How about the sun, the stars and the universe?

We love separating things by arbitrarily naming and defining them, but the universe is completely connected, we can't exist outside of it or disconnected from it. If anything, the only life that exists is the entire universe and we are just tiny tiny pieces of it with a very limited view and awareness of the whole. Pretty much the same way we are made up of billions of cells that likely have no way of perceiving the human body they are a part of (or "having a conversation" with it).
This is my experience too.

Other commenters mentioned that people grow at different rates, but there's nothing stopping you from looking at the advice for ages around you
It comes down to innovation. I bought iPhones because they were innovative. People aren't buying new phones because there is little marginal utility in upgrading anymore.

We can break the innovation opportunities down into several areas:

1. Hardware

2. Operating System

3. Software/Apps

Hardware hasn't been innovated. The closest thing we got was the hope of a modular phone that was bought for the patents (?) and killed inside of google. The best thing we get is better cameras, biometrics, and screen resolution. Not many people care about cameras (not including selfies), biometrics is sort of a lame duck (who needs their face constantly scanned? or fingerprints as passwords for everything), screen resolution doesn't anymore because the screen size is so small -- majority of people play easy games, like LoL, PUBG, and Candy Crush clones.

Operating system experience is converging on features between iOS/Android to the point they are really indistinguishable.

Software is limited because of hardware specs, walled gardens, and the learning curve -- but much more nefariously I software devs might just be afraid if they build something cool these companies would just turn around and steal it/bake it into the OS.

Alternatively we could see adoption start moving horizontal into other peripherals like VR/AR/IoT devices (watches) -- but I'm not holding my breath on that until I see a company come out with something amazing. For instance the precursor to the iPhone was the Samsung i300, the leap from the i300 to the iPhone wasn't that big for me, but it changed a lot of things that just made sense.

The leap for peripherals right now would be too great to expect a magical turnaround in adoption -- but I would love to be first in line to be proven wrong.

So where does that leave us? Well we need to rethink things from the ground up again. We've hit local maxima with experience.
(my arithmetic was wrong, so 41 years was garbage, but addressing the more general point: )

the corporate entity that is currently doing business as backblaze doesn't need to last 41 years, or even 41 more days. the stored data is all a valuable stream of revenue from customers who'd like it preserved, so unless their whole model is unsustainable, i'd expect the company to be sold to/absorbed by another business.

as for honoring the plan, i don't think cloud storage rates are going to go _up_. so maybe they wouldn't want me as a customer at some point, but so long as they're taking consumer business i can't imagine the pennies per GB*month going up unless there is some sort of massive societal upheaval.
You’ve described electrophoresis DNA fingerprinting correctly, then jumped to the unjustified conclusion that it’s a VERY crude hash.

Not so, it’s a fairly excellent hash, one with few collisions. Better than a fingerprint. If it looks like your DNA, it most likely is.

Source: was an electrophoresis tech (not forensic) in a previous life.

And yes, the usual genetics sites do SNP tests, which are cheaper than full sequencing but mean that they only find what they’re already looking for.

The price of full sequencing is dropping rapidly, I look forward to it being a standard part of medical practice, it will save a lot of lives and improve quality of care.
U.S. proposes to allow drone operation at night, over people
This is written with all songs converted to the key of C though. So in guitar-friendly keys you're probably looking at the key of E and there the Em becomes G#m; or key of A and C#m.
Emulating a propietary API would open up the door to litigation with uncertain outcome, generating distrust and bad press for Amazon. So not the same.
It's great to see Notion get continued exposure. I feel it truly is a great step towards productivity online.

I made a list earlier (using Notion) of some next-get productivity platforms that caught my eye if anyone is interested:

https://www.notion.so/Next-gen-Productivity-Platform-Researc...

It includes both these all-in-one type of tools along with nice project management and spreadsheet/db tools like airtable.
This system has problems deleting messages.
The author probably wasn't familiar with how it is normally done with roman numerals

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numeral_analysis
Is MSG Bad for You?
I don't know that I'd consider RAID 10 for prosumer. RAID 1, absolutely. RAID 10 seems like needlessly adding more complexity and higher failure rates.
The comparison is completely invalid. If Apple was entering a mature market with an incumbent MP3 player that was comparable to the iPod or even better, then Apple would have had an uphill battle. They didn't. They entered a market with clearly the best device by a fair margin and people flocked to it.

The Search, Social Network, and Mobile OS markets were very mature when Microsoft entered market and the products they offered weren't discernably better let alone substantially better.
I always find it amusing how so many developers use Auth0 without a thought, yet complain about Facebook compromising our privacy.
Using a service such as Auth0 is completely impossible from a privacy point of view.
The distinction is just the communication. If they know it won’t work but it’s a prototype for feedback then that is agile.

If they think they are getting a full working product that’s .... something else!
I'm very optimistic that Apple is going to be forced to innovate outside of the iPhone for the first time in many years.

Mac users: rejoice!
No, not everywhere. Most of NYC uses underground wires. My neighborhood in Colorado near Boulder built in the 60s uses underground wires as well.
I'm curious about the matching for the Maybe type (type Maybe<T> = T | void;). Is void an alias or superset of undefined? Perhaps because undefined is a reserved word? Wouldn't it make more sense if it was either:

type Maybe<T> = T | undefined;

x === undefined

Or:

type Maybe<T> = T | void;

x === void; // or: void?(x)
Accidently did my taxes with an out of country for active...
Designing neural networks through neuroevolution (survey paper)
Show HN: Liroop – buy and sell royalty free images
Google Doodle
Did you expect the guy to get off free for murder?
> Why does no one learn the limited SKUs lesson from apple?

I think even Apple has forgotten that lesson.
I'm talking about startups that are outside the Bay Area, and outside the US.
I've decided to go a different route. Check this post out.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18907021

I'm using PHP/Laravel.
The artist has been amusing himself in London too https://news.artnet.com/art-world/tate-modern-viewing-platfo...
Facebook Faces Action from German Watchdog
I thought Bloc was low level like Morphic. If not, I'll have to look into Bloc. I have been using Moose for my data viz needs, and playing with Pharo. I love GT (the Glamorous Toolkit)[1]. Will that be affected by Bloc? Smalltalk, Pharo in my case, is always refreshing and surprising. I have just not learned it enough to build anything complex yet, but that's on me. It's a great environment.

[1] https://github.com/feenkcom/gtoolkit
Most people don't have attackers going after them who are harvesting fingerprints to get into their devices.
Is it mature, or has all the low hanging fruit been plucked?

I want things like a phone that I can set on a flat surface and it will project a large monitor view onto a white wall and also project a holographic(?) keyboard in front of the phone that I can type on (I'm not expecting to feel the keyboard since it is just light - but when I hit the A "key" it should type an A).

I want a battery that lasts a week.

I want a wired headphone jack.

I want it to be fully waterproof.

Etc.
Also the surreal imagery. A decapitated figure courting a woman.
This partly solves a big problem for me, which was how do I keep those configmaps up to date for a bunch of customers with a legacy application that writes UI config updates to a local xml config file. I wanted that file to live inside of configmaps but I have this problem. I already found a bash script that does inotify pushes to git (called git-watch), but I didn't have the other half of this equation. The missing half was getting those new config changes applied back into the configmap.
* Schema evolution and schema management. Keeping schema state updated transactionally for a single, high-traffic table is complicated. An FDB core feature I requested could make this easier. Basically managing the lifecycle of adding, building, using, and dropping indexes is the hard part.

* Full table scans on large tables in a R/W transaction would fail due to the 5s transaction duration restriction. This is obviously a bad idea regardless of database, but if you wanted to support SQL you would have to allow it

* Sorting and joins require (theoretically) the same amount of memory as your data size, or the ability to spill to disk. This isn't FDB specific, but offering this kind of feature in a scale-out, high-concurrency model would be tough for QoS.

There are plenty more, but those are the big ones I ran across during design. The actual SQL interface part is not hard, but you would have to disallow many useful constructs people normally expect to work.
> I hate languages that deliberately take features away from the developer: This is why - although I respect the philosophy - I would never choose to use Go, for example.

The don't really take the features away, they move the problem to a proper templating/code generation language. These are language neutral so you don't have to learn a different one for each language, they are often more powerful too. IME the code they generate is a lot easier to deal with than templated code.
Theme Changes in GTK 3 – GTK+ Development Blog
> In contrast, if you are 5 people co-located you just stand up and say: “everyone over there - we talk now”.

I much prefer working on software teams with other people in the same office, and yet this is one of the things I hate about it. Just because I'm physically near you doesn't mean there's zero cost to interruptions.

Working remotely is like memory protection and pre-emptive multitasking. Maybe in a perfect world, it wouldn't be needed, as there's a slight performance hit from requiring these abstractions, and in some cases it can be awkward to have to deal with the communication paths this requires, but the benefit from requiring everyone to be honest far outweighs the performance cost. In practice, not every component of the system is always perfect. Email is my syscall interface, and distance is my MMU. Open floor plan offices make as much sense to me as running all your programs in the same memory space.

Remote work works for software because it enforces desirable management styles -- that I can be sure my process won't be pre-empted in 5 minutes because someone brought donuts.
I doubt this will hold up.

You can be compelled by a court to have your blood withdrawn if a warrant is issued while you're under suspicion of DUI. Why would it not be similarly allowable to have your finger placed on the unlock button?

Testimonial privilege (against being forced to testify) is about not being made to say / speak statements against your own prosecution. Speech. Testimony.

Having evidence taken is not forcing you to speak, testify, or make a statement, at least in the current interpretation of evidence.

This ruling is not for sure at all.
I am a paying customer and it has always stand out for me in terms of UX. The only problem I see is that sometimes when I am editing a page I need to use the mouse because the keyboard just does not work in the way I am used to. This is a huge UX pain and I don't understand how didn't they fix it yet.
Ironic that this site won’t let me look at the article because I have an ad blocker installed !!
I'm really happy to see this come up again. I've been using the original version and love it! Will be sure to use this newer version. Thanks for the awesome (and simple!) script.
>the "Neo-Victorians" who put extra value on handmade goods in a world where anything can be printed

From Veblen's Theory of the Leisure Class (1899):

...the cheap, and therefore indecorous, articles of daily consumption in modern industrial communities are commonly machine products; and the generic feature of the physiognomy of machine-made goods as compared with the hand-wrought article is their greater perfection in workmanship and greater accuracy in the detail execution of the design. Hence it comes about that the visible imperfections of the hand-wrought goods, being honorific, are accounted marks of superiority in point of beauty, or serviceability, or both. Hence has arisen that exaltation of the defective, of which John Ruskin and William Morris were such eager spokesmen in their time; and on this ground their propaganda of crudity and wasted effort has been taken up and carried forward since their time. And hence also the propaganda for a return to handicraft and household industry. So much of the work and speculations of this group of men as fairly comes under the characterisation here given would have been impossible at a time when the visibly more perfect goods were not the cheaper. - p162
Are you using FDB at Olark?

(Saw it in your profile)
Compared to all the things you consume, a new 6oz phone every 2 years has a rather small impact on the world. I'd start with the bigger things.
I'm partial to Leo Moracchioli's metal version, myself.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MH9FyLsfDzw
> RAID 10 a few NVME and you can get decent throughput (and storage size) with existing technology.

is there a good reason to do this in a consumer setup? max realistic throughput over gigabit ethernet is only ~120MB/s, which can easily be saturated by sequential reads or writes to/from a single modern spinning-rust drive.
My comment wasn't clear; apologies. I was referring to someone who had blood drawn to test for and diagnose high insulin levels. I'd classify anyone having that test in a clinical setting to be a patient.
There is hard evidence [1][2] you can remotely operate Echo recording capabilities without a wake word. Hope this puts the 'hardware limitation' claim to bed.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=18905161

[2] https://m.youtube.com/watch?feature=youtu.be&v=Mme9d-ojpNo
Wow, almost...almost reminds me of a little known language called ActionScript 3. ;)
Your analysis is not a market criticism or advocacy, is that the stacks are in favor of one against the other, and you wished the stacks were in your favor instead.

Thats what all players want. How they go about getting their advantages is the market.
It's designed for teams, Google auth is used to avoid having to manage invites etc. If you could sign in with any old Google account then it would introduce a class of problems with having to manage invites / user management / accidental duplicate teams.

Having said that, I do think it would be cool if signing in with your personal gmail account gave you a personal non-team wiki.
AI Blueprints: How to build and deploy AI business projects
Nope, fraid not. Is there another service your team uses for identity when signing up for tools?
>It seriously looks like third world infrastructure to someone from another part of the country...

and:

>we just string the cables haphazardly wherever, through trees is just fine...

???

That's actually the same infrastructure as the rest of the nation. Or at least, that's what it's like every place in the US that I've lived. Wisconsin, Minnesota, Houston, etc etc etc.
You should add where you are coming from. In Germany for example you can spend as much as you desire but there are also affordable good quality options. BTW the word "rationing" is used in the US as a propaganda word just as "socialism". really not a good word to use lightly.
rich kids
A market is by definition a group of agents buying and selling from each other. Agent a formal word that eventually boils down to "person". Unless the lizard people have taken over.
SingHealth hack explained
It's either flat fee or adjust for cost-of-living based on a person's location. Flat fee is fairer, but it cuts out talent from the most expensive places.
I have a simple test for if I should use biometrics for something:

Replace every instance of "New Biometric Tech" with "Social Security Number".
That's a great example. 8 people died in the Carr fire. A tragedy. But is the driver of the RV with the flat tire guilty of 8 counts of manslaughter, to be locked away for the rest of their natural life? You might be inclined to say that is ridiculous! But just the other day, there were people calling for PG&E to stand trial for 86 counts of manslaughter.
In the spirit of complete transparency, I work at MongoDB. Depending on users' specific needs and the features of MongoDB they use, the differences could go quite a bit further than 'just' support. Some of the important differences to keep in mind include regional availability and approaches to resiliency (Atlas allows you to scale beyond a single node and offers multi-region clusters; DocumentDB limits you to a single primary), role-based access control (DocumentDB currently only supports user that has full access to all databases in a cluster; MongoDB allows fine-grained control), freedom from vendor lock-in (With MongoDB you can always choose to host your own clusters whereas DocumentDB does not afford you this option). These are only a few of the differences between the hosting platforms, on top of that, you would, of course, be limited to an incomplete set of features (https://docs.aws.amazon.com/documentdb/latest/developerguide...) compared to MongoDB 3.6 and you would be missing out on improvements available in MongoDB 4.0 and future versions.
MS has long been about "Developers! Developers! Developers!" But these days they're about more than just Windows developers shipping native closed source applications.
What about for devices that don't have usernames?
Well out of convenience you kind of have to. But if you really wanted to you can just disable it at ports of entry.
Manifold: Uber's Machine Learning Visualization Tool
To add onto this, using lodash + TS is not the most pleasant experience. A lot of that has to due with current limitations of the type system (mostly variadic types [0]), but I find myself having to provide lots of generics rather than relying on inference. The overloads are not great.

I say this all with recognition that lodash greatly predates TS, and the maintainers have done an absolutely wonderful job in keeping up with the overall ecosystem (ESM, typings files, etc). I can't even begin to comprehend the amount of work that has gone in to keeping lodash so modern.

That being said, I wish the interaction was slightly better, since a lot of people just immediately bring in Lodash to any JS project.

[0] https://github.com/Microsoft/TypeScript/issues/5453
> that same $25 buys you 41 years of storage on backblaze

What. I just checked backblaze, it was $5 a month, or $50 a year.
SCP Foundation: Secure, Contain, Protect
I’m sympathetic to this point of view, but I find lodash to be too huge of an API. Most of the collection methods can be done as a small _.reduce, and I find the many method names and subtle distinctions to add more trivia than they remove.
You can by uranium from Amazon [1].

[1] https://www.amazon.com/Images-SI-Uranium-Ore/dp/B000796XXM
> Take a jangly language like JS, and add some typing for the compiler, which forces you to write cleaner code in addition to all the compiler advantages ... combined with some really cool features and bang a magical, pragmatic language.

Agreed. And when you compare how TS was designed to how other languages were designed, it makes a lot of sense why TS ended up being such a great language.

Unlike virtually every other language in existence, TS was not designed from the ground up. It was designed with a very specific goal in mind: to adhere to the standards that JS developers had already converged on. So when a JS developer said if (foo), TS was built to realize that was an implicit type check against null. When a JS developer said if (obj.type === “bar”), TS read that as a way to ensure obj was in fact a bar.

It’s unlikely that a language developer working from scratch would have come up with these odd idioms, let alone prioritized their inclusion into a new language. But in the case of TS, all these idioms came from millions of lines of working code.

I think that’s why TS feels so enjoyable and easy to work with nowadays, whereas even the best of other languages feel a little clunky at times. It was developed prioritizing making real actual code idioms people wanted to do work.
I do. I use a hosts blocklist that blocks some inline trackers, like affiliate redirects you find on SlickDeals. I accidentally click those frequently so I want them blocked.
MongoDB certainly can compete at scale with AWS with MongoDB Atlas - Managed Database as a Service.
Not _quite_ consumer, but we run a QNAP TES-3085U at work.
Fully populated with 24 x 4tb EVO drives ends up being way faster and cheaper than our spindle based EMC. (although less reliability since it won't survive a cpu failure).
Yeah, dead drops obviously work for experts. But as cool as TFA may sound, I can't see it working out well for low-level distributors and customers.

And yes, great links!
> "Session": true,

As in: this cookie will stick around as long as your browser is running, but when you close it and start it up again it will be gone?
I don’t understand - do you mean basic alertness or persistence?

I think the concept was that someone overly driven might overshoot the ‘activation energy’. However, this conversation has grown insane in the mixture of vagueness and specificity.
Whenever I feel in the mood to troll people, I tell them that TS is just a worse AS3. AS3 has types, classes... it even had XML literals! Eat that, JSX.
> I'm not sure how you got that ...

sigh. bad at arithmetic today. sorry.

> I wouldn't trust almost any company to still exist in 41 years, including Backblaze

as i mention in the reply to the sibling comment, the backblaze corporate entity doesn't need to last.

> DVD or Blu-ray discs might last that long... but it's hard to trust any storage medium to last for 41 years

on an anecdotal note, i put a bunch of data on DVDs circa 2004-2008, and tried to retrieve it all spring 2018. all of the inexpensive DVDs were garbage. only the most expensive survived, and even those had a few bit errors.
Wordstar or editor for writer
Michael here from MongoDB - I can't answer your question about DocumentDB and Jepsen, but there is a more recent analysis from Jepsen: https://jepsen.io/analyses/mongodb-3-4-0-rc3. DocumentDB is built on Aurora, so the architecture is completely different.
It's maybe worth noting here that compiling to C and transpiling to JS are two entirely different paradigms of linking and building a software release.