skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Ask HN: What happened to Finsix?
The startup managed to bring very high frequency AC/DC transformation technology from MIT to the public for a time after a successful kickstarter, but they haven't had any news updates in the last eight months (a partnership with Toyota), have been backordered on products like USB C cables for their main charger (the Dart) for more than three months, haven't seen any notable news coverage at all since all the press they got for releasing their power adapters, and are dead on every social media outlet.

Anyone have any idea what happened? They made one of the most useful products I've ever plugged into a laptop just by virtue of it being so small, but the company seems like it's barely clinging to life. I'm surprised their site is even still up.
Unfortunately, I don't think your personal definition of the word is in step with common parlance, hence my comment.

>Social justice warrior (SJW) is a pejorative term for an individual who promotes socially progressive views, including feminism, civil rights, and multiculturalism, as well as identity politics.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Social_justice_warrior

If you continue to use it to mean, just, "a liberal," people are going to misunderstand your point.
Russians leaked Mueller investigation evidence online, prosecutors say
It's pretty simple: The Internet is mainstream now. The original users of the Internet were academics, techies, and nerds. Now everyone and their mother, literally, is online.

Do you remember Wired magazine in the 90's? It was wayyyy weirder... How about Mondo 2000?
Informed consent is enough. That's the problem though.
I absolutely love the concept of Lora / Ip over LoRa. Very cool project indeed.
Well, though privacy is kind of imprtant to most people, what alternatives do people have (other than stop using all social media?) I don't think the problem of Facebook is unique to them at all - data leak, fake news, whatever - they are instrinsically hard problem to solve, and frankly I don't think there would be lot of companies doing much better.
The Unsung Heroes of Modern Software Development
So interesting!

Labor and capital(robotics) are substitutes. Thus in a cheap labor market (USA) anybody that would use a robot instead simply uses human landscapers.

It is quite common in the USA to see humans doing what would be automated work in First world countries.
This. Weird and fun I exactly how I see Tumblr.
yeah, but the Australian Government is busy passing laws to require companies like Apple to do something pretty much exactly like this.

(And in my mind at least, those laws are without doubt part of a coordinated five eyes security/law-enforcement campaign to push those kinds of laws through everywhere: "Look, it works in Australia!" the Canadians/UK/NZ/US will say...)
How many years do we lose to the air we breathe?
It is the million dollar question because like wiretap laws vary by state ( one party consent, two party consent) their is nothing for things like this related to data sharing.
> The ram-air turbine allows the pilots to have some instrumentation.

Ideally, yes. I submitted a recent incident where the RAT deployed on a 777 because it's so unusual (and was also not due to lack of fuel):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19039978
I don't want to sound pessimistic, but I think that only a few percentages of OS projects are worth any kind of money to pay for.

Why? Because who is gonna pay for yet another react select component library that you made. Yes, it's convenient for us to use it, but it's also convenient for you that we use it, because we can also contribute and save each other's time.

I do, though, support the idea of paying maintainers of really big and crucial projects. I'd also love to see companies giving some work time to devs to contribute to OS, instead of being forced to do it in their own time.
Show HN: Mandelbrot-Set in JavaScript with Leaflet and Tiles
I'm not operating from any assumptions, I am just stating observations.

The observations were:

- ~6MB JS file produced by `npm run build` compared to ~400KB page weight for all items in my vanilla app

- Page load times from that Greek WiFi was ~4 secs for the vanilla app and ~50 secs for the React app, which told me the throughput was on the order of 1 Mbit/s. The React app didn't load many things (about 3 resources, if I remember correctly) while my app had more to do. This means network or server delay will have mainly affected load time of my app.

Of course, this whole performance/page weight thing wasn't the main point of the article (for those who happened to read it), nor did it very much affect my decision to go vanilla. I am surprised it became such a big issue here, but I've stated that I too think it was due to inexperienced developers. I guess my mistake was thinking that my lack of front-end experience would make it a viable comparison - I'm probably a lot more performance-conscious than most, and especially compared to someone who is just learning to program.
It's amazing to see so many things included and yet so many missing. It really speaks to the breadth and depth of the subject. For instance, for elliptic curves, only a single result is mentioned (their points can be endowed with an abelian group structure), and it's really one of the most basic ideas known about these objects.
Would love to hear more of your thoughts on WorkFlowy. I’m a current user but there are some things that are just subconsciously bothering me yet I can’t find better alternatives.
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The ZX80 was a truly impressive model of simplicity. A Z-80 a ROM some RAM and a handful 74 series chips.

http://searle.hostei.com/grant/zx80/zx80.pdf

If you want to understand how a bunch of chips make a computer it's a good place to begin.
Thx

In the meanwhile I found this (2015) about MAU: https://www.adweek.com/digital/monthly-active-users-definiti...

>>We define a monthly active user as a registered Facebook user who logged in and visited Facebook through our website or a mobile device, or used our Messenger app (and is also a registered Facebook user), in the last 30 days as of the date of measurement.

I suppose that DAU is the same, but of course daily.

Still, the chart looks too nice to me => personally, I always automatically mistrust any chart that looks that nice/regular.
> Apple has also done a reasonable job of holding onto their signing keys, to date.

How do you know that?
At least the headline is 100% honest.

I'd rather have the company tell me that it's all about the baseline than pretending it cares.
Could you elaborate when you choose Python and when you choose Go? Does these two languages complement themselves or they are substitutes?
I think this is a rather confusing article for beginners. I would say that request processing in an HTTP framework isn’t exactly a practical use case to demonstrate Go concurrency features. Most real-world applications are based on REST, which is stateless. In fact I would not associate HTTP server frameworks (in Go or in whatever language) with internal shared state management in an entry level article.
For people interested in Go concurrency features there’s this great curated list instead:

https://github.com/golang/go/wiki/LearnConcurrency
I think Tesla may start to face issues when the other automakers start coming out with electric cars within the next few years.

Perhaps, but people have been saying exactly this about Tesla for the last ten years now. Hasn’t been an issue for them yet, despite much improvement in the EV offerings from other manufacturers.
Google is discontinuing their free weather API
You seem to assume that “apple planted this backdoor” is a realistic enough claim that someone credible would be willing to waste their time on it.

Well, it isn’t.
Hmm not sure on this - if I recall correctly, you needed super-expensive Adobe software to make Flash applications (or were they called "animations"?) which I am guessing most people did not have - IIRC the price of the software was several hundred GBP (£200+) in a time when a mid-range desktop PC was like £600-800. I think it also only ran on Windows and Mac OS? Its all half-forgotten memories no though so those figures may be incorrect.

HTML, Javascript and CSS is free and openly available in any browser on open source OSes as well as Windows & OSX these days. You can still make some weird stuff on the web platform if you want to, although I would agree that there are not nice WYSIWYG editors (that I am aware of anyway) that makes this easy.
Stripe using robots to respond inquires
I noticed that Stripe been using robots to reply my questions. Very unprofessional.
"Morale is super high," reads the post from a self-described engineer. "We are paid a ton. Looking forward to my yearly bonus of $100k. Fuck ethics. Money is everything."

Sounds like Mark has done an excellent job of cloning his younger self.
They probably need higher compensation to attract engineers at this point and their existing engineers are probably leaving the company at higher rate. They also need to hire a lot more people to tackle whatever issues they are trying to solve
Google disables app that monitored iPhone usage in violation of Apple’s rules
I think "jealousy" is the wrong word to use always, "the lord my god is a jealous god" being the instantiator of why thats the wrong word.

But specifically envy is probably wrong. I don't think the EU is "envious" of the US, except in as much as the US secures trade advantages from its power, and asymmetrical bargaining approaches.

EU investment in R&D is pretty good. GDPR was a reaction to individual rights to privacy which had beneficial upsides of addressing extra-territorial data, in ways which favour the EU position.

It interested me that Microsoft (for instance) was a stand out company recognizing its presence in Europe demanded it respect European data laws, and since its taxation strategy demanded the shelf-company in Ireland be less craven, and more clearly Irish, it probably suited them to say no to US court requests for warrantless (or US warrant) data access.

Google, who also have a huge presence in Ireland, has no rational posture here. The only economy which gets a clear signal of intent is the US. US federal agencies can stipulate data is in the US. Everyone else, all bets are off and all law is subject to Googles interpretation of what favours the US google, not the local google office.

To Silicon Valley, It is possibly true what you write. Europe has struggled to make a single instance locale which is pan-european but does the same thing. On the other hand each economies discrete investment method like the Wolfson institute VLSI funded work in the UK and the various German innovation science centres which are Max Planck Branded, They are world-class. and I don't think you should ignore CERN and its impact. European computer initiatives did cave to the US chip moment, but its not there is "nothing" there as much as the IPR model of doing brilliant science and then whoring the IPR worldwide naturally lead to the Saudi and Japanese investments taking control of things otherwise in the USA held to be strategic.

Hollywood isn't that different in the end: there are good European film studios, but you can't break the dominance of the hollywood investment. Elstree, and Cinecitta remain alive.

This is not a "regulation to hamper competition" thing, this is trade war. Competition is happening come what may. People chose to buy German technology from small to medium enterprises because they get bespoke quality which lasts centuries. They buy American mass-produced technology for a disposable culture. But the minute they want something in the cross over space, they might be buying from either.

You might want to consider the car industry. Mercedes invested in Tesla. Ford and GM have largely depended on state and federal teat-funded money to prop up pretty bad business models on big iron engines, and buy in better tech from Europe and Japan when it suits them. Meanwhile... BMW and others set up in Mexico, the US, to sell product into america but the money goes back into EU coffers.
Top Developer Tools of 2018
This is exactly what I currently do. I like it: It gives me the feeling of a personal relationship with a creator.

I don't want to pay for everything I watch eiher; I don't think I need to give money to people who repost memes on YouTube.

I am however missing some way to toss creators who don't create frequently, but made something really valuable to me a bit of money.

I'd also like to be able to more finely split the money I give to creators.
Show me a declarative, idempotent API that will render MAME games and run old OSes inside a browser window.

Even show me a declarative, idempotent API that can generate an arbitrarily long scroll of user-generated content.

If your answer is that users shouldn't expect to be able to do these things, then you have aliased the word "web" to mean something that 99% of web users will not recognize.
Mind-Altering Cat Parasite Linked to Schizophrenia in Largest Study Yet
So gorgeous...love when these types of projects get out to the community.

Just loving this!
When Myspace came along, it clearly seemed to be the cesspool of the internet; I never created a page and never visited it out of principle. There was nothing I wanted out there.

Facebook's clean design was what I actually wanted. Not some autoplay crap music.

In fact, back in the day, everything in Facebook was a search. I could click on your residence or your class/section and see everyone else in it. It was awesome and useful.
Tumblr gave itself up and will be irrelevant soon.
The averaging period doesn't last the whole game: "we set a maximum of 600 APMs over 5 second periods, 400 over 15 second periods, 320 over 30 second periods, and 300 over 60 second period. If the agent issues more actions in such periods, we drop / ignore the actions. These were values taken from human statistics." [1]

I'd be curious about the approach they used to draw from human statistics. It's possible that peaks in the human APM distribution are caused by e.g. holding down keys, resulting in ~2000 APM [2].

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/MachineLearning/comments/ajgzoc/we_...

[2] https://blog.usejournal.com/an-analysis-on-how-deepminds-sta...
I have been doing internet things since the early 2000s. I learned HTML and FTP and many other technologies back then precisely to say something online. I disagree that things are less weird now.

Things are more weird. Where there was one weird place, there are now thousands. Even if only 1% of today’s sites are “weird” that’s bigger than all of the internet of 1995 combined. Rising tide lifts all ships.

Want to talk on a BBS? Head on over to SDF. They got you covered. IRC is still alive and kicking, though now with far greater capabilities. GitHub. Think about what people used to have before GitHub. I uploaded things to SourceForge back when it was one of the few choices. Oof. Think about the kind of weird shit you can find on GitHub/GitLab/etc. today.

The thing is that the apparent problem is that non-nerds are now allowed online. The horror. I have found plenty of strange, weird, niche, 1337, whatever communities now and they are made better by the fact that you don’t always have to have a magnetized needle and a steady hand to use them. All you gotta do to find them is to look just beyond Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram. Hell, some subreddits are microcosms onto themselves.

But this nostalgia for the “good old days” when you couldn’t have a web page in Russian and Korean at the same time is just that, nostalgia. What has actually been lost that we used to have but don’t today?
So it's OK to blatantly screw people over as long as you're "honest about it"?
Great.

The news gets better and better.

So essentially, Foxconn could build a small building, hire 1000 people, and after 13 years the state of Wisconsin would be legally obliged to pay them the full USD4 billion in guarantees?

I'm a little more educated, and a bit nicer than most Wisconsinites. I'll tell you right now though, if that's truly the case, you'd better make sure that doesn't become general knowledge here in Wisconsin. Most Wisconsinites are not gonna just sit back and accept that the way I do. Walker and his cronies would need round the clock security.

There are a lot of people around here who really bought in to the whole "13,000 jobs" thing.

People would get emotional. It would not be a good time in Wisconsin.
> I don't disagree, but I don't think this would not work for all copyright.

My head is spinning...
You pointed out one individual, that hardly proves your point.
2019 Diversity in the Workplace Report
I use this in my suicide prevention work.

10 ways to improve safety: https://sites.manchester.ac.uk/ncish/

https://documents.manchester.ac.uk/display.aspx?DocID=40697
Amazon Users in India Will Get Less Choice and Pay More Under New Selling Rules
From the article: "Jane told Seven Days that they had recently sold a house in Maine that had belonged to her family since the 1900s, and used the proceeds to purchase the new property, which is located in North Hero (population 803, as of the 2010 census)."

Why would he have bought a house when he was planning on moving to the White House?
"Diversity of people drives diversity of thought, improving decision making, making mistakes based on “group-think” less likely and uncovering opportunities (in terms of products and markets, etc.) that are non-obvious."
Say what you will, but FrontPage was a great way to get into webdev for people who were new to development.
Nice to see Space Debris as a selected demosong. A few other favourites:

Oldschool classics:

heatbeat/rebels - street jungle https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

Banana/TeK - Echoing aka demosong.nst from the Sound Blaster 2 disk https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

4mat/anarchy - 4mat's madness (manic chiptune) https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

Game music:

Nation XII featuring John Foxx - theme from Gods (gods17/into the wonderful) https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.s...

Allister Brimble - px.bladswede remix! (theme from Project-X) https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

More techno-ish styles from the mid/late 90s:

vim!/mono - call me persephone (shimmeringly creaky mo'wax-style trip hop)
https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

twilight/mono - inevitable (junglish rave breaks subside into orbital-esque arpeggios)
https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

randall / suburban bass - in complete darkness (jungle/happy hardcore)
https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

superna0+dreamfish+thefoxii/mono - tri buta gaz (intensely minimal acid techno)
https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

dune/orange (later brothomstates on Warp Records) - mark a.j. pisses off (idm/techno, distorted kicks all over the place)
https://www.stef.be/bassoontracker/?file=https%3A%2F%2Fapi.m...

Yep, I miss the Mono netlabel: http://www.simoncarless.com/monotonik-a-net-label-1996-200/
Down 4% in after hours, on miss on revenue and probably exaggerated valuation.
Might as well link directly

https://xkcd.com/2059/

And mobile

https://m.xkcd.com/2059/
I don't think that's true. People clearly care about privacy otherwise we wouldn't have curtains and account access controls etc.

They just aren't worried enough about Facebook violating their privacy enough to stop using it. Frankly for most people that is the right decision. Facebook has done much less immoral stuff than the media would have you believe. Even the Cambridge Analytica type stuff (i.e. the obvious potential for abuse of the Friends API) was totally public at the time but nobody cared.
Some fair points, though I don’t agree with all of them. What are your thoughts on the DNC hack and subsequent leaks btw? It seems reasonable to credit the disclosure and the way the Trump campaign encouraged it and then capitalised on it as significant. 12 alleged Russian intelligence officials have been charged as part of Mueller’s investigation. Also there was the the Internet Research Agency "troll farm", based in Saint Petersburg and the alleged intrusions into state voter-registration systems. It’s a combination of all of these events that I believe is making it ‘loom large’ and it’s fair to say this transcends the categorisation of ‘meme’ doesn’t it? What do you think?
Insurance is weird.

It operates by taking events that are unpredictable individually and grouping them together such that they are predictable in aggregate. The larger the groups are, the better this works.

At the same time, there’s a competitive advantage to using smaller groups, if you can reliably discriminate. Except that once you take it too far, you approach the individual case again and insurance ceases to have a point.

A life insurance company that buckets everyone together will lose out to one that divides people up into groups based on their risk. That one in turn would lose out to a company that has an accurate death clock they can use on every customer to provide perfectly individualized coverage. And yet the death clock company won’t be able to sell any insurance at all, unless they can keep it a total secret, because people could accomplish the same thing on their own.
Because whoever has stolen them has been reasonably discreet, and we don’t see compromised Apple things all over the place — which means if they’ve been stolen at all, it’s been by high class attackers.

If your goal is to stop the NSA et al stealing a key or owning a device, you’ll be sad.

But if your goal is to change the law and redefine the parameters of them owning devices, you might make progress. The political process will insist on a means to access these devices, and they’ll accomplish it by one means or another. By engaging with instead of fighting that, we gain the ability to have a say on what those means are.
Right, there were repeated problems with the angle of attack sensor. If I had to guess the sensor itself is and was just fine and the problem lay elsewhere in the pipeline.

More important though is that the 737 MAX differs wildly from earlier 737s in how much it relies on the AoA data. Mechanics and pilots not experienced with the MAX were probably operating under the (false) assumption that a bad alpha vane wouldn't be the end of the world. In fact displays indicating the angle of attack and warnings about disparity between the alpha vanes is an optional feature on the 737. It's considered that unimportant.

The key differences from earlier 737s are that the MAX uses the AoA data to calculate airspeed and that the MAX may use a single AoA input to try to kill you. I believe the former was disclosed, but considered how short the differences training is may have been easily overlooked. The latter, of course, was not disclosed until the crash.
I'm happy they are investigating it, and I look forward to their report.
Boffins debunk study showing some languages can be more buggy than others
I don't recall Quora ever being good. What decade was this?
I actually agree on this one. The standard library is pretty basic. I guess my background as a C programmer means I'm just not very spoiled with great standard libraries. I do think that I'm going to have to start using moment.js quite soon, for instance, just because there is so little date/time-related functionality. I might try to roll my own simple time functions, but my hunch is I'll quickly run into quite tricky problems that will take too much time to reinvent solutions to.
That's precisely the GP's point.
React and the Virtual Stack
Actually my understanding is that you can use a computer keyboard to very rapidly enter lots of notes quickly and precisely without relying on your own human limitations as you would with a musical keyboard. I've seen it billed as sort of like Vi for music.