skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Gonna toot my own horn here for a second, but here[0] is a presentation I did on multi-armed bandits (and specifically Thompson sampling, the tragically underutilized optimal bandit method) to an undergrad ML group. Amusingly, the diagram I use on slide 3 is from a research paper from Microsoft. We had a guest speaker from MS's exp-platform team [1] the prior week, and she had discussed A/B testing, but not touched on bandits, and I felt a need to make this exact point.

[0]: https://gtagency.github.io/2016/experimentation-with-no-ragr...

[1]: https://exp-platform.com/
Well yeah but if the whole goal is to minimize suffering in the world as I assume yours is, the lines get very blurry very fast. I would probably not personally beat a Chinese kid that's building my phone too slowly in a sweatshop, yet I still use a phone, and all the other electronics and clothing produced like that; and I'm going to assume you do have some of these products as well. And then of you really wanted to get into it you start having a conversation about "well, what is suffering" "how does something suffer, what are the requirements, when does something become able to suffer, can computers suffer?" (The computer suffering thing is actually one of my favorite conversations to have)
Most of the meat in the market is already something else than what people think meat is.

Meatballs may have more than half chicken skin. Burgers contain 25% filler. Pink slime (= lean finely textured beef) is a highly processed meat by-product. In the US its processed with ammonia but that's not allowed in EU.
Thanks for the reminder, here's the actual report:

https://www.theccc.org.uk/publication/uk-housing-fit-for-the...
Yes, she disputes what he alleges she said.

But disputing an officer's allegation doesn't mean they can't cause trouble for you or charge you with a crime.

Obviously, she's 12, so he's unlikely to take it too far, but let's suppose he had taken her into custody.

Journalists working for mainstream media outlets often have the benefit of the paper's lawyers going to bat for them.

But when you're a lone reporter, 12 or not, the legal costs related to defending yourself against even a bogus charge can be considerable.
Using Async Correctly Increased Throughput by 4X
I imagine there will still be a market for natural meat and it will me a premium product. As for the replacements, people are already used to hamburgers and sausages.
I've been running KDE Neon on NUC for a while, and Kubuntu before that since KDE 3.5 days. But still it's not ready to become my primary desktop.

The main issue for me is RDP-like (not VNC-like) remote desktop experience. Without that I'm not even gonna try.

I mean the kind where I check my desktop before I leave for work, resume the session remotely from work (when compiling or whatever), and pick up when I get home. With performance which makes one forget it's a remote session, and bidir clipboard sharing.

So until then, Windows on the desktop it is. I can always run Linux on the NUC or in a VM.
Between Flatpak and AppImages we have good solutions for both people who prefer package managers as well as people who prefer a single file that can be run on double click.

As far as solutions goes, this problem is solved. They just need to be better known by software distributors.
The last time I looked at this space was ~10 years ago for a hobby project, so definitely curious if they exist.
I concur but I see a potential third tier: we might have the Meated, the Entomeated, and the Meatless.

With strata within each caste of course. The grass-fed yak-meated vs the factory-pig-meated; the wild-grasshopper entomeated vs the squishy-larva entomeated; and the fresh-veg meatless vs the Wal-Soylent meatless.
I don't know about the "rest of the world" but I would be bet that, in December 2010, when the Volt started selling in the US, far more Americans knew that the word "Volt" related to electricity than had heard of Tesla and knew that that word related to electricity.

For me, the bigger issue was that the name - to me - implied that it was an electric car, not a hybrid, so it felt like unsubstantiated marketing spin.
I totally get it. This is a good start. I'm a big fan of achievable goals.

The website seems to be trying to suggest that WiFi only is a feature -- which I disagree with. No harm in just saying you will get to it eventually, imo (maybe you do say that further down the page)
I'm not sure if this is just me, because the linked article doesn't seem to mention it. My Ubuntu Linux install cannot play certain youtube videos. Win10 on the same laptop plays everything. It's so weird!
>If you made something that was cheaper and tasted better, most carnivores would switch.

Too bad we won’t be able to say we did it for reasons better than “taste good” & “cheap”. Like. Better for the earth and climate. Or. Gasp. Does not facilitate cruel and immoral industrial farming that commoditizes life.
I hypothesize that many of these statistical tests have led to worse outcomes. Not in the commonly espoused bad for society externality view, but as a straight up bad for business view. There are three problems I see with A/B tests on a vast scale for small tests.

1. If the effect size is incredibly small, which most minor UI changes will be, finding statistical tests to prove them is really difficult. If you’re looking for an incredibly small positive effect, even with hundreds of thousands of sample size, the probability of rejecting the null hypothesis while the effect is actually a negative influence is surprisingly high! Very easy to make mistakes.

2) short term gains on engagement may lead to long term disengagement.

3) business incentives for management are easily misaligned. I would imagine a dominant negative influence is managers exaggerating the statistical influence found in a test because that means they get to lead the change, on an otherwise vast tech ecosystem the performance of which probably won’t change all that much. Attribution is also hard (how sure are they on how much to attribute here?) so credit is difficult to allocate beyond initial value sizing.
Or is it 1 out of 5 fields? Big difference!
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> Android is not Linux

I really, _really_ hate this statement. Android meets the only definition of 'linux' that matters IMO: it runs on a linux kernel. That's linux, full stop.

That said, I do find myself agreeing with most of the points listed there. I just not sure I'd call them 'linux on the desktop' issues per se. They're wayland/xorg issues, deb/rpm/flatpack/snap issues, pulseaudio/alsa issues, gtk/qt issues, etc. None of which are tied to the linux kernel. The fact that all of those technologies can and do run on bsd kernels (er, maybe not alsa).

Android is linux. Chromeos is linux. The issues above are really issues with the free/libre desktop distributions, mostly not linux per se.

....maybe I'm just a pedant on this issue.
CA made $345M (not predicted $1B) on legal cannabis in 2018
I'm not a lawyer, but yes, generally speaking, you are required to comply with a lawful order from a police officer, even if they do not give the order to everyone in the vicinity, and even if there is some dispute about whether a safety hazard exists.

Your recourse is not to disobey the order. It's to file a grievance or a lawsuit afterward.

(Key here is "lawful order." If the officer is giving you an unlawful order, such as ordering you to commit a crime, that's another story. But "leave this area, for your safety" is, at least on its face, a lawful order.)
And somehow the article has numbers to support both interpretations?
If anyone knows of a trackpad that's even 90% as good as the MacBook ones I'd love to give them a try.

This is honestly one of the biggest things locking me into the Mac ecosystem, I haven't found an alternative trackpad that even comes close. I even like Apple's new MacBook keyboards (even with them breaking all the time… at least they fix them).
Aha, I think I saw that tweet too and that's where this idea got into my head. I don't know much about the low-level details of DNSSEC so please just ignore that part :)
It's open source you could spend your time fixing the issues and collaborating with other source project's to bring a better unified experience for users for Linux.

Yeah..... you've got `more` important things to do.

Linux have all-ways been a hobbiest project. It your mindset when going into it.
Yeah this is why I stick to windows for desktop. Just the thought of having to fight pulse audio and bizarre gfx driver issues gives me ptsd

It’s cool for servers though
So much this.

I am a meal eater with a majority vegetarian friends group, so I inevitably cook a lot of veg food.

Greek, Indian, Thai and Chinese customers lend themselves really well to vegetarianism and I'm surprised that it isn't catching on in the US. (Especially Indian)

Meat substitutes don't hold a candle to a single one of these for items.

I've tried the current state of the art in meat substitutes ( impossible) and it's still bad.
Math Trick Shows How the Universe Is a Hologram
Not only that but when it comes to Linux the FOSS-only systems are also easier to install and maintain.
It's not a privacy focused device. It's a device intended to give hackers the ability to do things they aren't able to do with typical commercial hardware.

As a side effect of that there are some properties related to security that you get for free (no tracking cookies, no black box cellular radio), and others, like encryption, that we will try to add if we make enough to fund doing it. But we won't feature creep the project and risk never delivering just to check a box that's not part of our core goal.
Sure, it helps to be tech savvy when installing any operating system. I'm not sure that I'd agree that most of us enjoy troubleshooting, it just goes with the territory... always has even on Windows and Mac. The tech savvy and troubleshooting tend to come into play with non-standard / niche / unsupported hardware configurations and/or running bleeding edge / complex configurations. Most desktop and laptop configurations aren't that.

The main thing a non-tech savvy user needs to worry about when considering Linux is to generally understand that hardware support lags a bit. So they should do a few web searches on the make/model of hardware they want to use + 'Linux support' before they dive in. If they don't see page after page of glowing success stories, they have their answer and should steer clear of that configuration for the time being. If they do see lots of success stories, read a few of them to see if their eyes glaze over at what is written or if it seems pretty straight-forward and they can follow what's being said. No tech savvy required.
> All native Linux filesystems are case sensitive about filenames which utterly confuses most users. This wonderful peculiarity doesn't have any sensible rationale. Less than 0.01% of users in the Linux world depend on this feature.

The horror...

Though I wonder why users would be confused since this only really applies to the command line and there were (multiple) other points complaining about users having to use the command line.

user: cd Foo
bash: cd: Foo: No such file or directory
user: wget https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/software-download/windows10/win10.iso && echo "screw you linux!1!"
Bacteria don't have enough memory to represent technology, nor the necessary organization to ... I don't know, as whole they are rather complex and can at least share information like antigen markers to kill us effectively. There are actual sci-books on the matter, you know.
Yes, because it's $2600. Would you buy a computer for $2600 that didn't receive security updates after 24 months (or less?).
| but this would imply a kind of troglodytish existence that is likely not healthy for human beings

:(
This is what lifelong meat eaters experience, but I just can't comprehend. There is no meat that on its own is particularly tasty to me. Chicken, at its absolute best, tastes like a disappointing roast chestnut. What's worse is meat doesn't really marinade as well as everyone makes out, so often I'll be enjoying a dish but I keep chewing and realise I just like the sauce and then that fades and - yuck - you're left with meat.

Again, this is my very narrow experience as a vegetarian who lapsed well into adulthood and just didn't learn an appreciation of the savoury flavours involved. Objectively it's clearly people love the taste of meat.
Your comment really shocked me,

Then I realized that I'd misread worms as women in the title.
Depending on the cost I would definitely buy one as a hackable remote. For now the esp32 based M5stack fills this role.

If someone builds a backplate with 4G I would definitely consider this to replace my smartphone.
Microsoft announces an Azure-powered Kinect camera for enterprise
The really big problem are the systems that don't work well enough with nouveau. If you are unlucky you can even end up with a computer that only boots to a black screen, which requires some nomodeset trickery to install the proprietary graphics.
The arrogance of this is astonishing.
As a person who likes Arduino very much, I have to ask: Why Arduino?

It seems like you have to design a quite complex system here with many parts and gears to communicate and synchronize together. You'll need an OS for that kind of work. Arduino is not the language/paradigm for that kind of sophistication: even multi-threading will require some kind of hack.

It seems like an Arduino-phone is a development nightmare just waiting to come out.
> But when you're a lone reporter, 12 or not, the legal costs related to defending yourself against even a bogus charge can be considerable.

Well, yes. This is true not just for independent journalists but for all people.
Those questions are exactly why a study like this is useful - we didn't know there was a problem, now we can ask the questions to find out what's going on.
Maybe "Why am I I?" is an expression of dissatisfaction at being trapped in the prison of the self. That I only get to experience my experiences, and not other people's.

Maybe the answer to the question then is not a proposition, but a liberation from that prison. If one is a religious believer, one might hope for that liberation after death. If one is a transhumanist (which is maybe just a different sort of religion), one might hope that future technologies like telepathy implants or mind uploading might make such a liberation possible.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pomodoro_Technique Pomodoro technique for the win. Just work for 25 minutes and then time box your procrastination for 5 minutes. Be disciplined and you will be surprised how far it gets you!
It's not Linux. Just live with it.
It existed, but was very unequally distributed. And that’s why so many people starved and died from natural disasters.

I don’t think profit margin typically makes things possible in a binary manner. I think it just makes them more efficient.
Accepting money isn't "free", and usually incurs a non-trivial overhead. If it's someones hobby it's easier to just not accept money and focus on the actual hobby.

Some kid getting pocket money from a lemonade stand is significantly different to accepting recurring donations as an adult. Dealing with either setting up some sort of non-profit, managing tax in your country, accepting international currencies or supporting largely unethical/hostile US based financial institutions like Paypal, it can be a rabbit hole that some just can't be bothered with.

It's also just really weird to critisise people for wanting their users to donate to worthy causes.
Ummm. It's clear that the you that you think of as you does not identify with your fingernail, but is it not arrogant to assume that there is not a greater or lesser entity that incorporates your fingernail in its identity that might be conscious?
The traditional notion is, where one thing is, there cannot be another.
So strange, as i'm the polar opposite. I vastly prefer having everything update at once and be able to check versions, etc. I use homebrew and chocolately when I'm on macOS or Windows respectively to get that experience back.

I can understand trying to resolve dependencies can be a royal pain, espescially trying to find the distro's specific naming conventions, like libpq-dev vs postgresql-libs
I strongly disagree with this line of thinking. Please let me explain. I do understand that meat eating is environmentally disastrous and is current meat industry practices make it ethically questionable. We're on the same boat, trying to make this planet a better place for the next generations. I simply think forcing consumers into guilt is the worst possible way to solve this problem. I do not think eating meat is morally bad; at least it's not any more morally bad than a wolf eating a prey. What is morally bad is farming animals in cruel cages like they're a piece of plastic. This is not a consumer problem. Consumer is abstracted out of the morally wrong parts of those practices. If we want change, we need to change the economy. Meat should become more expensive. Meat industry should not be allowed to practice their cruel practices. Going door by door and chiming how bad meat eating is, does not help this problem. We will not see any large scale changes by guilting people out of meat eating. We need to fix producers.
Let me tell you as a lapsed vegetarian, the worst thing isn't even the taste - these people eat stuff that doesn't even dissolve in your mouth. The first time I had lamb, I just chewed for about five minutes before realising I was going to have to overcome my gag reflex to force this tasteless brown stuff down. I'd be horrified if we started replicating _that_.
There is per-basestation authentication. The basestation receives a key that is derived from your permanent key within your SIM card.

Roaming is a bit special, but this still holds. You then trust both operators, not just your home operator.
Also interested in this
I assume they're not comparing their own issues with Linux vs. the issues of less tech savy people with other OS, but vs. their own experiences with other OS.
mmmm glyphosate.
Mirrors only show pictures of the past, even if that means only pico to nanosecond differences here on earth
The author of the paper, cited in the report, said, "Any person with a little knowledge of cellular paging protocols can carry out this attack... such as phone call interception, location tracking, or targeted phishing attacks."
Didn't the poster above say humane animal husbandry? What you describe it not humane animal husbandry.
I hope I am not the only one who appreciates the irony of people posting statements in opposition of unproductive smartphone use from their own smartphone or PC into such a deeply nested comment thread that maybe 5 people will read it.
Making iPhones does not require beating people. Industrial meat production requires mutilating, imprisoning, and slaughtering animals (edit: obviously I'm not referring to cultured meat tissues, which does not exist on the market).
Yes but when you say “state of the Linux desktop,” all of this gets bundled in. A fair number of bits also touch the kernel directly — sound, video, etc.
I have the complete opposite experience. Everything I use is nicely packaged in Debian/Ubuntu. At most I need to add a new package source and then I get automatic updates. In Windows and OSX you used to need to manually install a bunch of packages from a bunch of locations, with very dubious security. No wonder they've both implement app stores.
If you want to see (most) of the many "TYPE xxxx-xxx" variants of a given older ThinkPad model number, and don't mind doing some detective work, you can Google for "PSREF" PDF files.

The PSREFs were/are catalogs of the variants available for sale and their specs, issued periodically. There were also PSREFs for withdrawn variants, covering year ranges.

(I got well-acquainted with these when stockpiling X200 units for Coreboot, a large-screen workstation model I like, and an older model that has better build-quality keyboards that can be swapped into certain newer models.)

Various Lenovo Web site lookups of specs have come and gone, and TYPEs seem to disappear from them sometimes, but the PSREF PDFs are forever.

Sorry I don't seem to have PSREFs covering X210S, but I suspect they're out there.
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Impossible is rolling out their 2.0 burger which reviews say is much better.
"We are also just past watching legions of people who should have known better refuse to credit Christine Blasey Ford’s accusation against Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh."

Isn't the Smollett case an example of exactly the reason why we should demand evidence before assuming someone is guilty?
Apple somehow has fast VNC between its computers. Anyone know why it’s so much better?

Disclaimer: I work for Apple, but nothing related to VNC.
Please don't put "Show HN" on posts about projects that aren't out yet. It's against the rules: https://news.ycombinator.com/showhn.html.
I use GNOME (Fedora 29). Works fine, except for things that NVIDIA and Cisco keep locked down (driver and codecs). Other than that, GNOME is just kind of a wacky desktop (activities and no desktop launcher are just stupid). But it does work, and I would be fine recommending it to my grandma with some extensions installed to make it more like Windows UX.
So far, I know of exactly one brand that offers this:

https://soylent.com/blogs/news/proudly-made-with-gmos
Thinking about how good the beef I ate last night tasted, and if the substitute is going to taste even BETTER and be CHEAPER at the same time, I can't wait for it to arrive.

But until this is reality, I have no reasons for reducing consumption of real meat.
Paul is right. Recently I read the book Clean Meat, which cited studies on how people choose what to eat. Two factors overwhelmed everything else: taste and cost.
I can understand the 15% complaining that you haven't released the source yet - your website very clearly calls this an "open source mobile phone". Something can't be open source if the code hasn't been released yet under an open source license. It might be open source in the future, but it isn't yet, in direct contrast to multiple claims on your website.
Comeon dude, don't settle for 10M JPY if you have enough technical competence to follow HackerNews

Go work in Silicon Valley for two years at 35M JPY/year, then come back to Japan and spend 8 years making games (or just playing them!)

Japan's software industry is toast, no point in investing even one second of your valuable time trying to prop it up. Even their home-grown businesses that fully understand all the intricacies of the local market are barely holding their own against the tendrils of US-based competitors, and they're never going to get any traction outside of Japan.
I should also mention that Linux has improved, macOS has seriously regressed. All the time bugs, and if you want to plug in you Mac into anything not made by Apple, good luck.
Most decent applications on Linux are CLI and run in a tty.

So most people do that with ssh+tmux
It's not ideal for a few reasons, but it's what most of the people who play with hardware know, and there are lots of libraries out there for interacting with sensors, displays, etc.

If the project gets big enough we may split it into 2 versions, one Arduino and one with a proper RTOS.

That said, at this level using interrupts and a state machine is pretty workable, so I wouldn't say multiple threads are a must. Would probably make it easier for regular programmers to pick up and start developing with, though.
Would you please stop posting uncivil comments to Hacker News? Regardless of whether you have a point, it damages the already-fragile container here.

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html
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