skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting. I've heard the argument that yoga is part of India's soft power [1], though it's a little hard to believe that's why Facebook classified it as political or important.

[1] https://www.foreignaffairs.com/articles/india/2015-01-25/yog...
Who said that they were necessarily creating great products elsewhere? I only argued that they were likely going elsewhere. What happens when they get there is a function of management/environment/etc. Most companies don't offer a sense of mission or mystique to their people, but strangely many are willing to settle for stacks of money instead.
> It doesn’t matter if you charge from 0% to 100% in one go or from 90% to 100% ten times.

This isn't really true, as far as I know. If you avoid fully charging or deeply discharging a lithium-ion battery, the wear per unit of energy extracted is smaller.

There are some statistics quoted here (https://batteryuniversity.com/learn/article/how_to_prolong_l...) showing that if you, say, halve the amount of energy you retrieve from a battery in each cycle, the battery lasts for more than twice as many cycles.

This paper arrives at a similar conclusion (see figure 4): https://www.researchgate.net/publication/318292540_Analysis_...
Yeah, but now ports load and unload containers automatically using GPS to guide the cranes, which obviously means they're going to swing wildly about and whack planes out of the sky.
There was a time when everyone I knew was on Yahoo or MSN messenger. Then suddenly everyone stopped using messengers. The biggest problem with messengers was synchronous communication. Once someone started talking to you, you pretty much had to stay glued to the computer until the conversation ended. It was great for some conversations but a big inconvenience for the most part. Most people started hiding behind the invisible mode until there came a time when everyone was invisible and you didn't have anyone to talk to.

Next gen. communication tools like fb messenger, WhatsApp etc. solved this problem by making the default expectation asynchronous. It was a huge step in evolution of messaging.
That is exactly right
Show HN: Throttler for Asyncio Python
Kinda have to agree. It would be an entirely different thing if they were practicing nazi salutes and shit. But they're not. And this is only a story to make someone money for their suffering. Since it's already made the round in 2006, why don't we let it be and drop it off HN and flag this story.
Great example, also from rotating systems, is the harmonic drive gearbox -- a very compact & high gear ratio device that (curiously) uses a deformable metal "cup" (flexspline) rather than a 100% rigid piece of metal like a traditional gear. Huge improvement that is now commonplace in robotics.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harmonic_drive
It doesn't matter what they believe, what does matter is how much power church have.

Just one of endless examples: Military Academy of Strategic Rocket Forces now has department (faculty) of Orthodox Christianity.
It's just one of examples of total madness and degradation - church gains more and more power in Russia.
Not GPS related, but the day I am really worried about is January 19th 2038 3:14:07AM... Unix time will roll over if stored in a signed four byte integer field.
On the other hand, I was astounded when I heard that F-22s stopped working after flying across the international date line.

It's a pretty big oops, but they rebooted the computers, and the planes kept flying. That's the second place where these disaster predictions fall down. These systems are rarely designed with a single point of failure.
You know you can do that with any of the thousands of Qi chargers on the market, right?
It has 2 modes, one for debug (compile directly to machine code) and one for release (compile to c)
The story of this guy is very inspiring. Unlike silicon valley engineers who tend to work hard in anticipation of big payouts, this guy has been working hard for years for his seemingly true passion of paleontology. We need more people like him in every field and especially in the silicon valley.
> I don't think one product that consumes one one thousandth of the world's energy production is negligible.

Amdahl does though: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amdahl%27s_law

> And a 40% increase in this consumption for a very minimal increase in 'convenience' (itself debatable) is not negligently wasteful.

That's your opinion. I have a different opinion. How do we choose which of us is right? In general, we decide on the allocation of scarce resources through markets and price signals. Electricity is metered almost everywhere. If wireless charging's 40% increase in energy use doesn't hurt adoption, it means that the utility gained from wireless charging outweighs the resources consumed. That you personally have different utility function doesn't invalidate anyone else's, and you certainly don't get to make people use your utility function instead of their own. If you think electricity is too cheap and doesn't incorporate necessary externalities, you can argue for some kind of extra climate tax. But arguing against specific products here because you personally don't find them useful isn't the right approach.
At that point you drill out the sealed cover to the JTAG pins, a-la debugging the Apple Watch ;)
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Yeah, but a battery gets hot when charging fast. Keeping it connected at 100%, the phone stays cool in my experience. And charging often makes the window where it generates heat from charging smaller
I bought my tesla used, directly from Tesla (for the warranty etc.) The previous owner's address and other sensitive information was still listed on the "My Tesla" pages at tesla.com when I logged in to my own account.

Comically, on the car itself, the previous navigation searches were not cleared and included a nearby strip club that my wife found before I did.

On my wife's X (also bought from tesla.com second-hand), she was sent a whole bunch of financial information about the previous owner, both through text messages and on the online portal.

They really don't do an especially good job of securing customer information.
What is a learning management system
And it's all from the same URL, showing up on successive days on HN.
I think the parent meant radio beacons on the ground. These give an angle or distance to a known location.

ADSB does broadcast the planes location. But this is only used in a very limited fashion. ATC use radar as the main source of information.
The way the article frames it, Tesla is vary careful about data it can monetize while is careless with PII.
> Once someone started talking to you, you pretty much had to stay glued to the computer until the conversation ended.

Why? Were there no chat history in those tools?

Couldn't you just sign off if you had other things to do, and answer later in the same conversation?
residential lithium fires are unlikely to be coming from phones. (unless people still have those exploding Notes still kicking around)

Far more likely to be lithium batteries being used or abused in a hobbyist capacity. E-cigs and RC are both ripe for it when users have lower quality cells to begin with, routinely discharge them above the rated current and then charge with sometimes questionable chargers. Worse yet when people try to charge them above the max voltage.
Apples cables don't have to implement the entire USB-C spec. Only the parts that apple want to use.
Yeah they only looked at peak memory. They noted it would be more useful to look at continuous memory usage in future research.

Also take note that the scale of the graphs is different. E.g. Figures 5 & 6 makes it look like Java energy is super low when it's really just similar to the compiled languages.[1]

[1] http://greenlab.di.uminho.pt/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/sleF...
I appreciate what simpleanalytics.io and 1984 is trying to do but I really think they risk going on a hyperbole and thus lose the broad appeal of their cause.

The important thing here is rightful skepticism of companies which gives away valuable complex software (a web analytics tool) for free in return for access to your customers behavioural data which then is sold or used in other parts of their business (ie. Google Analytics/Google Adwords).

Making this a thing about the mass surveillance of the five eyes and thus having to avoid hosting companies such as Digital Ocean and AWS just looses a lot of us and frankly is a bit too paranoid/silly.
(per my understanding) This isn't about a new io-scheduler. You'd use this io.latency io-controller that sits a layer above the io-scheduler and reduces io queue-size as a means to throttle write requests. The key insight in how to do this per control-group is to use a hierarchical non-blocking data-structure to represent related workloads, which could be classified into 'fast' and 'slow', with 'fast' penalising the 'slow' group (by the way of reducing the io queue-size available to it) iff 'fast' sees higher read latencies. 'Unrelated' group doesn't get penalised as it isn't part of the same hierarchy, as it were.

There are some gotchas though, for instance, priority inversion occurs where 'fast' needs more memory but 'slow' needs to be paged-out first, resulting in 'fast' being peanlized indirectly for the write-throttling on 'slow'.

The approach here is reminiscent of HFSC qdisc for TCP/IP (which only a handful of people understand?): https://www.cs.cmu.edu/~hzhang/HFSC/main.html
> It is crazy to suggest that any company doing analytics has any sort of right to make my software connect to its servers.

No analytics company has a right to make you connect to its servers. But, that isn't the case at all: You visit some website. The operator of that website has contracted with the analytics company. You ask the website for some information and it replies with that information as well as a request to ping the analytics company that the website contracted with. It's apparently "crazy" to comply with that request, all while still consuming the information that you asked for and received.

Ad-blockers wouldn't be controversial if they worked by navigating away from any site that displayed ads or included a tracker. Of course, that would be inconvenient for the user, so, they don't do that. The whole point of an ad-blocker is to allow a user to consume a service in a manner that the entity running and paying for the service didn't intend. We could at least acknowledge that. Your position, however, seems to be that doing what the service you are using is asking you to do in exchange for its information is "crazy" - and that is straight up ridiculous.
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The articles I read made it sound like they continued to have nav and comm issues after rebooting, and that things could've been worse if they hadn't been able to follow their tankers home.
For every public figure no of course we should not care.

For a big CEO running a major global communications platform and who is insisting that it is transparent, safe, and generally fine as an unregulated entity yes, this is a big hypocritical deal.

Not about whether we have kept the records stored somewhere, but whether we can trust Facebook to do the same.
Colorffy it's a website for web design and more, where you can search for color gradients and palettes, get color codes like hex, rgb, hsl and cmyk. Here are some cool features:

- Some cool color gradients and palettes with some color codes like hex, rgb, hsl & cmyk.

- Preview UI elements (buttons, badges, navbars, cards), with differents gradients, css codes and images downloads.

- We have some cool generators like for color gradients, random colors and get colors from images.

Let me know what you think!
Thanks for the links!

Also, I want to add that what I wrote above is only regarding smartphones. I don’t know how much stress/extra heat etc that EV batteries are subject to, but I imagine they drain/charge at more intense rates relatively.
It was a social expectation rather than a technology thing. Sure, you could leave a conversation and restart it later. But that was similar to physically walking away from someone. Unless you're finished or really have to do something else, you usually don't walk away.
According to the same guy Tesla uploads WiFi passwords in plaintext to their servers and this database has been leaked already: https://www.reddit.com/r/teslamotors/comments/b7383h/cnbc_te...
Alright, I'll look again in the future. At the time I wondered if the 'wanna get away' fare was basically cash only.
Right. This form of compression assumes a primary single pitch, plus variations from that tone. You can hear it locking into different components of the song and losing almost everything else.

Heavy compression of voice is vulnerable to background noise.

I miss the classic telco 8K samples per second, 8 bits. We used to think that was crappy audio.
It really helps that Sikhism is a relatively young religion that didn't ask that much of individuals. We're just "below the fold" enough to not have too many prejudices attached to us. Even the keeping hair / turban stuff isn't really required unless you want to.

Come to think of it, that's probably true of most Hindus too. I think it's just the Abrahamic religions that have too deep a history of conflicts within the western world.
So many algorithms, data structures and patterns in computer sciences were based on the idea that hard disks are slow and their seek times are especially slow. However, the introduction of solid state drives has changed this. There days I have almost no server with an actual disk drive on it.

I wonder how (1) the software has evolved to face this new reality, (2) how much of the old code is still being used and (3) what are the performance penalties we pay for using disk performance characteristic assumptions in code that actually runs on solid state drives?
> Universal Time Code (UTC)

Uh, Coordinated Universal Time [0]?

I can't be the only one who, upon seeing little things like this, immediately has doubts about the accuracy of everything else in the article.

[0]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Coordinated_Universal_Time
Thanks. Updated my post to say smartphones - I have no idea about what EV batteries are exposed to.
Or car markers could just stop being stubborn and greedy with their proprietary trash and just support Car Play/Android Auto. That way the car acts as a dumb terminal for displaying stuff from the phone and nothing is actually stored in the car.

But no, gotta charge hundreds for in-car map updates (that only get updated as often as you purchase them) and radio/traffic subscription that mobile apps charge a fraction of and always up-to-date for as long as you keep the apps updated.
> the only thing making it not realtime is maybe your self-control

You could similarly ask how can people get any work done if they can also watch youtube videos all day?

These days people do have to have self control, because all kinds of entertainment is just a click away, so people have to consciously set aside those to get things done.
Hey can I have access to this service and mistakenly delete all my facebook history? Maybe set it up on a rolling basis and have it wipe everything a year old or so?
Coming from IRC and ICQ and AIM and all that, most of my conversations were asynchronous in one sense.

But in another sense, they weren't, as I would often elect to set my status across my services as Away in order to curb the expectations of some people who were particularly in need of attention.

I guess that part hasn't changed, though. Just today I had to explicitly set boundaries with someone about how often they can realistically expect to command my attention away from my task at hand and toward my phone.
Lately it seems to be happening elsewhere entirely, at least on hardware front. See for example Huawei's foldable. Google and Microsoft will gladly solve their software problems, what they are mainly missing is their own distribution channels overseas. I think it we are now caught up to Japan in ~1970s, soon it will probably be time of dominance like ~1980s.
The Pentium was really the Amiga of its time - it was a remarkable technological achievement & the first x86 CPU that could compete with workstation RISC CPUs, which was far from a trivial achievement.

If the 486 was the final nail in the m68k's coffin the pentium's was the same for the high-end RISCs.
Most of that change into cable TV - where a few large corporations control the means of publication - already happened. Section 230 may have helped that centralization, making it possible to create and extract rent from new forms of infrastructure without having to worry about moderating how that infrastructure is used. As usual, large corporations profit by externalizing costs onto the public.

However, the primary reason publishing now requires an imprimatur[1], usually from a large increasingly cable-TV-like corporation, is NAT. The internet where any peer could publish no longer exists. NAT turned it into as collection of party lines. Since real network software isn't possible[2] over party lines, software development has been limited to centralized client-server designs.

As for Section 230, an improvement that would help steer the internet away from cable TV is to remove the power to control access without liability is simple: s/provider/common carrier/. If you don't want liability, you nee to be a neutral carrier that only moves data as a back box. Inspection and curation brings liability for the content of what you publish.

[1] https://www.fourmilab.ch/documents/digital-imprimatur/

[2] It is sometimes possible, but nobody tries because NAT traversal[3] is hard.

[3] http://bford.info/pub/net/p2pnat/
Do you have any analytical benchmarks regarding the benefits you've gotten from multicore support?
The lack of multiple responses over an extended period of time seems like as big a hint as you can get.

If you're standing next to someone and they ignore your attempts at getting their attention, how long should you continue before finding something better to do?
Cool project -- sort of like an electromagnetic radiometer.
I had asynchronous chat conversations on AIM/Yahoo/MSN/GChat/etc. with dozens of people for over a decade; it was normal and expected for conversations to be as synchronous or asynchronous as either participant wanted.
I'm skeptical about the conclusions this article draws. If you eliminate Section 230, the implication is that major sites don't get to moderate their content if they don't want to be responsible for it, but that certainly doesn't imply the end of the Internet much less it as we know it today.

Section 230's main feature is to let sites dodge the responsibility that comes with the right to act as the modern public square in the US (and most other countries), where "public square" means that any conversation can be had there between members of the public provided that conversation isn't outright illegal (or so loud that no other conversation can take place).

Instead, Section 230 allows website operators to follow whatever moral code they see fit in terms of moderation. This gives disproportionate political power to particular American subcultures, and these people trend toward the Progressive end, injecting the public discourse with a Progressive bias rather than reflecting the country as a whole because they consider it their moral duty to stamp out content that is hateful, objectionable, or simply contradictory/insulting a Progressive cause (whether these judgments are correct or not is an entirely different matter).

They're clearly doing the best they can under their constraints and circumstances, and their value judgments are popular worldwide.

Were Section 230 to be eliminated the problems that Sen. Wyden mentions only get worse, because you either allow everything permissible under 1A or go out of business due to liability issues (remember, the First Amendment and Supreme Court precedent do not allow other restrictions) without any popular moral code to clean it up. Advertisers won't realistically be able to pull funding because it affects the vast majority of the Internet equally (outside of dumping millions of dollars into small walled-garden services), and Articles 11 and 13 (not to mention the absolute lack of law even resembling the First Amendment) in the EU have done an excellent job ensuring that US tech companies would still face even greater difficulties in Europe.

There's an asterisk for SESTA-FOSTA here (where even unmoderated public squares might still face legal liability), but that law has yet to be seriously evaluated against the First Amendment, a challenge it will certainly fail (a reminder that Section 230 is the only surviving part of the Communications Decency Act because the rest contravened the 1A).
> the previous navigation searches

Sure, "previous"... ;)
>> a. Do you really think they would raise suspicion by deleting all old posts or just silently delete specific posts?

How? By asking Mark Z to spend the time doing it? Or to have a third person involved, who will then need to be trusted for 1000% loyalty that he won't eventually turn? Or do you think this can somehow be automated?

>> b. Do we really need to raise a twitter storm for every public figure that did something controversial 10 years ago?

Yes, until the public figure gets a punishment which will actually be a deterrent for others in the future.

>> Edit: I'm just gonna leave this here: https://www.zuckerbergfiles.org/access/

That's not even comparable. If there is a public post that can actually be linked to as proof of some kind of opinion or statement, its completely different isn't it?

Isn't it amazing how much the turds who work at Facebook want to snoop into our life and are simultaneously happy to give a free pass to their own CEO?
As a point of clarity: Messages are a different product and system to posts. Facebook have previously revealed that they have a deletion process for his messages. Given that a lot of internal communication happens through Facebook messenger instead of email this is not that shocking.

It's entirely possible that they also intended to delete his internal (company-wide) posts, and ended up deleting them all in error. Posts from 2011 don't really serve any purpose other than to be a goldmine for disgruntled employees who want to cherry pick something controversial. Public posts don't have the same problem because they are written with heavy PR oversight, and deletion is pointless because they will have been scraped and stored anyway.
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> there is no known learning environment that beats a university.

I've tried university twice and left both times before getting a degree. We are utterly incompatible, despite my grades being in the top 1% from an academic standpoint (And while attending my GPA was 4.0)

I was headhunted in 1st year (the first time) and never looked back. I've come across many 'self motivated' coders like myself who thrive in all things IT, without needing to be spoonfed.

> no theory and nuts-and-bolts fundamentals?

I've done digital and electronics and full stack engineering, written compilers, embedded systems, 3D engines and modellers, etc, etc.

I think that suffices as 'nuts and bolts'. I'm only yet to write my own OS.

When hiring, I would basically ignore the degree and look at their work: their code and their ability to communicate their understanding of it.

I think we live in two different worlds indeed! I'm more like OP and like getting down and dirty. I see problems (in the marketplace) and I make solutions - however they come whether it be JS or ASM.
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