skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a feeling this guilty plea is not actually a "guilty" plea, and more of "let's get it over with."

The guy has always called the charges "bullshit" and was asking for donations to keep up with legal costs.

This isn't how a legal system is supposed to work. You don't take a guilty plea because you run out of money.
I think it's rather: don't try to imitate others, strive to emulate them.
I don't think he controls them. What it reminds me of is how USSR supported pretty much any political movement anywhere in the world, so long as it was in opposition to the capitalist West. The important part was that last one, but most such movements were left-wing.

But that was there and then. We don't have any strong hard left movements of that kind in Western countries today. We do, however, have far right / "third position" movements of that kind. And ideologically, they align pretty well with Russia's own internal politics, so they're more reliable allies, as well. So, while there is some support for left-wing anti-establishment movements, most of it goes to the right. And hence we're mostly talking about that.
Have you taken a look at the Cloudflare Keyless SSL tech?
Good news is, you can spend some money and upgrade any airplane, even a 1950's Cessna to glass cockpits for a similar experience.
An awful thing you will find is that the vc funded folks, google, and "big tech" are not on our side. Somehow they think it is cool for China to break the neoliberal consensus and invest in infrastructure, but no way should there be competition for better internet or better airplanes here.
Go to https://store.google.com/us/category/phones?hl=en-US and cmd+F search for "android". They aren't selling "android phones" anymore already.
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Mouse and cat armor:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19703277
I've done the Gottman training. Fantastic stuff. My partner and I agreed it helped with all of our relationships, including work.

Gene Wilder's "compliment sandwich" is often used an example of how to both praise and criticize, without risking undue offense.

https://www.wmagazine.com/story/gene-wilder-willy-wonka-cost...

So now when I do code reviews, I also verbalize all the things I like and agree with, like sharing my inner dialog, just like subjects are asked to do during usability tests. This helps me convey my respect and appreciation for my coworker(s) and their effort(s). I especially call out when I learned something from them.

Further, we recently got a puppy. I'm struggling to practice positive reinforcement training. The trainers make it look easy. But when I finally connect with my dog, successfully training a new behavior, it's like magic. At first, it feels (and looks) weird constantly praising, but after a while it becomes the new normal.

I just wish I knew all this stuff much earlier in life.
Or look at Zoom's 47.7x multiple and you've got a $6.6B market cap
Duplicate: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19702872
Your laptop probably draws, what, 15W. Your old computer probably does not draw 15KW! - yes, I'm sure there will be old computers that do, and more, but since this article is about the Atari 800, I'm going to assume the discussion is about that sort of old computer, rather than something the size of a room that required a reinforced floor and your own personal account manager at the electricity company.

Modern hardware that I've got:

1. Mid-2015 13" Macbook Pro, mostly idle, battery charged, screen fully dimmed: 11W (16W with screen at full brightness)

2. My 2011 i7-2600K desktop: ~100W idle (packed away right now - but it's about that)

I happen to have my old Acorn junk set up right now, so here's some measurements from that:

1. BBC Master 128: 12W

2. BBC Micro model B: 25W

And some other Acorn peripherals. Add these figures to either of the above:

1. Acorn 6502 second processor: 5W

2. 5.25" disc drive: 2W (when in use)

3. Ancient early-80s monitor of unknown provenance: 50W

4. Acorn-branded CM8833: 85W

Looks like my favourite Acorn-branded monitor is actually pretty bad :( - however it's not actually drawing a huge amount more than the 2 x 27" monitor setup I have with my Macbook Pro, even though the pixels per watt isn't quite as good.

In fact: the overall power draw for BBC Master 128 setup vs Macbook Pro setup, both period-authentic, both (if not cutting edge for the time) up to the task of a good range of period-authentic workloads, is about the same! - and even if I was certain 1000x was an overestimate, this is still a bit of a surprise...
My understanding is that category theory can be considered as abstract function theory. If we can prove that a function (e.g. Haskell compiler) is equivalent to automatic differentiation with some transformation, according to category theory, we can write Haskell code to train neural network, instead of writing extra graph building code in, say, Tensorflow. This paper basically shows this. http://conal.net/papers/essence-of-ad/essence-of-ad-icfp.pdf.
Then are we kidding ourselves that capitalism is our best shot at a social system?
During that transition, which yes was major, you had Win32 as the recommended API before and after.
I definitely am not refuting the estimates by climate scientists about our worsening climate rates; I will totally assume that the rate they suggest is the expected value until proven otherwise.

However, I will also not be surprised if things get far worse extremely fast, or if they actually suddenly start getting better (or slowing down). My only rationale for this belief is that as we go into warmer and warmer climate, we are also going into a territory that the scientists themselves have no real data for - literally uncharted territory. I'm sure they have run models to extrapolate their predictions but the actual fact that we are already experiencing climate that has not been seen for however amount of time means any prediction has to be taken with a slight grain of salt.

Practically speaking, we always hear of the finding that global warming might release methane bodies or it's turning into a runaway chain reaction. We don't even know how many other chain reaction scenarios exist that have not even been considered. Similarly (though with orders of magnitude less likelihood even for me), there exists possibilities that excessive warming into uncharted temperatures might trigger some feedback that might slow this warming too. I'm not counting on it but I am not ready to % exclude it yet either.
Game Reward Spending Program
If it said "[everyone/most everyone] I worked with is difficult" or "[all/most of] My bosses seem to be idiots" I would agree with you about negativity and red flags.

But this is in an article that is 90-95% positive, so I disagree.
Rediscovering quantum physics and realizing the importance of stepping back
Yes. There are many think-tanks whose sole purpose is justifying laws that benefit corporate at the expense of everyone else. They will be happy to provide you with all the reasons you'd like.
Have you seen Robert Ghrist's book, "Elementary applied topology" ? There's plenty of category theory in there, even though it is mostly implicit. (And applications to ML and robotics.)

https://www.math.upenn.edu/~ghrist/notes.html
That's Nietzsche's "werde, der du bist".
I'm a #FitbitEmployee but don't speak for Fitbit.

The advantage of the device is that it doesn't interrupt you if you've already taken 250 steps that hour.

I take it you own a smartphone based on this previous comment: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19688327

Even if you don't own a smartphone, the loss of privacy to Fitbit is minimal, in my personal opinion. If you do own a smartphone, adding a Fitbit to the picture means an infinitesimal loss of privacy, too small to even be worth talking about. Fitbit has a financial incentive to keep your data private. Can you say that about every app on your phone?
Isn't this the reason the grep was created? It was used to determine which parts of the Federalist Papers were written by which author.[0]

Considering this occurred in 1974, I can only imagine that techniques for de-anonymizing authors have gotten much better due to how much written text individuals post on social media sites, like hn. Uh oh.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grep
^^^ This.

Key Values is not valuable because of its code. In fact, it's a simple static site that I could rebuild in a couple of days if I wanted to.

I meet a lot of technical founders who love coding and avoid doing everything else. They run the risk of building a lot of fancy features that no one wants or needs.
You're ignoring the gun about to go off: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clathrate_gun_hypothesis

We already see ocean acidification and warming - if that triggers the release of methane deposits stored under the ocean, that's a potential extinction-level event (or at least a civilization reset back to the stone ages).
> Even the name Stormtroopers comes from German WWII unit type name.

Stormtroopers were from the First World War.

> Stormtroopers were specialist soldiers of the German Army in World War I.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stormtrooper
PostmarketOS is the closest I've seen to the right idea for sustainability and openness: mainline Linux kernel, no closed drivers, and a userland that lets various current and future environments be layered (and can run the existing wealth of GNU/Linux software immediately, modulo the small touchscreens).

A word of warning is that still developer-only, not ready for real use. (Even my Replicant devices are much more functional than my PostmarketOS ones, at the moment, but PostmarketOS is a much better idea.)
One big feature Fuchsia has over Linux is stable kernel driver ABI. It is reasonable to predict that while Android kernel drivers are open by necessity, Fuchsia kernel drivers will be closed unlike Fuchsia kernel itself.
Done properly you'd discover that you could copy sensitive files. You don't actually copy them.
Too late, it's already happening:
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2013/08/dea-and-nsa-team-intel...
> ... are more like blackmail payments.

nothing in this article concludes that he asked for payment.
As someone from the UK who knows nothing about this, and just can't understand why on earth politicians would make this happen - what reasons are given for this?
> once he misses a single reply he dumps everything to the public

Also known as "black hat", aka criminal.

Seems this is just all mundane info about ordinary people, no scandals, no war crimes, no improprieties. He's massively violated their privacy and subjected them to identity theft. Hope justice finds this bad dude.
My previous guess for a roadmap [0]:

1) Pixels move to Fuchsia, native apps are in Dart/Flutter, compatibility layer for Android. Fuchsia becomes a distinguishing feature of Googles hardware, and allows Google to differentiate vs Android competitors.

2) Google continues to support Android, but only as it affects their business interests (as a funnel for search).

3) Google migrates some service level functionality away from Android and Pixels become a first-class citizen in Google's ecosystem.
In my mind, Fuchsia is a direct result of Google's newfound interest in hardware (as a business). I imagine the following:

- Google sees voice (and maybe AR) as the next frontier, which is actually an existential threat for them--they are harder to monetize via ads.

- Google decides to start making hardware (for profit), to monetize their services (a la Apple). That is, their Voice Assistant is now differentiated from Android, and to use that service, you have to buy their hardware. Now, they don't need to make money on ads for voice searches.

- Google will continue to roll out more ML-driven services that are exclusive to their hardware, and eventually, exclusive to Fuchsia. This will allow them to both a) further differentiate their hardware from other Android manufacturers, b) better monetize their services (effectively through HW purchases), and c) steal market share of the most valuable customers from Apple.

[0] - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=16568275#16569138
I'm not so sure about that either. Katanas used to be much longer if you go back several hundred years before the Edo period. I believe that the 2-handed method has more to do with providing greater power and control than the weight of the sword (one hand guiding, the other providing force). Also, there was a fair amount of schooling in drawing the sword and cutting your opponent in a single motion, which of course, is only practical with one hand.

Samurai also carried the smaller wakizashi which was used in one hand. Further, some of the lesser known swordsmen used a two-sword technique, holding a katana in either hand.

But my memory may be fuzzy; it's been a good 15+ years since I was really into all this stuff :-)
Philip Wadler's talk, Category Theory for the Working Hacker, is a nice little introduction: https://youtu.be/gui_SE8rJUM
No actually not the deals. Working with companies right now to get the best content hosted on makerpad to show off their platforms and how non technical makers can use those tools to power up their ideas/businesses. Nothing is fully released yet!
"this upsets me when I see people taking risks for nothing" this happens all the time, for every task. Life is practically a game of balancing risk and reward. Different people balance risk in different ways. Perhaps they accept the risk, but find that the productivity boost or convenience of eating at their desk is worth the small risk of paying for the price of a new laptop/keyboard. Or perhaps they have mistunderstood the risk, having never (yet) suffered through the process of replacing it.
I'd rather that we learn to acknowledge that laws and their enforcement isn't free, either economically, or in terms of its effect on personal freedoms, and that there is a line past which it's a net negative even if it targets some activity that is illegal for a good reason, and has some meaningful effect on that.
Well, I think there's a bit of mandatory-ness that comes with adding it to Ruby itself. Sounds like the standard library is going to ship with rbi files defined, for instance. Plus, tools for generating rbi files. On some level, it's an endorsement to do things this way, right? And that's before it (potentially) becomes a community practice to do so.

If it's not, why not leave these solutions in gems?

Btw, I don't think static typing alone is Ruby becoming all things to all people. In recent history, it's also aliasing `Enumerable#filter` to `Enumerable#select`, numbered block arguments, a shorthand special notation for `Object#method` -- it feels like a trend of "hey these other languages do this, we should too". I'm not convinced that's always the case.
If you don't mind, I think I'll wait for at least one or two years before I do any flights on a 737 MAX plane. Just in case this fix is no better than the last "fix".
> Windows has actually replaced their Win32 app model with UWP

This is wishful thinking on Microsoft's part.

> they still support Win32 apps

Because it is despite their best efforts more popular and more important. So it cannot be said that they "replaced" it.
But money can certainly help with the negotiating.
Yes! I skimmed it and really enjoyed it although I mostly remember seeing algebraic topology and not so much category theory, will give it a closer look.
I'm sorry but I read a string of negative messages about the FAA in this. Firstly, that they know they need to be seen to act more strongly, and secondly they lack courage: they did it to GA not commercial because they're scared of the airline lobby.

Why didn't they act like this to commercial aviation?
Airbnb Like Referral Software?
Hi everyone!

Is there any software that we can use for our platform Spocket.co to replicate the "invite your friends" referral functionality?
Makes me think of that classic scene between Jude Law and Dustin Hoffman in "I [Heart] Huckabees" --

Hoffman: ... are you being yourself?

Law [increduluous]: How am I not myself?!

Hoffman : "How am I not myself."

Law: _How am I not myself?_

Hoffman : "How am I not myself."

Law [distressed, starting to choke up]: How am I not myself.
For a first introduction to category theory, from the masters thereof, I would highly recommend the book by Lawvere and Shanual "Conceptual Mathematics: A First Introduction to Categories". It almost doesn't look like a mathematics book, but believe me, these guys know what they are talking about. They distill some very high-brow ideas down to something us mere mortals can grok.
The Compleat History of Shredding (2002)
Be yourself. Unless you're an asshole, then figure out how to not be an asshole, then be yourself.
> It's so bad compared to newer options that there is no circumstance where it's the best available option.

I'm not sure this is true. At the very least, it's not hard to imagine circumstances where it's the best available option for recreational use (hacking on, programming for, etc.)

> Keeping old, crappy stuff just isn't a good use of resources when new stuff is immeasurably better and ludicrously cheap.

It isn't a good use of your resources. But it can be a perfectly fine use of resources for someone else. It all depends on what turns your gears.
You should stop using HN. I can tell that 4 hours ago you were awake, using your computer, not taking steps. Are you really comfortable with this loss of privacy?
I don't disagree that there are huge risks. I just don't think anyone is taking those potential massive risks seriously, and that includes a substantial number of environmentalists and the leaders of most of the world.

Another thing that might cause change to actually happen is if we're "lucky" enough to get a "minor" catastrophe that totally changes global opinion but isn't anywhere near as massive as the stuff you're talking about.
Yes these titles vary widely at different companies. In fact, that's exactly why we build https://www.levels.fyi - We don't have CircleCI on there yet but hope it helps.
I would suggest looking into Neurofeedback treatment. It is possible to strengthen the focus networks in your brain and that could change everything.
The treatment was pioneered by the researcher who runs this center in Canada.
http://addcentre.com
"Feminists killed by a nazi"

hncynic 1 minute ago

A couple of questions I have come to myself on a similar topic:

1. On what grounds are we a Nazi? What are the political implications of the use of "feminism"?

2. What's the reason the German government killed one of its female and Nazi leaders. If a german leader was killed because of sexism by other groups, how are they protected if there is a Nazi?

3. What is their motivation in this? Do they have a goal to end war and that they do not have a "war of Nazes"? And why are politicians so against the idea that "theirs" are not a communist?
Context: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zimmermann_Telegram
I love reading blog posts like that. But wouldn't it be better to spend that time on ... you know ... keeping the service functional to paying customers? https://status.circleci.com/
The Three Online Product Types
Where I work, a website/app in the top 20 US alexa rankings, we use Fastly and it is pretty great. If I have a complaint it's that their varnish version is old. The web UI is great, the service is great. I've never had an issue with them in my many years of working with them.
The Pencil comes with a female–female Lightning adapter. If you’re worried about snapping it, you can easily plug it into a normal cable.
I mean, I know you're suggesting the claim has no merit because the poster doesn't know what they're talking about; but you know, even if the poster were a genius with intimate knowledge of the project, a claim like this is bogus.

If somebody with a modicum of common sense and software experience says some software of this kind of complexity that they're working on "can" be good enough in 5 years that basically means: it's a herculean task, and they have no clue whatsoever as to how long it's actually going to take. Also, they probably don't really know what they're really trying to do, only general aims, not actually how they're achievable.

There's no way in hell anybody can plan something that novel and hugely complex, with that many people involved in an ecosystem that's constantly changing not to mention a business that's not known for its long term perseverance, with any kind of accuracy for 1 year. 5 years is a complete joke.

Who knows - it might happen. It might in just 1 year. Or maybe 50. Or more likely, never. But I cannot believe that estimate to have any kind of sane grounding.

The only way they're actually going to follow through on a schedule that long term is by giving up on scope and quality, which is to say - sure, something will be delivered, but perhaps nothing resembling today's expectations.
Haha no problem, I figured there was more to it than just that ;)

I do agree with you that we would be better off with less tech, but it would be hard for me at least since I love it so much. Although I do stay away from social media (unless you count the occasional HN post) which I think does more bad than good.
What kind of storage do you use when chasing the 5-10ms improvements? I ask as someone working on super fast storage and memory and it's not always easy to find people who are aware of the differences in latency. I imagine you're already on NVMe SSDs, but if not, I'd be curious why (i.e. is software more of the issue than hardware?).
It is absolutely puzzling to me why anybody would prefer this 'jet' to a nice (used maybe) turboprop like a KingAir or an Aerocommander (heck, even an MU2). They are (almost) just as fast (or slow), carry more load and do not require a type rating to fly. Oh, and they cost less and eat about the same amount of fuel too, ... and are less costly to maintain.
There’s the old quip about Gershwin asking Ravel to teach him. Supposedly, Ravel declined, saying “Why should you be a second-rate Ravel when you can be a first-rate Gershwin?”

In this more specific light, find your own path rather than copying and pasting.
What is an example of a person for whom this is terrible advice?

Hitler, Stalin, Pol Pot, etc.
All they need to do is offer the legacy API in addition to the new one, and write an internal translation layer. Obviously, that legacy API is at huge risk of being deprecated, so you should expect it to be considering. Any app out there that isn't rewritten for the new API will eventually stop working, just like most of Google's products. I am sure they would enjoy seeing this 'cleansing' of less-popular and niche apps.
Is community and municipal broadband the same thing? The article says these states have banned community broadband, which I consider to be things like rural areas and islands where farmers/locals took up a collection and invested in a mesh network connected via microwave relay to the net at large. Whereas "municipal" broadband is internet access sponsored by the local city, county, or public utility company.

The two are significantly different things.
> You can’t send anybody an Atari 800 floppy disk, or bring that floppy somewhere, and expect it to be read. An Atari 800 does not have a USB port

Actually, not only you can use an SD card as mass storage without much effort, thanks to the many people who build modern peripherals for the SIO bus, but you can probably telnet and ssh as much as you want from it (smart modem-like network interfaces). If I wanted, my Atari XE (mostly an 800, slightly modernized) could easily be used for light local text editing.
Marcus Hutchins has an extensively documented history of developing and selling malware for over half a decade https://krebsonsecurity.com/2017/09/who-is-marcus-hutchins/

It really doesn't seem very likely that the FBI fucked up here.