skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Not cynicism. It was just my parents comment changed how I viewed the situation in your comment.

I'm not saying the lady was disingenuous, she passed on wisdom that you got something from. That's good. I just realised it might not have been original, that's all. So I got something from this story too, which is also good :)
The main difference is that copyleft currently requires some components of all new phones to be released as open source. With a permissive license, many Android vendors will not release anything open source. So you might have a much harder time figuring out how to flash the OS on them or get the drivers to work with them. Obviously some manufacturers will probably still do so, but they won't be required to as they are now.

Which is to say Fuchsia may not be closed source, but a lot of devices built on it probably will be.
You know, funny thing about all these people that think human overpopulation is a problem and needs to be solved: they never seem to want to help out with the problem by starting with themselves.

It's kind of like what George Carlin said about the environmentalists:

> I’m tired of these self-righteous environmentalists, these white bourgeoise liberals who think the only thing wrong with this country is there aren’t enough bicycle paths. People trying to make the world safe for their Volvos. Besides, environmentalist don’t give a shit about the planet, they don’t care about the planet, not in the abstract they don’t, not in the abstract they don’t. You know what they’re interested in? A clean place to live. Their own habitat. They’re worried that someday in the future they might be personally inconvenienced

All of this applies to everyone I have ever heard about talking about overpopulation. It's because they are worried one day their Whole Foods might be too crowded, or that their lifestyle might have to change.
I thought Fuschia was BSD licensed? Isn't the source avalible online?

Sure they can add binary blobs, but they do that already with android.

Not that i trust google, because i don't ;)
Scheme is a lisp.
I recently made a similar upgrade (old ones from 2010-ish) and I was also impressed by how much better the new ones were. The old pair's performance may have degraded over time, but the way the new ones blew them out of the water I doubt it was just that.
Most people don’t run software they built from source code on their phone. If what they’ve done with proprietary Android additions is any indication, you’ll have no idea what you’re really running on your Fuchsia device.
It's so much harder to do on mobile, for multiple reasons:

- Hardware is not very modular (mainly because of size constraints), meaning you have to purpose-build libre hardware if you can't/don't want to run on tech-giant devices (you can right now if you're forking Android; you probably won't be able to once it's replaced with Fuschia).

- Developers' needs have always been a bastion for keeping desktop OSes flexible and open. No matter how closed-down software gets, someone somewhere has to be able to muck with it so as to build and improve it in the first place. This doesn't apply to mobile OSes; people don't use them for development.

Not that it's impossible for these things to be overcome, but it's a much steeper uphill battle.
If anyone is looking to get into Category Theory as a programmer, I would recommend giving Bartosz Milewski's Category Theory for Programmers a shot[0]. Quite good, and you can read it as a blog post on that site or get the ebook/physical book to leaf through.

For a more theoretical/less applied approach that's still relevant to computer science/programming, check out Benjamin Pierce's Basic Category Theory for Computer Scientists[1]. It's a very good introduction to the parts of Category Theory that are useful for [theoretical] CS, and delves into semantics of programming languages, types, and concurrency a fair amount.

[0] https://bartoszmilewski.com/2014/10/28/category-theory-for-p...

[1] https://mitpress.mit.edu/books/basic-category-theory-compute...
Thank you- this is really liberating.
you might be right, though i understood it as "every call to a recursive function must be prefixed with `rec`", which would mean that, say, ,`last xs` [assuming that `last` is implemented recursively and xs is a linked list] would have to look like `rec last xs` instead, de facto making the recursiveness of `last` a part of its public API.
Generally, I tend to care more about math if it relates to my specific interests. I'm in ML and robotics so I've found it useful to understand algebra, topology, real analysis.

I've tried to get into Category theory a few times but couldn't keep my motivation high enough once things got too technical. Anyone know how category theory could be useful for someone in ML or robotics?
Thanks to online ads, you can get all the malware and malicious tracking you want securely delivered to your device over https.
It's Google Fuchsia, as in GOOGLE-FUCKS-YA.
I don't know if you've noticed but Intel chips have hardly improved over the years. They've been content with die shrinks for since sandy bridge. And even then, they've had to turn off the speculative hacks because of spectre and meltdown.

Apple also doesn't care about thermal performance. Look at how their i9 models throttle and perform worse than the i7 variants.

If you're buying apple you aren't putting performance first and foremost. It's either because of mac os or the design. You've been able to buy much faster windows laptops for far less money since they switched to intel. That's why a lot of devs have switched to lenovo.
Google has already made Android apps run on Chrome OS, and I think are at least planning to do with Fuchsia. Which is to say, Google could kill the Android OS as long as they preserve the Android app platform.

See also: Windows has actually replaced their Win32 app model with UWP which is nearly a whole different app platform, but they still support Win32 apps and have made it increasingly easier to deploy Win32 apps on UWP-based platforms.
If BlackBerry cam figure out how to run Android apps on BBOS 10 (which is QNX under the hood) I'm sure Google can get the Android runtime working on Fuchsia.
Slightly off topic, but for power tool work / lawnmowers I can heartily recommend 3M Worktunes. It's like $50 bucks and you get decent bluetooth speakers with ear protection, and the battery lasts all day.
Everyone at my firm must be a United States citizen.
Why frame it that way? How would something like "Employee of the Week" be aggressive?
In Chinese, the language of the largest mobile market in the world, it's a good opening phoneme: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fu_(character)

According to Wikipedia total Alphabet assets are around $232B, and Xiaomi's are around $21.6B (ie. ~10% of Google's total net worth). Xiaomi was founded in 2010. Google was founded in 1998.
I run a one-person ‘SaaS’ that delivers morning tech briefings each day for industry insight, without ads, that I wanted to see, called recharged: https://char.gd/recharged. I both write the newsletters + develop the platform behind the scenes that enables seamless community access involved, and our MRR is approximately $2,500/month for about 18 months.

I’ll admit it’s a struggle to properly grow at this point, but I’m trying to figure it out... but it’s been a fun ride so far. Now I’m moving to build the tools I already made for myself that make it easy to build paid content + communities without the developer skills I had to learn to get here... hopefully going into beta soon.
Well I'm not aware of any nonprofit phone development cooperatives so without Google driving it is is likely to become less popular but there will probably also be other corporations that continue to develop an ecosystem for it. There are still OS/2 derivatives being developed. I'm also just saying people will continue to use it and something along the lines of LineageOS will be even more important for people to be able to use their existing phones. For most people who continuously discard their phones after a few years to get the latest greatest it may end up being supplanted by whatever fuschia based phones are developed. I'm convinced that fuschia is partially driven by a desire to escape the GPL so with a MIT based licensed manufacturers won't even need to pretend to release the source code for their hackish drivers and kernel mods.
The last two sentences that comment are meaningful to me.
Agreed. It's well-studied that heaping praise on mediocre accomplishments diminishes the effectiveness of future compliments.
why is that on top of HN ?!
The largest single source of bankruptcy in the US is medical debt. So you are essentially equating having a family member need serious medical care with mendacity, laziness, and general moral failure. Is that really something we want to do?
ID verification of age when buying alcohol is practiced by many countries, not just US.
Isn't parts of ios bsd licenced too? Does that help if the phone vendor only hands out blobs?
I'm not experienced with S-1 filings, but don't they usually include the share price targeted and amount they're looking to raise? It's blank up top on the document right now. When is that typically filled in?
> ... Fuschia OS (i'm sure i probably butchered the name)

This is an excellent reason why Google shouldn't ditch the name "Android". It's easy to pronounce and globally recognized. Every time I see the word "fuschia" I have to think "wait how is it pronounced again?"

I don't care if they change the OS under the hood, but if anybody in Google is planning to sell a "Fuschia-based phone", they're pissing on their own brand.
Tell me, Mr Anderson... What good is an open OS... if you have no phone?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWBntJAvTmY
What is an example of a person for whom this is terrible advice?

I can only jokingly think of people who are naturally hostile or low on EQ. "They can't handle all this!" kind of people.
A printf based Brainfuck Interpreter (2017)
I didn't realize you already did $27k this month! That is tremendous and you're only just getting started! GO BEN.
On the one hand, I agree that Google has to ensure backwards compatibility or vendors like Samsung will just do their own thing.

On the other hand, they can completely replace the underlying OS just like Windows NT and OS X did. That seems possible to me.
I've run a music education site for 10 years (https://www.tonictutor.com). It's been only a very modest success, but it's provided a small amount of revenue that's been relatively steady. I haven't really marketed it much, but I'm planning on putting some time and resources into that once I've finish converting all of the old Flash versions of the games (which is nearly finished!).
We’re coming up very soon on the release of the iPhone 3GS, which will be almost exactly 10 years. It was slower, but I don’t think that the 3GS was “unremittingly terrible”.
Given fuschia is developed in the open (https://fuchsia.googlesource.com/), what do you mean by "fully closed platform"?
You know, you say that, but...

https://github.com/openzfsonwindows/ZFSin

(I am aware this is not the codebase the presentation is running on or about.)
Sure, but almost no-one flies brand new airplanes. What percentage of GA flights do you guess contain an AoA display? And the argument's supposed to be that they're a most important indicator for airplanes?
Is it possible that we are treating symptoms (high cholesterol) vs the root causes and just making issues worse? e.g. metabolic syndrome, chronic inflammation, etc?
I don't think this is an official statement either...
> Don't try to be like someone else, don't try to act like someone else, be yourself. Be secure with yourself. Rely and trust upon your own decisions.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zTCgwxLOt0U
Given how often I'll run a word through Google search to quickly check it's spelled right, maybe it's to encourage uptake ;)
SQL doesn't. Some relational databases have full-text search extensions like Postgres and SQL Server but they offer the basic stemming and trigram stuff, no spelling or synonyms. You can get an autocomplete working using wildcard matches but you won't be able to recognize that a word is misspelled without maintaining your own dictionary.
In some places, "Senior" is the second tier with other titles coming after. I once worked some place that was:

* SWE

* Senior SWE

* Staff SWE

* Principle SWE

I think it depends a lot on the company and what terminology they use. Even at my current company, "senior" is not the highest level.
Honestly? Nothing.

I think I would get more from investing in something boring-yet-reliable and finding another job. Do you really think that an idea someone gave you on the internet is likely to provide more happiness than having a cushion and retiring earlier?

At the very least, you should hold off for a few years until you have an idea and the technological/business skills/partners to implement it.
As one commenter said this is very specific, how do you go about finding and marketing to your clients?
Some people are issued devices like these by their employers…
I don't believe she works at Google. Someone correct me if I'm wrong.

Edit more: From my research she is someone who has legitimately worked on an Android OS derivative, but it was at another company (Sky TV?). So she's both an Android OS Dev and a non-Google employee. Her source for Android's EOL is the articles she links in the twitter conversation.

She has done nothing wrong but many people seem to have misinterpreted this as a Googler saying Android is EOL.
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Is that really the best solution? I realize that might be sarcasm, but it seems phones are fairly critical for many people.

Obviously it's not a necessity, like food/water/shelter, but even some homeless people with nothing else have cellphones.
> Disputes within anarcho-capitalism are easily resolved. Don't pay me what I'm worth? I won't work for you. Don't have what I want? I won't trade you for it.

This is not the entire scope of the disputes that will arise nor the remedies that would apply nor the extent of the problem with this idea of yours.

For example, if a patient engages a doctor for a health remedy, and that remedy does harm to the patient, what is the remedy? If the remedy is that the doctor must compensate the patient for the harm, how does the patient prevent the doctor from reneging on the compensation? How is it decided whether compensation is due?
I always thought of as just Fuck Sia, but that's even better.
AlexandraSalvaterra's github page shows that she is not a member of the Github Google organization. So I don't believe she is an Android OS Dev working for Google, or that this should be considered an official statement.

The articles that she linked to were old ones which have a note saying that Google denied that the speculations were true. And herself said in a later tweet that she was "putting things together" and that "5 years is a long time".

And also, "Also, do keep in mind how Google sometimes randomly kills projects, and starts new ones, nothing is set in stone with Google."[1]

[1] https://twitter.com/DroidAlexandra/status/111934632486704332...

Sounds like a poseur trolling for Twitter followers to me....
I don't see how Fuchsia can pull this off without having at least compatibility with existing Android apps.

Even if they do: I could see a ton of smartphone brands continuing to maintain it for their own smart phones (the Chinese have been big on that front!) or even making their own OS like Samsung with their Tizen OS.
Municipal broadband is the only long-term solution to enforcing Net Neutrality, and the only long-term solution to telecom monopolies.

If we value free speech a truly as we claim to as a nation, we should all be clamoring for municipal broadband infrastructure.
It's more likely to be a human testing something than a bot. TBF, this comment and the replies were more interesting than any of the on topic comments or the article itself.
That's exactly what it's supposed to mean, I think.

It's especially useful in the short term context (let's say you have an interview tomorrow): you don't have enough time to pivot your personality, if you try, the judging person will read your inauthenticity as something fishy and you will increase your odds of missing out on your objective.

But in so many contexts -especially in dating- it gets misinterpreted as long term advice "you are entitled for others to accept you as you are and/or eventually someone will accept you as you are, and your objective X will be met"
And yet it’s absolutely true.

Note that many light aircraft have stall warning horns, which are just AoA sensors that only detect when the AoA exceeds a certain amount. In many other planes, you can detect excessive AoA by sound or feel.
FYI: If it was ever packaged by Debian post-2011, you can use http://snapshot.debian.org/ to build it. Daily snapshot of Debian is archived.
I wasn't saying they should pay him. I don't think they should. But having been on the receiving end of this behavior for far too long my point is that he should be listened to and not ignored like this. It would be OK if it's just ignoring, I've seen companies very eager to use legal threats too especially if the researcher is an isolated individual and not company.

It's not too much to ask to have a security@ mailbox and actually pay attention to it. If you don't have a disclosure process in 2019 then there is no reason you should have your systems exposed (whether that's a gov site or company doesn't make a difference) IMHO

The moment you answered I was still editing my post trying to point out that I'm not defending him. Sorry if there was an overlap here.
Yeah- this is the only reason there's any openness at all in the mobile space right now. Android forks couldn't exist at all - much less postmarketOS - if the underlying hardware and drivers weren't open and available.
BigPicture (https://bigpicture.io) is a solo founder operation. I was the only person for the first couple years before I grew it enough to start hiring.

I don't recommend anyone follow this path now having been through it myself. Being a solo founder is absolutely brutal.
I was keen to read about this lang bc it came from m$, but this looks like it needs some work: I'd highly suggest changing "var" and "var!" definitions.

From your doc:

>var z = 5;

z = y; //error z is not updatable

"var" is shorthand for 'variable' as you're no doubt aware, so use "const", or use something else altogether to indicate a var.

I stopped reading after coming across your unintuitive "var!" syntax. Let an apple be an apple and an orange an orange.
Oh yes, I'm aware. And in Seattle when Japanese-Americans were interned, many African-Americans moved into the property left behind, brought to Seattle by the huge surplus of jobs working for Boeing. Today there are Japanese-Americans who object to that neighborhood being called the "International District" because they feel that perpetuates the wrong done to their community.

Incidentally, Boeing was forbidden by the federal government from discriminating against those African-American workers, as they might well have in an earlier era. The Fair Employment Practice Committee which forbade discrimination against these African-American workers was created to implement FDR's Executive Order 8802. That executive order was motivated in no small part by FDR observing American defense companies discriminating against German-Americans and Italian-Americans, which he considered to be a threat to the war effort. This executive order was one of the first times the federal government ever took any action against racial or ethnic discrimination in the workplace.

Strangely the Wikipedia page for the FEPC suggests it was motivated to help "African-Americans and other minorities", while the Wikipedia page for Executive Order 8802 emphasizes that it was discrimination of German-Americans and Italian-Americans which motivated FDR. (I'm more inclined to believe the later, but either way it certainly had the effect of helping the African-American community find work in the defense industry.)
Back in those days, claims that a system will never become obsolete were pretty common as marketing nonsense.

I think that particular lie (and it was always a lie) came up so often because technology was advancing at an incredible rate, and it made people reluctant to buy computers because they knew that it was going to be obsolete in less than a year. The old "joke" -- funny because it was true -- was that a computer was obsolete the minute you took it out of the box.

The pace of hardware change has slowed considerably since then -- now advances are more along the lines of "the same thing, but faster and/or smaller". Worthy advances, to be sure, but nothing that makes last year's machines garbage.
They do. Thinkpads are made out of magnesium and are super durable. Build quality is pretty great. Should be more reliable than a mac.

Mac build quality really isn't all that great. Lots of glue and plastic hinges. Motherboard design is also atrocious. Check out Louis rossman on YouTube. I remember seeing a video where the webcam died because a thermal sensor stopped working and for some reason the webcam was wired into the same bus.

They also solder in ram and ssds now. They removed the data recovery port so if your ssd kicks the bucket there's no way to recover anything. That's what the T2 chip is for- they market it as some magical coprocessor but it's just an ARM chip that acts as a drive and ram controller so they can use soldered parts on the cheap.
For a peer reviewer of a proposal to send it to anyone else is both unethical and against the basic black-letter rules. Anyone doing peer reviews of proposals will be asked to ensure confidentiality of proposals under review. (https://grants.nih.gov/policy/research_integrity/confidentia...)

The level of paranoia around proposals is much higher than, say, peer reviews for conferences or journal papers, where sometimes a paper might be given to a grad student to take a look at.
Correct that to 30k haha.
You appear to be correct, thanks.
Isn’t only the kernel and the OS permissively licensed? There’s nothing stopping Google and others from making all of the non-OS features closed source.

The nice thing about copyleft is that it’s infectious.
Wow, for once I get to be happy about a decision my state's government made.
That sounds like the relationship between you and your hardware vendor.
Lenovo Thinkpad xcarbon
Climbs after takeoff are a situation where they will significantly differ, and also one of the times when this information is more important.

Attitude indicator? Look out the window! Stall horn? Just feel the pre-stall rumbling through the controls. You can fly a plane with no instruments. None of them are strictly necessary, but it’s a good idea to have them.
I understand the context, but that logo doesn't give me a lot of warm feelings. I would likely skip the product just on that regardless of how awesome it might be.
Maybe “Brutalist Nonsense”
Aspera I have used for bigger TV / production work. The bill breaks the budgets for my freelance work.
Keep in mind that this is completely subjective/qualitative and that's the point. Disqualifying a substantially qualitative theory because you found an edge or corner case would in the first place be really silly, as every model is known to be broken in some way, and the point is that in the trade-off you generate value. But in the second--I'll bet if you really got into mercury delay line memory, you'd find some qualitative research gems. You are still referencing your comfortable normalized market, and that's a major point of departure for the thinking I'm describing.
it was only half sarcasm (and thanks for not firing at me for being overly laconic in my previous comment)

I feel going back to very tech light, very local might be a very plausible future. Maybe phones but not as a platform for life through digital pipe metaphor

different and deeper education, more trustworthy next door social tissue, slower pace
LG is pretty good too, not expensive, and it is from South Korea.