skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
People are concerned a copyfree license will enable Google and manufactures to lock down the platform. Why do so many people have trouble understanding this kind of thing and have to turn the debate into an argument about the definition of the word "freedom"?
According to the specs [1], the X1 Carbon Gen 3 does have a spill-resistant keyboard, and the current Gen 6 too. Given the compact design, maybe the liquid just couldn't escape from under the laptop in time, so it soaked the motherboard from below?

[1] https://www.lenovo.com/au/en/laptops/thinkpad/thinkpad-x/X1-...
Microsoft never did and never will "replace" anything with anything. They'll just minimally rearrange the barnacles on the ship to make space for new barnacles. Their customers rely on being able to run software they purchased 20 years ago in some cases.

And I personally haven't seen anybody use Android apps on ChromeOS.
Not until closer to the IPO date after investors haven been able to make an evaluation and been pitched by company and bankers.

A 7x multiple on $140m in sales might suggest around $1b (divide that by # shares to get a possible share price).
> Go find a recent economics graduate and ask them what they know about Austrian economics. Good luck!

Oh, good to see you live in a parallel world …

I have an engineering degree (graduated in 2013) and during our economic class, the Austrian were the subject of a full lecture. If you think there's a conspiracy to erase them from economic history, I don't really know what to say…
So how are you monetizing it? Is it ads or paid job advertisements or something else?
Use State Machines
"The mythologizing of the Samurai, their honor-above-reason mentality"

Agreed, I was focussing more on the not tactically advantageous, rather than ascribing an honour code per se.

It is generally a good idea to agree weapons beforehand, it helps keep the battlefield survivable. The 20th century wasn't known for it's 'honour' but WW2 combatants did refrain from using chemical weapons for example, and nukes were never used in the cold war and it's proxy battles. I'd label that as part of an honour code? I'm not making the case too forcefully though.
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i love pinboard.
It’s not a solution for the masses, but it works well for the individual.
What were they doing with it before if it wasn't publically available?
That's harder than it sounds; helium (like hydrogen) has a tendency to leak through anything you put it in due to its tiny molecule size.
Keyboards are a very personal thing. I think the butterfly is usable and pleasing, but that the magic keyboard is a dreadful downgrade from the previous one that was more or less identical to the previous-gen Macbooks (which were very adequate).

My favorite keyboard, beam-spring being a thing of the past, is the Model M (Unicomp still builds them). I love it, even if my family would rather have me not typing after 10 PM.
Alright then I am mistaken. But I do know for sure that you are required to show ID to get a sim card inside the country and there are no unregistered prepaid cards.
Something without open source licence to replace it with.
you have a point, perl might give too much linguistic rope for people to hang themselves and future maintainers, but I'd slightly argue that it's because people don't grasp the nature of contexts
What sector of healthcare? Mind being more specific? My email is in my profile if you're interested in a conversation.

I have a side project that's targeting physicians being able to better track their activities.
After 13 years of Apple I’m on my last iPhone, and MacBook. The company has gone backwards, with phones and with computers, and I regret the day I have to slide back to the PC.
btrfs no longer feels convincing when RedHat thinks it's no longer worth pursuing it.
Thanks. I guess they really didn’t like the “we’re not part of any nation” thing. Seems like a rather vague law to have the death penalty attached to.
Those people are all making a choice to put themselves in danger for people who explicitly don't want their support. If you're in the "babies are sacred" camp, there are far easier and more productive avenues for your government to take on. This appeal to emotion ("THINK OF THE CHILDREN") is really, really dumb.
Well, you do what you can.
Populist/technocrat is really more a function of who your key supporters are, and what kinds of appeals are more efficient with them.
Is there any resource from the other side that provides reasons why restrictions should be placed on community broadband? The explanation "Evil Monopoly wants all the money" seems too simple for the complex nuanced world we live in.
Literally form vs function - Define "fine":

Apple: look at that fine ass, lets advertise the shit out of it and make a huge markup.

Swiss Arms Co: Look at the fine workmanship and high tolerances, this is a piece that will shoot straight and last.
>Now if you do liquify it, the real fun is it's a superfluid so it's going to crawl all over the inside of the container, it won't just stay at the bottom.

Not true. LHe’s boiling point (at atmospheric pressure) is 4.2K. The lambda point when it becomes a superfluid is 2.2K. So there’s a decent temperature range when it behaves as a normal liquid.
> If they think "you're naturally skilled at this", they're usually mistaken.

We have completely different anecdata. I've said and heard people say "be yourself" many times. Rarely have I seen it go awry. Typically the people who say "be yourself" are naturally skilled at social interaction, so they can read whether the person is also able to socialize and make the right decision. But I can see how someone who lacks social skills might repeat the saying without even noticing the level of social skills of the person they're saying it to. Much like what this commenter was talking about: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19702757
Not every airliner even shows AOA, it is just used as input for stall warnings and the flight recorder.

It should be possible to fly safely using pitch and air speed indicators. And even a loss of air speed should be survivable by using known good configurations.
The underlay hardware and drivers are currently mostly closed and unavailable. Especially the radios. That doesn't stop postmarketOS.
The variation I like is, "Become who you are."
It depends very much on the circumstances. In most slow GA airplanes (and yes, the Vision jet is a slow plane), one can perceive both the airspeed and the angle of attack by the control feel ("mushy" vs "firm"). Many older airplanes (for example the fastest GA piston twin, the Aerostar 601P) did not have even stall indicators. That airplane used to scare the crap out of me during a takeoff on a hot day. Everything had to be done just right ...

You mostly need a stall indicator or an AoA during tricky procedures like really short field operations (which in the Aerostar world translates to "just don't"). Jets are a slightly different story however I do not believe the VJ gets fast enough for that to matter.
sturmtruppen were 'invented' in WW1 to capture trenches, though yeah the term lived on to the next WW
I see.

As someone who was trained as a merchant ship's officer and specifically, on how to react to pirates, that simply being in international waters is "protection" is certainly news to me!
I love the takehome product idea. Wish that was around when I was conducting loads of technical interviews a few years ago.
Gentle Measurement of Quantum States and Differential Privacy
I think any level of descriptiveness is fine as long as it's consistent.

If a Chinese thief is an "Oregon Student" then I want a Chinese surgeon who saves lives to be an "Oregon surgeon".
partially agree, the guy fawkes max needs to go, but its a cool concept.
Sure, because switching people from the Windows 95 line of OSes to the NT line with XP was just ‘rearranging barnicles’
That's because it only has one engine. The other option would be to place it on its back, but it would make for a longer jet.

It's supposed to be cheap for a jet.
Well the thing is, Nation states say you NEED their social contract, or things will go bad. They say it's mostly for your own protection. And there is no other way.

So far, for people trying to escape this contract, the main issue they have found are the very nation states that promise the need for protection and the contract.

I'm not saying these guys have a better way. But I see where they are getting at.

Like living in the ancient world with absolute rulers and dreaming of representative government. We know now there were better options. But at a time when representative government has never been tried, the concept just floating, people will say you need absolute rules, or what will happen?

I'm sure the first time a few guys got together and decided they would do something by decree they were put to death and the history was never recorded. I'm sure those first efforts were very amateur.

I think visionaries by definition have to be a bit out of touch. That is what allows them to live in a possible reality vs a normal one.

I'm decidedly from this one. But I have a lot of respect for the kind of person it would take to do this thing.

Not that I'd do a business venture with them. I admire vision.
It's the new "-1 not enough jQuery".
The original Mac (and IIRC Lisa) had neither function nor arrow keys. Apple wanted users to use the mouse to move and to prevent software developers from building software that didn't feel like a Mac program.

NeXT workstations never had function keys.
I thought the Ubuntu's decision that they can include it in their release was controversial but are they that convinced the license allows them to do that?
it is all about the benjamins...and big ISP have more of them. I have 2 ISP's (Spectrum and AT&T), and both are really expensive. And i am in San Antonio, how is this competition and how does this help me the consumer.

So very frustrating. lobbying pisses me off and now i am just venting.
You're right, it was bizarre to say the least. The entire thread is full of well-sourced, accurate info, and then this tweet was thrown in, then immediately after it was accurately disclaimed.

Anyone who works at a BigCo knows there's no way in hell anyone's made a decision about something 5 years out. There's a lot of risky dev between here and there

I think they meant to suggest Fuchsia could replace the Linux kernel in that timeframe
My personal laptop is a 2012 MacBook Pro. Still going strong.
Collecting it and developing their software, I guess.
I think you might have just missed it on a quick scan when you first read it. The broader notion is in the paragraph before. The paragraph with the sentence itself is specifically about that - it lays out a very standard 'design by contract' sort of argument. It's not true that there are 'no qualifiers', the immediate surrounding context is plenty of qualification.
> Moving to a CDN doesn't have that impact. It shaves off 10-100ms across the board.

I think this is where we disagree. I've seen (firsthand and through analytics) situations where using a CDN can dramatically improve response time in a small subset of customers (while also getting the across the board win for most customers).

I've also seen CDNs (Amazon's in the early days) that were signficantly slower than direct to linode, even with a warm cache. It's a weird world, and packet routing is hard.
Recently, I've been into learning about CRDTs a class of data structures which can be edited independently and merged without conflicts. They can be used to build experiences similar to Google Docs (although Gdocs uses a different approach called OT).

I'm interested in learning Category/Set Theory to better understand the underlying math of how they work.

I have very little experience with ML/Robotics, but CRDTs might be useful for distributed learning, or coordination between independent robots.
In what world can a couple on sovereign land defend themselves from an oppressive government that has a monopoly on violence?These are entities that have imprisoned and oppressed entire groups of people, mind you.
This is true, but note that the problem in general doesn't specify that the ints are only 16-bit. It's already well established that "linear time" sorting algorithms exist (e.g. radix sort) for numbers that are all a bounded size. However, the key is still that the length of each number must be bounded, because that ensures that the length of the input relates to the number of numbers in the list to be sorted, rather than to the length of the largest number. (The Wikipedia article on radix sort gets this right... Just not the one on abacus sort)
Also, perhaps even more importantly, you'd be starting from scratch in terms of app ecosystem, which is even more important today (and especially on mobile) than it used to be in the PC era. You could get some mileage out of the web- but first you'd have to build or port a browser. Chromium certainly won't target your open OS, and with its 75% market share, it now strongarms the direction that web standards take. And many app makers don't even have mobile web apps these days (or their web apps are crippled versions of their "real apps"). Good luck getting Slack and Favor, or your bank, to build apps for your new OS. Or even Dropbox and Evernote. Forget about Netflix and YouTube.

Maybe you're okay with going back to the iPhone 1.0 days where a smartphone was just for phone calls, texting, email, a calendar, listening to music, looking up directions, and searching the web. But while you might get an mp3 player app, many people no longer own copies of their music and you won't get Pandora or Spotify. You certainly won't have a decent maps app - maps are one of the most heavily monopolized core features of today's phones, mainly because of the sheer size of the task of mapping the world. OpenStreetMap exists, but it's honestly not very good.

You start to see the problem.

I used an Android fork for about a year without any Google services before I gave up. I was able to grab a few crucial apps from APKMirror, but not many. I tried using OsmAnd for maps; it was awful. I once bought a pair of headphones I literally couldn't use without the app - available only on the App Store and Play Store. I used web apps to fill in some of the gaps; they were spotty and many were ugly and/or slow and/or didn't hook into APIs like push notifications. At least I had a fully up-to-date Chrome fork to use as my browser.

Maybe after the death of Android there would be greater momentum behind building and sustaining this kind of ecosystem. That would help bolster not only app development, but possibly even the value of the open web, and maybe even the contributions to (and therefore quality of) things like OpenStreetMap. It's hard to say.
That was my impression as well. Maybe the idea is get the models trained in a simulation to a satisfactory level and work on transfer of the model to real world data in parallel? There's an awful lot of money going into the first part if there's no good answer to the second part right now though.
Stripe Atlas doesn't accept very many companies. I signed up and was rejected... even though I use Stripe for processing. Somehow Stripe feels they are taking on a greater liability for your company beyond processing.
Whether or not "being yourself" is interesting advice depends on the listener. Some people are in a context where deciding when to "stop" in a few key moments per day is more interesting than deciding when to similarly "go". The person in the article calls themselves a loudmouth, so clearly this person is focusing on a scenario where restraint is a persuasive value, versus a scenario of social anxiety.
Wouldn't you be more bored if you found yourself without an iMac?
Exactly what I was getting at!
No, it's pretty accurate. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_wars_involving_the_Uni...
Reading the above list made me feel genuinely queasy. I'm no stranger to the warped side of politics, but this is really just ugly from a "balance of public and private interest in governance" standpoint.
This is one of the top 5 most entitled comments I've ever read on the internet, congratulations! Glad you can use your 'fine Italian Motorcycle' for work every day while us peasants have to deal with our reliable workhorses.
>The fact is, this machine still does what it started out to do, technically speaking. If you look up the dictionary definition of obsolescence though, you'll find some really terrible news: "no longer useful." An Atari 800 is no longer useful? That's arguable, to say the very least.

Obsolete (Adj.): no longer used or needed, usually because something newer and better has replaced it.

It doesn't matter whether the Atari 800 still does something. It's so bad compared to newer options that there is no circumstance where it's the best available option. We live in a world where a 32-bit microcontroller costs about the same as a banana. $10 buys you a single-board computer with roughly the same performance as a mid-00s desktop.

Human effort is worth something. So is energy, so are raw materials. Keeping old, crappy stuff just isn't a good use of resources when new stuff is immeasurably better and ludicrously cheap. Melt down the old stuff for scrap metal, burn the plastics for fuel and use that material and energy to do something more useful.
Yes, please let me know an underserved market so I can compete with you!
For me, father of a 6yo daughter, the "emoji bar" is worth every penny.

Thinking about it, I've spent almost half of my career on computers that didn't have function keys (even though they usually had ESC as a physical one).
Tai-Danae Bradley has a very nice write-up called "What is applied category theory?" -- https://arxiv.org/abs/1809.05923

Among the more readable category theory resources I'm currently reading.
I think because it's unrelated to the original comment. "Guys" was not in question, "attaboy" was. Using "guys" as an argument would be a strawman regardless if the rationale is correct.

WRT "guys"; I know of at least two companies (and I work at one) which try to encourage the use of other pronouns in place to "guys" in order to be more inclusive.
This explanation ignores the incredibly valid technical reason for why Google is working on Fuschia.

Android uses a monolithic kernel via Linux, and as a result has weaknesses that have surfaced over time due to ecosystem and compatibility bloat. Long story short: Android upgrades are often dependent on the manufacturer distributing updates that account for their unique devices. And that's both difficult to manage and shortens the lives of the phones people use. Hence why so many Android phones stop getting updated after only a couple of years. (Apple doesn't have this problem because it controls the ecosystem of devices.)

Fuschia, on the other hand, is based on a microkernel, which simplifies the stack, making it easier to push the phone's underlying operating system to a newer version while allowing the complexities that come with there being dozens of phones (and laptops and tablets) to support. Everything is a service in a microkernel. Given the complexity of having to support so many different kinds of devices in the current ecosystem, moving everything to a service makes a lot of sense as it would remove the compatibility complications.

Google taking its mobile operating systems and pushing them into a monolithic kernel, licensing concerns aside, helps solve a big ecosystem problem that has only grown for Android over the years. It limits functionality in older phones and when developers fail to support these devices, it creates unnecessary electronic waste.

This approach would conceivably separate the underlying OS from vendor support. That is something a widely used mobile OS would benefit from.
https://usebx.com was my personal side project for a couple of years. We managed to sell contracts to a few corporates, and now have fairly strong MRR (so much so, that we've made the core product free for small teams). I've recently hired a few contractors in London to help expand the Bx toolset and also finally add some documentation!
It's funny you mention them, I've been thinking a lot about CRDTs for online multiplayer games where you have a bunch of concurrent players changing a game state.
It's not impossible. You just need a tank with thicker walls.
Krav maga is a fighting system derived from east european street fighting "wisdom", it is not a martial art per se and got no spiritual side.

I know some people who studied it from the guy who invented krav maga, Imi Lichtenfeld. The thing is, because most of them are into martial arts they usually studied also other martial arts and sometimes incorporate it into their brand of krav maga. But it is mostly lessons from boxing and jiu juitsu, simple mma stuff rather than some spiritual stuff.

The whole idea of krav maga is to distill whatever is effective and practical in real street situation for people who need to learn it in a relatively short time. Therefore it is based on simple and intuitive techniques with no spiritual side and no regard for any rules which still exist even in mma. If you find any spiritual side in this it would be a very perverted one.
Taking just the images subset of this, but it should apply for other types of data as well:

It doesn’t have to be computer-generated images. It can also be computer—altered images (think n° rotation, blurring, cropping, etc.) which should work pretty well in part because real world images are sometimes rotated, blurred, cropped, etc.
"No longer useful" is not a very good definition. I declare that dictionary obsolete!

I would tend to define obsolescence based on the task. (Arguably this is just the "micro" definition corresponding to your market-based "macro" version.) Obsolescence is when another alternative exists for doing the task, that improves on the previous alternative to a sufficient degree that you prefer it, and don't see yourself ever willingly going back to the previous alternative.

Just to pick some random domain, from outside computers: Steelmaking/metallurgical technology at the turn of the 20th century tended to produce a relatively high carbon-content steel, which was more brittle, especially at low temperatures, and could cause a ship to crack, take on water, and sink. As steel tech improved, and new ships were built with the newer steels, those failures started happening less often. Steels that were less "hard" but more "tough" made navigation safer.

On the other hand, and maybe to your point, most of those older ships of the higher-carbon steel, that didn't sink, were still able to serve out their service lives. Maybe if you found a way to put them on routes in warmer waters, you could've extended their lives even more. Which, translating to your conception, would be adapting to the new market or sub-market.

So hey, at least for shipbuilding, your model seems to fit!

The idea of obsolescence reflects an often unquestioned bias toward, or belief in, progress. If that which is newer or came later is always better, and if we're always (or mostly) moving forward in a more-or-less unbroken arc of steady unalloyed progress, then of course older things are obsolete. When in fact it's usually more complex than that. For example when moving to a newer technology, there's often something else desirable that has to be sacrificed, or that gets ruined, in order to get the improvement. So progress is rarely unalloyed (no pun intended given the steel talk above), and obsolescence is also, rarely unalloyed.
B2B, meaning the deals section? Are those numbers recurring? Awesome business, if so
I bought a burner phone in February (cash, no ID) and there was a HoT-SIM with it. I didn't try using it though.
I run Keygen (https://keygen.sh), an API for software licensing and distribution. I'm currently making ~$3,500/mo. You can read more about my journey here: https://www.indiehackers.com/interview/2fa6c5e1eb.
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maybe we should ask the entity using the most helium in the world to chill out. Talking to you Nasa