skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Tim Cook needs to do the right thing and hold a VP accountable for this, as well as for the thermal throttling and T2 bugs, flex cable failure, iPad chassis deformation, AirPower vaporware, etc. Phil Schiller? Dan Riccio? John Ternus? Sounds like Apple needs Bob Mansfield to run the hardware division again.
“Android is reaching EOL in the next 4-5 years”
This would be surprising. If I remember correctly the MP was from the Green party (= centre left & environmental) while the current government is pretty much the opposite (centre right party & we're-not-nazis-but-pretty-close party).

This is just the far right interior minister enforcing his ideology of control.
I've been mulling the cause and effect mentioned in your comment. Poor quality steel -> heavy -> 2 handed.

I don't ever recall seeing a 2 handed bronze sword, and if the steel is worse than bronze, why didn't they go back to that? Which kind of suggests that it isn't.

I'm assuming low quality steel is overly soft rather than overly brittle. If it were overly soft wouldn't that favour shorter blades? You'd either get flex, or as you mentioned, added weight, which seems a bad trade off compared to a shorter sword and shield?

I got the impression 2 handed swords/no shield was an honour thing, rather than a tactically advantageous thing, I'm in no way an expert on such things though.
My vote is on industrial-scaled asteroid mining. The ability to both drop near-unlimited riches into coffers of the people you like and onto the cities of the people you don't like would seem to be the be all end all combo
Next on Hackernews: "\"Be Yourself\" is terrible advice" considered harmful
Really good website. However, I'm wondering as to why this is a full-time business. Is most of your time taken by marketing and sales?
NPT cannot prevent even moderately advanced countries like Pakistan, South Africa or North Korea from making nukes.

There are also "turnkey" countries like Canada or Germany that can build nukes any time they want.
> If you’re just browsing the internet, no difference,

Even the modern web continually maxes many processors. Google Docs/Sheets, Slack, Hangouts. "Just browsing the web" has become a compute intensive task.
I don't think this is right, the point of microkernels is that kernel space vs. executables is a desirable protection boundary. It's not obvious that we are consistently making the right choices as to what to run in kernel vs. userspace, and sometimes moving some subsystems across the divide is the sensible choice, e.g. as with userspace filesystems or even userspace network stacks.
> which were almost certainly 99% fine, but unrepairable

Repairability is dependent on your skillset and interest, though. Aside from machines that used custom chips and those chips failing (and even then, you can usually replace those with modern tech combined with effort and ingenuity), I can't think of any old-school machines (and very few modern machines) that are actually unrepairable.
I think your cynicism might be turned up a bit high.

I was relating a paraphrased version of a rather sincere conversation I was having with the woman over drinks while visiting my port hometown one summer.

I suppose my editing is for naught if it resulted in a tangled questioning of authenticity! ;P
I'm building a SaaS app (getting close to ramen profitable): Trunk @ https://www.trunkinventory.com which helps online sellers sync their inventory in real-time across their different sales channels (i.e. Etsy, Faire, Shopify, Amazon, eBay, etc)
That's what I don't understand. Devices are the problem. You're solving one problem and creating several more.

When you could just set an alarm on your computer to get up and walk around in and hour or two.
I think it means to act around people that you aren't familiar with, the same way you would act around those your are very close to (such as immediate family, life-long childhood friends, etc). That is, don't be an "actor playing a part" when interacting with others.
Why would they have no choice? Where are people getting this idea that an officer HAS to do something when a law is broken? If that was true, they would be in trouble all the time for driving down the road and not stopping speeders, or getting in trouble for not reporting things other POs have done that is illegal. A police officers discretion in executing the law is an enshrined privilege of being an officer and a camera isn't going to change that. Nobody will ever even be looking at those videos if nothing is reported.
I thought this was going to be a storage service for private keys.
The same thing that happens to a vessel under US protection. You give them whatever they want and they enjoy it consequence-free.

The Navy getting involved in a piracy case is like the SFPD getting involved in a bike theft case.
The future of high-speed computing may be larger CPUs with optics
"Normally" is a strong word, when it seems pretty clear his "bounties" are more like blackmail payments.

White hat hackers release bugs to get them fixed. This is clearly just a case of extortion. You release a bug, you don't steal documents yourself.
Typically if there is some distinction of asian in US surveys I've encountered, the common categorization is southeast asian vs asian/pacific islander. Which is just as much of a head scratcher of groupings.
To sum it up.

Starting point: A produces more good then B.

Me: A can produce more good than B, but not necessary more per dollar spent, and I think it's not the case.

--Here was a place to to try to prove it's more per dollar spent--

You: You are biased!

Me: You are invited to present arguments.

You: You are biased!
Yes, the 1ms will likely be statistically insignificant. But so are $2000 extra income out of your $10m. If anything, you have a better hope measuring the 1ms than the $2000.

I agree with your larger point that average latency is not a good measure. Even for the perception of a single user consistency is more important than a good average. For large groups the average is even less useful.

But intuitively I see lots of places where 100ms makes a world of difference. Just like there's a big, very perceptible difference between a 200ms animation and a 300ms animation, a time to full render of 200ms can change your experience compared to 300ms. The slower the page load, the more deliberate your movement. The closer you get to 16ms (1 frame) for a page load the smaller the investment for clicking a link, and the higher the willingness to experiment and explore. Some of that inevitably leads to conversions and sales.
This is so gross.

Related, I work for a large, publicly-traded American software company and I'm constantly amazed/frustrated by the internet connection in our office. We constantly deal with connectivity issues and bandwidth restrictions, all while the executive leadership cuts back on working from home/remotely. A multi-billion dollar software company literally cannot buy consistent internet access.

The bottom line is that we're completely at the mercy of Time Warner Cable/Spectrum, and no amount of cajoling/threatening/pleading seems to improve our internet service.

We're kidding ourselves as a society if we truly think that the established private entities that rule the internet infrastructure are our best shot at a faster, more reliable internet.
If you had the XE machines you had to use paddles. The Atari 400/800 had 4 joysticks which was more fun.

M.U.L.E. Is still one of the best games ever made. They had another game called Seven Cities of Gold. It was pretty fun too. I doubt you could make that game today but it was fun to play with friends on the reservation.
I once saw a TV commercial for a non-name-brand PC with one of the first x86-64 CPUs. It seemed decent enough but it wasn't that much faster than 32-bit machines of the day, and I doubt it had enough RAM slots to break 4GB, anyway. They repeatedly claimed that 64 bits meant it was "the last computer you would ever need to buy".
I did the same, for the same reason. It’s a joy to use and every time I read one of the (so many) articles on the MB butterfly keyboard, I am reminded that I made the right choice. The 2015 MBP really is the best Mac laptop - which if you want a Mac rather than a Linux box, the best laptop ever - https://marco.org/2017/11/14/best-laptop-ever
Yes, the franchise tax. You can't get out of it by incorporating in another state. CA residents pay CA taxes.
The model I'm presenting is not a "go buy an Atari 800" model. It's a counter-model to displace the shallow concept of normalized-market obsolescence.

The best way to understand this thinking is to look at people who already employ it. Look at the people using fountain pens and Gregg shorthand in 2019. And did you hear about the Polish auto shop that was using a C64 well into the 21st century?

We junk really, really good standalone ideas because human psychology determines that they don't fit into an emerging network of systems. This creates literal tons of waste at a personal and individual-business level and forces humans to think in unsustainable ways about what technology is and how it's used. We need new models to help us address the qualitative problems within the tech world.
Nifty! Elegant pricing model too.
> It's pretty obvious that if you want to simulate a brain, a Von Neumann architecture is terrible. People will invent new architectures, just like they invented GPUs and TPUs.

It really isn’t. Sure, the Von Neumann architecture doesn’t match our brains, but right now silicon is so much faster than biology that our fundamental problem is elsewhere — our best understanding of what it means to learn from experience doesn’t allow us to make machines which learn as effectively as we do from as little data as we do.

And that is the point — we can only (usefully) invent a new architecture like we did TPUs when we have a better idea. Sure, we probably will, but to what schedule? Biology is not obligated to make sense to us. Despite my general optimism about AI, I have to accept the possibility that perhaps the rules governing our own intelligence could (in principle) be as incomprehensible to us as they are to any other primate.

> And your second point is also flawed, the fact that Moore's Law stops working doesn't prevent one from having ever more computing power, by simply buying more chips. Google doesn't run on one massive computer, but on millions of small ones.

You seem to have missed my point here, too. I explicitly suggested what you used as a counter-argument — millions of small computers working together. To be precise, I suggested using 217.52 million A12 SoC units, running at 5e12 op/s, and a (guesstimated) 5 W TDP. This gave me an estimated 35,465 real-time human brains at a power cost of 36.8 kW per brain, which consumed roughly 32,200 US dollars of electricity per year, even when making the over-optimistic assumption the chips were the only power requirement (i.e. no network, no cooling).

This also gave me a hardware supply cost of about $2,500,000 per brain (assuming the cost of the cheapest iPad using an A12, because I lack any better idea for how to estimate the cost of all other components needed to keep the chip working).

If you hit the atomic limit, you get a x900 improvement (I think) on those costs. Which is great [1] if we know enough about how our minds work to replicate them… and my point is that we don’t.

[1] except for the social and economic implications when minds powered by sunlight are cheaper than literal slaves given nothing more than the minimum food to keep them alive, which I also hope we’ll deal with but is a totally independent question.
Right. The humanoid found Sarah Connor by looking her up in the phone book and making cold calls. How would a flying drone do it?

But in your driving example, is negotiating with a kid really a foible? Or is it a skill?
Every Teenage Girl Needs to Watch Clementine Von Radics “For Teenage Girls”
I think the issue is deeper than equality of outcome and opportunity being two different problems: as we have seen equality of outcome implemented so far, it explicitly violates the conditions that need to exist for equality of opportunity. That is, the implementation of equality of outcome solutions has been exclusively (to my knowledge) based on providing additional opportunities to some groups and/or denying opportunities to other groups.

Perhaps there are implementations of equality of outcome solutions that allow you to approximates both, but so far that doesn't seem possible.
Safety harnesses you mention in 3 are also often for fall prevention* not fall protection. Fall protection harnesses aren't much better but typically will at least have padded leg loops.

*: Prevention: when tied in you can't make it to a place you can fall such as a system that prevents you from getting within a few feet of a roof

Edit: the link you provide seems to be a lightweight fall protection harness and certainly one I'd like using as I prefer a lighter harness when working at height because it means less fatigue and less chance of a mistake leading to a fall.
AirPods already can provide some hearing assistance in some situations through the "Live Listen" feature: https://www.wikihow.com/Use-Airpods-As-Hearing-Aids
I found the first few videos of this series a good investment to answer that question: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLbgaMIhjbmEnaH_LTkxLI...

It is more focused on programming, but just enough to be relatable, it’s still mainly about CT

(Actually enjoyed the whole set, and the follow up)
This might be useful only for future fusion reactors. It's too expensive for cooling purposes though.
I can't argue with that. Plus it might make people question your "Not Facebook Employee" twitter tagline.

Speaking of which, I saw a tweet that you're interviewing at Facebook this week. Is that true?

Not that I would ever begrudge someone from trying to make it big in tech, but dang, I would hope someone with your skills would find an opportunity working for the resistance rather than the occupiers :-)
fair game:

[...] In previous correspondence with the hacker, he said he tries to report problems and has received bounty payouts for his discoveries. “But when I don’t get a reply, then it’s going public,” he said. [...]

Before we speak about responsible disclosure and call people "hackers" in a negative context, we have to talk about irresponsible QA processes. this is true for both tech companies or anyone utilizing technology for whatever means.

it's similar to saying: "yes I left a loaded gun there, but let's blame the evil criminal who picked it up and did a bad thing", ...

... I'm not defending him. My point is responsibility has to be on both sides. Today companies rather participate in PR circle jerks (and mistake bug bounties for real audits) instead of cleaning up their own actual security problems.

Edit: in a similar thread this week we had WIPRO breached which then claimed that they did everything

> “Wipro has a multilayer security system,” the company wrote. “The company has robust internal processes and a system of advanced security technology in place to detect phishing attempts and protect itself from such attacks. We constantly monitor our entire infrastructure at heightened level of alertness to deal with any potential cyber threat.”

if they'd really be using industry best practices against phishing they'd have used U2F. Nobody is using it at Wipro though. CISO's today rather point to how well they've outsourced the problem (at least the damage control part) by pointing at their insurance policies (which often won't even cover a breach, and which does nothing to protect the user/data and only protects the company bottom line). Talk is cheap, fuck them all.
Here is the full list from the original study:

Bureaucratic Barriers To Municipal Broadband:

Michigan
North Carolina
South Carolina
Tennessee
Virginia
Utah
Wisconsin
Montana

Direct Sale Prohibitions On Municipal Broadband:

Arkansas
Missouri
Nebraska
Pennsylvania
Texas
Washington

Prohibitive Referendum Requirements On Municipal Broadband:

Alabama
Colorado
Louisiana
Minnesota
Iowa

Population Caps On Service Areas For Municipal Broadband Networks:

Nevada

Excessive Taxes On Municipal Broadband Services:

Florida

Other Tactics Used To Roadblock Municipal Broadband:

California
Wyoming
Oregon
Massachusetts
Connecticut

(this was really annoying to format with HN's terrible formatting rules)
I've worked for two ISPs during my career. One in California and another in Rwanda. Those experiences have convinced me that providing internet service just isn't a viable business: the margins are too thin, or non-existent.

Generally, I haven't seen private industry do a good job at providing infrastructure over long periods of time.

(edit)

That said, when I see articles like this one I have to remind myself that the landscape is going to completely change once Starlink and/or OneWeb become active.
I do tabletop gaming with a group of friends, and have an ongoing debate with one that seem relevant to this.

The debate is that he is of the opinion that tabletop games (particularly ones with complex scoring or recordkeeping) should be computerized. I am of the opinion that they should not, because when you change the form factor, you are changing the game even if all the rules remain the same. We are humans, and as humans, physicality matters to us.

I think that the same thing comes into play with old-school hardware. The hardware itself is important, and no amount of emulation can really replace it.

My friend and I will never agree on this with tabletop games, and that's OK. You and I may equally never agree about old-school hardware, and that's also OK.
Is that an actual advantage though?
And that's why I use my own judgement when deciding if its ok to eat.

The best before probably takes into account the worst case and is set low accordingly. I go to the effort to store bread appropriately so that lower bound is no longer particularly relevant to me.
Hi! Not doing this to be evasive but because I think we can probably have a higher-bandwidth chat about the exact specifics of it by phone, if you're up for it.

Can I encourage you to drop me a note at waseem@pilot.com or we can schedule some time together here?: https://calendly.com/pilot-waseem/overview
I’m too tired to respond in detail but this underestimates the scale of the problem. There is no “adapting” to the scenario if we don’t stop kicking out CO2. We’re talking billions dead and most large species extinct, over the course of decades at most, depending on how quickly the planet flips from one steady state to the next.
I built out Pipefile (https://pipefile.com) as a one man operation. Bundle your PGP key into file upload forms to receive end-to-end encrypted files. Embed the upload forms into any html page to receive files without setting up any backend infrastructure.

You can try sending me something at https://pipefile.com/steve
Apex in Android Q: The Biggest Thing Since Project Treble?
Why do these efforts have to move into Ruby proper? Why can't sorbet or steep stay their own thing, and if it solves your Stripe-like-codebase problems, great. What I don't see a lot of here (or in general these days) is advocacy for the advantages of dynamic typing. And if you're objective, there most certainly are, even if they're not worth the disadvantages, or don't surpass the advantages of static typing for you, personally.

But Ruby used to advocate for them, and it's definitely what drew me in. I find it disappointing that we're moving away from that. More and more, it seems we’re attempting to make Ruby all things to all people. Which eventually makes it the right thing for no one.
> They absolutely deserve better than they got.

How can you be so sure? You don't know what the compensation of the GP was, you don't know that they weren't / won't be written a stellar letter of recommendation (or better yet introductions) that will land them directly into coveted senior dev land, you don't know that the experience forged won't make the GP an effective startup founder, etc, etc etc.
It's the smallest monatomic gas, so it can wriggle through even the tiniest of holes.

Normally you'd liquify a gas to store it, but helium doesn't liquify until you crank it down to 4°K, which is really, really cold. Liquid oxygen and nitrogen have significantly higher boiling points.

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.

So if you don't keep it at 4°K, or -270°C, it's going to boil, and if it boils it's a gas, and if it's a gas it's going to find any opening to squeeze out of.
Android will lose its corporate sponsor but it being an open source project will continue as long as people continue to develop it.
Learned to program on the 400 (with a 48k upgrade) in BASIC and 6502. I still think my preference for mechanical keyboards is a direct result of owning the 400.
And all of those things you like were available, or could have existed, on phones 10 years ago. Except perhaps multiplayer games, depending upon how pretty you require your games to be.
Do you happen to know any great guide for setting it up properly?

I did it a while back with docker machine but I remember it being quite the hassle and didn't work as smoothly as a locale instance, damn shame since docker is the number obesity leading reason I keep running out of ram on my laptop.
I get twenty goddamn hours from my X270 and it's incredible. I never use the fingerprint scanner, so I recommend Thinkpads all the time. Good connectivity too, although I'd appreciate maybe another USB port or two.
Obstacles in both Democratic and Republican states alike. Pretty sad. Also damn hypocritical of the states which regularly complain of Federal overreach to go restricting their own local governments.
In my eyes, my Thinkpads (an T430 and X40, both deceased :-( ) do look beautiful, clean, and simple.
That presentation was refreshingly honest and interesting to boot with.
Erlang Online Resources
An economy is based on every person individually making choices based on their own (perhaps narrow) view of money.

The Keynesian view of economics requires that there is centralized control of monetary policy.

In an economy where there exist no overlords who can dictate what people can do with their own money, then people are free to act purely in their own self interest, and they will.

It doesn't matter what 1000s of "educated" economics professors think any more. They're irrelevant and they've dug their own ditch.

Go find a recent economics graduate and ask them what they know about Austrian economics. Good luck!

(There are graduates who had never even heard the term "Austrian economics" until after they graduated. What does this tell you about narrow ideological viewpoints?)
What's the context? Maybe knowing who this individual is would help me?

Edit: ah an Android OS dev. I imagine that's a primary party to Android and therefore this individual is kind of an authority.
Loss of control during approach and landing because of poor airspeed control kills pilots every year. It's important enough that the EAA has a dedicated "loss of control initiative" to try to figure out what to do. See for example https://www.eaa.org/eaa/news-and-publications/eaa-news-and-a...
Tangentially related. If someone wants to sell his side project, please list here.
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19693520
There is no government protection from property crime in most big cities. Somehow life goes on.
It's only bad advice when applied universally. ANY advice given to single individual applied to everyone regardless of context/circumstances is going to turn out terrible.
StatusGator is the status page monitoring service I built. It’s been profitable since about 2016.

Though I very recently took on a partner to try and grow it because I believe it can be more than just “profitable” but perhaps actually a sole income source one day. It’s great to have a “one person” company but I feel it’s even better to have a partner to help inspire and motivate you, especially when it’s a side project and not a full time job.