skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Display (and input!) latency are real things, and matter quite a bit. There have been studies in the past where people measured the full button press to frame update time using high speed cameras, and not all games are equal. As for game mode on TV's, that specifically why it exists. As a passive medium a little latency doesn't matter, but when a system is responding to input, latency is noticeable.

If you're interested in how different TV's perform, segregated by their individual input ports (in cases where some ports are optimized) and modes, check out https://www.rtings.com/. I used it a couple years ago to pick out a good 4k TV as a monitor, and the very thorough information helped me pick out something that works well as a computer monitor (and also for the occasional gaming).
Honestly they could start by building voice controls that people want to use rather than the voice assistant bullshit. Idk what the google one is like, but siri is a toy.
he probably has, somewhere.

I can't recommend Borgel enough, either; it's really good.
Big warning to readers:

If Gravitational asks you to complete an 'engineering challenge' they are using you for free labour.

See: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19784787
It will not be tiny, but they are designing a pizza box sized phased array antenna with a target price of $100-300.
I used to live in the Bay Area (Mountain View, 2007-08), but moved away because it was too expensive (ironically, just months before the banking crisis & Great Recession hit). I used to be perplexed why more people didn't also move away, but I finally realized (as the article also explains) that being able to move is an incredibly privileged position to be in. Some people simply can't afford to leave the situation they find themselves in, even if (or because) everything around them is too expensive. This could be because they have no/little savings, have family responsibilities, are dependent on their current employment for specific reasons (like medical insurance), safety reasons, or are dependent on local government services in some specific way. The list is long. Some people are stuck and probably won't get unstuck without major legislative changes that could help them.
That'll be a useful technique for autonomous trucks and roads, because we're going to have the same issue writ large. As long as they don't get too close to other traffic because they're focused on wear leveling.
If you want SF to have a bright future long term, we need to build and not just housing but infrastructure as well.
Artists are not really the ones we need to worry the most about. Amongst my artist circles, there are some who find ways to make it work in SF (cheap roomshares can still be found in the sunset etc), others who have been able to leverage their skills with tech companies to live comfortable lifestyles, those who have found refuge in the east bay, others still who have found other, cheaper cities they feel more comfortable being in... really there are options for artists.

Those we should feel sorry about are those driving the buses, stocking the shelves at Whole Foods, cleaning the floors at the tech offices, delivering nursing care in hospitals, teaching the children, etc.
I’m not sure whose fault it is that GUID string representations depend on endianness, but I blame Microsoft. I’ve never seen a little endian string GUID anywhere that wasn’t either Windows or a standard that had heavy MS involvement.

Hey, MS, the string “0001” is the number one, or the bytes 0,1 in that order. It is not the number two hundred and fifty six!
Amazon's and Facebook's ad revenue have gone up significantly in the past quarter, so this is not a story about the decline of the online ad business. It is about Google not competing in that business as well as it used to.
Google at it's value is still growing at 15% plus. I see some relation with Google growth and the world economy at large. This year the economy has been sluggish so are Google result.
In the case of one of the poems in the article, the test makers incorrectly formatted the author's poem, and then asked a question about the format of the poem. That's nuts, right? She even received desperate letters from teachers asking for the answer because the test had made it ambiguous.

My impression of the article is that we should be giving students better education than requiring them to master tests prepared as cheaply as possible, sacrificing coherency, sold as expensively as possible, administered by randos from craigslist with next to no training. Because that's currently the benchmark for middle schoolers.
Using a new language concurrency feature would require you to change your code anyway, the same way using any new feature would. And when the Elm/Rust-style ownership annotations are made public, they will be opt-in.
You have to pay to join anything
Reminds me of the berlin holocaust memorial and it makes total sense.
This page seems unwise: http://www.gwei.org/pages/google/check.html

A check with enough info for G to probably figure out which advertiser it is? Or maybe they have some pool of accounts?

Edit: Ahh, nevermind. They mention a pool of accounts, some already disabled: http://www.gwei.org/pages/google/google_letter.html
Why do you think that satellite to satellite routing will be particularly fast? There are a lot of hops, some satellites are moving relative to one another, and the satellites are power and bandwidth constrained. It sounds like a latency nightmare.
That's cute but one single thought he had is not even close to a description of overall intent.
Agree Kube is not for everyone, no question, I was just trying to clarify what was in the article. (if you are offloading complexity - I would hope it is to a GKE or EKS or AKS or similar, in which case it is very much offloaded...)

I didn't mean to imply that you mix all those things together from the CDF - was just mentioning some interesting projects (some are unrelated) in the mix.

Agree also on simplicity - myself I don't like to run anything, so CodeShip is what we have for that (but it sounds like you are referring to self hosting only solutions?)

(edit: and thanks for insightful comment)
That's hardly an argument for using C though. Successful OSes today were started years ago when there was barely anything else to use. It takes a long time for OS to gain success. Rust is so young, that to evaluate success of an OS written in it, you'd need to wait comparatively. So time will tell.
The latency is copper to your home. Dial ups are as fast as broandband but throughput low.
Google has so much gas in the tank it’s ridiculous. YouTube, Maps, Waze, Gmail etc are hilariously undermonetized. See the recent move to monetize Maps a bit more. They can flip revenue switches all over the place.
It seems clear to me that the treaty violates the U.S. Constitution and as such, the property in question still belongs to the Cherokee People.

It may take some time for the Supreme Court eventually to rule on the matter, but the current property "owners" are criminal trespassers in my view.
Steaming media is particularly poor application for Starlink, which is starved for bandwidth.
Because living from your art is a personal choice that, while nice to encourage in modern civilized society, should not be incentivized and protected at the same level as eg contributing to healthcare, education, food production, core infrastructure, etc.
Just two data points, but the houses we've seen go up for sale in our neighborhood near Menlo Park were mobbed and went in a week. Prices were higher than I expected, as someone who has been watching the market. Both require massive ($200k+) renovations and/or retrofitting.

Having seen this, and with the coming IPOs, I'd guess prices will continue to trend upward.
That's not an argument for putting it in fmt.

That's an argument for putting it in the language layer or putting it in its own place.
Of course, SpaceX wouldn't dare risk the international firestorm of doing so intentionally. But if the service were available in Taiwan, mainland China is only about 100 miles away across the Taiwan Strait.

The connection might be slow and spotty from Fuzhou, but all you'd need is a modem sold out the backdoor of a factory and an account created in Taiwan (perhaps a friend you Alipay for the subscription), and you'd have unfiltered internet in eastern Fujian.
The economics of megacities, 5G and fiber strongly disfavor Starlink for the world's richest urban populations. They will have a difficult time finding enough paying customers in the barren spaces of the world.
> But if they had offered me a full-time position, they would have had to offer to pay me at least $250k-$350k per year, for me to be able to afford to keep that same apartment.

Huh? Rent is expensive in Cupertino, but not THAT expensive. You can live quite comfortably with half that.
We have public transit today!
Because this isn't nodejs.
Running a command line tool written in Go on browser with WebAssembly
Attempts at communist governments seem to regularly drift towards totalitarianism of one level or another. Lots of trappings of communism, but when push comes to shove it doesn't quite work that way.
As someone who switched to MacOS for work a few years ago for a new job out of a desire to not have the fudge with Linux for getting work done at work, I thought MacPorts was obsolete based on what I found online about installing packages and so on.
> UBI is cargo cult finance. It's a broken mental model that will kill the system.

Such dismissiveness is unwarranted. There's a lot of intriguing research on the topic that indicates that it may be a cost-effective replacement for the byzantine social support systems of modern governments, with benefits for both recipients and taxpayers. It only seems like a broken model if you /start/ with an overly simplistic model of the current situation, e.g one that ignores both the existence and desirability of social support systems.

Unfortunately much of the research is frustratingly incomplete. Search e.g. for information on Mincome.

It also seems like a reasonable transition mechanism, from the market economies that have brought us increasing productivity, to a hoped-for post-scarcity future.
Consumer connections will use bent pipes. Satellite to satellite links are limited and will be mostly used by high paying customers like high frequency traders.
I tried installing both your convert-websters and https://github.com/mortenjust/webster-mac linked elsewhere in this thread, and I think I prefer the other one, webster-mac. It is almost the same as yours, but its font size is more similar to the font size of the built-in dictionary, and it displays words as lower-case (though they are still listed in upper-case). Even though the webster-mac version improperly renders proper nouns as lower-case, I think that is a better tradeoff given that I know that I shouldn’t depend on the dictionary for capitalization, as lower-case letters make terms easier to read.

However, I don’t think I’ll be setting webster-mac as my default dictionary. macOS’s built-in New Oxford American Dictionary may have less colorful descriptions of the words, but it has features that greatly enhance readability that neither version of Webster’s has:

• Quotes are visually distinguished from definitions.

• The font size is consistent with other dictionaries.

• It describes pronunciation for each word (supporting two formats: diacritical or IPA).

• The correct capitalization of every word is demonstrated, both in the entry and in the index.

• It uses proper typography, avoiding fake dashes “--”.
Is this viable without tinkering on macOS?
I encourage you (and everyone else) to look more closely at the ASF budget. As noted above, it's 80% for infrastructure, and that is supporting hundreds of projects. Some of those are simple, some are not at all (Hadoop, Cordova, Spark, OpenOffice, Mesos, CloudStack, etc.).

In fact, many of those projects rely on other resources not included in that 800k: How much does it cost to run a testing farm for all the devices Cordova has to run on? Do you really think 800k is such a crazy number?

The ASF runs lean. It has to, because it is a 501(c)(3) charity and cannot be as responsive to large donors as some might prefer (i.e. giving them more direct control over the foundation in return for more funding.)
The Google assistant is sort of ok while it works, but it often fails in the most critical situation.

E.g., "OK Google, Call Home".

nothing.

Why? Because it is telling you, usually with a silent on-screen notification that you need to unlock your phone.

I have found that trying several times including swearing seems to unlock it.

But this is still creating a distraction while driving.

Very poorly thought out.
Yeah but... it's claiming information can travel faster than light...

It must be averaging in terrestrial network latencies or something, because GEO satellites are literally hundreds of light-milliseconds away from earth
If I can find a paper showing the sex-IQ relationship and another showing a IQ-software engineering performance relationship, will that satisfy you? Though, so save myself time, do you really doubt the 2nd one?

Yes, I think they probably do get more females by preferring graduates than they would if they didn't have that bias towards graduates.

What do you mean by a wrong ceteris paribus? Of course it's wrong in the sense that all else isn't equal in reality, but you can still consider what would happen if it was. Or do you mean it's not even possible for all the other factors to be constant because they're correlated with the one we're changing so we still have to make a choice about which ones to really hold constant?
We can't compute credible figures at this point because a lot of the technical information is proprietary and the business model isn't known. I don't believe Elon has committed to any specific bandwidth; searching yields claims of "up to" 1 Gbps.

Given the rates cited here[1] (20 Gbps/satellite) I seriously doubt that 1 Gbps is going to be offered at a price level that allows it to be widespread. More likely we'll see service offered in the 10s of Mbps.

So the best we may achieve is some napkin level estimates. Let us assume 100 Mbps as a realistic subscriber rate. 12000 satellites[2] * 20 Gbps/satellite * 100/1 over-subscription (typical, see here[2]) / 100 Mbps = 240 million theoretical subscribers.

Obviously every figure here is open to endless dispute, but we're in the right order of magnitude. I believe this is the scale Elon is thinking at; he's trying to fund interplanetary space travel with this. In any case there will need to be a couple mountains worth of transceivers for the plan to work, and making fixed function electronics at that scale is typically highly cost effective.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Starlink/comments/7xzkl5/starlink_s...

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Starlink_(satellite_constellat...

[3] http://www.ctcnet.us/wp-content/uploads/2014/02/CTC-Connecti...
"Cable modem and DSL providers often have a 100:1 or greater oversubscription ratio for residential users and a 50:1 ratio for business users."
That's funny
it seems you confused commercial with non free software. Java may be a commercial product, but it is also free software and the FSF and Debian are happy with that. They do not reject commercial software quite the contrary.

That said, your point still stands.
Don't expect too much to come out of this gift. MIT receives almost a billion dollars a year from taxpayers to manage MIT Lincoln Laboratory and never has that much to show for it.
I don’t understand why we care so much. High Bay Area housing prices mainly affect (1) people who already live there, whose anti-development voting patterns created this mess to begin with; or (2) rich people who can afford to move in.

There are a lot of communities around the country that don’t hate development. For a map of desirable places to live, consider Google Fiber cities. (Not just because of the fiber, but the pro-development, low regulation attitudes that attracted Google in the first place.)
Ask HN: Building Jarvis for Learning?
Hey HN,

I’ve been thinking it could be cool to build a modular system that helps you do work like write code, check emails, learn, take notes.

One interesting function I’ve been thinking about is automated anki flash card drilling, I.e it checks notes you specify and randomly drills you.

Another interesting feature would be including a Question Answering model to access your knowledge base in a conversational way.

Is there anything like this out there? Preferable open source and extensible?

It’s almost like a high level operating system for learning and work!
Thanks for the link. After trying both this version and https://github.com/aparks517/convert-websters linked elsewhere in this thread, I think I prefer this version of Webster’s Dictionary. But I don’t think either version is good enough to replace macOS’s default New Oxford American Dictionary. See my comment under the discussion of convert-websters for details: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=19763435#19784835
Why do you think a state legislature or city government will be able to solve a complex problem like housing prices? Do you know of any successful examples of a government intervention in housing prices?

The closest I've seen is recent rules letting developers ignore city zoning rules to combat NIMBY attitudes that prevent additional housing development.
We use Jenkins at work and have found a pretty damned sweet spot.

Let me start by saying that we used to use GitLab, a lot of it was because of the CI but I didn’t have a great experience trying to manage it on top of Kubernetes, they’ve since introduced a Kube native package and I’ve been told it’s much easier, but with the deployed omnibus we ran into a lot of issues with runners randomly disconnecting, it became frustrating to the point where I had developers not wanting to use GitLab and finding interesting ways to work around it.

So I set up Jenkins on a dedicated EC2 instance with a large EBS volume for workplace storage and installed the Jenkins plugin then I wrote a Jenkins library package that exposes a function to read a gitlab yaml file and generates the appropriate stages with parallel steps that execute as pods in khbernetes - took about a week to get the things we actually used from Gitlab CI and their YAML DSL working correctly.

Now we very happily use Jenkins, mostly through YAML but in the occasions where things are much easier going directly to Groovy to use interface with plugins, developers can.
How is rust error handling better than gos?
I'm struggling to understand the use case. The article offers "keys in an ordered map" or "binary search" - but the idea of a binary search is that the order of the elements is inherently meaningful, like the floors of a building, weights, rankings, etc. GUIDs are meaningless by design, so there must be some underlying property that you're actually interested in searching. And in that case, why not use that property as the key to the collection?

Is there another use case here that I'm missing?
I've seen some 1 bedroom apartments that I can actually afford that, with some walls, could probably be a 2 bedroom. Does anyone have experience with that kind of upgrade/renovation? Even if it's just false walls (nothing structural)?
The Go version is 78% useless noise trying to hide

f(computeFirst(), computeSecond())

which is what a maintainer needs to focus on. We know everything can fail, we don't need to be incessantly reminded of that.

If completely inexperienced people can read idiomatic code, that means the idioms don't capture anything tricky that had to be learned the hard way. There's no payoff for getting better with the language.
Why did they do that? / do you think they did that?
>This feels like the literary version of the "what in tarnation would you ever need this new-fangled multiplication for" critiques of common core math.

Don't even get me started on the way mathematics is taught at most schools. For one thing, it isn't. If English were taught the same way, the lessons would consist only of spelling, grammar and punctuation.
How is the WSJ's credibility any better than a blog

If you seriously don't know the difference between a 129-year-old newspaper that has won countless journalism awards, has broken world-changing news, is respected both among its peers and by millions of readers versus some rando blog, then I really don't know what to tell you.
MacOS was not made for multi-users on one machine.
Good point. OK, so just a stock image then!
Rural customers are use to 100+ ms response time. Even getting 60 ms response time would be a major improvement for many customers.
It's not doubling every year. Revenue is up 17% compared to Q1 2018
Helping them and everyone else find behavioral solutions to avoid using their phone while driving, for example rewarding good behavior with discount, gift cards, etc.

There are a number of insurance companies literally trying to help adjust behavior in order to save lives of those distracted and the innocent bystanders and other drivers on the road.
I want to specify this is my own experience and I think a lot of our own issues may have been from mismanaging our self-deployed setup. I’ve had a lot more experience managing Jenkins.

GitLab and their approach to CI (easy to use yaml) really facilitated developers writing CI, which increased our software quality overall.
Is there a chance that my insurance company's app is tracking this? Presumably an iOS app can't access accelerometer data when it isn't open (and it rarely is).
Probably? I'll counter with very unprobably. It's mostly a blur effect and the amount it shifts is very small.

Edit: I hope whoever downvoted has actual evidence of danger.

Also the danger range is generally around 12-20Hz and that background is at 4.
> You can run Linux and play GTA and Mortal Kombat on other consoles.

I don't know what you mean here. You can play the latest Mortal Kombat on the Switch, too.
The portions of a UUID/GUID have meaning, there isn't just one version, though the display as a string is relatively consistent. The sorting often will sort on the timestamp portion of UUID v1, there are variants of a GUID (COMB or Combined Guid or Sequencial UUID, etc) that are meant where a portion of the values are sequencial like v1, and the rest is mostly random like v4.

SQL is optimized for the portion that is timestamp based when using v1 algorithms, because it results in better indexing performance. It's also why there's a sequencial id option with SQL server.

Other systems/databases will sort the raw bytes differently, other languages/platforms will use different arrangements. IIRC MongoDB's JS API actually has like 3-4 different serialization options because of these inconsistencies between languages/platforms.

Edit:

https://codingsight.com/combguid-generation-of-sql-server-fr...

NOTE: sequencial id's are not quite the same, they're part of the auto insert so that they are ensured sequencial... this is the best indexing option for SQL Server, though a COMB is probably easiest for applications. Other dbms will structure them differently, so best do figure out your serialization strategy based on your db.
I'm not sure if you're casting aspersions on Rob Pike and Ken Thompson.
But they are truly giants of computer science giants and they are behind golang.
Can't say that about typescript (or any other language I can think of).
Check out Scrambler: https://github.com/jameskeane/scrambler

It's basically this, but with ~100 lines of bash. As simple as it gets.