skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Anyone else thinking that google is using the cheap device to collect even more in depth user data which is how it really makes money off the phones?
I quite like the middle ground of micro orm. Gets rid of the trivial boilerplate like populating fields from query results, and still offers any custom queries.
You assume the blinds are power to begin with.
This is highly codebase dependant ime. The less you have to read and think about wtf is going on the more you can write.

And generally the stronger coupling the more you have to read.
This is a really interesting read! This gives me a much better sense of how investment banks are actually involved in IPOs, and how you can essentially require banks to support certain prices of your IPO using legal agreements.

Also really emphasizes the role of having personal relationships with directors (not just a corporate relationship):

> The first lesson is that the only way for a bank to develop a relationship with a client is for human bankers to develop a relationship with human client executives and directors.
Seems like a compelling argument for not lazily loading urls referenced in CSS rules. If the browser progressively loaded everything in the stylesheet without user interaction it would presumably consume more bandwidth in many situations but it would also blast this server with a continuous stream of the entire alphabet.
The openai paper presents a way to learn sparsity - the block-sparse structure with blocks bigger than 1x1 has been chosen for efficiency reasons.

You may as well learn block-sparse architecture with 1x1 blocks, effectively doing what MIT was doing, but without two phases.
this is the kind of dark magic that is fascinating to read about and I hope there are people actually using it in the described way to design and implement safe systems and protocols. I haven't heard of any (not that I looked much).
> there’s not a lot of options besides dropping a bomb on them.

There's nothing in the article that indicated that lives were at stake.
They have done that and it got an award because it was new and cool, but that is not where the majority of cycles goes. That is spent on fluid codes such as Raptor, XGC or Flash and to some extend kinetic simulations with codes such as VPIC or quantum codes such as QFCPACK.

There should be more information at https://www.olcf.ornl.gov/leadership-science/
Cert expired.
Wonder if some politicians over there have been reading our news

https://www.theguardian.com/culture/2019/mar/16/uk-online-po...
The problem I have with Prometheus is, I have most of my nodes in very closed networks I don't have control (Healthcare) and I can't set up proxies so Prometheus can reach them, I can only go outside. So, by now, my best option seems to be InfluxDB, which doesn't look bad to me.
> I’m curious what the long term business plan is behind “Helpful”

Product stickiness? For the competitors, these features are nontrivial to copy. If they work well, people get "addicted" to them.
It gets really confusing talking about GM when they have an organization named Cruise and also a product called the Cruze.
I have a habit of going down this rabbit hole. I always rebalance myself by asking, "Am I Bruce Wayne?" If the answer remains 'no' than this doesn't require as much thought as I'm currently giving it
This is brilliant, I've never thought of it this way.

In a sense, GDPR already kind of does this, increasing the burden of storing user data. Would be interesting to consider dramatically ramp up this burden---maybe with a literal tax---for behavioral data stored longer than 90 days (or some other grace period), like a weaker version of Maciej Ceglowski's Six Fixes. https://idlewords.com/talks/what_happens_next_will_amaze_you...
Came here to write similar causal / correlation point .

If you currently sleep <7 or >9 hours dont take this as a prescription to change your sleep pattern.

I would assume there is an underlying cause to your sleep needs and that solving the underlying cause is the true path to longevity. For example if you're sleeping more because you're recovering from burnout or a major surgery. Then taking the sleep to speed recovery is (i presume) a better choice than artificially restricting sleep in the name of "longevity" ...
> We used to that to track emails.

Why are you contributing to the surveillance age of the internet?
IPOs Bring Tax Jackpot for California; Can Lawmakers Resist?
> Or wrap all queries in VIEWs or functions at the RDBMS.

This is like the oldest best practice for RDBMS use, for security, and for decoupling consuming apps from each other and the DBs low level implementation (so that app views and base tables can evolve independently to the extent possible), and for maintainability: all app access to the DB should be through views adapted to the apps needs.
I don’t know if I heard too much about different places within Arlington. I went TJ, which is basically in Annandale, so there was a large population of folks there from the richer parts of the county that had a negative attitude toward local folks.
• It doesn't need to say "sleeping", just "away", "busy" or "offline" like on most messaging services now and since forever.

• Sleep/availability detection is already automatic and can be improved.

• Extra details don't need to be public, only shared with [specific] friends. Unexpected calls from unknown contacts wouldn't be welcome anyway.
I agree with this. My personal opinion is that advanced scripting languages, outside of shells, shouldn't be installed by default.

(Of course, this usually gets killed pretty quickly, as dependency hell quickly brings in advanced scripting languages.)
> 16MB of RAM would have been laughable in a workstation in 1999 as well

For sure - I got my first computer that year. It was a G3 iMac with 64 megs of ram. The salesperson assured me that a mac with 64 megs of ram was like a pc with 128, haha. I chose to believe him because I wanted to believe my purchase was worth it. I guess I was 13 back then, and that thing is still running today.

It wasn't a high-end purchase so I assume many computers had more ram than that at the time.
>But I also see the other side. Why DOES it take 8 hours to do a simple one-line code change? That's ridiculous.

you might be right, but if you're not in a position to help make it take less time, that's not a helpful discussion to have. the reality is that it takes that long, and complaining doesn't make it faster.

The procedures that take time exist for a reason, and i'm sure in every organization there are opportunities to make the process faster. But when somebody who wants a change says "why does it take that long", they aren't looking for helpful ways to improve the process, they're looking for an exception to the process be made so their specific change gets out faster.
A homebrew device with some IGBTs controlling main voltages, controlled by an Arduino, is vastly different from a commercial product that has to pass UL/Intertek/TUV certification (not to mention FCC EMC compliance). Those certifications exist specifically to protect consumers from devices that will burn their house down.

This isn't to say that I would discourage a hobbyist from building their home automation controls. I would strongly recommend learning about designing electronics for mains voltage (creepage and clearance, grounding strategy, fuses and other circuit protection, types of transformers and how they're built (double insulated?), capacitor voltage rating|derating, ripple current ratings, lifetime vs. temperature, etc.

You can be a hobbyist and design things well, just be thorough when it's something that can set you and everything you love on fire if you do it wrong.
I don't think that's true, especially since it was specifically called out that this glue work is what senior engineers do a lot of.

To me senior engineers deal with ambiguity and unclear ownership in a decisive way and that sounds exactly like what the author was doing. I can easily see how you would think delivering on metrics senior engineers on evaluated on(getting things out the door) would mean advancement as an engineer.
Flutter: a Portable UI Framework for Mobile, Web, Embedded, and Desktop
Nice. I also like this similar version from Microsoft:

How many Microsoft employees does it take to change a lightbulb?
https://blogs.msdn.microsoft.com/ericlippert/2003/10/28/how-...
For me, it comes down to the type of hosts I'm dealing with and how accurate I'd prefer their time to be. Years ago, I ran the reference implementation everywhere... but not anymore.

OpenNTPD's goals are to be "good enough" and provide "reasonable accuracy". On an OpenBSD laptop and several "play" VMs (running OpenBSD), it was indeed "good enough". For individual desktops or laptops and the random "standalone" machine, OpenNTPD is simpler and "just works" (I like that it can "verify" the time using HTTPS hosts of my choosing).

Nowadays, only my stratum 1 NTP servers still run the reference implementation. Everything else -- especially hosts which I may need to correlate events based on timestamps -- runs chrony.

A comparison of the three implementations [0] is available on chrony's website. From a quick glance, I don't see anything blatantly incorrect or "biased. The comparison was discussed here on HN ~18 months ago [1].

Basically, if accuracy to the second is good enough, OpenNTPD is fine. If you want more precision than that, go with chrony. It'll be MUCH more accurate and it really isn't any "harder" than OpenNTPD. You'll probably want to stick with ntpd if you're using reference clocks, although chrony supports a subset of them. If you're a nerd that wants the absolutely most accurate time you can get, Google "PTP 1588" as well.

[0]: https://chrony.tuxfamily.org/comparison.html

[1]: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=15324386
I can see why it seems that way, but most people stick to Apple due to lock-in.

For me, it's Apple music. I've been using iTunes since the first iPod Nano and have an extensive library. I was planning to switch to Spotify (since the android Apple Music app is abysmal). But Spotify doesn't allow you to upload your own music (lots of mixtape songs in my library).

So eventually, I gave in and went back. I even tried Google Music since they let you upload your own songs, but the sync app kept crashing and never uploaded songs right away, but your milage might vary.

So that is Apple's play, locking in customers. I know friends who came back to Apple due to iMessage and even the Apple Watch, which is a blatant lock-in product.
> * 3a has a headphone jack. Personally, I adjusted pretty well to Bluetooth headsets but some people really appreciate the jack.

For me, phones lacking a headphone jack is an absolute deal-breaker; the result is that I feel that there is a limited selection for new phones. This feature alone makes the 3a a huge upgrade regardless of the other features.
This is such nonsense.

(a) iPhones are not that expensive if you consider they are lasting longer and being supported longer than their competitors.

(b) I don't think you understand fashion. It's not exclusive or interesting to have an iPhone when they make up half of all phones you see everyday in Western cities.

(c) Most phones these days are still being sold on contract plans and so even if phones were $10,000 many people could still easily afford it when it's broken down to a monthly payment.
I'd agree that throway's case was overstated. That said, Apple has built up its brand as being one of "quality" and "high end." It's a similar brand perception as Cadillac. If you have one, people assume you have the money to afford nicer things. That happens whether you bought because of that or not, and Apple knows this. If they start competing on price, they will sooner lose their luxury status.
It's pretty, but not that functional. It tends to map naively underlying functions to buttons, without much thinking in actual UI or UX. It's a better, cleaner base than Webmin but it remains inferior in all and every aspect other than that.
I would hate this as a city dweller. Not being able to see what's 100m ahead of me, akin to driving on remote highways (with car lighting only illuminating their immediate surroundings), sounds depressing. In very dense areas, there's usually always some light from a nearby business that's on, but in other parts of cities streetlights throughout are very beneficial.

For example, a lot of them help light up signs to assist pedestrians with navigation. Others indicate the existence of smaller side streets that wouldn't be visible until a pedestrian reached them. Yet others help to identify tram or bus lines, which can very useful for pedestrians.
Meh. The latest available security patch for the Android 8.0.0 on my Moto Z Play which I purchased 2 years ago is the one of August 2018. Yes, I didn't purchase the phone directly at release date, but just a bit more than 1 year of security patches isn't great. It hurts even more because the hardware is incredibly sturdy and with the battery pack mod, charging woes have been a thing of the past.

EDIT: Wow, apparently they are still advertising and selling this model for which they haven't released a security update in almost a year!
They don't have to be exclusive to appear exclusive. You can find the same conversation popping up all the time about people being snobby about the color of their chat bubbles. "Think different" may as well mean "think like everyone else" today, but the company is built on that messaging and people eat it up.
When the Swiss designer Max Miedinger created a new typeface in the late fifties, his client Stempel AG wanted to call it Helvetia, which is another name for Switzerland. Max Miedinger found it silly to name a typeface after a country and suggested Helvetica - the Swiss. That's what we've got Helvetica.
MPEG4 the video codec is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_2

mp4 the media container is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MPEG-4_Part_14

MPEG-2 part 4 is some conformance testing specification.
IIRC mine once had some issue with the scroll wheel that I fixed by removing a dust ball and / or applying silicone grease. Silicone grease is great for lubricating anything plastic.
2007? 2008? - It was the student edition on a $150 netbook. I plugged in the mouse shortly after turning it on. Maybe if I had fully booted into windows ... but once I stopped laughing shut it down and installed backtrack.
Same here. I ended up buying an iPhone SE two years ago to replace my Nexus 5 because I did not want to spend $650 for a Pixel phone. While unfortunately it would be difficult for me to switch back to Android since I have an Apple Watch that I love using, I am very happy that Google has decided to return to the Nexus-style price point. I loved my Nexus 5, including its stock Android and its two years of updates from Google.
It’s Time to Call Out the BadApple
Clearly depends on the laws of the nanny state you live in.

In my nanny state, the government will appoint a team of therapist to mange the trauma, we get mandatory employer 4 weeks paid pain and suffering leave. The government refunds your loss plus potentially lost opportunity cost

In the country next to us, they are savages. Can you believe each adult is responsible for the consequences of their decision
They have some meager protection for fraud and general exploitive behavior. But if it’s a legitimate investment firm and you go in knowing what you are doing and they loose your money THAT IT your money is lost. savagery

Edit: post is tongue in cheek, assuming there is no fraud some of the comment suggest there could be subtle fraud involved
Most of America’s Rural Areas Are Doomed to Decline
It seems all those css tracking tricks (a:visted, [value=...], now :hover) depend on external resouces (background-images) being loaded lazily only once the selector is matched.
Wouldn't a easy solution be for browsers to always download all url('...') references found the the stylesheets even if the selector is never matched?
Hmm... Looks like you're right.

How do they manage to pay zero taxes then? I thought AMT assumes that once you're beyond a certain level of income, your lose most deductions and essentially pay a certain percent of the income.
Of course I will never use ORM again. Sqlalchemy made my life so miserable that I felt I am the only stupid person in the entire planet. What ORM guys don't think is that SQL IS NOT OBJECT ORIENTED. Why the hell you want to pretend something completely fake?

The problem does not end here, Using ORM make you think object orient which the worst corrosive idea since the dawn of computer science. It made you code like spaghetti.

You read your code 90% of the time and you write code only 10% of the time, that's why clean functional code will result to better software.
Why would the camera not work? You won't get unlimited storage, but you can buy a non-google photo backup service.

The camera probably compares favourably with Nokia candybar-era DSLRs
Disproportionately deep pockets and impact. Research the breakup of Standard Oil (which became Exxon, Amoco, Mobil and Chevron) in the US. The power Standard Oil wielded was non-insignificant, as with behemoth tech companies.

While these regulatory actions are surprising to some, if you’re into history it’s no surprise it’s happening again, but to tech instead of oil.
Ask HN: What did you think of Google I/O today?
Personally I thought it was meh. Just seemed to be a lot of the same: convenience-friendly data-hungry services masked with baby pictures and "family" sentiment.

I did enjoy hearing about how they have mini-ML models on each device, feeding data back to a master learner, which in turn sends updates back to the device.
Skeptical because there needs to be some dynamic component to it which is what the CSS pseudo-selectors are achieving. Would love to see a working demo.
> I think it's clear what kind of politics I mean and what kind of budgeting I mean. I am strongly (probably given the communist past of my homeland) opposed to any government having any part in it (since it is not absolutely necessary since no one will die), not against structure. Actually it should be decentralized alike Bitcoin.

It's really not clear.

> Eh, no. I actually meant government, and that's the whole point. You're attributing stability to entities that don't have it. Last 100 (101 actually) years:

Yes...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Austrian_National_Library

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Library_of_the_Czech_...

(to use examples from your selection)

> Disregard that, it was an idiom from my native language meaning that there is really a lot of choice, so much that you might be overwhelmed (and hence dislike the large list of options)

The meaning is consistent in English, it's just condescending. But I do appreciate your elaboration.
I really wonder what they have legally against deep dot web. The site just provided the links and reviews of the darknet marketplaces. So users could look up what might be trustable and what better to avoid. Information is not illegal. and should never be.

The referral link stuff is maybe gray area, but you can not see who bought what and for how much from your referral link.

But maybe the website owner(s) had some illegal side business going on dark net markets, and FBI just took deepdotweb down with everything else connected to the owners.
What’s Behind the Wolters Kluwer Tax Outage?
>"...taking months to do a job that should take weeks, at most..."

Well,this is basically lack of trust between you and your devs. Or lack of common understanding of priorities. I'm not sure if you're a project mgr or a client, but clearly some expectations are misaligned. Perhaps you don't see their barriers or they don't agree with your priorities

The existing contract doesn't work, so some mediation is due to close that distrust before any damage is done. After all it's the team that you currently consider yours.
I often find myself at the other side of this situation, when people compliment my work (which is rather ordinary) because i do not do anything else of note.
It doesn't measure voltage and thus can't measure true energy consumption = power, only currents. It then must estimate power based on some preset voltage. Not to mention those clamps can't have precision or time resolution for truly interesting stuff.

A toy, in other words. It might be good enough to get a rough idea what eats more or less and when, but it'll never match the utility power meter which is what you're paying by.

cdrc: I rewire my houses myself, because those licensed loons can't be trusted with a 12V light bulb. At least that way _I_ am sure it won't blow up or burn or whatever.
No. RAM drives use normal, volatile RAM. Power down and it all goes away. SSD is non-volatile. Power down and it stays.

DIMM is a form factor and specific bus for getting data from storage on one side of the slot to CPU on the other. This is putting a different type of storage on the other side of that bus.
Banning the 737 Max from flying in the U.S. forever would be a good start, I'm thinking. It could be a decent lesson for airplane makers (and self-driving car makers) at least.
Boeing employs over 150,000 employees. Do you think they all deserve to lose their jobs? Do you think the millions of connected family members that would be impacted by that deserve it?
1. Execute the company (dissolve the charter)
2. throw the board collectively in jail for a time for inaction of illegal actions leading to death
3. charge all who conspired to subvert laws as a co-conspirators to premeditated murder
4. Liquidate the company and pay back shareholders not in C levels, the Board, family thereof, or people charged with aforementioned crimes

Strong enough?
Can I ask how you built this? How do you determine the places nearby / correlate them in instagram?
I think those questions are just an attempt to be silly.

Most of those questions are poorly specified, if you think about them, or they're trick questions with trivial answers (like zero) in some cases.

Then there's the occasional question that could be answered, not just by some future AI, but even current WolframAlpha if it had the right dataset. Like this:

> minimum distance between a place with a 2-letter name and Llanfair­pwllgwyngyll­gogery­chwyrn­drobwll­llan­tysilio­gogo­goch

Thought it's unclear if the intent is great-circle distance or 3d distance.

If there's any doubt that plenty of these are intended to be silly questions...

> focal length of the Eye of Sauron
Can I install a mainline Linux distro and KDE Plasma Mobile or Ubuntu Touch on it? Or is it all a big pile of kernel hacks and binary blobs?

I'm getting sick of these absolutely useless, Google-tracking devices. After several of my own repairs, my ~2 year old Sony/Android is flaking out (another problem with modern phones: their shitty lifespan which just contributes to e-waste) so I ordered a Nexus 5X and plan on switching to KDE Plasma. I hope it will force me to help write any apps that are missing for it to be my daily driver and help contribute to a truly open source eco-system.

I hope the Purism 5 and Pine Phone make it through their funding/pre-orders as well. We need more real alternatives to this garbage the two big players keep feeding us.

Microsoft should just offer to unlock all their devices. UEFI+ARM would be a great start for trying to get mainline Linux running on those devices.
The title is misleading because only the chip by itself costs $1. If you buy the microcontroller( chip + peripherals), it costs more than $1. For example MSP430:
https://www.mouser.com/ProductDetail/Texas-Instruments/MSP-E...
It's a sad thing that weaponized honeypots are likely something we'll be hearing about in the near future...
We do.

That is why any proper RFP answer already provides a broad overview how the problem would be tackled, and possible solutions to the described problem.

Also why during the project development, at various delivery phases, artifacts like architecture diagrams, documentation and UAT from customer team take place.