skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Recently I built a tube stereo amplifier kit and speakers. Bought an old fashioned CD player for it. Just put in a CD and push play. No screwing around with apps, streaming, etc.

As a teenager in the late 80’s, you knew where your friends were on the weekends, but we didn’t have cell phones. You could find a party in a remote part of the county, but no one had a GPS.

Computing was also fun, in the days of BBS and pre-WWW Internet.
I like it too - the pitch reminds me of https://github.com/enkidevs/seapig (where I first saw this pattern explained for React)
An early stage startup probably doesn’t have enough money to hire specialists, and doesn’t have the workflow down to make optimal use of them even they could afford someone in every position. At that scale you need one or two people who can do everything - probably they won’t do the best job of everything, but they’ll get your company off the ground.

Once a company starts scaling up they’ll find that they need someone with a deep knowledge of one particular specialism, such as mobile development, or backend, or maybe infrastructure. They’ll pick someone like that up who likely ends up taking ownership of it.

Over time they’ll end up with specialists for everything, but that comes with its own set of problems. At this point probably everyone can do a really good job in isolation, but there’s someone needed to coordinate the work to make sure people aren’t being blocked. That’s when the first dedicated project managers start arriving and getting the team moving in one direction. Probably at this point you’ll also start seeing product managers, because there’s no one around with a unified high level view of what customers need anymore - everyone else is down in the weeds.

At least in my experience scaling a technical team is at least, if not more, complex than scaling the actual product that team is working on. It shouldn’t be underestimated, and you should aim to have someone around who’s done it before and understands when it’s time to stop saying “we should just hire people who can do everything”.
I have Blued, but I barely use it as loading pics and messages on it is so sluggish. There's literally a spinning cursor that comes up for actions that should be quite trivial for the user.
relatedly: https://www.nealstephenson.com/why-i-am-a-bad-correspondent....

That is not such a terrible outcome, but neither is it an especially good outcome. The quality of my e-mails and public speaking is, in my view, nowhere near that of my novels. So for me it comes down to the following choice: I can distribute material of bad-to-mediocre quality to a small number of people, or I can distribute material of higher quality to more people. But I can’t do both; the first one obliterates the second.
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In 1981, Electric Light Orchestra wrote about remembering the good old 1980's.... https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXBiPY8wDT0

Here's the lyrics:

Remember the good old 1980's

When things were so uncomplicated

I wish I could go back there again

And everything could be the same

https://www.google.com/search?q=lyrics+ticket+to+the+moon&oq...
> Relegating each customer to their own physical computer would raise costs so high as to essentially eliminate the purpose of the cloud's existence

plenty of places rent bare metal machines, and the price doesn't seem quite that world-ending. see packet.net for instance.

and it only gets better if on the bare metal machine you get to turn off all of the performance-draining fixes.
Local and probably even statewide newspapers are mostly going to be gone. I don't know how we'll be able to have knowledge of and discussions of events using facts. It's hard enough time even with trustworthy sources - although people just ignore facts.
No need to speculate - a quick peek at https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heritability_of_IQ provides the answer: "The heritability of IQ for adults is between 57% and 73%"
Very cold and very hot is bad for batteries, and can help them degrade faster. So cold winter would degrade them too
You mean when computers ran at MHz speed as opposed to GHz?

It took a lot more work to get a decent user experience.
"GDPR has made it so that only large multinationals can steal your personal data :["
I don't think it was malice, but I think it is perfectly fair to say Intel was playing fast and loose here, and they deserve all the flak they're getting as a consequence.

Vulnerabilities like Meltdown and the latest "MDS" vulnerabilities are absolutely a design decision.

Think about Meltdown, for example. The problem here was that data from the L1$ memory was forwarded to subsequent instructions during speculative execution even when privilege / permission checks failed. Now the way that an L1$ has to be designed, the TLB lookup happens before reading data from L1$ memory (because you need to know the physical address in order to determine whether there was a cache hit and if so, which line of L1$ to read), and the TLB lookup gives you all the permission bits required to do the permission check.

Now you have a choice about what to do when the permission check fails. Either you read the L1$ memory anyway, forward the fact that the permissions check failed separately and rely on later logic to trigger an exception when the instruction would retire.

This is clearly what Intel did.

Or you can treat this situation more like a cache miss, don't read from L1$ and don't execute subsequent instructions. This seems to be what AMD have done and while it may be slightly more costly (why?), it can't be that much more expensive because you have to track the exception status either way.

The point is, at some place in the design a conscious choice was made to allow instructions to continue executing even though a permissions check has failed.

The MDS flaws seem similar, though it's a bit harder to judge what exactly was going on there since it's even deeper in microarchitectural details.
> Not sure how when all that changes is the clock.

This is most surely not the case. Many data stores are simply dated collection of files.

With fixed expiration for all data you can simply implement GDPR with things like TTLs and making sure that any downstream systems do not consume data older than a certain date.

With individual wipeouts that can happen at any time this becomes much more challenging.

Now all data, in all systems that use that data have to the ability to wipe data at the individual record level on demand.

This broad implications especially depending on how interpret whether things like derived models, aggregate stats, etc. need to be recalculated in light of GDPR requests.
And there are many doors.
simplicity of what? getting any kind of information was ecruciatingly hard until broadband became available. There were wars, politics, same or worse than today's (yugoslav wars, gulf wars, palestine). You can have a roadtrip nowadays easily (simplicity), try that in the 90s. I think you have it backwards, today is simpler. I mean just catching up with the music genres of the 90s was an arduous task!
I'd love to hear your take on the rise of "notebook" environments. :)

Directly stated, I don't feel any dissonance agreeing with both of your posts. I do think it is snobbish behavior. I also believe some environments make for worse results on some problems. There is usually room for both.
Hanlon’s razor is not an argument, it’s just a saying.
A good point someone made, we replace about 1% of our housing stock a year. And build 2-3% more. At that rate the effect of passive house regulations won't have any effect on CO2 emissions over the next 20-30 years.

So you aren't going to fix anything with expensive passive houses. Especially since passive houses need major repairs every 10-20 years.

What's needed to to ban gas and oil fired furnaces and make the grid 100% renewable. Everything else is a distraction.
not US, but EU country before military changed to fully professional (now it may be different):

1. I value my personal freedom much more than before serving being wheel in this whole mechanism

2. I became expert in faking/pretending to work

3. I had problem to say sentence without swear word, but this disappeared after few weeks/months when you need to be conscious about it

4. it took also few weeks to so picking up phone or even home telephone with Private XY receiving

5. and I lost any ideals about military, it's (was) bunch of drunks, every single office you came open bottle

6. I enjoyed using catch 22 logic as clerk when reasoning about some issues, that book really accurately describe military
That analogy might work with the original formulation of this idea: if someone opens a "big" pull request on a project you weary of, hand it over. That PR, even without substantial review, can show effort and familiarity, and you could argue there's a really good chance they'll try to be good stewards.

But in this case, it's not "a member of that community who also has potato farming skills", it's an absolute nobody, who you haven't seen doing any farming, or eating, before. It's a big world, there are crazies out there, they show up every once in a while.

And finally, it's the internet, it's not really like anything that came before. You can be more trusting in a small town than in a big city. The internet is 1000 times bigger than the biggest city, it's a whole new kind of thing. If 99.9% of people out there have good intentions, that still leaves millions of people on the internet trying figure out a way to take advantage of you.
Brand identity: what is it and why is it needed?
>Q: How would you describe the current state of the internet? Just in a general sense of its role in our daily lives, and where that concept of the Miasma came from for you.

> Neal Stephenson: I ended up having a pretty dark view of it, as you can kind of tell from the book. I saw someone recently describe social media in its current state as a doomsday machine, and I think that's not far off. We've turned over our perception of what's real to algorithmically driven systems that are designed not to have humans in the loop, because if humans are in the loop they're not scalable and if they're not scalable they can't make tons and tons of money.

How is this any different from turning our perception of what's real over to mechanical turk systems like newspapers and TV news?

This line about perception of reality somehow being different today than it was, say, in the 1980s keeps coming up. The main shift is that the number of (dis)information sources has risen sharply and they've become much more efficient. Secondarily, entire media channels (newspapers and TV) have lost relevance to all but the older generation. Increasingly, those news outlets just track social media, which may be the oddest development of all.

In this context, the effective discontinuation of the White House press conference was inevitable. For better or worse, the president talks directly, unfiltered, to everyone. That's the real doomsday machine if put into the wrong hands.
Nuclear is clean energy, so more nuclear and less fossil fuel is already a win. Investments are needed here, though I can't say whether they're good from investor's POV.
Looks very interesting, but seems to be excruciatingly slow at indexing Python projects. Ran it on https://github.com/fonttools/fonttools/tree/master/Lib/fontT... (~230 files) and it took 45 minutes while keeping all 16 cores of my Ryzen 1700 at full load, sometimes using ~16 GB of RAM. Exiting the application ends in a SEGV, but seemingly without consequences? Also, after moving the database files to a different folder and renaming the "source group", it now asks me run re-index everything. AAAARRRGHHH.
> In studying the functioning of automata, it is clearly necessary to pay attention to a circumstance which has never before made its appearance in formal logic. Throughout all modern logic, the only thing that is important is whether a result can be achieved in a finite number of elementary steps or not. The size of the number of steps which are required, on the other hand, is hardly ever a concern of formal logic. Any finite sequence of correct steps is, as a matter of principle, as good as any other. [...] Thus the logic of automata will differ from the present system of formal logic in two relevant respects. 1. The actual length of “chains of reasoning,” that is, of the chains of operations, will have to be considered.

Interestingly, according the Wikipedia [0], Gabriel Lamé published a running time analysis of Euclid's Algorithm [1] in 1844, more than a century before von Neumann suggested this.

[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computational_complexity_theor...

[1] http://archive.lib.msu.edu/crcmath/math/math/l/l064.htm
There is a great article that explained how an entire office was comfortable with LISP because it wasn't pushed as programming. First hit searching shows it linked off of: https://www.reddit.com/r/emacs/comments/3tj71x/even_office_s...
> A typical rage tweet by President Trump, misspelled and grammatically sad, may get him 100,000 “likes.”

Is there something in the NYT style guide requiring a minimum of gratuitous shots at Trump?
I use Vscode because of the decent ecosystem and debugging support. It’s certainly slower than a native editor, notepad++ for example but I can forgive the little pause here and there for the benefits it brings.
Well double and triple glazing, usually with coatings to minimise solar heating are readily enough available.

A lot of the rest of the magic comes from old approaches found in most regions before we had cheap heating and cooling that encouraged cheap building that paid no heed to locale. Usually working with the local environment - to encourage shade, cooling, airflow, or to retain heat. Simple stuff like solar chimneys, windcatchers, or for cooler areas encouraging a greenhouse effect, far removed from full blown passive houses.

Most of which can benefit from modern materials and controls, and be combined with aircon and central heating to achieve comfort for a lot less fuel.
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> Relegating each customer to their own physical computer would raise costs

I'm not convinced the cost difference would be a showstopper. More little computers rather than few big computers. Same total horsepower. More motherboards, sure.
Yeah, that's at least partially a social problem or how you relate to people and tech, not a tech problem per se. You have to manage your relationships to both people and tech.
The Chinese government has prevented plenty of US companies from doing business in China including Google, but more importantly is the rejection of patents and intellectual property and espionage conducted by Chinese government, which has cost US companies billions and the US government hundreds of lives.
Why would the serial protocol be less vulnerable than a network protocol?
A Cryptoboondoggle
The whole world is in our smartphones: modern types of mobile apps
The missing part of your story is why a competent person became quite poor and homeless.
> still have all the fossil fuel powered machines to replace.

not necessarily, if we can synthesize new fossil fuel from atmospheric carbon, as at least one new company is now trying to do at scale.
I'll answer, as I guess you're addressing me with this (although I'm not totally sure what "parent gp" means).

As I said, the article, which is on a topic where I'm reasonably well informed, seemed at best badly written to me. When an article is a) bad, and b) bad in a way that's convenient to somebody, it's worth asking how it got published.

Personally, I think "evaluate the content on its merits and evidence" is a bad heuristic for general-audience media like this. If somebody is going to cover a topic like "20+ years of the history of San Francisco crime and its economic and social impacts, plus the implications for urban policy" in 1000 words, they're leaving a lot out. This article lacks both an explicit argument and real evidence. It's basically saying, "Trust me, the writer, that I know what I'm talking about."

That can be fine when the person is an expert who works for an organization that is very good at producing solid journalism. But when it's disinformation, propaganda, or just the sort of bias-confirmation piece that many agenda-driven publishers put out, then it can be enormously harmful. So it's absolutely worth asking who paid for the piece to exist.
there are many problems with that, first of being that at 70x current nuclear power we're going to reach peak uranium in 2 to 5 years.

second is that nuclear power require massive cooling. even if (if!) the coolant don't contaminate the water that cools it down you are going to dump massive heat directly into water and rivers and oceans with significant increase in local alga bloom and measurable increase in global water temperature

and of course you get the waste problem.
That seems about right in my experience. 68F is about where I choose to keep the heat during the day, I'd go colder but my wife and daughter get uncomfortable.

It may be different in other parts of the United States, it is a pretty big country with a lot of different climates. I live in the Pacific Northwest, which has a climate similar to northwestern Europe.
Indeed, I'm not really a designer. But I spent about a year reading Smashing Magazine (https://www.smashingmagazine.com/) regularly a few years ago, and I have the basics down now.

Turns out it's a lot like good code: keep everything consistent (padding, colours, etc) and clear, and simple and it'll ussually look decent.
Last time I tried to get my coworkers to use sql for a report, they straight face argued that doing all of the logic in code is clearer. So, I suspect it is selection bias, as well. Amazing how hard that is to look past.
Not if your PC is a laptop, and has a battery. You can tell it to go to sleep, and, sometime later, Windows 10 will wake it up and sneak up an update on you (with a complimentary restart included).
Good on Megan then! I'm in the south. We have a lot of Germans down here who bitch about how we do everything--AC included.

I'll have to send her a thank you card.
On page 2, in the "coherent configuration" section, what does the x with the - through it mean? I haven't been able to search my way to an answer
Good point. I said crime was no worse, but now that I think about it, it's pretty clearly better.
Interesting idea, but there are some issues:

- Many modern trains, including the TGV, are not designed to be separated during normal operation.

- If you add a car to the front, the train driver can't see anything. If you remove it, you remove their workplace. In a push-pull train, the same applies to the back.

A foldable cab like the IC3[1] has might be a solution, but it's far from aerodynamic.

- Uncoupling the last cab instead of stopping has been done in the past. But coupling one without stopping sounds very hard.

- Instead of one train, you now have three: The car being decoupled, the new one, and the rest. Generally, that means the station needs a higher capacity. Not sure if that's the case here though. Normally what limits a station's capacity is that you can't have two trains using the same track, but that doesn't really apply when you want to couple/uncouple them.

[1] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IC3
> It hurts the non-scummy businesses as well.

If your business case depends on either abusing or being careless with other people’s personal data, how are you not a scummy business ? That’s basically all the GDPR requires of you, don’t abuse people’s personal data and be careful with it. Both seem like common decency to me.
> Now which parenting style would you predict would better prepare a kid for getting a high score on an IQ test?

Which parenting style cultivates more curious, intellectually-minded children is probably a better question.
> For example, any person or entity could rent a list with the names and addresses of all unmarried, college-educated women over the age of 70 with a household income of over $80,000 who purchased country music from Apple via its iTunes Store mobile application,” the customers said. “Such a list is available for sale for approximately $136 per thousand customers listed.

Where do you purchase this list from?
Reasons to lease an electric car rather than buy: the batteries degrade over time, and even if they did not people would believe they did.

A friend of mine recently bought a Nissan Leaf with low miles on it for $9k. It was less than 5 years old and it cost more than $30k new. The original owner lost way more money on resale than he ever would have spent on a gas car in 5 years, including paying for the gas.
> They do make it harder for smaller businesses to compete

Small business person here - implementing GDPR compliance basically meant a few tweaks to our privacy policy to make it clear what data we collect, why we collect it, and how long we retain it for.

Why was it so simple? Because GDPR is honestly not that onerous, and because we already gave a fuck about privacy.
Do you think the malware authors know, care, or can even tell the nature of their victims? A Windows box is a Windows box, whether it is connected to my printer or an industrial control system.
I am sure there were as many people who did not like interacting with others as there are today, it's just because now its OK to be like that, you see them more often, back in the days they were just staying home because they felt uncomfortable by judgements of others.
> The problem is any regulation is that it increases the startup costs for smaller businesses.

Why should this be the one thing we optimise for?
Why does all critical thinking go out the window when it comes to evolution? (As well as being downvoted.)

The atol in question was surveyed in the early 1900s. The rails were there. There has never been a time -- that we know of -- when the rails weren't there.

There are also dozens of other types of birds, giant non-marine tortoises, flying squirrels, bats, and a huge assortment of reptiles.

The only 'fact' that underpins this story is the assumption that "all life on the island went extinct" at some point AFTER some particular fossil of the rail was found.

There is no basis for this 'fact'. It's absurd. There is also no explanation regarding where the other non-marine animals on the island came from after this speculated 'extinction' event.

To be clear, there is no story here UNLESS one assumes the entire atol was submerged at some time AFTER the fossilization event.

Rails exist there today. The fossil record has rails. There has never been a time when there weren't rails that we know of. And there is no solid evidence that all life went extinct on the atol, and a large amount of evidence that there was no extinction event.
They need to get more brilliant, because frankly I don't see that many useful results coming from the field of neuroscience lately. E.g. the standard drug for depression being SSRIs for so long makes it seem like we are stuck in the dark ages.
I'm in my 40s as well, and I'd agree. It reminds me of the Douglas Adams quote:

“I've come up with a set of rules that describe our reactions to technologies:
1. Anything that is in the world when you’re born is normal and ordinary and is just a natural part of the way the world works.
2. Anything that's invented between when you’re fifteen and thirty-five is new and exciting and revolutionary and you can probably get a career in it.
3. Anything invented after you're thirty-five is against the natural order of things.”