skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
But it's true because I have seen it in action and spoke to real people benefiting from it. I volunteered for 5th Pillar from 2007 to around 2014 or so. It mostly works because more often the police don't prefer to mess with anyone who might be associated with any group (political party or activist or religious or anything else). You would even see cars often hoisting a flag from a political party or some organization. Some people wear dress (dhoti) that are lined with their party's flag to indicate that they are affiliated with that political party. The police (especially the traffic cops on the roads) have enough problems and want to prey on only the weakest ones, hence better not to mess with someone who could potentially fight back, bring some media attention and worse, transfer them to a remote place.
And even if you are a specialist hired at one of these big companies, you will often be doing generalist work. I’ve heard more than a few FAANG software engineers say, “I have a Ph.D in [specialized field] and spend all my time plumbing protobufs from one API to another!”
Yes it was an anecdote, but perhaps I wasn't clear, my point is that almost anyone whose gums bleed can easily test the benefits of flossing.

A much better analogy would be that people are starting to claim that farts might not smell as there's no scientific studies that conclusively say so.

As dentists point out rather regularly since that meta-study came out, they can clearly tell who flosses and who doesn't. Puffy, bleeding gums? You don't floss.

You didn't have to labour the point about science quite so rudely, I am fully aware of the philosophy of science, thanks.

Perhaps puffy, bleeding gums are perfectly healthy, but that seems unlikely as they hurt and are unsightly. On the upside, we know an easy fix for them, flossing. Do you honestly think that everyone here, or in any dentist's surgery, is going to laugh at me for claiming that?
Let's hope that Buffet proposes a bet for Justin Sun. Similar to the $1 million bet he made against Protégé Partners hedge fund fund manager.
You're giving away a security that is still considered a security. That doesn't mean it won't be regulated as a security.
Don't tell the airlines, they will start charging more for those seats!
Seconded: https://www.nature.com/articles/sj.bdj.2014.1057.
Why is anyone building any dependencies on google's ancillary apps at this point?

Seems like their whole purpose lately is to just create buzz on a launch, create a small dependent user base and then retire it when they realize they it doesn't contribute to their advertising base.
You shouldn't be swallowing your toothpaste or your floss.
It passed after Dems lost the supermajority, no?

Hm, I looked it up, this is pretty funny, that one Republican voted with the Dems, but 39 Dems voted against.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll887.xml

Probably some voted against because it did not go far enough?

The Senate vote is (exactly?) split on party lines: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_...

60-to-39, so they probably had the magic 60 to pass despite filibuster.
"There's no good evidence that flossing is effective for preventing dental carries and periodontal disease vs brushing alone" is not the same as "flossing is not effective for preventing dental carries and periodontal disease vs brushing alone." Just because evidence for something doesn't exist or is weak doesn't mean it doesn't work, it just means we haven't done the high quality randomized studies to prove it works. And I'm not sure we'll ever have that, since these sorts of studies are expensive and there's ethical issues with asking a control group to stop flossing for years.

When done properly flossing is a very low risk intervention, is cheap, has a plausible mechanism of action, has anecdotal evidence for effectiveness, and makes you feel nice and clean afterwards. So you probably should still floss, even if there is no high quality evidence of effectiveness.
https://www.lamag.com/citythinkblog/ucla-cheating/

https://www.smh.com.au/national/melbourne-uni-probes-inside-...

https://www.macrobusiness.com.au/2019/04/international-stude...

https://www.tvnz.co.nz/one-news/new-zealand/exclusive-buying...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academic_dishonesty#Demographi...
It used to be called Lockbox, but they rebranded it as Lockwise[0] which (recently) now works in the Firefox Desktop version. Previously it only advertised for two app stores (Google Play and iTunes), but now offers the desktop version.

[0] https://www.ghacks.net/2019/05/29/mozilla-releases-firefox-l...
Ethereum also had an ICO (paid in Bitcoin) and it delivered. Cosmos held an ICO and delivered. Not all ICOs are scams.
We did but not any more 1) there's no longer anything like the shuttle available the only thing that could get close would take two launches to stage the parts and another for the crew capsule (not to mention most US capsules would have to evacuate the entire capsule to go outside iirc) and 2) most of the current space based telescopes like James Webb will be much much further out than Hubble was and most that get announced are also planned to orbit much further from Earth.
Facebook looks a lot like Microsoft of the 90s, obsessing over stagnant or slow growing business lines to the exclusion of new opportunities.

What does Microsoft of 2019 look like? (Don't take it wrong. I just wonder how people think about these things, or what analogies are in common use.)
Practical Lock-Free Programming by Fedor G Pikus (2015) [video]
Cigarettes too
I wouldn't want to be in Wacom's shoes.
No, they were able to hack accounts by knowing personal details about celebrities and guessing the passwords.
Google + FB has 85% of the mobile ad market, with margins upwards of 25% of their ENTIRE business, not just the mobile ad market. I'd estimate that their effective margin on just search + ads to be somewhere in the 200-300% range so they can afford to do everything else. The fact that no competitors can get in on margins like THAT, at ANY price, tells you something.

I absolutely believe investors would collectively drop a cool $50 billion if they could become a direct competitor to Google. Why can't they? Not because Google will go after them in a direct way, but network effects are de-facto monopolies, and you'd probably have to spend a $500b dollars and never make money to start making a real dent. Its an impassable moat - the only chance any company has is to have a massive share of whichever platform comes next.
3D scanning humans and 3D printing medical devices molded to an individual are used in niche, small-scale applications. With this concept, does IKEA plan to scale custom-fit accessories to the mass market? Will cost/time to scan/print become prohibitive?
It seems you're being downvoted just because it's negative against Firefox.

I don't know what it is about the HN community, but knowing that figure throws out any argument for using Firefox as a daily driver.

Change my mind.
At right angle means the screw is loaded in shear rather than tension right?

And that's why screwing in deck boards is good, but not for joists. Use nails for that instead, unless using engineered screws.

So I'd be curious if you'd do the same strength test but with nails: end nailing and toe nailing. After all you did end screws and pocket screws...

I'll add that your "Smashed deck repair hack job" is very interesting... the deck is attached by mortise and tenon joints? I keep reading about ledger boards and joist hangers, so I'm just... surprised? And you replaced posts in hole with essentially deck blocks! Very interesting... Thanks!
Fair point - I was on a plane and on landing saw the wing flap act in an unusual way (didn't fully open compared to other flap and seemed like it was limited/stuck on one edge and one end raised more than the other and down end shaking and wasn't what I'd seen on that type of boing before). I pointed this out to the staff, who thanked me. Might of been nothing, and not something you follow up or indeed, how you would follow up. But equally, may of been sign of something amiss.
The point isn't that they use Apple, it's that they would be willing to pay 5 figures for a workstation:

https://schuttejoe.github.io/post/disneypostmortem/

> This image was rendered at 2048x858 with 256spp and took 3.5 hours to render. I allowed it access to 28Gb of RAM but had to estimate how much embree would use for BVH data so it occasionally would exceed that number enough that the OS would start paging.
With the push to more and more iCloud I would assume they have a lot of data but I am not sure.
I wasn't, I do, and this is getting weird =)

I've only ever heard people correct the phrase to the longer version, so clearly we just live in completely different linguistic worlds. Bubbles are a good thing to bust through, so: thanks.
Take a look at the side-by-side screenshots in the middle of the article, and the way that Pathfinder renders text sharply and smoothly even when viewed at an angle. That's incredible, and makes reading non-trivial amounts of text usable in VR/AR.
https://developer.apple.com/wwdc19/live/#!/room/

This may host it live, but all presentations are recorded and will be here soon.
How could you verify that these phones run the same setup as regular phones?

The only way to make companies fix bugs which may be difficult to find, expensive to fix, and potentially embarrassing is to make it easy to locate exploits on real hardware. Otherwise the only people with the resources to do this are government-backed entities like NSO Group, Vupen, etc, who somehow always ensure that exploits get into the hands of repressive governments.
Part 2 available here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1obZeHnAwz4

One of the absolute best presentations on lock-free programming I've ever seen. Although this is a CPPCon talk, the overall talk is high level and should apply to any programming language with Atomics and Memory Fences / Memory Barriers.

Atomics, Memory Fences, and Lock-free Multithreaded Programming is among the most difficult and convoluted subjects in all of modern programming. Pikus breaks down the subject with excellence, with many practical examples.
If Seeing the World Helps Ruin It, Should We Stay Home?
Space Rogue also posted a book review. https://www.spacerogue.net/wordpress/?p=723 TL;DR "Great story, but not a history book."
Is this common advice? I would find having my mouth coated with toothpaste residue to be extremely off putting. You would also end up swallowing quite a bit, yes?
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Shocker, another discontinued app from Google
I love learning how the English language has evolved.

Public service announcement: If you're into this stuff-check out the Allusionist Podcast: https://www.theallusionist.org/listen

It's full of fun stories like these. One of my favorite language nuggets—the word "guys" is an eponym—most historians trace it back Guy Fawkes.
My friends' immediate reaction: "Good luck trying to certify this".

I wonder how bad the odds would be even if an aircraft like this showed perfect flight safety characteristics (which is not a given).
> I know that it isn't binart but I can't help but note the irony: if they don't last forever and their demise isn't from obsolescence but a competitor isn't that a statement contradicting preventing competition?

You're right and I also mispoke when I said monopolies cause harm in and of themselves. The issue isn't monopolies but when companies use their position as a monopoly in an anticompetitive way.
The most efficient solution is a carbon tax that fully captures externalities. But $10/gallon gas would cause riots.
Interestingly a transfer from Earth to Jupiter ends up with Jupiter coming up on the ship from behind at twice it's velocity - I would never have guessed that to be the case, one always imagines a ship arriving at a somewhat relatively static object.
For what it's worth, I would want neither of those and would turn them off if they existed.
Yeah I agree. Compressing several average-looking & humdrum lives into one magnificent life is worth trying. In other words, do all the sex, eat all the food, visit all the places, meet all the people, etc
> Nobody wants to be beholden to a single provider -- that's incredibly dangerous for a tech company.

Eh, sure, but Google likes to make one big deal with Master Card to buy your cc transactions, they don't want to make a thousand deals with small local banks.

As for Fiber & Fi, it looked to me as if Google was checking to see if they could easily and cheaply "disrupt" those markets. They saw that they could not and cut their losses.
Yet Bitcoin and Ethereum are not considered securities by the SEC. So clearly the same sort of asset is considered a security sometimes but not other times, essentially whenever the SEC decides.
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Wilson Sonsini Expects ‘Millions’ from New App at $7,500 a Doc
The conversation was "The ability to run on my phone seems like an important feature."

Either you have an iPhone or you dont. Sure they might have an ipad and imac and an android phone. I suppose thats possible. But at that point, you are the exact kind of customer this business model is designed to get to switch over to the full ecosystem.

Are we really arguing if the "Sign in with apple" button will work on websites from chrome on windows? If apple wants to be an identity provider, their web sso will work everywhere. Or are we talking about iMessage, the flagship iPhone app, not working on android phones? Apple will lose more customers to Android, who only want an iPhone for iMessage, than they will gain.
I love your site. I've visited it several times over what I seem to recall as years.

Thank you for all the hard work.
The flying wing would be a new "type" and therefore require a new type rating (special training on all the systems and performance) which is not super uncommon for new aircraft. As such it's not a big deal and any quirks would be covered by such training.

The 737 fiasco was almost entirely because they refuse to allow new 737 designs to require a new type rating and therefore force weird aircraft/cockpit designs that would otherwise seem stupid.

Also, commercial aircraft aren't really certified based on how they handle stalls, spins and spirals. Swept wings already handle those situations very badly and therefore systems are designed to prevent the aircraft from entering those parts of its flight envelope.
Maybe, though such footage would be useful in a black-box for post-incident/post-flight analysis as a visual comparison to the recorded control/instruments - could only help.
Yes, but the Tesla Model 3 already has enough range for most to charge 2x per week at most. It's the $20K 80 mile electrics that have legitimate range anxiety issues, not the $40K 200 mile electrics.

My LEAF has a fast charger (CHAdeMO) and a 6.6kW Level 2 charger. My car has seen a CHAdeMO charger exactly once in its lifetime and that was before delivery. Most non-Teslas are charging at 3.3 or 6.6 kW (~12 or ~24 miles per hour of charge).
Building a lock free continuous ring buffer in Rust
How about mouthwash?
> Google has 90% of the search market.

I can use Bing. I can use DuckDuckGo. I just don't want to.

However, I've been a Verizon customer for almost a decade against my will.
I think the point is those are the outliers and the majority are scams.
Most of the most profitable apps on the store are free to play games with loot boxes and in app purchases or subscriptions - and most of those aren’t even accepting purchases on the App Store anymore.

If Apple reduces their “tax” to 15% how would that compensate for not having the ongoing revenue of ad sales?
Especially when a common word is missing in the dictionary for some ducking reason.
Everything you know about word2vec is wrong
People lower their shields when scammy stuff comes from something they trust. Kik has been around for 8 years and was pretty popular at one point, so its long-time users wouldn't notice how much it seems like a desperate moneygrab.
To me, a generalist is someone who does have skill in application not just knowledge about topics. At least in my world of software engineering for the internet.
I'm not particularly bothered by the idea that Firefox can see how often private browsing is used. If you don't know what features people use, you can't prioritize development resources. Mozilla doesn't know who is using private browsing, or what they are looking at.

I can certainly respect that it bothers you—but may I ask what browser you intend to switch to? I'm skeptical that you'll find a better, usable option. That's a sad state of affairs for sure, but also the way of things right now.
“Completely different linguistic worlds?”

That must explain it, and you’re welcome.
Also check out Rado's classic "Lion and Man" http://mathworld.wolfram.com/LionandManProblem.html
These feel-good articles resonate with everyone and lack substance. "Why you are awesome, and how to be more awesome" is the siren song of tech industry best sellers. These articles are the horoscopes of HN
But, again, they don't seem to use Comcast Business Layer A to entrench Comcast Business Layer B. They could put a tax on every call to Stripe API if they wanted. They don't. The worst thing they've done is throttle Netflix (very bad) and the market spoke and they were shamed publicly.
My dad was a student in Beijing at the time and was going to join in because that was the cool thing to do for students at the time, however he was stopped at a bridge by soldiers and didn't participate. He is pretty chill about the whole thing and says that if he did end up participating, he probably wouldn't be alive or his career would be ruined.
Hi!

My concern is:

>Each time a node has an internal event, it hashes that event with k hash functions and increments its bloom filter. It then sends that bloom filter to all other nodes.

I would suspect that the cost of broadcasting the bloom filter to the network would generally outweigh the cost of serializing a vector clock and sending it to a single node. It seems that this step in the algorithm is critical to this approach.

Do you have thoughts on this problem?
Think of it this way: A cylindrical fuselage provides no lift (except for the lift from its angle of attack flying obliquely through the air), only drag. If you can design the aircraft in such a way that all exterior surfaces contribute to lift, that would be ideal.

The "---" portion of your idea provides no lift, only drag.
> Yet Bitcoin and Ethereum are not considered securities by the SEC.

Why is that ?
mutt is single threaded, for a start.
Apparently iPadOS added mouse support. It's currently an accessibility feature, but it's there.
>Let's not throw the baby out with the bathwater.

If anything, I'd like to throw out more of the baby: e.g. people learning to grow their own fruits and vegetables, and make more of their own food, not just cooking.
But in MacOS, typing doesn't follow the mouse by default. So you're scrolling away in a window you don't realize is inactive. Then go to close a tab or type and you've just closed a tab in a random application two monitors away. And it can be hit-or-miss whether you realize which application you just interacted with (or where you just inserted characters into your code).
There's even more ways you could twist the original:

- Jack of all trades and master of one

- Jack of all trades and master of all

- Master of all trades and jack of none

- Jack of all trades and master of some
Apple Keynote Crowd Goes Completely Silent When Cost of Display Stand Announced
Which ones? Can you think of one category of apps that would not do recurring revenue ad sales and go to one time purchases?

Honestly I can’t think of one non game app that is ad supported without the option of turning off ads with an in app purchase or subscription.
"Doesn't this throw up all the red flags of a scam", the age-old question.
Eccentric Spec Mansions for Billionaires Not as Good Business as It Seemed Like
Ethereum is an outlier in the cryptocurrency world?

Ethereum is the reason there have been so many ICOs in the past 3 years.
Interesting paradigm. It's like wicked learning environments are the SLAM of life.
A bunch of delivery-only restaurants have opened up in my city. Most of them are helmed by young chefs who trained or lived abroad and are bringing interesting new cuisines and dishes to local people. It's great for the local culinary scene and the food is often amazing.

But my word, they've somehow come to think that since they are delivery-only, they have to give customers a "dining experience" by overpacking everything. Every order comes in a fancy cardboard box, every order has multiple sets of disposable cutlery. Every little dish is packed in its own plastic box. With some cuisines (like Korean), you end up with over a dozen boxes for a single meal.

The amount of packaging waste delivery creates is a little sickening. I've taken to ordering from restaurants that throw the entire order into a cheap cardboard box and skip the "branding" altogether.