skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
If you built the exact same product today, almost the cheapest FPGA you can buy would be fantastically overprovisioned. So, today, all your extra effort then would be superfluous, and you could treat the design like software, using defaults.

Programming computers used to be like hardware; where you stored a variable on the drum mattered because you couldn't afford to wait a whole rotation to fetch it again. Now most code is just code, and Python is often fast enough for production.

I know the difference. When I take packets from a 40Gbps link, I'm programming hardware. I'm counting cycles. Most problems are not like that, and don't deserve your attention. That doesn't mean they shouldn't be done, it just means somebody else should do them, using less specialized tools.
From the report: "Eleven percent (11%) had lived in San Francisco for less than one year."
Are you sure you want to contact the owner via email in China in 2019? Do you know American Civil War is over?
> ...homeless probem arises due to high housing cost...

I heard an interesting theory during a discussion of how off the rails weird some cities' denizens were X decades ago, and how you no longer really see that any longer. The hypothesis put forward was that back then rents were very cheap relative to minimum wage, and minimum wage jobs didn't take much more than a grade school education to hold down. A lot of borderline or minimally-mentally-ill people could fit in between these cracks and live out their lives relatively peacefully coexisting with the broader mainstream, though to be sure adding "color" to the surroundings.

I think this hypothesis has legs. I've read that there were successful experiments at simply outright giving homeless a place to live of their own reduced the incidence of homeless-related crimes to a statistically significant degree. If that is true, then it is worth questioning our economic incentives making housing ever-more expensive.

From my perspective as someone outside the real estate industry, I'm perfectly fine with reducing values by 10X or 100X in more HCOL areas through removal of all state support for the industry. As far as I'm concerned, that's simply stranded capital idling uselessly instead of working for everyone. I wish Bezos would apply his "your margin is my opportunity" aphorism to real estate and healthcare.
I've seen this before with customer satisfaction. In data collection efforts driven by executives you can easily get bad results because they have zero visibility into the data collection process and its abuses and problems. I call it garbage in, gospel out.
I think you don’t wan’t to see the reason. There are plenty reasons listed here with which you can disagree, but saying there is none is bad.
Do you think a group of journalists selling verified, accurate, non clickbait articles based on data and first hand accounts would be able to generate enough revenue to feed the journalist’s children and send them to college?
EDIT: As noted below, I should have read the article first; I made a grand assumption about the article, and had I read it (which I intend to do - but I read enough of it to see what it's really about - and that should be interesting), my questions would have been answered, and this dumb comment of mine wouldn't be here.

My apologies, everyone. I'll do better in the future...

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I'm not a mountain climber, so maybe I just don't "get it" - but I can see why someone might want to do this once, or maybe even twice - in a lifetime.

But why 21 times?

What possesses someone to spend those kinds of resources, both monetarily and physically, to do this kind of thing? What are they attempting to prove to themselves?

Furthermore, does this amount of climbing activity on the part of one individual have any bearing on the context of the mountain not being what it used to be?
Apple releases first public beta of iOS 13 and iPadOS 13
National telephone networks 'solved' redundancy, what, a century ago?

A similar problem is happening in the UK; airports trying to centralize air-traffic control to off-site locations to save a few pennies.
> Pickup and dropoff are the parts which could benefit from volume, but dropoff can't benefit from volume in the e-commerce case.

It can come close. Most US carriers (or at least most of the bigger ones) offer a USPS hybrid service (e.g. UPS SurePost, FedEx SmartPost, etc.) that delegates to USPS for the last-mile delivery/dropoff. Unsurprisingly, these services tend to be cheaper than standard "ground" services, since USPS is already driving mail trucks to every mailbox (or at the very least every neighborhood) so their costs are more constant (not entirely constant, since a package takes up more space on the truck than the usual junk mail, but more constant than UPS or FedEx having to drive a truck for a one-off delivery).

But yeah, absolutely brand-new startups will have higher costs. Those go down pretty quick, though, and it might even be okay to take the loss on those initial customers (and assign it to "marketing" or "customer acquisition" or however else you wanna record that in the books).
> If there are over-supply of the roles that can only be filled by older workforce

That's a pretty crucial question. Certainly at my age there really are fewer people. How true is that at 40? How unique is that "experience premium"? It seems impossible to evaluate the reality or prevalence of ageism without concrete answers (which I don't know either).
* Step 1: Read the article

* Step 2: Comment on the article.

You got it backwards.
I leave the majority of pages that have these popups now. My (likely vain) hope is that the tracking data will show higher bounce rates, and eventually the publishers will explore better financing models.

I’m not holding my breath.
>One thing to consider is that life circumstances that make us stressed and feel suicidal are transitory, but suicide is permanent

Mine haven't been transitory. If anything they get worse. Sure it's sensible for a kid to see if they can get out into life and improve their circumstances, or someone in some acute situation like losing a loved one etc to navigate the situation, but the "it gets better" and "permanent solution to a temporary problem" tropes are fallacies beyond a select few groups.
Pi Hole!
Already jumped. System76 Darter + PopOS is a great combination.
USA house rent and cheep price
@dang etc. Be good if someone changed the title here. 2,400 networks were affected (including parts of Cloudflare, Google, Amazon, Linode, Facebook, ...).
at this rate, 100% yes.
From Libreelec article on RPI4:

"The 4B hardware is HDR capable, but software support has a dependency on the new Linux kernel frameworks merged by Intel developers (with help from Team LibreELEC/Kodi) in Linux 5.2 and a kernel bump will be needed to use them. Once the initial excitement and activity from the 4B launch calms down, serious work on HDR and transitioning Raspberry Pi over to the new GBM/V4L2 video pipeline can start."

Full article: https://libreelec.tv/2019/06/libreelec-9-2-alpha1-rpi4b/
Some day Stewart is going to make the game he's been trying to make for over a decade, and it'll be awesome.
NYC's budget is roughly 10x SF's budget. So proportionally, SF could spend ~$320m to match, which is actually right around what it does spend.

(NYC is also ~10x the population of SF, etc., so that also lines up pretty well.)
Perhaps it's more a reflection of the incentives at work? How do you drive engagement with your content? Clearly 'clickbait' is (was?) successful at driving traffic, otherwise it wouldn't be called clickbait. Polarization is used successfully by other 'non-political' sites such as YouTube to drive engagement statistics (and hence ad impressions), and so forth. If you're trying to stay afloat in a competitive media environment, what would you do?

There is no mass incentive for thought-out, contemplative, long-form journalism. In my opinion, we have dug our own grave - the truth is that the primitive, animal parts of our brain vastly overpower the analytical parts of our brain, and so your 'outrage bait' is a news (or tech) executive's bonus for the year. If the only metric by which we measure anything is $$$, then, well...
ESP8266 or the ESP32 (if you want something beefier that also has bluetooth) give fantastic bang for your buck, especially if you get them from a trustworthy-ish store on Aliexpress
And many left almost permanent pollution
This is great news! The deployment story has progressively improved since I started using Elixir in 2016, but the best way is to just have _one_ community blessed system.

Distillery has helped a lot for sure, so it's nice that it's basically been rolled into the base elixir distro.
Yes, this! But sometimes all it really takes is some VP who wants to show how they can 'reshape' (or whatever buzzword of the week) the company for major changes to start happening. I feel that stability of good things is impossible in big corps since there will always be people generating unnecessary work to others in order to accomplish their own personal agendas.

Also sometimes a great improvement to one team generates a ton of extra work to another team.
Not quite, Fastmail does support PayPal. Fastmail no longer supports PayPal subscriptions. You can still manually make payments via the PayPal option, but if you want the convienence of automatic billing a credit card is required.

source: I work at Fastmail.
retropie, pi-hole and running misc temporary servers like minecraft
I think what you're referring to may be different. If you look at the data in the initial graph, suicide rate increases after both WW1 and WW2. It actually went down __during__ the wars and not after, which falls more in line with Junger's book.
My immediate association was with Java, which was originally named "Oak".

Sounds like an interesting project, although the requirement for specialized CPU hardware will presumably make it of limited use to most folks for the time being. But maybe GCP will offer this sort of hardware to its customers.
>The US Environmental Protection Agency accused VW Group of including illegal software on its diesel vehicles to ensure that the diesels would pass emissions limits imposed by the US.

Is this worded correctly? I thought the issue was that the software detected when it was being tested and then output emissions that were substantially less than during normal operation.

This sentence from the article makes it sound like the software made the emissions be under the limit all the time.
Arbitrary chunks of source or object code are not 'components' in a usefully meaningful way. You're not firing up Reactant IDE and making things out of Enterprise Java Beans and ACME WebWidgets.
"Eschew flamebait. Don't introduce flamewar topics unless you have something genuinely new to say."

https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html

After what must be several hundred of these, this topic is in the killfile. We're all here for something more interesting than the utterly predictable.
Ask HN: Why do so many apps on my iPhone need bluetooth?
I just installed iOS 13, and one of the features they added was a warning every time an app tries to access bluetooth. Pretty much every app I've run has asked for bluetooth access. Audio bluetooth is separate so it doesn't warn about that, so none of this is audio related.

I understand that a lot of apps use bluetooth beacons as a workaround for location data, since iOS has given a warning about location data for a while, but some of the apps have no need for location data. Are they accessing it just because there is some standard iOS library that does it, or is every app really tracking my location? Here are all the apps that have asked me for bluetooth permission in the two days since I installed iOS 13:

Amazon (Already has location allowed)

Amazon Alexa (Already has location allowed)

ESPN

Facebook

Feit Electric

GasBuddy (I already gave it permission for location services)

Google Maps (already has location allowed)

Wear OS

YouTube

YT Kids

Hulu

Downcast

Netflix (Already has location allowed)

Sonos

Spotify (Already has location allowed)

Snapchat (Already has location allowed)

Waze (Already has location allowed)

PBS Kids (Already has location allowed)
My last two years of high school had 8 hours a day in class, one to two hours of homework a night (including the long term projects you mentioned), a 20 hour a week part time job, and three extra curricular activities that ate probably about 20 hours a week in meetings, fundraising, and practice.

So, all, told, I was working _80 hours a week, minimum_ in my high school years. I graduated top ten in my class, and my parents were astonished that I took two years off between high school and college going to a technical school eight hours a week with a 40 hour a week job. I had cut 32 hours of work a week out of my week, and I was only 19!

When I finally did go to college, the weeks during the semester were about twenty hours a week between classes, studying, projects, and tutoring and a twenty hour a week part time job. I can understand why you felt like college was a vacation because I felt the same way!

The downside to all of this is that I was very poorly socialized, compared to some of my peers, when I started college. Luckily, since I had a bunch of free time, it was easy to catch up, but the first semester was difficult for me navigating all of these unstructured, unsupervised socialization opportunities. A part of me regrets that because that stunted my ability to network from the start of college - I have no idea what opportunities I have missed out on and will miss out on in the future as a result.

Several people that graduated in that top ten with me who had the same 80 hour a week work week in high school could not handle the unstructured free time in college. Two dropped out of college but have none-the-less worked their way into lives that seem to make them happy, one got heavily into drugs and is still in jail, one committed suicide, and the rest graduated and seem to have kept on the track.
I played around with some Linux DAW stuff back in the day. That's awesome that you can achieve enough performance on an RPi these days.
Isn't it annoying/limiting to live in a "tourist town" or maybe that is just part of the year?
Their haul was mostly ghost nets and its hard to trace the origin of those. There are people on Oahu who have voluntarily taken custody of the nets to try and figure out what to do with them. H-power wants to use them as fuel. A very small amount are being turned into sculptures.

The rest are going off to other parts of the world. The reuse problem is still unsolved.
Getting smoother desktop experience on Raspberry Pi
This would certainly solve the problem where smart kids go to good but expensive schools, and then take on garbage consulting jobs so that they can pay off their loans.
It's his job.
Does the Netherlands have something like Congressional hearings? Could come out at something like that.
BeyondCorp would be an alternative to consider:

https://thenewstack.io/beyondcorp-google-ditched-virtual-pri...
That is exactly what I've been interested in, and the information I was looking for thanks.
Good news then: you don’t need an actual Raspberry Pi or to run “pihole” software in order to filter ads via DNS. Just a beige Linux box running dnsmasq is enough!
That’s not capitalism’s fault. It’s your own personal situation.
Could be, but we don't know yet.
How does it perform as a Minecraft server? Do you use any mods or just vanilla?
> The white suicide rate is ~2.5x higher than the black suicide rate, but there are ~5.75x more white people than black people in the US. Therefore, normalizing for population proportion, the black suicide rate is more than twice that of their white counterparts.

No, the population share has already been taken into account. You may have mistaken those numbers to be percentages of total suicides and then compared them to percentages of the population. They aren't, they are deaths by suicide per 100,000 people. You don't need to know anything about the sizes of the groups involved to compare those numbers, and the rate doesn't change. 100 suicides per million people is 10/100,000, just as 1000 per ten million or 10000 per one hundred million.
How are you using CockroachDB, and where does it shine or not?
Zabbix Proxy
https://youtu.be/i2b1DfscSqo
I have 3 running right now

1x Raspberry Pi model B (from 2012!) - runs a reverse proxy to things in my local network, and runs a dynamic DNS service. It's showing its age as its ARMv6 and I guess at some point updates won't be as frequent so will eventually have to retire it, but it works fine for now.

1x Pi model 3 - runs various services, inc. GOGS a private git server, ZNC, a service to control my TV, a service to control my 'smart plug' lamp through a private API, a private docker registry, a voicemail system connected to Twilio

1x Pi model 3 - running Pi-Hole and wireguard

I love all of them very dearly and looking forward to reading this thread!
It is, we just use batteries. Anyway I'm no expert of that, I just see batteries when I enter a BTS, but never checked if there was a separate power line or anything. I'm talking about one ISP in Spain though.
Hey, thanks for flagging. I will look into that. The number is definitely meant to be staffed at all times
Clojure's immutable data structures (lists, vectors, maps and sets) are actually not copy on write, they're based on red-black trees such that when you "mutate" the value, a new one is created that shares everything but the mutated part with the original.

Clojure is amazing and i can't recommend it enough. I wish more people looked past the unfamiliar syntax and understood why it exists and how it makes you achieve more with simpler code.
> That doesn’t sound like a small thing. “Nobody can read your private data, not even us” is a big selling point these days. Sounds like Australian companies can no longer do that, putting them at a disadvantage.

It is a big selling point. So is being accessible via any standards-compliant MUA, as opposed to e.g. Proton Mail and Tutanota. I'd love for there to be a secure email service with my privacy protected both by law and cryptography which also has me in full control of my data; until then it's a hard choice but I'd prefer to stay out of the walled garden. FWIW I'm not worried about Fastmail acting against my best interest.

> And let’s not forget there’s no such thing as “a backdoor for law enforcement”. A backdoor is a backdoor, and it will be exploited by malicious actors. And they’re mandatory? Black hats everywhere must be getting dehydrated from salivating so much.

I'm aware there's no such thing as a secure backdoor. Also to my knowledge the law doesn't mandate them, only access to the requested data. Said access could require manual action.

I don't agree with the law, but again the law does not change anything wrt Fastmail's obligations; anything the government might ask of them now, the government could have asked of them before.

It's a shit world requiring shit tradeoffs and Fastmail is one of few companies that are working towards keeping the internet open and (somewhat) decentralized. Their reward? The implication that they are somehow worse than any other non-e2e email service in any other country.
@dang - I'm sorry I'm unsure of how this @ mention banning process works. Please do review apaec approach before following their request for a ban.

For example

"I guess it can't be proved that this guy is a shill for AWS. But this kind of toxic fanatism(yet trying to sound logical) is just harmful for the HN community.

dang: Can this kind of behavior be punished?"

as an earlier comment around something to do with AWS. Why does someone "trying to sound logical" mean they are a "shill" or a "toxic fanatic"?

In this thread I'm called a "toxic fanatic" and there is a claim about my support for monopolies and my lack of desire for competition (all of which is totally untrue in actual fact) with no substance regarding the value (or not) of the privacy / confidentiality feature google introduced. I'm also threatened with a ban.
If all the information about us all ultimately percolates out into the environment and everyone who cares knows the size of your bowel movement this morning can we properly say we have improved privacy because they have 2 sources instead of 3 on your morning movement?
Eating disorders are slightly more common than they used to be - I think you're suffering from selection bias.
cronix for president!
Then: "<Insert activity> is really dangerous. Very few people have done it. It requires a lot of capital, and your health and life may be in danger"

Adventurers, explorers, inventors: "The risk is worth the reward. We must push the boundaries of human reach and understanding further"

Now: "<Same activity> is really dangerous. Very few people have done it. It requires a lot of capital, and your health and life may be in danger. But not because the activity itself is dangerous or novel anymore - that's been solved and perfected decades ago. No, because the only people that still do this activity are doing it for ego not for humanity, are overfunded, but underprepared, and the sheer volume of them doing the activity at the same time creates an environment more dangerous than it naturally needs to be."

Rich conceited assholes: "The risk is worth the reward. I'm going to get to drop in 'You know, this reminds me of the time I climbed Mount Everest' into every soiree, pitch meeting, and networking event I'll be at for the rest of my life."
In an actual democracy, they would be required to release it to the public, since they work for the public (and provide public services/infrastructure) and thus are accountable to the public.

Unfortunately, I don't know of any such actual democracy.
Yes, what you said. It's not a mistake. It's a... useful abstraction.

Unicode is complicated in some ways because the domain it is dealing with (representing all possible human written communication, basically) is complicated. Unicode is pretty ingenious. It pays to invest in learning about it, rather than assuming your "naive" conclusions are what it "should" do (and unicode's standard docs are pretty readable).

Unicode does offer an algorithm for segmenting text into "grapheme clusters", specifically "user-perceived characters." https://unicode.org/reports/tr29/

It's worth reading that document when deciding what you think the "right" thing to do with "len()" is.

The "user-perceived character segmentation" algorithm is complicated, it has a performance cost... and it's implemented in terms of the lower-level codepoint abstraction.

Dealing with codepoints is the right thing for most platforms to do, as the basic API. Codepoints are the basic API into unicode.

It's true that they ideally ought to also give you access to TR29 character segmentation. And most don't. Cause it's hard and confusing and nobody's done it I guess. It would be nice.

If you want to know "well, howe come codepoints are the basic unicode abstraction/API? Why couldn't user-perceived characters be?" Then start reading other unicode docs too, and eventually you'll understand how we got here. (For starters, a "user-perceived character" can actually be locale-dependent, what's two characters in one language may be one in another).
They're bulky because there is no demand for smaller devices.
How is the search for fastmail? Does it sync contacts/appts with android/ios?
For a long time Pandora was much better written than Spotify. Pandora was stable and performant and Spotify always slowed down my phone and would crash it consistently sometimes in way that required a phone restart.

Spotify won because they had a large selection of music which was more important than the occasional frustrations.