skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
We could start by shunning AWS content when their $200k+ salaried employees are posting their latest announcements on HN while their unsalaried, not-employed coworkers in the warehouses are sprinting to and from a piss break trying not to be fired.
I wonder what the true market equilibrium between ticket price and not dying would be if the FAA let people find their own balance. If a life is valued at $2,000,000 then people would accept a one in a million chance of dying for $2 off their ticket.
The "deception" part is crucial. If I call water dihydrogen monoxide, is it deception? 737-8200 is and has for years been another name for that craft.
Sure i am, i just keep the 9x for myself :-P
>Once there's another option, Reddit is going to rather quickly become a ghost town.

One can hope, but if Reddit really is taking their lessons from FB then they'll buy up the nascent competition and strangle the market.
Classic race to the bottom.
But if things have been getting better for 200 years non-stop, then that supports my point (life is the easiest it's ever been, even if it's still difficult).
I agree with this. Most searches give me almost a whole page of ads and stuff up top before the things I’m interested in start showing up way down at the bottom of the page, and even then the results are often spam.

I’ve been using DuckDuckGo and have found I have this problem less. I don’t always find what I mean on DDG, as of now I’d say Google is still better if you’re not sure exactly what you’re looking for is called, but if you know the keywords you need DDG is often better.
This is clearly meant to be more of a statement than a practical means. And yes, to effect change, advocacy surely must be much more effective.
Assuming they're talking about the 2014 outage at Halley Research Station:

> Halley lost power on 30 July after the station’s generators overheated and shut down after a large coolant leak from the main arterial pipe in the station’s heating system.

https://www.chemistryworld.com/news/research-on-ice-at-briti...

I cannot find any other Antarctic outages.
Why not though? Exploring, customizing and extending your operating system should be part of the learning experience. We're on Hacker News, right?

I agree that you need to forbid certain websites and add some content filtering on the network. But there surely are kids able to circumvent those restrictions and most kids get in touch with 'dirty' content anyway. They better learn how to use the internet in a responsible way. Preventing them from hacking around and giving them a consume-only environment is worse I think.
Indeed, there is nothing inherently wrong with AWS.

On the broader topic, what's wrong with people spending money on things they want? We live in a free country. If you have money, and want to buy junk with it, more power to you. It's your money. Do whatever you want with it. As far as vices are concerned, I would rather someone derived satisfaction from binge shopping than the alternatives (gambling, alcoholism, drugs, etc. etc.), since those have far more deleterious effects on society.
That’s not what I meant. Of course it’s better, but not as much of a necessity when you live in a city.
The real key is advancement in metallurgy and engine technology made a lightweight engine feasible. The correct formula might have taken a couple years off the time frame, but no more.

As always you see farther than others by standing on the shoulders of giants.
I've toyed with the idea of setting up a no-FAANG VPN that implements these restrictions based on the ip networks advertised by the relevant ASNs. This would provide more complete coverage, and be useful as a testing tool, allowing you to verify that your own web properties still function without assets being loaded from a global active adversary.
It's not the 'raw' search itself. It's the billions (trillions) of queries they've captured: Person X searches for query Y and clicks on result Z.

This is far more valuable than the general page rank algorithms that were initially developed and have already been duplicated many times in academia and business.
Of course "malware" is maybe a bad word for it, because it contains "mal" (i.e. "bad"), which is contrary to the (hopefully) beneficial effects of CRISPR. But the fact remains that CRISPR is using an exploit to hack the "Code" I mentioned above, with potentially dangerous results, and if you think about it in these terms, "malware" doesn't seem so far-fetched anymore...
I lean pretty far left, but this proposal makes me really uneasy. It seems very coercive and ham-fisted. I think instead, Bing should consider opening its index up. It'd be a massive PR coup, they wouldn't lose anything of much value, and anyone who put the index to better use than them would help them by breaking Google's stranglehold over search.
This tutorial's of limited use to 30% of users, who have IPv6.
Related previous discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20433311
Who Let the Dogs Out? Ask Megvii’s Nose Print Recognition System
If Palantir is contracted to provide services, then the data they collect and the way they use it internally is almost certainly beyond the reach of a FOIA request. Then again, this sort of plausible deniability Big Brother crap is nothing new to governments at all levels. Steve Rambam has been mentioning for years that the three-letter-agencies used to GIVE mountains of data to companies like InfoUSA and tell them to cross reference it with everything they had... and sell them answers to queries. Why outsource it all? Because FOIA cannot be used to answer the question "How did you arrive at your investigative solutions."

Perhaps it should be law that if you cannot find such answers by FOIA then the information shouldn't be admissible in court.
My graduation project was to port a the particle visualisation framework of my supervisor from Objective-C/Renderman into Visual C++/Window/OpenGL, because he saw no future in it, little did he know what would happen 10 years later.
Certainly what environment you have should be a sort of organic / self developed / self serving kinda system. Make it your own.

I do think when folks talk about little perks and the environment they're not talking about how having the right kind of cake, or three kinds of cake vs two kinds of cake available (just a generic example) is important. What they are really saying is "I see this company has put some resources into making this environment better, and that reflects their values and makes ME feel valued." Heck even if you don't eat the cake it is a sign.

It's akin to the story (I can't find it) where a company stopped providing free soda (or maybe they stopped subsidizing the price, I forget). The engineers were very upset, but it was just soda and god knows they could afford it.... but really it wasn't soda, the fact that management thought it was worth their time to pull resources from soda of all things was a very worrisome sign that indicated the company's values and possibly their future. Soda was the canary in the coal mine.
The egregious wastefulness of USPS junk mail is annoying and obvious, but at least it is visible to the average consumer. The wastefulness of online advertising is more insidious, because the average consumer does not see that their router is dutifully transmitting megabytes of tracking code, to be interpreted by their computer, to be filtered by ad block or (obnoxiously) shown to them. Just browsing your local newspaper site is similar in terms of wastefulness to recieving a handful of junk mailers.
Its weird how it's socially acceptable to admit you're reliant upon this specific drug to get work done. But any others and it's bad.
For a multi-national operating entity, local customisation and even their entire website is often delegated to the local, legal entity itself.

So, while some of this might be intentionally done, like you suggest, because of metrics, I suspect in most cases, the local development unit built their own product page, because they had to.
Wow, that's shocking!

I have a CS degree from a non-ivy but well known private engineering school in the Cambridge / Boston area. CS students obv seem to have no issues, but I was always curious what kind of work / salary "business" or "finance" degrees would fetch. It's hard to place my position on the subject since I know a number of talented and intelligent non-engineering majors with the above qualifications, but an order or magnitude more complete idiots who partied their way through college and think their $40 haircut is more of a bargaining tool than actual skills.
> Google is not preventing other companies from indexing the internet in any way

AT&T wasn't blocking anyone from laying interstate copper. It's just prohibitively expensive to do so. The analogy, down to the network effects, is quite apt.
That's not how it would go in Canada. Doctors can refer you to whomever they see fit, no approvals and the only oversight is the general process to maintain their medical license.

The ER doc would refer you to an orthopedic surgeon. You might spend some time in a boot waiting for a surgery slot since your injury isn't life threatening, but you would get surgery.
Certainly don't be a jerk to your office manager about it but every perk is compensation. Why shouldn't you take it seriously?
Apple might have chosen cheeper SSDs to lower prices - which in principle think is a good idea on the entry level laptop, even cheap SSDs are plenty fast - why are they still charging insane prices for their SSD upgrades? Current market prices for SSD are between 150 and 300€/tb. For SSD upgrades in the MB Air, Apple is charging 240€ for each upgrade step. That means prices between 1920€/tb (128->256g) and 480€/tb (512g->1t). Even the price for the last step would consider an extremely healthy margin, but what about the other steps? And let's not talk about the 240€ for the 8g memory upgrade.
I find the initiative interesting, at least to realise how much of our daily browsing is hosted on AWS. I will give a go for sure!
Hi, just to clarify: is the problem being addressed here specifically that people (the 'censors') are blocking access to the Tor network itself? A friend and I disagree on what "censored users" means in this context.
> In data centers, loading data from networked server, where it's in memory, can be used over loading data from a disk, because disk is comparatively slow.

RDMA has no relevance to this discussion.

> A web app can load JavaScript assembler, which isn't much slower than a desktop app written in C.

This is incredibly wrong. An Electron app goes through many stages before code is executing with acceptable performance:

1. A full web browser loads.

2. JavaScript is loaded and parsed.

3. JavaScript runs interpreted, which is very slow. It is only here that the "application" starts.

4. After a while, the JIT may decide to compile some code. This is very resource intensive.

5. After compilation, you finally have some parts that have decent performance. However...

6. Gaurds fail (i.e. bad assumptions), and the code is deoptimized, running at slow speed again. JIT compilations may be tried again later with new assumptions, and if you're lucky, they might hold.

At #5, you have code that is as fast as it gets. It is nowhere near as fast as native code (any benchmarks you think of are synthetic and designed to show JavaScript as fast—it doesn't take a lot to shake out the issues).

For a native application, however, the process looks like this:

1. The application starts, and it runs.

Done. There is no parsing, interpreting, optimization. This single step is orders of magnitude faster than just #1 of the life of an Electron app.

> Bigger - and slower - parts of the web app can be loaded after the app starts interacting. So - at least in principle - no sizeable speed difference, which would blow somebody away.

We are talking a speed difference in orders of magnitude here. An electron application is not even done preparing Electron before a good native application is done loading.

And it's all fine and dandy that you can load heavy things later, but for a good native application has nothing to load later. It's done.

A fun comparison:

1. Slack cold-start on my machine: ~3 seconds before anything shows up, ~5 seconds until a main window with a loading indicator is visible, ~10 seconds till fully loaded and usable.

2. Telegram-desktop cold start on my machine: ~1 second till fully loaded and usable.

And telegram-desktop is a very slow native application! A speedy application starts in 250ms or less, and never waits after that.

> Advantage of web app is cross platform uniformity.

And the disadvantage is that they are are huge, resource intensive and pathetically slow.

We have very functional cross-platform toolkits, like Qt that telegram is based on.
How does working for free prove your value? It proves that you work for free, so you value your work at $0. If anything you could work on a contract basis at an hourly or daily rate on a short project and at the end of that period they could choose to hire or not.
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"When I take a picture on camera, I sometimes realize that a person looking at the picture will probably imagine something much better than reality."

I'm a parent and I think you raise a good point but I think most parents see right through that. :)

Most photos and even YouTube videos are completely fake and doctored. The filters amplify this even more. Although my pics with my children were not filled with happiness the entire time, they are the happiest and proudest moments of my life (some of them, not all).

I've played the entrepreneurial game for a long time. I found success and won awards along the way. The time spent with my children is more important than all of that. It's a fine balance though. Nobody wants to be a loser, so we're forced to work harder than the next guy/girl.
Is there an alternative to conditional jump instructions? What would a such a computer look like? Maybe such a computer exists, but it's hard for us to see it, because we've been drawn into thinking along Von Neumann machine lines.
This is one of those things that's so stupid and useless we'd be better off paying everyone concerned—the marketers, the artists, the copywriters, the postal workers, everyone—to do nothing, since the result of their work is actually harmful. These sorts of problems are just the worst. Probably right about the postal workers' union fighting it.
Recent Planet Money podcasts on how recycling got started in the US, and whether it's 'worth it' to recycle.

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/09/739893511/episode-925-a-mob-b...

https://www.npr.org/2019/07/12/741283641/episode-926-so-shou...
Hard No. Don’t be a fool. Just spend some time and invest in doing leetcode for that month or 2 and you’ll be better off than working for that cheap ass startup
That actually is a great idea.
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Apple is an ally in name only on tightening privacy laws
> Even if they do, 99.999% of the population will never even know to do this because they've probably never heard of this company (I didn't until today).

Not only that, now you know about it and you opt out, but that doesn't get your data back from every place they sold it to the week before you found out about it.
I've found I need structure and accountability, which is annoying since usually that means you're spending money (i.e. a personal trainer, a paid class/bootcamp instead of googling).

A really interesting startup idea would be to figure out how to scale accountability in a way that, psychologically, would be similar to a coach/teacher/mentor but at a fraction of the cost.
I'd probably agree, depending on how this all resolves once they're in service. That said, it's an individual by individual decision. If my friend is afraid of heights, which I consider irrational, and I lie to them to get them somewhere high, taking that choice from them, I'm still being a huge asshole.
Do you need a windows os to send a signal to the satalites?

No.

But for some reason the op implied windows was to blame without evidence.

I mentioned the implausibly of it.

Op is misleading people.
Imagine if Rocketdyne had collaborated with aerospace companies in the USSR. I don’t think it would have been tolerated.

That said, China isn’t the USSR or the PRC of old, but it’s also not the UK or France either. So there is good reason for questions and skepticism.
For Chromecast, you do.

> Which Chromecast devices are compatible with Stadia?

> For launch in November, only the Google Chromecast Ultra will be compatible with Stadia, and you will also need a Stadia Controller and access to Stadia to play with Chromecast. Access to Stadia in November is only available through the Founder's Edition or through a Stadia Buddy Pass. Stay tuned for future announcements regarding additional device compatibility.

https://support.google.com/stadia/answer/9338946?hl=en
question- if you are a pilot, and you fly 737s do you think that you are now unaware of the differences? Do you think that given that awareness you may be apt to want to learn about those differences, even if not for curiosities sake, but so that you don't wind up fighting a plane and losing? Now dont mistake this as sympathy or support for the management of Boeing. I think they need to pay fines/spend time in jail/have their ability to lead a corporation revoked. This was gross mismanagement, and they deserve civil and criminal charges for it.

However, it sounds to me like if you know about how the new 737 behaves, and you are aware of/trained on the procedure to fix an incident similar to what happened in the 2 crashes then you are likely to recover without any issue. On the flipside, I used to love to fly SWA because they had only 737s and all their planes were more or less the same and maintenance would be standard across all planes and therefore something that is repeatable and more likely to be mastered by the technicians. Parts would be easily available for their fleet. The pilots know the flight envelope. Sounds to me like one of southwest's biggest selling points is about to go out the window for me, even if this is a laymans perception that is completely wrong. It still seems like they have fragmented their fleet.
That's cynic, not skeptic. If Google kept duck.com you would say they were protecting their monopoly. When your model of blameworthiness says that every possible choice is wrong, your model is wrong.
Not really, gentle stroll from the top maybe.
NO. NEVER work for free. You demonstrate you don't value yourself. Do a take home test(max a few hours) but no free trials. Let alone a month. You probably don't want to work in place that even would consider doing that, it really shows that they would value some money way more than your worth as a person.
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> Before you go and start casting aspersions at Apple, the move makes a lot of sense. It'd be one thing if it did this and raised the price, but it actually lowered the price by $100, and the education discount brings it down to $999, making it the most affordable modern MacBook laptop ever (the outdated MacBook Air does not count).

Which is fine for the entry-level model. Is it true for the more expensive model? The article doesn't say.

> With that as the background, Apple was bound to make a sacrifice or two to reached the aggressive price point and it did so with the SSD. Most people will take that over it removing something like Touch ID or another feature they'd use on a daily basis. It's also worth pointing out that given it is an entry-level point product, most users who pick up the new notebook likely won't notice the difference at all.

I'm not sure that most people would, given the choice, have gone that route. There are plenty of Apple features (including Touch ID) that Apple thinks people want, but I'm not convinced that most people definitely want them. The last sentence is the only one that counts: most people won't notice.
I think military application of any technology is unsafe, at least for someone.
electrical engineer or power station operator
Yes, it enabled them to not only fail fast, but to fail and live to tell the tale! Much talent and knowledge was lost in the people that died trying to fly before them.

It's also amazing to read about the many pilots who died trying to cross the Atlantic before Charles Lindbergh did it. The journey nearly cost him his life as well, and it took some time before such flights were safe enough to routinely attempt.

Early aviators had some serious guts.
Making google's index public may not be as simple as sharing a file.

We don't exactly know how google indexes or ranks pages. It might be a completely different way of looking at indexing, it might be optimized for google's use cases such that we don't even have the software or the hardware to instantiate and search through it.
I wonder if there’s improved life expectancy of slower SSDs? (Serious question, not Apple fanboying here, any change in life expectancy is presumably incidental to reduction in price point)
I was born in Indonesia. In here most (if not all) of middle class in big cities have live in servants. The servants came from rural areas of the country where opportunity to work is low. Some of their families in rural areas might have a small land, but still not enough to be used as a farm.

There are some horror stories on masters abusing their servants, but my family treated our live in servants well though we are not by any means rich. Most of the work for the servants are light such as cooking, washing clothes, watering plants, helping moms taking care of the babies, etc, and they can do whatever they want, watch TV in their own room or in our lounge, etc.

Inequality? Sure. That is one thing that I can't fix. But one thing for sure that I know. Most of our servants like working with us, and actually do not want to choose other jobs or work for other families despite higher pay. Average tenure of our servants were about 4 - 5 years. Our longest servant has been with us before before I was born (I am 32).
I don't think that's an accurate summary of the connection. Semptian's website says they are working with IBM, and the OpenPower Foundation says they are as well. There isn't even 1 degree of separation between IBM and Semptian.
As someone who worked in support and recently moved into the dev world. I both get why folks get concerned about all the perks, it can be a sort of canary in the coal mine signal about values and financials when you see things vanish, even if minor things.

At the same time I worked in a support department where getting one lunch of garbage quality pizza every quarter was seen as "too expensive", so they cut that.... so I also chuckle at other developers when they complain about their mountain of perks.

I think many really don't realize that most people don't get, squat outside of a place to go work.
EU also has a Government DPR, very much like General DPR.
The encrypted channel just involves knowing a secret "key". This is in principle viable for high value military work, and you're right that Galileo has reserved such a channel.

In practice the Americans learned that COTS dominates for electronics. You can buy 100 of the special military product with the secret key, delivery in 18 months or for the same price you can have 5000 of the generic civilian product, 10 days lead time.

So these secret extra channels are of dubious value. But they're cheap to implement so they remain something new GPS style systems have.

In theory keeping the key secret defends against a sophisticated adversary spoofing your signal. But there's an obvious trade, if you only make ten units you can probably ensure the adversary doesn't capture one, but it's not very useful. If you make a million units that's initially more useful but your adversary will definitely get the key.