skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Interesting, Apple could do some interesting things with this. The qualcomm situation has resulted in a lot of stagnation in our industry. Companies like Apple are forced to work with them. But given their track record as being aggressive on the IP front (both sides), they have to spend a lot of effort engineering around this stuff. Companies like Intel, Qualcomm, Nokia own a lot of these patents and Apple has been paying them off for as long as the iPhone has been around.

To this day there's not a single Apple laptop that ships with built in 4G modems even though that would make sense from a functional point of view. I suspect the reason is not technical but related to IP and pushback from other players in the ecosystem (e.g. operators). As soon as you add 4G/5G to the mix, there are suddenly a lot of sneaky patents that come into play.

At least you can't tell me that nobody in Apple pondered the question "hmm I wonder which of our Mac Book Air customers would not like to be connected anywhere on this planet". The reason this is not a feature is that it would add a lot of cost related to patents and IP licensing. This deal might fix that partially. Software sims have been similarly difficult for the same reasons and another thing Apple has been pushing on lately.

Apple doing this stuff in house means they can push harder on this front.
Forgive me if I am wrong but it does look like the stuff Intel would be good at.
Largest data leak of the work of Russian special services on the Internet
short video explanation on said china map topic:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L9Di-UVC-_4
Intertemporal decision making is really challenging. Future outcomes are undervalued relative to immediate ones. Further, we look to the future with rose-colored glasses that let us see a possible, yet unlikely future that we half-heartedly commit to today, without considering the reality that circumstances and motivations evolve over time and will influence future events from ever happening.

See the book,"The Economics of Self-Destructive Choices":
https://www.amazon.com/Economics-Self-Destructive-Advances-J...

Research keywords: "intertemporal discounting"
My thought exactly. Lisp is probably okay (if not even one of the better choices) to get the general message transferred, though.
The linking stage automatically removes all parts of Linux (eg. drivers) that are not needed. We can also apply various link-time and whole process profile-guided optimizations. Apparently most of the performance improvement comes from getting rid of system call overhead although we still have a student measuring these things more precisely.
I don't care about the proper socialization of some random kid on a plane. That is not my job. That is a parent's job. As others have indicated, parents probably have a better understanding of the kid's special problems than I do. The point is not that we're going to solve this problem, of kids being unruly and parents saving their efforts for other priorities. If I didn't pay for first class, I can tolerate a couple hours of annoyance.

The point was a far smaller one, that writing off poor public behavior as "well, autism is increasingly common now" is a pathetic cop-out, which does no favors for those who are actually autistic.
I will be honest and just say this: As a Linux guy who has negligible familiarity with the Windows Server technology, this post doesn't make much sense to me.

What is the Linux equivalent of this operation? apt-get dist-upgrade? Now that Windows 10 onward is rolling release (is it?) is this the last time SE staff is going to have to go through this?

This caught my attention:

> Putting the 2019 server into the existing 2012 cluster – as expected, this fails due to the operating systems being different.

How can a website be this tightly coupled with the operating system it's running on? Shouldn't Microsoft be blamed that their operating systems are not backwards-compatible? To my knowledge, Microsoft goes to extreme lengths to assure backwards-compatibility of the userland apps. What went wrong here?
Also a good way to damage your eye sight given the low refresh rate.

One thing I don't miss from CRT monitors from the 90s.
Interesting fragment:

> Moreover, we found that new accounts required approval from a second account that must have existed for over six months, be in good standing, and have not already approved any other accounts in the past month. Because of these requirements, we found that creating new WeChat accounts was prohibitively difficult.

I've noticed WeChat tightening up their accounts as well over the past months. I have been "lucky" to have created an account years ago, with a wallet still working as well (as a non-Chinese, that is) without having to link a Chinese bank account/card. Friends of mine who visited recently were no longer able to do so for their account.
Text-based formats are the best for repairability but not so efficient for structuring, querying and storing information. It’s a tradeoff, as always!
With leather I've found that price doesn't always match quality. I dance tango and am from Argentina and the cheapest leather shoes I could find, which were exquisitely crafted in my local neighbourhood were only about 200 pesos (at the time, roughly 20 USD), made of leather, still perfectly usable 5 years later. If you went to the "speciality" stores downtown you would see shoes at 10 times the price and noticeably worse quality.

(I say this because I used to side eye any cheap leather items, but I've found that depending where you're buying and who you're buying it from it can be an absolute bargain)
In case you want to sign-up and cannot get the client side validation to accept your password: they apply email validation to the passwords. You'll have to make up a password that's also a valid email address. In other words, something like: aBqwdHkjh@oqwIrd.com
To be fair that's not exactly what the paper says. It says that unikernels have demonstrated "enormous" advantages (a bit of an exaggeration), but they are not widely used right now and no one is claiming that.
This is cool - but unfortunately no C#

Can anyone recommend c# talks?
It's game over for them, until hardware offers mechanisms to close these side channels.
Nice one, thanks for this.
You can do that same XRay crystallography on the same substances on earth. Going to space is pure cost benefit analysis for growing crystals, not some exclusive experiment you can only do in space.

That said, when you get a massive subsidy by NASA, these costs are less obvious.
Common Lisp Style Guide
I understand perfectly what you mean. Contrary to other comments, I think that this can be ok, you should spend the majority of your time with folks that you find interesting. Not easy, and indeed I'm working on something to make this simpler. Feel free to reach me for a chat. My Linkedin: https://www.linkedin.com/in/lorenzo-pieri-a638b9a6/
If you have people experienced in managing Windows, but not Linux, then it's less work to manage Windows servers.
I think there's a middle ground. I bought 110€ winter shoes 11-12 years ago and they've worked fine (with one resoling) this far -- now I've worn through the inner material and will probably have to find a new pair.

Same for my 100€ winter jacket, sits and looks great still after 10 years. It's def not lovingly handcrafted but a level up from fast fashion anyway.
How does a low refresh rate damage eyes? Got a link? Legit question, not looking for an argument.
Some of the music-related talks in the 'Miscellaneous' section I've seen before (I don't think I've seen all of them though!) and they're fantastic. Highly recommended!
Boris Johnson elected new Tory leader
You got it backwards. The linked article says that the Zebra Sarasa is a “Pilot-style G2” refill, not “Parker-style”.
This is a pretty common misconception. I have yet to see a bit of perfect abstraction that has been written before the problem occured.
I did not see any author names there that I recognized.

I would imagine most people in academia know that most papers published are published "just to publish" to help one's academic career, mostly by MSc and PhD students. They are essentially "write-only" papers. Everyone has to start somewhere.

Now, if we saw something like this out of DeepMind or OpenAI or in Nature, that would be worrying.
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New UK prime minister: Boris Johnson winner of Tory leadership contest
What is "AI" has never been very strictly defined. ELIZA is also considered an AI, just an extremely primitive one.
It sure is trendy to knock OOP. This is at least a pretty measured commentary that doesn't condemn it altogether.

A lot of the current criticism of OOP targets aspects of the discipline that I don't think experienced programmers tend to use much anyway, like inheritance. I am just never compelled to create massive hierarchies, or even significant hierarchies.

Currently I'm even moving away from "encapsulation," finding the mindless creation of getter & setter methods to be wasteful academic tedium.
NDC Confernece has some awesome ones.
> Cause it is more work to manage windows servers than it is to manage Linux servers.

This isn't true. I managed and supported a fleet of Windows and Linux servers for a web hosting company for 14 years. Both OS's have their time sinks and gravity wells of failure.
No C#!?
I have a bunch of computer CRT monitors and the only way to get bad refresh rate that you actually notice is to set them at 60Hz. At 70Hz or above (most can do 85Hz, any good CRT monitor should be able to go above that) you wont have any issues.

Also while this can cause eye fatigue (which depends from person to person), i could never find any proof (and i just did a quick search) that there is any sort of permanent eye damage.
Spotify Labs: Right to left: The mirror world
Doesn't flap the wings though...
> when people still had an expectation of privacy.

What expectation of privacy do you have during a public, filmed, speech?
> The linking stage automatically removes all parts of Linux (eg. drivers) that are not needed.

So does the normal kernel build process once you've specified which drivers you need compiled in. That's in no way unique to a unikernel approach. There'll be extremely little code that can be stripped from a unikernel that can not be stripped from a kernel built for the purpose of running a specific application.

It's just not where the benefits of a unikernel are. As I said, and you reiterated, it's really cutting latency from syscalls that is the big benefit of a unikernel.
I don't think it works that way. Plants generally also need oxygen, if only at night or relatively little. So we're basically up to Oxygen and CO2, and Nitrogen might not be entirely avoidable either depending on how the plants are supposed to get their Nitrogen. Water vapor will also be necessary or unavoidable...

The pressure needs to be high enough to prevent boiling and less dramatic effects on water or similar matter. There's a reason nothing grows above a certain altitude.

That's why I asked about a usable atmosphere...

And anyone living on Mars would probably have acclimated to a certain atmospheric pressure. Maybe it is beneficial for them to be "altitude adapted" or maybe it's not (oxygen capacity vs risk of embolisms).
>a FOSS technology stack should be the default, and using the proprietary and expensive one must be justified

You're ignoring overall Total Cost of Ownership (TCO). Licenses are a drop in the ocean compared to the cost of long term ongoing management of your platform(s).
Also, schema updates are quite hopeless with sqlite. One cannot even rename a column last time I checked.
It became faster (not sure about double though) but i still remember losing MAFF, DownThemAll and a bunch of other addons. More importantly it is the functionality that was lost for new addons to be made that could provide features not thought by anyone before.
PAL Amiga monitors were the worst with their 50Hz refresh.
I'm somewhat surprised my eyes didn't suffer more.
That's interesting. My first thought was it's probably another of those things that IKEA sells everywhere except Australia - but happily the LADDAs are available here.

Though with one small caveat - the white LADDAs evidently come out of the same Japan factory that makes almost all the other good eneloops, but the brown LADDAs are known to come out of PRC, and don't exhibit the same quality.
Yes of course rocketry is complicated. ITT we're discussing the specific question that parent raised: are a bunch of small-payload rockets more efficient than on big-payload rocket? We assume that actual engineers have done the work of designing rockets that actually reach orbit, whether small or large; that's why we assume equal velocities. Any particular orbit is characterized by a specific orbital energy. Tsiolkovsky certainly considers the effects of gravity; that's the point.
The "synergy" stuff is so true! I talked with a colleague who interned at Intel doing HDL development for networking. Guess what - when Intel acquired Altera they asked each division to evaluate using FPGAs in their products.
Windows 10 was designed for desktops, not as a server software. Windows Server 2003/2008/2012/2014/2019 etc is for servers and they don't subscribe to Windows 10 rolling release. They have their release and support cycles. People rarely upgrade.

I have upgraded a website from Windows 2003, to Windows 2008, to Windows 2012 and now it is running on Windows 2019. I jumped 2014 and 2016 because upgrades weren't necessary for my needs. Each time, I only spent 1 hour maximum to migrate the system. I am not even a server guy.
As others pointed out, there are other modem manufactures. The interesting bit is whether or not Apple would allow other manufacturers to buy their modems.

I don't think it makes a ton of sense for Apple to resell their A-series CPUs, but 4G modems is a little different, they're more generic. If they manage to make good modems why wouldn't they sell them to others? The people buying iPhones won't switch to an Android device, just because it's the same modem.
I still use a CRT. Works great, no fuss. Its just heavy to move, which I don't do often. People comment on how rich the colors are. 85hz refresh solves the 'flicker' issue.
Theres really no great need in 4g for macbooks? I mean you can activate your wifis hotspot with handoff directly from your macbook without ever touching your iphone.
Around a dozen servers at https://stackexchange.com/performance . Around $1k for Windows per machine, around $5k per SQL * 4 servers.

All in all, well under $50k in licensing costs. Basically a rounding error, if you compare to something like AWS billing for a website of the same scale.
I always worry about what those jarringly bright LED brake lights with a low refresh rate (the ones that leave highly distracting dotted red trails across your field of vision when you move your eyes) are doing to my eyes and everyone else's.
That's not how most distro kernels are built, but sure you can build a custom kernel with everything statically linked in. What you can't do is link your application in as well and do whole-program optimizations on the whole binary, which is what Ali is trying to do here. We're also hoping that the eventual solution will be distro friendly enough that we can pack the "kernel library" into a future Fedora which you can use to link your own servers into unikernels.
Engineering drawings of that era where works of art - carefully coloured and shaded.
Did you have a reason to not use PDFium directly?
> Docker is more and more becoming an API that sits on top of a bunch of other services.

Which is a good thing. With Cloud Foundry we moved from using a pre-Docker container engine to using runc as soon as it was available; containerd is the next move.

> Even so, "docker requires too many privileges" is marketing speak.

I don't agree. The API surface still exists and includes too many disparate purposes. The modularisation of Docker is improving that risk profile, but it still exists. Fully segregating the API and the modules is worthy.
Alpine Linux is a reasonably small (20mb) Linux distribution, I've seen it run on bare metal but it's more common to see it in Docker environments.

Building minimal bootable to be very small is possible, but is difficult in comparison to an apt install - I imagine for the most part porting docker container configs to a bootable OS might be the best approach for small-medium projects.
Wow very nice summary of the main ideas of the book, I totally agree, this book is worth reading...

I was reading reading "the making of a manager" by Julie Zhuo earlier this month (which b.t.w. I personally think is a very good book), in her book she mentioned the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" by Dale Carnegie (at first I was a bit scared by the title, to me it sounded like a mind control bullshit boot, but it's actually very interesting, I can't definitely recommend it, because I'm only on page 50 or so). But I think the book "How to Win Friends and Influence People" is a good source to learn or just get remembered about the things you mention in your question, like "dealing with your own emotions" or "improving the quality of the communication with your coworkers / team".
At about the age of 14 I somehow came into ownership of 5" black and white TV. I wasn't allowed to have a TV in my bedroom, but this thing probably looked useless to my parents so they didn't say anything.

Little did they know, while they were at work, I went up into the attic and ran a coaxial cable from a splitter down into my room and into the back of the VCR, all neatly tucked behind my desk. I spliced an old mono 1/8 jack onto an RCA component for the video (ext.ant to VCR) and did a similar splicing for the audio, but I had to run it through an old 8 track player to amplify the audio. It may be obvious that I collected a lot of old junk and cables (I still do).

I did this all so I could primarily watch Conan O'Brien... which was available on channel 4 anyway (accessible via antenna) but I just wanted to watch the show in the highest definition possible.

Having my first kid soon, I'm curious if he'll be as determined to work around the rules.
Can anyone here recommend some high-quality men's clothing stores in Australia?
OK yeah, I'm not sure what I was thinking when I wrote about cabling.

I agree that clock recovery and PLL filtering can take care of jitter.
In the US. Over here daycare is paid by taxes, free for everyone regardless of income or employment status, and in the city you'll likely have the daycare within a couple of blocks so no extra car needed either. Yes you'll get a cold more often thanks to all the germs, but sick days don't eat to your salary or holidays (also sick time on holidays gets reimbursed!) so no monetary loss.

You'll miss out on a lot of the time with your kid, but on the other hand they get to socialize a lot more from a very young age already. Some parents also burn out at home after a while, but that of course depends on the person.

I realize this went quite offtopic, sorry about that.
Yep, been there, done that.

Just knocking up a VGA to composite circuit similar to the one linked below (AD724 chip) to put my laptop onto a 21" Philips colour TV from the 1990s:

https://electronics.stackexchange.com/questions/403637/vga-t...
I never used Chrome as a main browser (though i do use it sometimes for its automatic translation).

Performance is ok but it isn't my main concern, i'm also concerned about features (after all lynx is faster than both of those browsers, yet it lacks a bit on the features side).

In any case, this isn't a hill i care to die on. I just do not see much of a difference between the two browsers anymore in terms of what they can do. I used to like Mozilla for its features (in fact i was really annoyed that they switched their focus to Firefox back in the day and left what they renamed to "Mozilla Suite" to die) and Firefox later for its (remaining) features. Funny enough now that i think about it, the reason was also "performance" back then and again i didn't care about it but i did care about the features lost.

I guess they kept on the same path and eventually Firefox will be a chromeless, featureless HTML terminal - not very useful as a browser, but it'll be the fastest HTML terminal :-P.
Lancaster University Students’ data stolen in phishing attack
Oyo founder buys back $2b of stock from investors
Previous coverage on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20477210
> I'm just tired of all the fucking drama.

I wasn't aware there was any, my perspective comes from working from a different end (dockerless builds).

I know what it can be like to work in communities fraught with vendor politics and other troublesome dynamics and have come close to burning out a few times.

It always feels too important to walk away from, even temporarily, but I promise, it's not true. Your own health is important.
How One Guy Sold the World on an $80 Used Tissue
The LED Traffic Light and the Danger of “But Sometimes” [video]
This looks promising. Great job! It would be great if Deno and Osgood joined forces and something remarkable came out of it.
The hardest part is to get power management right. Anyone can build a modem that "works", but nobody other than Qualcomm, (and I really mean that), has gotten power management right.

What I mean is that even today, if you buy a 4G enabled phone not powered by Qualcomm, your battery will drain in a few hours and you'll be left with a dead brick for the rest of the day.

Source: I spent years building 3G and 4G PHY chips at various QC competitors that have all since folded up or have been bought and merged into other teams.
I Took Apple To Court And Won, Twice
So both have time sinks... how does that permis effect my statement?
I said one is worse. You say both suck time, which is obviously true, work takes time.

You can disagree with me ok, but if you want to convince me that I am wrong it would be nice with substantiated material.
Something like CRLS? That is fairly implementable pseudocode, but maybe still too hand wavey at times.
That‘s an environmentalism article luring you in with how single player games have developed in the last 10 years. Nothing against environmentalism but I was hoping to read more about how actual game development will change and not the same topics that every other technology company faces equally due to climate change and the resulting policies to mitigate it.
The performance of PHP was a joke when Stack Overflow started. It has gotten way better since, but back then it was reading, parsing and compiling every single script your page loaded, for every single page load. You could hack around this with an accelerator module like APC or Zend, but why bother learning how to code around PHPs limitations, when you're already fluent in C# that's plenty fast without any hacking.

Not sure how the story goes for Rails, but Python (Django) used to be a pig when SO was started over a decade ago, for similar reasons as PHP.
Isn't that pretty much what CLRS is for?
Particularly when the "solution" to parens always seems to be significant whitespace, which is disliked by many as much as parens are by others. Both are just conventions that people get used to. I didn't care for significant whitespace when I first learned Python, but eventually I stopped seeing the problem, just as I stopped seeing the issue with parens in Lisps.
Not necessarily lasting physical damage, but flickering CRTs, or for that matter flickering fluorescent or LED lights can cause headaches, nausea, ...

I've certainly noticed it myself, using 75 Hz CRTs made me feel tired after a few hours, unlike 85 Hz.

> In 1989, my colleagues and I compared fluorescent lighting that flickered 100 times a second with lights that appeared the same but didn’t flicker. We found that office workers were half as likely on average to experience headaches under the non-flickering lights.

https://www1.essex.ac.uk/psychology/overlays/1989-82.pdf
So now instead of Qualcomm monopolising high end modems in phones, we may well end up in a situation where Apple will. Wonderful. High fives all round.