skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
This is unconvincing. He's obsessing over the "interest rate" when that's not a relevant metric. Unlike real interest, your total cost doesn't increase without bound; the most you'll ever pay is $30k (and that's if you get a high-paying job). The question is whether their service is worth up-to-$30k; it may or may not be, but dividing the maximum post-paid cost by the prepaid cost doesn't tell you anything useful. If Lambda made the prepaid cost $35k and the post-paid cost up to $40k, would it become a better deal?

Some of the people who don’t get jobs immediately after Lambda School will attend other schools and bootcamps, take on more debt, and potentially get a job after that: despite Lambda school not being fully responsible they’ll still get paid.

Good luck getting out of your student loans because you ended up getting a job that has nothing to do with what you studied.

Tying interest rates to income means tying interest rates to factors like race, gender, and parental income. This is obviously discriminatory.

In the same way that giving wealthier students less financial aid is discriminatory.

For “riskier” students, the terms of the ISA would be different: maybe instead of a cap of $30,000 students would be asked to pay a maximum of $40,000.

"I thought of a bad thing you might do in the future, and that makes you evil".
I don’t see how that’s relevant to the post or my reply. I did not mention anything about how you find the price, only that the common complaint about Apple being overpriced isn’t really valid based on standard market theory.
You are confused. File descriptors on linux represent "many different types." They are not just for "disk files". Please see signalfd, timerfd, eventfd, inotify, let alone sockets (which themselves represent things other than IP sockets). FD is essentially like handle. epoll therefore works with many different types.
My quandary is that my work does pay me to be on-call, and if I take a call, but what do I do when I get a robo-call?

It technically is because my employer’s device ringing me.
As long as the trust produced by the solar sail is more than atmospheric drag it technically has enough Δv to go anywhere.
I think the criticism that a closed ecosystem is myopic and a competitive disadvantage is a fair one, though. Apple used to have a monopolistic stronghold on smartphones, but that is no longer the case. As in the nineties, a walled garden is going to look less appealing if there are cheaper, more open competitors offering as-good or better hardware.

Outside of phones, their MacBooks are teetering on the edge of no longer being competitive. The sole reason I most recently bought a MacBook instead of a different PowerBook with a tablet screen is that Linux support for tablet screens is still lacking, and my desire for POSIX overrode my desire for a touch screen. The next time I buy, I doubt that will be true of Linux. Either Apple will come late to the game with touch screen laptops (rather exemplifying the article's point that their hardware lags the competition), or they won't, and it will make far more sense to get a faster third party tablet book and put a free OS on it. And I doubt the average customer will care as much about POSIX as I do, but again, as in the nineties, serious developers aren't going to take Apple seriously forever if this keeps up.
That was stopped by the patent troll I believe https://www.theregister.co.uk/2019/01/29/apple_fifth_facetim...
> they will not be forthcoming about all the real reasons for departing

I can relate to that. I once quit a startup and then went through an exit interview with the CEO, a person I respected. The CEO felt bad that someone was leaving at an early stage and said that it meant "we must be doing something wrong."

One of the big reasons I left was that I didn't like my boss's personality and communication style. But, I didn't tell the CEO that. I just said I had an excellent opportunity to work at another company with some old friends and I really had to take it (which was also true).

Even though I didn't like my immediate boss's personality, I didn't wish them ill. I just wanted to move on.
> I guess that’s all that matters - not the other 2 billion people in the world....

I already explained the choices. For us, the obvious choice is a properly updating Android device. Any user who chose an iPhone or non-updating Android phone made a poor security choice. Any user who has a longer than three year upgrade cycle has no good options unless they use a community-maintained Android build.

> Android One phones still have to wait on the manufacturer to update their phones. Yes, but they pinky promise they will.

They are guaranteed monthly security updates. If you have an example of one that hasn't had monthly security updates, that would be a breach of contract with at least the user and possibly with Google who certified the device as Android One.

Windows updates aren't guaranteed to work with arbitrary device manufacturers' custom drivers.

> [Irrelevant stuff about how long iOS devices are updated]

The comment you replied to was a correction to your claim about how long Android One devices are updated. That is the maximum period a user can get a secure device for because we have already established that all alternatives have non-working security update systems.

>The 6s (2015) is still a more performant phone than any midrange Android phone released this year and can hold its own against high end Android phones that are two years newer.

You have conceded that iOS is worse for security, so now you want to argue about performance. Android has iOS beat there, too. Here is a midrange Android phone one generation older than the iPhone 6 beating it at the most common task for phone users — opening apps: https://youtu.be/hPhkPXVxISY

Here is a midrange Android phone of the same generation as the iPhone 6s beating it in the same test: https://youtu.be/B5ZT9z9Bt4M

Of course if you want to get off topic, a more interesting discussion than performance is usability, and Android is multiple generations ahead of iOS for what you can do with it and has been since at least the Verizon Droid, which came with driving navigation and voice control.
higher orbit will reduce drag
In Australia its around $40 a month, so slightly less. Worth it!!! Still, too expensive for some people. Should be free.
I don't mind doing whiteboard questions. It's a pain in the ass but it is bearable. But I can't stand behavioral questions. They are such a bullshit. In that regard, Amazon is the worst offender. They expect you to learn their 14 leadership principles and apply them retroactively to your past experiences.
While the Unix philosophy is that everything is a file - that is not the case with Linux. Futexs being a good example. There was an attempt to integrate them but it was done incorrectly with inherent race conditions and abandoned.

The VMS and NT philosophies of everything being an object are a bit more general and easier to follow in practice.
The use of hyperbolic space to encode hierarchies is absolutely genius (in not small part because it should be obvious), given the properties of hyperbolic space to "expand" around fixed points exponentially, exactly like trees do* . It seems like a continuous generalization of trees essentially. Beautiful.

*: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hyperbolic_space

"Another distinctive property is the amount of space covered by the n-ball in hyperbolic n-space: it increases exponentially with respect to the radius of the ball for large radii, rather than polynomially. (...)"
You would want something thick enough that the barbs don't punch through. Tinfoil would punch through easily and the barb would just keep going. You need something thick and conductive.
I feel like the gun to the head thing is a good way to get started on things, which is what people struggle with the most. If you put a gun to your head trying to learn or study something and you’re hating it you won’t get great results, if you overcome your initial inertia against starting and find you enjoy then I think depending on the enjoyment is likely better.
GP isn't wrong though, if you're well enough to go work out at the gym you don't need to be in a hospital taking up very expensive limited bed space. Treatment for a very sick people is often done outpatient or in non-hospital skilled nursing or residential facilities. Not looking sick doesn't factor in here.

I'm assuming GGP was not referring to physical therapy facilities however, some hospital inpatients do require that.
Trees can be planted a lot easier than you probably think (e.g. cuttings from existing trees). Trees grow best in established forests or areas with shrubby growth, as this indicates the soil is generally more fungal than bacterial, which trees prefer.

Check out the efforts of Akiva Silver and Geoff Lawton on YouTube. Also:

http://www.woodlanders.com/episodes
Sonic, though, has encountered the same problems. For example, some San Francisco utility poles are too crowded to attach Sonic fiber-optic cables onto them. Yet, neither PG&E nor AT&T have a timetable when those poles will be replaced, Jasper said, leaving areas in certain neighborhoods where Sonic cannot reach potential customers.

There have been advances in placing lines underground, specifically through micro-trenching where cables are installed in a small trench that is typically less than 12 inches deep by 1 inch wide. That would make the cost much more reasonable than tearing up and repaving city streets in a large construction project.

But that type of construction isn’t allowed yet in San Francisco. Supervisor Mark Farrell has sponsored legislation to allow such work, noting that about 100,000 of the city’s 865,000 residents lack internet access.

https://www.pressdemocrat.com/business/7046772-181/sonic-bat...
It's the other way around - your credit score is higher if you have a lower balance on your cards.
I was wondering that too - what's the difference between a layer or two of heavy-duty aluminum foil under your clothes and this product? (it may not stand up to daily use, like for law enforcement use, but most people don't need it daily)
> At the point it's in the queue, it's already a composed email.

So just...don't send it? I don't see why having done prior work to compose it means that you have to send it. You could argue that it's a waste of resources to have composed it and not sent it, but that's a sunk cost you can't get back, so why not just throw it away if you already know that's what I prefer?
The vast majority of the interesting types _are_ files under Linux. You can use epoll with files, signals, timers, sockets, pipes, kernel semaphores, other epoll descriptors, page fault handling descriptors, etc.

FDs are pretty much HANDLEs of the nix world.
Things tend to collect around large gravity wells, that's just kinda how that works. I don't think you can compare the ISS in LEO to something traveling within or without the solar system.
But the higher orbit would reduce the drag. You could probably get away with the same size sail, but you’ve got to start high enough that the sail’s tiny thrust over its 50% (ish) duty cycle can overcome the drag present in 100% of the orbit. Once you’re high enough a bigger sail would mean lifting the orbit faster.
Firefox with custom user.js from [1]. In addition to this, Multi-Account Containers, HTTPS everywhere, NoScript, uBlock Origin, Privacy Badger.

[1] https://spyware.neocities.org/
what are you on about? I just gave you the specific examples: timerfd, eventfd, signalfd, inotify... these are all epollable fds in Linux?

Futex is a special case because futexes themselves are quite special. There is no userspace equivalent to them in Windows anyway as has been mentioned. Windows Events are similar to what is provided by eventfd, but not as featureful.
>Consider that Apple is more than 5% of America's entire GDP, and 1% of the world's entire GDP.

When you put it like that it really does bring Apple's dominance into sharp relief.
What is the tear resistance of the jeans of your fantasy?

If they are so resistant that medical grade shears cannot cut through them then the practical utility may drop below zero.
Which national parks have self issue permits?
Probably because homosexuality doesn't fit their 19th century worldview
I had strong objections to this behavior the last three times Mozilla and Google did it.
Informational promotion is not the same thing as advertising. A PSA is not an ad. There are many ways to inform the public of services or resources other than interrupting a media stream with ill-targeted spots. Getting someone credible to favorably review your product would be a far better way to differentiate your innovation than web ads or TV spots.

The waste you speak of sounds the result of misjudging demand rather than spamming too little. Or maybe people were informed about the merits of your better mousetrap, but just didn't care. Startups often guzzle that kool-aid.

Advertising is the last place I'd go to learn if someone's novelty is better. Who trusts ads?
This is a good book
This seems like a solvable problem? I would think that it wouldn't be hard to mark support emails in a way that didn't overlap with marketing emails.
Sonic Black Holes
I see how invasion of privacy fits into this self-reinforcing kafkaesque matryoshka bubble: massive collection and statistics of people's personal data are being used as advertisement for the advertisers.
Does anyone have experience with the usenet access it says it provides? I can't find any information on google.
> Apple's market capitalization is more than 5% of America's entire GDP.

This compares apples to oranges. In case anyone else is curious:

Apple's worldwide revenue (258 billion) is 1.2% of America's GDP (19.9 trillion) or 0.3% of World GDP (84 trillion).
Seems pretty ironic how much effort was put into sending emails to these users in the first place if they "aren't likely to be customers"
When you want to cancel and Amazon order, do you expect them to chase down the mail truck to the retrieve the package?

Not solving nonproblems is how reasonable people operate.
Kids learn a lot by imitation, and 4 years is plenty long enough for them to pick up on their parents patterns.

Nothing supports your assumption that the effect hasn’t had time to kick in.
The governments are payers. Medicare and Medicaid are examples of single-payer entities where drug price negotiation is not currently allowed by law.
In general, I would say that this consent isn't informed and it's coerced, because you have to consent to do all those things and more which, in sum total, cannot realistically be avoided.

Of course the courts are unlikely to fall on my side because the consequences for contract law would be apocalyptic but I believe it is true in my heart, and that's what really counts.
I once drove 50 miles on the North Cascades highway and saw no-one. Mostly due to fires in the area though, so the air quality wasn’t great

We stopped at one point and heard a motorbike come up the valley for 10 minutes before it passed us!

And that’s a fairly main road - I can only imagine how isolated it is once you’re deep in the park
Browsers often have zero days.
No she's not his relative.
Futexes currently have _no_ kernel state besides in the threads that are currently waiting on them. There's no futex_create system call for instance. It's litreally just a call to "sleep until this memory address changes or a timeout occurs". There's not really anything to make a type around, which is why FUTEX_FD was doomed to failure and they rightly backed it out.
A couple of similar mechanisms already exist.

One way to do this is through a conservation easement, which essentially splits off the right to develop some land and sells/donates that right to a land trust or the government. You retain ownership of the land itself, but this restriction becomes part of the title, so it runs with the land and binds you and future owners to its terms. In exchange, the donation is tax deductible (or the sale nets you money) and the easement also reduces your property tax since the land is now worth less (30-60%).

There are also less permanent versions where the owner agrees to manage the land in a particular way or according to a designated person’s advice (e.g., a forester). I think these are often for a fixed term (e.g., 10 or 25 years).
Galaxy Network Embedding: A Hierarchical Community Structure Preserving Approach [pdf]
Windows has WaitOnAddress() which is similar to a futex, and likewise isn't a HANDLE.

"File descriptor" is just a weird spelling of "handle", for historical reasons.
Or some people take it and engage in risky sexual behavior because they're now on it. I know more than a few people like that. Not everyone is a backwards hick, you're just virtue signalling.
Not the case in Mountain View or Los Gatos. Neither the case in Seattle or Kirkland.
How fast were upload speeds with Monkeybrains?
Ask HN: First to Discover or First to Document?
I was reading a Wiki article on simultaneous or multiple discoveries and a lot of the stuff just sounds ridiculous. It's less of discovery and more of documentation.

Was Galileo really the first person EVER to discover that both heavy and light balls fall together? I have some confidence that someone in the generations before would have noticed such but not taken it so seriously.

A perfect example is David Livingstone. The guy is known to have 'discovered' the Victoria Falls. SERIOUSLY? Anyone with at least average logic can call bullshit on that.

Both cases, and many others, were probably the first or so to DOCUMENT these occurences, but definitely not the ones to DISCOVER.

Where does it start, where does it end? Why are we so bent on discovery rather than what it really is, documentation?
>The people who don't want to learn the intricacies of photography just use their phone. Unless you learn those intricacies, your phone will reliably take better images, because Apple have spent stupid amounts of R&D money on optimising their image post-processing.

Every SLR I've seen has an Auto mode. You don't need to know intricacies to put it in that mode and leave it there forever.

I don't know why people keep parroting that an iphone is capable of comparable images to an SLR, it's just not true.

Even on Auto everything and with the result shrunk down to 2 Megapixels, an SLR will take much more pleasing images. The short depth of field will be very noticeable. In anything close to lower light the difference will be astronomical. Like a nice image instead of a blurry mess that you immediately delete.

Yes, the differences will be noticeable on a phone screen. DOF makes a massive difference to the overall image.

You can't get around physics and the weight and size of those lenses are tolerated for a good reason. If it was only about control then you there would definitely be camera phones with all the functionality of SLRs.

When the lens is so hopelessly tiny there's no point trying to control anything else because you will hit the limits of the lens/sensor in basically any situation. You can't open the aperture wide enough to get a pleasing DOF, and you don't have enough leeway to control shutter speed. And forget about zooming. All of those things are advantages because of the larger lenses, and are the difference between nice photos and, well, cameraphone images.

I would definitely think Instagrammers, with their endless vanity, would be interested in anything that makes their photos more appealing.
I have to admit, I got the idea from the beginning of the book Abaddon’s Gate. Solar sails might not be required but I think there’s a future in people plotting slingshot trajectories and sending packages around the solar system as fast and as cheap as possible. One day it will be manned missions, the space equivalent of people that fly hot air balloons around the world.
I'd argue it's not quite as bad as comparing Apples to Oranges.

Apple's value (market cap) is intrinsically tied to the stock market and America's growth.

But thanks for posting the revenue calculations as well. I think those numbers still support my point (because they too, are crazy)

Apple even just 15 years ago was a scrappy company trying to find its footing and had nowhere near the customer base it does today.
Siggraph Spotlight: Episode 25 – Netflix and Stream: A Look at VFX for TV
Man I can't way to pay for a ML dev service that handles the infrastructure dev service that I pay for to host my ML dev services.
In the longer term that is usually a good thing. If they’re the only person who fixes things, that also implies the correct knowledge sharing isn’t happening.

We strive to remove any single point of failure from a hardware point of view, and for me, people are no different

The only exception to this is sales, it’s usually your top biller who you can’t promote - because you want them out there selling. Luckily sales people usually respond to money rather than titles so it’s important to reward those efforts. It’s why some sales people earn more than their managers and 6 figures+ is the norm for good sales people.
"Doing proof of work for all those is possible but costly, so we stuffed a certificate into Sol's configuration to let us cheat and be special. Think of it as our "fee" for creating and maintaining LF and donating it as open source to the community."

Not sure how I feel about this, and I'm sure someone's going to figure out how to remove that 'feature' in a fork... Does kinda seem against the nature or p2p and blockchain
The Ross Lake National Recreation Area is a corridor along Washington Highway 20. It bisects North Cascades National Park and the Park has two sections separated by it. The Recreation Area has car camping, Like the Park, it is under the National Park Service but has different rules.

Technically, there is only backcountry camping in the park. But the car campgrounds are essentially surrounded by the it.
You addressed the overpriced issue, which I agree with, but what about how closed systems ultimately caused the self-combusting laptops of 1990s prior to Jobs' return?
I was speaking to a loan officer recently, and the purpose of the credit score seems only vaguely related to how well it actually predicts risk.

The gist was that if all their rates are based on a standard formula with no individual discretion, they are safe from regulation around (1) discrimination, (2) risky lending such as led to '08. That sounded more important to them than actually accurate risk modeling, especially since their competitors are all using the same formulas.

(edit: In particular, even if you offered them access to much more effective/predictive data points than the credit score, they would not use them because of (1) and (2) above.)
Pet peeve: company market cap cannot and should not be compared to GDP of a country. The best comparable is the "Gross Value Added" GVA = delta in EBITDA + employee compensation, as outlined here by Matt Klein in FT Alphaville:

https://ftalphaville.ft.com/2015/01/28/2103622/if-apple-were...

Others have recently estimated Apple GVA to be 0.5% of US GDP and 0.15% of world GDP.
Absolutely, if you truly want to automate your day job, you need the best people propping you up.

Luckily I did, and if I didn’t I removed the rot fast - that can spread and really make your life difficult.
It's a bit off, based off 2018 numbers they're a little over 1% of the US GDP and a little over 0.3% of the world's GDP. Could be more off, since I don't know where their products that are both made and sold in other countries are counted. Still insane that they could be close to a whole number percentage though, especially with their (relatively) limited product line.
I don't think I've ever had a single marketing email from my bank (cahoot), tbh.