skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
That was one of the media-related ones that came to mind. Also, I had an International Relations professor who was a consultant for the State Department and had just finished giving the briefing for the next 5-year strategic plan on August 19, 1991. He said that nobody in the Pentagon ever considered the possibility that the Soviet Union might not exist within 5 years, let alone days. Some other experience is fairly obvious just growing up in a bicultural household with an immigrant parent who had firsthand experience living in other parts of the world, eg. the U.S. consistently underestimates the degree of corruption in many other countries and the degree to which the "state" that is ostensibly our ally is actually a fiction, with the majority of actual daily life ruled by family, ethnic, or business ties.

A lot you can verify just by looking at our strategic decisions in the moment vs. how things turn out later and internal communications get declassified. We didn't understand that the Sino-Soviet split had happened until decades later, and still thought that China and Russia formed a united communist bloc well into the 80s. A number of people still think of China as communist, which isn't true at all.

I'm actually seeking out information contrary to my experience here - I would love to see stories where U.S. intelligence agencies were completely on the mark but were ignored. But my knowledge base so far is that intelligence agencies are as vulnerable to human cognitive biases as the general public, and frequently get basic facts wrong.
That's false. My father and mother took out student loans when they were dischargeable and they paid them off. My dad via working as a taxi driver and bouncer, because there was downward pricing pressure back then.

There are severe consequences to filing for bankruptcy. That is on your record for 7 years, minimum.
Costume jewelry is cheap. Real jewelry is overpriced because of the marketing around gemstones.
They already extorted Android OEMs using exFat patents for billions, might as well try to look nice.
>we started by opening up GCC and I was astonished at just how mindbogglingly complex it had become

It's the price of being good ;)
You also buy Apple products for the software, not only for the hardware.

Comparing a windows laptop with highier specs with a macbook is like to compare a stupid blonde with big tits with a smart, classy and well tempered brunette. The cover is flashier and catch the attention on first sight but it's a burden to live with on a daily basis.
There are always new articles, videos, podcasts, blogs, tweets, websites, books or plaintext thoughts that I'd discover or get recommended by friends. It's impossible to consume all that content as soon as it arrives. But it's also really important that it doesn't get lost and I do get round to going through it at some point.

I would use several reading lists (or apps) which is a great solution in many ways. But they didn't feel like a problem off your chest. On the contrary, you need to remember where all your reading lists are so you get back to them at some point. I still have several of those buried somewhere on my computer.

Another big problem with reading lists is that it's so difficult to just pick the next item to read. Which list do I go for? Do I start off the top or at the bottom?

And when I've picked up that one article or video, I'm pretty sure there was a specific reason why I'd saved it or perhaps someone recommended it to me but I've forgotten now. Also, I'm pretty sure I've saved something more recent and relevant on the same topic since. At this point, all the context is gone.

That's why we built Itemsy around the exact experience I would've wanted for myself. Here is how it works:

1. Start emailing links to any content you want to save for later to my@itemsy.com (optionally, include a note or email of a person you want to share it with)

2. You get delivered your personalised newsletter that's just the right volume so you can read it as soon as you get it

To me personally, the main thing has been that I can forget all about the reading lists and actively trying to find time to go back to them. Just dump all the links onto Itemsy, they won't get lost and will be delivered to you in bite-sized chunks at a frequency of your choice.

We'd love for you to try it out. Signing up takes 10 seconds: https://itemsy.com/
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I envy you. I'm trying to get back to a simple life, but it's hard. Some day.
They don't serve that route, but they do fly from three airports in London (Gatwick, Stansted and Luton) and from Brussels.

https://www.ryanair.com/gb/en/cheap-flight-destinations
You probably mean the Hawala system that has been around for a few centuries.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hawala
Commit discipline is a wider issue, but building and relying on tools that require humans to never make an error does not scale.

People always screw up their commit messages. And once they do it they stop trying because if you can't be perfect you're just torturing yourself to try. If there's a way to fix them after the fact you can begin demanding that people have more commit discipline and make them go back and fix it if they don't get it right the first time.

I take it as a matter of Broken Window syndrome. You can try to keep them from getting broken but at some point you have to have a way to fix the ones that break.
New insights from reconstructing the first Algol 60 system
>I use my bank's online bill pay to generate a check

which has your account information on it

(I do the same thing, though.)
Oh snap, good point. I guess I havent met anybody who fasts for say, Ramadan. I meet plenty of people fasting as part of a diet.
Are there plans for an interface which splits into vertical columns, like Apple Mail, where the left sidebar has the list and the preview pane has more vertical space to comfortably read the content?
> “They didn’t care about possessions,” Roberts says, “and they lived in housing fit for animals.”

I find it interesting how disrespectfully nose up folks talk about humble people like the Cedar Choppers, when if we all continued to live like they did, we wouldn't be in this climate mess we are in.

It's caring about possessions and extravagant homes (unfit for animals?) that has destroyed the planet for all animals.
Have you declared bankruptcy before? I have not, but from what I read there are very severe consequences. (Okay okay, our present president being the exception. But if you are not born rich there are bad consequences)
The sad thing is, no future President is going to reverse this. Trump is, literally, a tool for setting the bar so low as to what the people are willing to put up with.
2A isn't upheld any more than 4A. States will just require a license for crypto and make it "may-issue". RSA will be classified an "assault algorithm" and banned in California. You'll have to pay a $200 tax stamp for each key, message capacity will be limited to 10 characters, and if your ex-wife claims you hit her then the sheriff can confiscate your hard drives until you convince a judge you didn't.
Thanks! Just added it.
Now I'm curious what the pawn shop sold it for. $5k maybe?
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Oh excellent. I just added it.
Someone else suggesting gold as an investment is Ray Dalio, who runs the world's largest hedge fund. As part of a portfolio, it helps because it's a largely uncorrelated asset that tends to do well when everything else is crashing.

Of course, if you're doing that you're probably going to buying GLD or IAU, which closely track the spot price of gold. Or maybe you'll use an outfit like BullionVault, which has a spread comparable to large stocks, nowhere near 30%.
Malicious Android app had more than 100M downloads in Google Play
The primary motivation to our livestock farming is certainly the utility, not some sort of ethical imperative. My argument isn't that it's virtuous to farm livestock, my argument is just that it isn't unethical.
There's same day ACH, but I have no idea how widespread it is yet:

https://www.nacha.org/same-day-ach-resource-center

Anecdotally, I recently moved my banking to a discount broker and my paycheck is now credited to my account the night before. I don't know if that has anything to do with same-day ACH.

Also anecdotally, Ally takes 5 business days (!) to open a CD via ACH even for an already verified bank. Definitely faster to have a checking/savings account with them, wire in the funds, then open the CD from checking/savings which is instant.
The winning play is to design programs where benefits are given completely independently of time, money, access or power, even if it means some people who do not need it will get some assistance.

But then doesn't it come down to grades, test scores, and extracurriculars etc? Rich parents are already paying for huge amounts of tutoring, coaching, and test prep, along with personally chauffeuring their kids all over the place in order to rack up the extracurricular and volunteering hours.

Sure, you can mandate an "equity score" for admissions but at some point are you going to be admitting students who can't handle the coursework? Grades are more than just an arbitrary barrier.
I certainly didn't intend it as a personal criticism, and if it came across that way I'm sorry!

There's nothing wrong with not knowing what ACH is and asking about it. But conversely, there's also nothing wrong with writing an article about ACH that doesn't bother to explain the background in detail, nor is there anything wrong with posting such an article to HN.

The only thing I take issue with is the suggestion that it's somehow unusual or noteworthy.

> In the future, you could just answer the question, or you could opt out of replying entirely.

I noticed that other commenters had already answered the question adequately, or else I would have included it in my response.

(For what it's worth, I just tried a Google search for "ach" in an incognito window with both region and language set to Germany, and two articles about the ACH system were on the first page of results. Again, I am not saying this to criticize for not knowing about it.)
By compatibility he likely means that exFAT is supported by Windows and macOS which means allowing the usage of exFAT will facilitate easy exchanging of external storage media between systems.

Also by spec SDXC cards come formatted as exFAT filesystems and this change means Linux can now be compatible with them without requiring reformatting them with another filesystem.
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You'll have trouble getting a home loan for 7 years. And maybe a bit of trouble getting a car loan or a credit card for a while.

But these things aren't a big deal for most 21 year olds. Certainly they are smaller considerations compared to paying back a high 5 or 6 figure debt.
There's a few recent papers actually that show minor improvements by integrating LPC prediction into deep methods ([0], [1]). In my experience (some of which comes from reproducing these, some of which comes from my own experiments), this isn't actually too useful, at at most offers a minor modeling benefit.

The main difference between something like Festival and what we have now is the amount of domain-specific engineering. (This is generally the promise of deep learning -- replace hand-engineered features with simple-to-understand features and a deep model.) If you go and read the Festival manual, you're going to find tons of domain-specific rules and heuristics and subroutines; for example, there's a page on writing letter to sound rules as a grammar [2]. Nowadays, we may have a pipeline that resembles Festival at the high level, but each step of the pipeline is learned as a deep model from data rather than being carefully hand-engineered by many people over the course of years. This yields much more fluid speech as well as much, much faster iteration and experimentation times, leading to faster progress as well.

[0] https://arxiv.org/abs/1811.11913

[1] https://people.xiph.org/~jm/demo/lpcnet/

[2] http://www.festvox.org/docs/manual-2.4.0/festival_13.html#Le...
> Price, value and practical utility are not really correlated.

For people interested in reading further, Marx's Capital is excellent at defining these terms very precisely:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labor_theory_of_value
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Use_value
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exchange_value
There are “other considerations” in place for everyone. We all have to make choices that balance our needs and desires.

Most of the rest of the country has decided not to live in the Bay Area....
The Apple I and Apple II both used discrete logic to generate a composite video output. The Apple I used a couple of unusual Signetics parts (2504, 2513, 2519) and a character generator ROM to implement a text-only "video terminal" with a UART-like interface; the Apple II used a more complex system built around the system's DRAM refresh which allowed for graphical output.

None of this required any truly unique parts (although the Signetics parts used in the Apple I are hard to find nowadays), but most hobbyists prefer something more modern than composite video. :)
Raspberry Pi 4 vs. Raspberry Pi 3 B+ vs. Raspberry Pi 3 A+ vs. Raspberry Pi Zero
Agreed. I recently read Fernando Corbato's Turing Award speech, "On Building Systems That Will Fail" [0] Corbato drove development of Multics and its predecessor, CTSS, laying the foundation for much of current operating systems practice.

He states his main thesis as 'the question to ask when designing such systems is not: "if something will go wrong, but when will it?"' I do not think he asks this in a defeatist sense (look at what he built!), but in a realist sense. He claims that, for a sufficiently complicated system built on new ideas, that neither rigor in design nor thoroughness in testing is sufficient to account for all of the unintended consequences of the system's design. Without considering the negative consequences of new designs, one is apt to learn them by hard experience.

[0] http://larch-www.lcs.mit.edu:8001/~corbato/turing91/
I personally never dealt with the DOE, though I dealt with lots of private companies that actually did the lending and managing of the loans, even if the DOE was ultimately behind them.
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Which Southwest crashes are you thinking about? They have never lost a passenger in a crash, though one person on the ground was killed in Chicago. There have been two accidental passenger deaths. One was due to engine failure, not a crash, and the other was a passenger who tried to get into the cockpit and died after being restrained.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southwest_Airlines#Accidents_a...
What part of the device is certified? The logic unit, the whole asic, the board, the appliance? Software too? Or what??
Yes and no. C-sections are often medically necessary to ensure the health of the mother and baby. At the same time, elective C-sections are quite common as well, either for pain/recovery reasons or to lockdown the timing of the delivery.
Stanstead and Luton are 30-40 miles from London
The repeated destruction of US humanint networks over the past 50 years is probably one of the single largest threats it faces. Between the dismantling of the CIA hint networks by ourselves and complete destruction of our Chinese hint network by the Chinese, the US is blind in a huge number of situations.

This is not about the quality of any one channel, it is about needing multiple channels with distinct provenance that can be used to cross-reference each other. The fact that this article even frames the question as it does means that they have completely missed the point -- there is no such thing as bad intel, only intel that you are too blind to know is inconsistent.
Any progress > No progress?
Thanks, #1 has been what I've been doing so far. I'll have to think about how #2 and #3 would work in my context (fairly small company).
> If Marie Curie's notebooks eventually end up encased in concrete somewhere "because they're contaminated"

They are in fact contaminated, so they are kept in lead lined boxes:

https://www.csmonitor.com/Technology/Horizons/2011/1107/Mari...
Pardon the interruption, a free static page hosting would respect the reader a little bit more than Medium.
The big deal here is that they are placing the patent into OIN - I'm probably correct in guessing that it is now the most powerful patent in the OIN arsenal. More electronics/software shops are going to be pressured to join the OIN. Consider sharing files on physical media and, oh, that UEFI basically uses FAT.

Patent trolls are probably collectively experiencing a migraine after this news.
>Seems like an unsubstantiated claim

It absolutely isn't. Evidence supporting his claim are easily found online, both in leaked documents as well as from other first and second hand sources
exactly, fascinating! Thanks!
> Or maybe you'll use an outfit like BullionVault, which has a spread comparable to large stocks, nowhere near 30%.

Which does not provide delivery of the gold bars.
You don't need to cherry pick, you just need to read an article about something you're an expert in to see how inaccurate and surface level most articles are.
Hmm. No mention of privacy issues?
Private companies do not do the lending, the DOE does. Stafford loans, both subsidized and unsubsidized, are issued directly by the DOE to the university. There is no middleman. What private companies are you talking about?

Edit:

I see what you are talking about. You are referring to loans issued under the discontinued Federal Family Education Loan Program[1]. That program ended in 2010 and, I believe, remaining loans issued under that program represent a relatively small portion of the DOE's $1.4T holding. The vast majority of what the DOE currently holds are loans directly issued by the DOE, and any talk of current education expense inflation cannot be separated from that. There are no banks to blame this on anymore.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_Family_Education_Loan_...
Not enough Phoenix svelte starter templates. Not enough SSE instead of web sockets.
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We don't actually call the startTask API ourselves, but when we tell an ECS service (using cloudformation) to use a new task definition (which is basically just a new ECR image tag), ECS calls startTask and various other APIs on our behalf.
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Just like the PATRIOT Act started by Bush... it was not repealed by Obama, it was made worst... even if he promised to repeal it.
No, that's not the problem.

Here is the problem. I make a widget. It costs me $10 US to manufacture. I go to the post office, and ship it to an address directly across the street. They charge $7.

I go on AliExpress. I buy a similar widget, and ship it to the same address. The total cost, the item plus shipping, is $6.

Let's break that down. Their cost of manufacturing is lower. Let's say it's free. Ok fine. Trans Pacific shipping is cheap. Let's say it's free. Ok fine. They still have to ship it via the post office from the port in Long Beach to the post office in New Jersey; again, let's say that's free. The post office then has to deliver out across the street.

The post office charges me $7 to walk it it across the street. Why should the Chinese shipper only pay $6 for the same service?
90 comments today in https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20820524
If we lived like they did, we'd probably also have half the life expectancy and way more deaths during childbirth, just to name a couple of differences.
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A scary amount of people don’t release their headlights allow others to see them.

Even in rain you see people with no lights on. I think that lights should be on all the time like some Scandinavian countries do, or at least come on automatically when your wipers are on.
I was wondering where I had heard of Cranelift before- seems like it is the default backend for wasmer[1].

[1] https://github.com/wasmerio/wasmer#building
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Most used the 6845 CRTC or compatible but the Apple 1 used discrete logic & shift registers instead of CRTC & RAM from my understanding

I don't think the particular shift registers etc are still available but it is still possible to do it with discrete logic these days

I guess different projects have different focus and some probably don't care too much how they get video as long as it works. I've built discrete and CPLD based video circuits for my own 6502 project which is fun but took months to get working perfectly
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The fact that it endures long term is probably the most fascinating part. Internet...wars...globalization...

...trust & honor prevails.
Yeah, I'm looking at the Galago Pro, the Apple laptop I'm replacing is the Macbook Air. The Galago comes in a similar size and with an aluminum case I'm hoping is similar.
He wasn't actually that way though. They mistook notions of brotherly love which are not homosexual to something homosexual. There are no ancient sources that even allude to that. Just modern scholars projecting their own fantasies as usual.
First, this article talks about a mass gap, not a mass ceiling. E.g. stars between 50-130 solar masses shouldn't form black-holes, they should explode. The bet is about finding black holes in this gap.

Second, the issue is LIGOs first 100 detections, not all detections. We know black holes in the mass gap could form by other means such as absorbing other black holes, it was assumed that this type of formation would be rare enough that it would not occur in the first 100 black holes detected by LIGO.

So that was the bet, and the loss of the bet was the occasion to write the article. Unfortunately, while all this information is in the article, several misleading points are also in the article:

* The headline of "a Black Hole So Big It ‘Should Not Exist'" is misleading

* The diagram is equally misleading, not showing a gap but a ceiling

* The mention of this only applying to the first 100 detections is buried at the end of the article, as is the fact that people are well aware that black holes can form via absorption and so enter the gap.

The article makes it look like existing knowledge of black hole formation is being challenged, when what is basically a statistical bet about 100 observations has been settled.

The combination of over simplification and sensationalization is a problem with mediocre science writing, of which this article is unfortunately an example.
Canada has Interac E-transfer which is convenient and free depending on which bank you bank with. I pay my rent with it for example.
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Agree. It's a trick to bind people emotionally with all the benefits for the employer. It's all fake and you know it deep in your heart but given the 24/7 "availability" your work becomes part of who you are (become) and that is the trick; lifestyle. Make a better world, especially for the founders/shareholders - don't forget it is business after all.
Paypal (and subsequently Venmo) offers it. I've "instant transfered" money from eBay sales right to my account. They do charge a 1% fee (up to $25) versus zero fees for classic ACH transfer. If I need the money right away, I'll pay the 1% but I usually can wait the couple days.
Is this just a non issue on iOS? If so, why?
I have written a proof of concept for making a lib in Rust and then use JNR (a wrapper of the abominable JNI) to call and be called from that lib. I was surprised to see how much easy it is to write an ABI in rust to be used in the JVM. I am sure this lib will even have an easier time integrating with Python/Ruby comparing to Java.
With that in mind, I think for my future native ABI development, I would be seriously considering building in Rust instead of C/C++.