skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Aside from the suggestion of beta testing on human lives

There was no such suggestion. You can do thorough internal beta testing and still not uncover every bug that will surface in production, because encountering every possible scenario that will occur in a complex system following mass deployment is only possible following mass deployment, and it is still worth reducing the impact of those bugs.

> you are assuming that your phase-deployment mechanism always works correctly.

It can work correctly 30% of the time and still be 30% better than not having it, because then a serious problem has to coincide with a failure of the phased deployment in order to have widespread consequences. This is why safety-critical systems are layered, so that you don't need them all to work all of the time as long as having all of them fail at the same time is sufficiently rare.
There are fox in Washington, DC, neighborhoods within three miles of the White House. They have no wolves as competitors, but there are coyotes in Rock Creek Park.
I thought that something like this would not be allowed due to the general monitoring clause as per article 15 of the directive 2000/31/EC.[0] But reading it again I'm not sure anymore.

[0] https://eur-lex.europa.eu/LexUriServ/LexUriServ.do?uri=CELEX...
Can you explain this to the layman? How does it work? Does it mean they store IMSI hashes with location data in one database and customer names and their IMSI in another and nobody supposedly should have access to both databases at the same time?
OTOH, humans can tell that a merging lane is a merging lane. Hard problem indeed :).
Actually if you look at the follow up answer, they added some more measurements that back up Faynman's claim.
I think the charge per hour aspect reflects the amortised cost of engaging in the activity.

Books can be free if borrowed from a library - but ownership has an ‘hourly cost’

Mind sports like chess have an insanely low hourly cost, but regular sports that involve consumables like trainers have an hourly cost.

Music is free if you sing, but otherwise involves buying and maintaining an instrument. Strings, for example are consumables.
Impossible, NY cops are too fat https://nypost.com/2018/02/18/fat-cops-are-weighing-down-the...
The glass walls that line motorways in Poland have black decals stuck on them that look like the outlines of birds of prey. Supposedly, birds can’t tell the decal from the shadow of an actual threatening species that they would prefer to avoid, and so they don’t fly anywhere near the walls.
> Pascal was my favorite language for a number of years.

Likewise :)

> But it was completely inappropriate for systems programming because it was too protective, it kept you from doing the things that are regularly required at an OS level.

I guess it depends on what systems you're programming. I seem to recall Pascal was heavily used in the early days of Windows and Macintoshes. Albeit my memory is hazy so perhaps that was "just" user applications with the lower level stuff being done in assembly?
I think that falls under the umbrella of limiting the upside executives can extract from capital investments. It's not an either-or proposition, though. Minimum wage or something like it is needed to make sure that money goes to workers rather than shareholders.
Flash could have survived if Adobe open-sourced the codebase. But they kept it in-house and didn't have enough resources to mutate it in light of rapidly-evolving demands placed on web technologies by mobile architectures. I suspect there'd have been plenty of volunteers stepping up (including, possibly, from Apple itself) if Adobe hadn't decided to dragon-hoard its IP.

But in the web era, IP isn't king; communications is.
Seems like they have bigger problem than solving situation with their employees:

> We are selling a product with a "custom linux kernel installed". Our engineers say that "most of the product is GPL code we've modified", and that since we are selling a product with this software in place, "we're shipping GPL'ed code"
How is this different than a web server reporting itself as Jetty? Or a web browser repotting it’s Chrome?
iPhone apps were fast and responsive on low end hardware precisely because apps were natively compiled and didn’t run in a VM. Did you ever try running Flash on early high end Android phones?
I worked on Flash when the iPhone came out. Back then it still only had software rendering and the performance on early mobile CPUs was atrocious. They had Flash and Flash Lite but they both were terrible on the early Android phones that supported them.
I love Flash games but putting it on the iPhone would've just made the users mad at the 5 FPS performance.
It's not perfect but there were still dissenting voices from businesses and politicians in opposition.
Cleaning up your online presence
https://www.thekanary.com/

There should be a free and fast way to consistently identify personal information online and remove it. The tech exists in the open source intelligence community - all we need to do is re-fit it for individual benefit.

Using sites like:
HIBP, Sherlock, Shodan, Maltego etc
Emerging Advanced Manufacturing Technologies Developed by NASA
Maybe we should have a maximum wage instead?
Using the London Underground to improve broadband speeds
I've always found it distasteful that the Clay Math Prize offers a million dollar reward for proving that P=NP but nothing for revealing the truth should it be otherwise.
History is replete with the sudden removal or transfer of "private" property [1,2]. I'm not saying that this is good thing economically or morally, but when people get mad they vote for Hugo Chavez or whoever. I think this is highly unlikely in the US right now: in a "how many divisions does Jeff Bezos have" argument, I'm pretty sure you could make a case for the answer being "greater than zero" given regulatory capture and general financial/corporate influence on government.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Land_reforms_by_country

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_nationalizations_by_co...
The Japanese Musical Mind
Disenfranchised groups who nevertheless could afford to buy and maintain cars? I wouldn't say cars have no positive aspects, but they have been heavily marketed on the idea that they give you freedom (few car ads will show a traffic jam, it's always a gloriously open road...), but their cost, in terms of pollution, urban sprawl, and injuries is quite high.
Oh sorry, I missed that part of your comment.

They actually did come out with an accessory that would attach onto the keyboard and do that, but it also was discontinued a long time ago.

https://www.zdnet.com/article/microsoft-quietly-discontinues...

I assume both devices didn't do well enough on their own (otherwise they'd still be made today) to justify creating one that did both.
But can they remember that they just saw something that is not visible any more because it went behind another object?
That sounds like the same thing.

What would you say if a SaaS told you that they store your password hashed, but that they can reverse it and get it out in plain text, if someone with authority asks?
There are two aspects: how many errors are published and how they long before they are caught? The BICEP debacle is an example of a claim that should have gotten caught before it was published, doing an important calibration step using a photo of preliminary data?!
Politics and money.
an unsecured loan at a low interest rate doesn't make sense.
Robert Zubrin argued that Mars has more lightweight bulk resources (water, carbon dioxide) twenty years ago, and at the time the moon was thought to be barren of such resources that are useful for starting a human colony.

Recently (in the last decade) water has been discovered on the moon, frozen in areas of cold permanent shadow in craters.

Also the current US vice president wants to go to the Moon. The previous president wanted to go to Mars.
"There's no way". What a compelling argument.

There's "no way" that 60 million people would have died in the 20th century if there was no such thing as an ambulance. I'm positive we would have invented a workable replacement.
I raised a concern about USB isolation about a year ago, both about the modem launching a fake USB attack and potential issues with USB peripherals via the USB C port. The underlying issue is that, unlike bluetooth, USB devices are approved and enabled automagically by the kernel.

In general this is desired since you really want your USB keyboard to work on system setup, or you can't do anything with the computer (unless, like me, you have a PS/2 keyboard). Also, the USB device gets initialized by the BIOS/UEFI on a typical computer, which means it could launch an attack before the kernel is even loaded.

Good news is neither you nor I are the first to spot this problem, and there is already a project which adds authentication/pairing for USB to the linux kernel. It doesn't solve the boot-time issue, but it does solve the USB stick (or USB 3g/4g card) pretending to be a keyboard+hdmi monitor issue.
Where does it say they’re deprecating the graph API on Nov 5?
In the datasets I use at work, I'm seeing these or similar credit not for emergency solutions, but rather for luxury consumption (the very poor aren't likely to be in our panels).

People are buying Peloton bikes, exotic vacations, and luxury purses, and hoping to pay that debt off in installment plans.

I worry about when enough people hit the tipping point where their monthly minimums on deeply depreciated goods are too much to be able to make.
> BICEP just straight up declared discovery and wanted the Nobel, have you seen their video of when they tell Linde?

That’s a bit exaggerated. You mean the champagne popping video? Well, it’s somewhat awkward in hind sight, but a bit of excitement was warranted at that time. I was at Stanford around that time, might even talked to Andrei right after, and don’t recall a festive atmosphere or anything.
Great Real Engineering video with a lot of discussion of the issues with material properties, crystalline structure, and fatigue cracks related to metalized 3d printing:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fzBRYsiyxjI
Right, all of the factors they mentioned seem like the kinds of things that would make screen time more fulfilling or engaging compared to time with others or something else.
Where does he mention "Ancient Rome"?
Several things come to mind here.

What is stopping them from starting the business ? Govt regulations ? Are you saying big govt is preventing you from starting a business ? Do you think more govt will fix the problem ?

Govt regulations dont stop undocumented immigrants from coming here to work. They come from a place where govt regulations dont stop them from starting a business.

What is the answer ?

More social programs or less ? Or is it the fact the undocumented immigrants arent quitting ?
Wouldn't the safety of self-driving cars relative to human drivers also become moot if cars were no longer needed?
Except the Bazel syntax is really good. Compiling a few C++ files into a binary is just:

cc_binary(
name = "app",
srcs = glob([ "*.hpp", "*.cpp" ]),
)

That's more concise than most build systems AND it's cross-platform.
That was not my point. I mentioned Vietnamese because the spacing it uses is interesting.

Also like dfcowell said, Vietnamese used to be written with han & chu nôm characters (respectively Chinese characters and Chinese-like characters created by Vietnamese), a lot of which are encoded in Unicode. Hence the existence of the CJKV acronym.
> No, it's not a better outcome than if the market was private because frankly no one would graduate with $150k in debt for a degree in basket weaving if private lenders were backing the loans

People get private loans for bullshit degrees all of the time. Lenders don't care, because private student loans are non-dischargeable.
>They always did something

No, many did nothing. I remember pulling PC's apart to find the switches not connected to anything.
I've strategically used 0% BT offers in the past. Agree if you need a loan it's the cheapest personal loan you can get by far. The obvious catch is that you need a plan to pay it off completely in 18 months (or subject yourself to nearly 30% interest, which is what the credit card company is hoping for).

The biggest downside vs a traditional installment loan is that having high utilization on a revolving credit line like a credit card has a much bigger negative impact to your credit score than having an equivalent balance on installment.
Flash was incredible. Not just for the animation and games, but also for the audio and video streaming from a server to you, or from your mic/cam to a server, or between you and other users via P2P, all of that live and with the ability to embed arbitrary metadata as cue points at specific times in the stream. The feature set and creativity it unlocked were out of this world.
The fact that NASA has a clear directive to spend an absolutely humongous amount of money on the moon over a relatively short time frame may have something to do with Elon Musk's interest.
> People could also replace it all with a free library card

Going to the library takes a whole hell of a lot more time and work than turning on your TV.
I don't think you understood the blog post (which is presumably my failure as an author; it was just an off the cuff post and I didn't edit it especially carefully). The point is not to compare JS and C (interesting though that would be) but to note ways in which both of them may be slowly superseded by languages which target the same environments they do but allow much more developer confidence along certain axes—and, in my experience, therefore also a better developer experience and higher productivity along those axes. The whole point was that Rust, Elm, etc. can and do prevent whole classes of problems that are difficult (at best) to eliminate when writing C or JS respectively—Rust and Elm (and F and OCaml and Haskell and Idris and…) were essential to the point I was getting at.

One of the challenges for dealing with hype is that things which are legitimately really good tend to get hype, but things which get hype aren't necessarily good. In my experience, Rust is actually really good (so much so that I ran a podcast about it for a couple years). So are lots of other things. It's not perfect, by a long shot. But while there's some of the people hyping it because it's cool phenomenon—that's real!—people also get excited by finding a tool they really enjoy, that solves real problems they experienced previously.
Beware of the indulging in ease, avoiding labor and exertion, becoming habitually idle, lazy, inactive, as, an indolent man!

The use of manual labor is one which never grows obsolete. Manual labor is the study of the external world.
Labor is God’s education. No separation from labor can be without some loss of power and of truth to the seer himself. (Emerson)

The simplicity of life, language, and habits empowers people, but luxurious lifestyle, pretentious language and effeminate habits lead to weakness and death. (John Ruskin)

It’s not by meeting your idle desires that freedom can be achieved, but, on the contrary, by freeing yourself from the desires. (Epictetus)

People are constantly looking for new entertainments and pleasures, hoping that way to quiet their worries and reach happiness. But this way they can't get satisfaction, because a man looking for his own pleasure is never satisfied: having received what he wanted, he is not settling down, but right away feels the new desires, which are not yet satisfied. (Tolstoy)
For Beginners Explanation of Lightning Network
> - Fuck you, Google

Harsh. I'm sorry they invested their own time and effort into building a search crawler atop a closed-source, proprietary data format (risking not just capital and engineering time, but possibly lawsuits if Adobe had gotten pissy like Oracle) and, having looked at the field of users and decided that there is insufficient interest in the data format to justify maintaining that crawler, they're decommissioning it?

They made a product decision; they didn't shoot your dog.

And it's not even like their product decision removes the ability of the orgs you've listed to keep using Flash. Those orgs just can't keep relying on a free-but-proprietary search engine provided at the largesse of a corporation they have no business deal with anymore to index their proprietary-format media, for free.
It's getting there, but the dimensional tolerance and finish for something like an engine block isn't something 3D printing can do yet-- or ever.

It might be OK for many parts (like the manifolds) but some parts will _always_ need to be finished by traditional machining operations.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nyYcomX7Lus
That's the explanation I'd expect the answer to be. In Europe it'd be classified as pseudo-anonymous, and would still be personally identifiable data in the legal sense, and therefore not truly "anonymised".
Yeah? And if Facebook then blocks all of the "Trump Eats Babies" ads, but lets all of the "Obama Isn't a Citizen" through? Now one party gets to take full advantage of this. If it's done close enough to the election then there's no remedy available for it either. Sure, you might sanction Facebook for it, but the other party already won the election.
Agreed about Maven Central. It's scary.

In my experience, large, complicated Python packages with C dependencies can be a huge nightmare just like large Java applications, and simple cases are simple in either case. With many dependencies, you need to unbundle every single one and package it separately, in either case.

Here's a simple, random Java package in Fedora:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/maven-antrun-plugin/blob/...

It only specifies its dependencies (which are individually packaged), and the %mvn_build and %mvn_install macros take care of everything else.

A slightly more complicated one, Guava:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/guava/blob/master/f/guava...

Elasticsearch, including unbundling patches:

https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/elasticsearch/blob/master...
There is similar example for the speed of light as well.
And its been obvious for decades, when are we going to hold folks accountable?
This will be awesome for documentaries
Here's a more polished version of just this idea: https://github.com/michaelkarlcoleman/ssssh
Is it a cost structure issue? Ie, replacing the captain on a ship that holds 15,000 shipping containers, does that lower the cost of each container by a couple of dollars? Similarly, with airline pilots, how much of my ticket cost is pilot labor?

However, if you look at Uber, if you removed driver labor cost from my fare, does each ride now become 60-80% cheaper?
This sets a dangerous precedent. You shouldn't need to contribute financially to file an issue about an open source product you use.

Edit: cleaned up the wording a bit by removing the "raise a concern" bit. Hopefully that removes any ambiguity in the comment.
Direct metal laser sintering (DMLS) 3D printers already exist. Is there any reason these aren't capable of building engine components?
I always liked the look of the 11" MacBook Air although I must admit I never tried it.
They were able to get billions from private investors that knew they could pawn it off into the public market. What happens when the public market doesn’t have the stomach to give them more money in a secondary offering and they can’t get loans from banks?
Most of it is being funded by public means. Industries such as pharma, which rely on that science did point out the replication crisis in medicine:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Replication_crisis#In_medicine
That sounds promising. OTOH, my car tried to drive into a tractor-trailer a couple weeks ago. That was a momentarily interesting experience. It seemed to become confused by the onramp merge joining my travel lane (pretty normal for autopilot to screw this up), but then it "realized" the mistake and dove for the other lane. I haven't been as happy with v10 as I was with v9.
Backtracking and unification (logic variables). The latter builds on the former and is key to some of Prolog's amazing capabilities.
You can have WYSIWYG with HTML. You just have to use pixel values for everything and assume some fixed pixel width of your application. Flash can rescale also, but it runs into the same layout/rescaling problems as you do with HTML.
Huh, I didn’t even know! The new answer really does change things.
PodRunner by Rescue 42 (no affiliation) in Chico, California is assembling devices designed for precisely this. Some fire departments and public safety agencies, including CAL FIRE and Cal OES, are using them already.

One interesting thing is they are also selling them to businesses to enable business continuity during power outages and their site discusses their use of their device in the current blackouts.

https://thepodrunner.com

https://thepodrunner.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Star-Run...
Flash did not run properly on powerful desktop Macs back in the day, how could he expect that Adobe would sort it out for the iPhone?
Right click should be an accelerator. Everything you can accomplish via right click should be also be available via the menu bar, or other easily discoverable UI.

3D touch should have been an accelerator for long press.

https://medium.com/@eliz_kilic/how-apple-can-fix-3d-touch-2f...
I used to have circuits lab in this room, before an art student had the idea of turning it into a memorial. It used to just have a paper sign on the door marking the event:

http://lh5.ggpht.com/azn.jalapeno/SQf_wBSxnoI/AAAAAAAAArg/nH...

http://lh4.ggpht.com/azn.jalapeno/SQf9KtQGgNI/AAAAAAAAArE/L7...
I feel bad for his wife every time I see it now :(
For people who must rely on these loans, the pay for this class of jobs are too low. Your financial picture I think is mostly a myth. There is this grey margin where the jobs pays enough for minimal living expenses, but not enough any sort of long term holding or advancement with regular variation of cars breaking down, or health issues, or funding further education, or a basic vacation which everyone deserves. Society can only decline long term when more and more jobs only pay in this twilight threshold.
I am not sure about this. Till recently I have mostly used their products with just needing to read some docs and initial guides. Only recently I was using Terraform and Packer so much that I had fumbled on some issues and saw the community discussions on those. Hashicorp was engaging there atleast.
~whoosh~
That's a poor and inaccurate analogy; neither the original link nor my comment was specifically about the software industry. In fact, my comment was specifically _not_ about it. You responded to my comment, not the other way around, and are going off into some tangent about your personal livelihood, which is hardly relevant to the article as a whole.

There's an unfortunately-not-uncommon "software engineer superiority complex" and general myopia and my spidey sense is going off right now.

Anyhow, I'm not sure how much more to spell it out. My early career setbacks and determination to stay in the Bay Area led me to my current situation in a competitive tech company in a career I enjoy. Had I followed your worldview I'd probably have left for some miserable place in the middle of nowhere and be far less successful than I am today.