skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I think a big reason people don't report bugs is they've come to expect that nothing will come of it. For instance, there are major bugs with Quickbooks' multi-currency support that I have reported repeatedly over the course of years, with detailed steps to reproduce, and received not so much as a reply let alone a fix. On the other side, any time someone reports a bug on one of our websites, they seem positively shocked when we answer and usually are able to fix it that same day. (We have also found, as with the OP, that bugs can affect a lot of users before one will send a message, so we definitely do try to catch as much with testing and code review as possible!)
Although not harmless, this stuff is unfortunately not harmful enough to allow Darwinism to happen, unlike some of the radiation quackery that was popular in the early 20th century...
It threatens private companies too. Many choose to buyback shares instead of investing in R&D. Boeing and the 737MAX come to mind.

In the short term CEOs get big bonuses. In the long-term they've eaten their own seed corn.
I guess you know if you see the "continue as xxx" confirmation?
The first line seems the most easily parsed to me. The second one is the worst, and the third one only works for a tidy pipeline; if you have to combine multiple pipelines you'd need to bracket them, as in the first.
We specifically invested in UI equipment because it respected the boundaries of our networks.

If this is their final position we will no longer be purchasing UI hardware moving forward.
I'd love to see how this compares with Celemony Melodyne. As far as I've been able to determine, Melodyne doesn't use ML, but it's hard to find out exactly what it does use.

Either way, an open source competitor to Melodyne is a welcome addition!
I don’t understand. What’s the pricing costs? Bandwidth? Instance hours? S3? A database?!?

This website can literally be hosted on a free tier at almost any major cloud provider.
... with string theory (or M-theory as you wish) offering a break by having made its own contributions to maths.
I've been using http://ftp.debian.org and http://archive.ubuntu.com for the same purpose. APT mirrors provide GPG signatures for packages, so they don't usually use HTTPS.

There's no guarantee that they won't move over to HTTPS in the future though, so it's nice to know that NeverSSL exists.
I am not sure a fresh cs grad would understand this.
It's easy to block devices from calling home. The trust issue is harder. I think the real fix is to move to a different company until they change their minds.

Ubiquiti does seem like a generally good company, just seems like someone decided more feedback on failures was a good idea and added the remote debugging... without thought on opt-in. After all I get a few similar reports a day (x failed... report home?), but they are of course opt-in.
Explain why you're misquoting me. You even stop the quote mid clause. I can only construe this as a deliberate misrepresentation of what I said.

I disagreed with the article, which is quite clear in the literal words I wrote. You chose to attack me instead.
Stop this madness. This is networking equipment aimed at a highly technically proficient base of users. Much like gitlab, this hardware is often going to be used by people in more security and privacy conscious environments. This kind of phoning home is absolutely fine if the user is informed and the data that is being sent is clearly explained, and there’s an easy opt out.

I bought unifi equipment because I was fed up of typical consumer equipment (and meraki) requiring subscriptions and phoning home all the time. WRT the GDPR stuff, I’m pretty sure a network admin can’t consent on behalf of all the users of the network...
Low-order bits from sufficient timing measurements would be effectively random. You're not looking at the characters, you're looking at the intervals between keypresses, and gathering the least significant digits of those. This is what PGP/GPG use for gathering entropy when generating keys as well.

Not saying that's what's being done here, but it's a way to take fairly nonrandom activity and get decent entropy from it.
Another Data Point that may be of interest is the order that the Up/Down Votes occurred. EG My comment was up voted by a bunch of viewers initially then later as the cooler heads prevailed it was down voted, or it could be an indication of Time of day that the voting occurred: EG Right or Left wing zealots are up late at night( although I doubt this one as this site is about as global as you can get)....but then maybe votes tied to regions..IDK its just a neat thought I figured I would share!
From a personal point of view, not a biological or a taxological one, there exists more variability in the phenotypes of mammals than insects. So I couldn't possibly apply the generalization I'm making about insects, to mammals.
> I still don't understand the new hype behind it

Other OTP based languages have different standards for API consistency, developer comfort, and documentation, and generally feel 'more modern' in those respects. That's probably where the hype is coming from.
Right, banking trojans for example inject code into browser processes so the trojan can sniff decrypted traffic. Corporate snooping is also done by pushing root certs on to both system wide and browset trust stores.
The west side of the city is a lot quieter, and it's not uncommon to see people out and about here. The entrance to the Hammond-Snyder Loop trail isn't the most discoverable from where I live, but it's just a couple blocks away and I see people on the train tracks near it occasionally.
Steven Levy on the Demise of the Scroll Bar (Wired Magazine, 2011-09-27)

https://www.wired.com/2011/09/reviews-levy-scrollbar/

>BEFITTING ITS FEARSOME name, Apple's new Lion operating system doesn't shy away from challenges. App organization has been radically reinvented and the workspace redesigned. But one change resonates with the force of history: Windows no longer sport the right-hand navigational element with the tablike "elevator" indicating one's place within a document. In other words, Apple has killed the scroll bar.

[...]

>The scroll bar's demise comes after a storied history. It was first implemented at Xerox's Palo Alto Research Center as part of the Smalltalk operating environment that was installed on the lab's bitmapped computer systems. "I first saw it there around 1975," says Larry Tesler, then a PARC researcher. "There were no arrows—just a bar with an elevator. You clicked above or below it to move a chunk of text."

[...]

>It was a model that ruled for more than 30 years. But then came something even more natural—multitouch gestures. Apple was willing to transform its operating system to implement them. And so the scroll bar got eaten by a Lion.

iOS, OS X and The Death of the Scrollbar (GigaOm, 2011-05-04)

https://gigaom.com/2011/05/04/ios-os-x-and-the-death-of-the-...

>The scrollbar in OS X Lion does have an advantage in that it doesn’t take up as much space and visual weight in the interface. Gestures provide enough flexibility in control schemes that we don’t have to rely on a mouse click on the scrollbar control to move the viewport and a mouse click on the content to move the cursor. We have multiple ways to interact directly with the content. Content is highlighted before UI controls. What remains to be seen is if the change will prove as comfortable in practice as the theory might suggest.
Realistically, the closest use of "Linux on the Desktop" + marketing is ChromeOS and Chromebooks. Yes, its using Linux underneath but Google is marketing the system as ChromeOS which is easily relatable with the Chrome Browser which everyone knows. With every other distro out there, marketing "Linux" would just introduce confusion towards the average user due to customization, different DEs and apps available and errors involved. Google had to unfortunately market Linux under a different name for users to notice their product.

Apple and Microsoft have dedicated support that helps users whenever a hardware/software error occurs, they are usually the main point of contact. Linux distros sort of have this with "bug reports" but its very user unfriendly and due to the distro software stack, multiple points of contact: (X/Wayland team, GNOME team, kernel devs, distro maintainers, etc). Google knew too well to improve on this pitfall with their Pixel lineup to have a dedicated support team for their Chromebooks.

Linux still dominates the server market, however the desktop will always be a issue for Linux as it is not for the faint of heart for changing sane defaults, customising the DE, window manager and startup scripts which the user may end up spending hours searching error codes or having to revert their setup altogether, which just wastes time to get started. At least ChromeOS and Fuchsia are aiming for a consistent experience similar to Windows and macOS.

> It’ll only come if someone can unify all the splintered groups around a cohesive, simple message and market it to the public.

Sane defaults in a Linux distro would be a start for a standardised Linux desktop and would finally solve the inconsistency problem and reduce the MxN configuration issue for narrowing bugs. Apart from Google, The Haiku project [0] is doing well at creating an integrated OS with sane defaults for a desktop OS + an SDK for developers which is unified, similar to macOS and Windows but open-source. If they can do it with less than 10 core developers, I find it hard to believe as to why the Linux community could not come together to achieve the same thing.

[0] https://www.haiku-os.org/
The dev tools are used in those degrees just as tools to achieve something else. I remember taking a compiler course (as in, we got to write optimising compilers as an assignment) with people who didn't have a good grasp on how to really use those tools in detail. You were just expected to pick it up on the way. It was treated as a basic skill.
I kind of like thinkibg of mathematics and language as technology for the mind - in the sense that both enable you to think thoughts that you otherwise may not have been able to think .. and to teach others how to do it, thereby transferring the technology.
"There are only three trillion dollar industries in existence: energy, high speed transport, and communications"

I really love Casey's writeups, but I can think of quite a few more trillion-dollar industries than just those 3 :)
They used to. Everyone hated it. They stopped.
This is a great example of how to get this working, I don't think I've seen a complete guide like this the last time I needed this.

I'm frustrated that CloudFormation ends up needing these customizations though, and that you need to leave the world of CloudFormation and self manage and deploy your own set of lambda functions to support your customizations. It feels like a hack.

I really strongly advise folks to look at Terraform instead of you can. While I've needed custom lambdas for CloudFormation, I haven't hit a similar limit for Terraform.
It's possible Max is also in the stock photo business.
Yeah when dealing with files this volume I'd prefer a self-hosted or local storage
Steve Jobs on how The Beatles influenced his approach to business (2003) [video]
I grew up in Toronto and relied primarily on public transit growing up. As a kid, I would have a good mental model of the area around a subway station but as soon as we went underground it was like a wormhole to another part of the city. It wasn't until I was a teenager that I had a good model of how the areas around the different subway stations connected with each other.

Did you rely primarily on the subway system before you ditched transit?
In either case, have you ever seen a kid running around?

I mean obviously I know from experience and being a kid at one point that apartment complexes are overly infested with kids running around, but pretty sure given the year and parenting, most if not all kids under the age of 15 don't freely walk in the streets.
How do CPUs read machine code? – 6502 part 2 [video]
Clinton: Zuckerberg should 'pay a price' for hurting democracy
While I agree with you, I'm not sure this is all that different from the older "man on the street" interviews that consisted of four or five seemingly random people with two or three sentences from each. It wouldn't be difficult to get the opinions you wanted to print by just asking people on the street until you enough of them said things you wanted to quote.
Screw that. My goddamn router doesn’t need to be phoning home. Have we lost our minds?
The worst kind of candidate. You're think you're voting for a caterpillar but post-elections it reveals itself to be a butterfly. And not just any butterfly, but a migratory species that flies to Russia in the winter.
Exactly! For me the pile keeps building up. I feel this is a problem that's still not addressed well. Sure you could save compressed ones to Instagram/Google Photos, but manually saving this is still a big hurdle for later retrieval. Need a simpler approach to tag and sort them into albums rather than just folders
I have noticed many lately that don't even do that. Its auto account creation upon invalid login.
This is my biggest concern about present and future technology. For example, many car manufacturers are sharing real-time sensor data from their vehicles, including GPS, with third parties. There's no clear opt out. Is it anonymized? Can it get misused? Sadly yes.

The freedom and transparency we got from PCs where you can always know what is going on, with some caveats, is missing from all other platforms. And it's really worrying.
phone home without permission is always sleazy. smart states will make it grounds for a refund.
That cell tower only covers a small geographical area, and you have to physically maintain it along with paying property taxes. Also, that cell tower can't peer with other cell towers to route trans continental packets.

Not to mention how much will DOD subsidize their own sub-constellation for SkyNet to prime the cashflow? I'm guessing at least $50 billion.
Great photography.
> You can reach a higher salary.

I'm not sure about "reach". From what I've seen it's more of a "You can start with a higher salary". After a decade of work barely anyone cares about your university. There are some exceptions of course - R&D departments at corps like degrees for example.
If it turned out to be actually true... I wonder sometimes if it makes a better example of antitrust policy actually working to some degree... or failing.
Try Mermaid-cli
It's not about wealth it's about population density. Think not about dense areas like Vietnam but sparsely populated places such as Australia, Canada, Russia, etc.

Of course the problem with this is that there's relatively not many people who live in the middle of nowhere because most people want to live near civilization. So I am doubtful that starlink will be an economic success.
If this is instead flipped on for a warrant search,would that make a difference?
Was also expecting this but was very pleasantly surprised at what was there. It's a pretty awesome list of intermediate to advanced programming projects covering a nice variety of things.
Yes, quite frequently. I live in a townhome complex though, so it's not like these kids are playing street hockey directly on Stevens Creek.
Younger invesres and not just men are migrating from traditional blue chip stocks that their parents prefered.
B/c for the past decade he’s been eradicating malaria and being a legit hero. Not a whole lot to complain about Gates during that time frame.
I'm not talking about Google Reader, that's long gone. The companies you mentioned are technically Alphabet, not Google. If you look at Google all their consumer software efforts are an abomination. WearOS/Android Wear is at best at a level of a basement hobby project. Google Fit app became usable only after many years of updates. Their phones, i.e. hardware are the worst android phones except for the camera and even that leads only in still imaging. Technical details of how they implemented Android support for chrome OS just horror story for users who want to use it on underpowered laptops running Chrome OS. Hardware horrors continue with Google Home Mini, where G. had to disable the top button just days after releasing the device. Their 2 microphones better than 7 in Echo show its weakness as soon as you try to use Google Home to make calls - their AI can understand somehow what you said but humans can't.
Their hardware products all feel like MVP from a startup not something designed for regular humans to use.
Software horror stories continue, I was quite an early adopter of Google Apps for the business, it definitely was way better than early Office 365, where it would take 5 or more minutes for email travel between co-workers, however, if you signed up directly via Google (a major mistake at that time) there was no way even to backup your company accounts. Once Vault was introduced companies that were set up prior to the introduction of Vault couldn't migration to use Vault, a new company should be set up with 0 user migration tools available. Admin could not even edit the global address book to enter phone extensions of the employees. This was Google's business product.
Look at Google's current Nest offering, barely changed in years, took years to deliver even simple multi-room sensors and speakers (Max for example) is the ugliest device you can bring into your home, reminding plasticky Altec Lansing beige speakers from 1990s.
One extreme is PLUM, which also includes the mnemonics KJVB, WXYZ, and READONTHIS.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/PLUM_keyboard

I actually feel the other way; the cost of learning a seemingly arbitrary layout is probably less than the cost of using an inefficient layout, in the longrun.
Using the blacklist is simpler but it uses a two second TTL (bit looks like that can be changed in the 01-pihole.conf file, though).

I'd rather it return NXDOMAIN, though. That's what I had to do to block DNS-over-HTTPS for Firefox.
I think OP's point is if Ubiquiti decided to roll this up through their networking stack, they could theoretically silently still send the updates through to their collectors, no matter how many blocks you put in place (assuming you use Ubnt switches/routers/firewalls/APs).

This would be easy to discover if you mixed brands, but the point is how would you trust them anymore?
These were semi-automatic calculators, the punch cards were all data. The problem with distracting the workers was that they were mostly responsible for enacting the program!

http://calteches.library.caltech.edu/34/3/FeynmanLosAlamos.h... , search for IBM.
I’m most excited about the prospect of things like this delivering the truth via uncensored internet to places like China and North Korea. Am I naive to think there is no way they could stop this and that the real internet would be available world-wide?
I am working on a product which makes use of this technology. I generate vocal pitch visualizations for karaoke

http://pitchperfected.io
I am still old enough to remember “Silent Spring” and the fear that all the birds were disappearing. This lead to the banning of DDT. Unfortunately at the time there was not as good a substitute for mosquito control that matched the low human toxicity and persistence of DDT. As a result, millions of people, mostly children died from malaria and other mosquito borne illnesses.
He didn’t include this in the main tweet, but in his deeper analysis he found on mobile they only send 2.4 mb of resources so, it would only be 2% of your 100 mb cap. Still a lot but you probably shouldn’t be shopping for apple products on that data budget.
I know about the state of Fitbit, but I would have preferred any other company over Google to buy them, including Samsung or Amazon.
Previous HN thread on (some of) the failures of x86 itself (it notes that most of this is not solved with x86_64):

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=276418

There's plenty of criticism of CISC in general, but that gets into flamewar status.

A lot of modern abstraction, vulnerabilities and inefficiency can be summed up with "x86_64 sucks to write for, so let's build a new (or recreate an old) abstract machine!"

In its quest to maintain fifty years of (near) compatibility with an architecture originally used in a calculator, the industry created a monster.

There's a reason Apple (and Sun and MIPS before it) was able to get competitive with Intel's chips despite only getting a silicon team like half a decade ago and using an architecture generally seen as low-performance: they ruthlessly removed cruft, cutting ties with backwards compatibility in the process.

Backwards compatibility is a scourge unto innovation and ease of use, as even Intel saw (IA64, for all of its faults, was better than x86_64 in virtually every way).

I have a lot more criticism of x86_64, and can get a lot more technical in that criticism, but this comment is already getting a bit on the heavy side.
Muir Woods has redwoods if you are into nature and hiking.
"voters are free to penalize candidates who don't reveal enough information about themselves by not voting for them"

Compare these two hypothetical scenarios:

1 - Voters don't have access to the candidate's tax records

2 - Due to released tax records, the voters know for certain all of the below facts about the candidate: A - The candidate paid no taxes, B - The candidate cheated on their taxes, C - The candidate is not as rich as they claim to be, D - The candidate's businesses lost money so they're not as good a businessperson as they claim to be

In the first hypothetical scenario the voters the voters know there's a possibility that the candidate might be hiding something, in the second hypothetical scenario the voters know for certain that the candidate is a lawbreaking, tax cheating, lying hypocrite.

In which of these hypothetical scenario do you think the voters are going to penalize the candidate more?
Share your terminal session with people you trust
iDrac is MILES ahead of SM ipmi, in my experience.
This is the same Ubiquiti that's does not abide by the GPL for the modified linux kernel they use[1][2][3]. Which is really too bad as I had been ready to recommend their gear to a couple of businesses.

[1] https://sfconservancy.org/blog/2019/oct/02/cambium-ubiquiti-...

[2] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9331512

[3] http://web.archive.org/web/20170317174847/http://libertybsd....
It's a suction pump for the onboarding funnel. It is not your friend.
Adam Neely

Music theory and other music topics

https://youtube.com/user/havic5

I strongly recommend his videos on the fastest/slowest/hardest music, he gets into the psychology of perception, philosophy of art, and history of music
Puppy Linux isn't in the mainstream, isn't aimed at users who aren't in the know, and you can cherry-pick anything if you look far enough outside the realm of "Plausibly installed on more than five hundred consumer systems."
If you have the spare time, OpenWRT supports Ubiquiti hardware.

https://openwrt.org/toh/ubiquiti/start
Not going to happen unless there is some absolute paradigm shift in technology. Not many people throw around 20 billion dollars on upstarts.

The problem is that the paradigm shift technology we've read about multiple times has always been overcome by more investment in standard silicon processes.

Economically we're long past the point of contraction - there has been a ridiculous pace of mergers in the semiconductor industry to have the network effects to stay current. The effects are worse at the top, and we are down to three companies even in the race.

Basically, no, we'll never have another fab entrant who is a major player.
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