skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I feel like if a specific browser, ie. Firefox went down this path, it wouldn't take long until websites stopped supporting that browser. It'd take browser wide action to take on big players such as Slack imo.
DES is a good example here: it was designed ~45 years ago and it's still theoretically surprisingly strong when you compare it with other areas of cryptography. By that, I mean it's held up very well to cryptanalysis that attempts to find faster-than-brute-force techniques, with the best attack taking 2^43 time (vs. the 2^56 brute-force time).

To be clear, 2^56 is trivially brute-force-able today, but that can be mitigated with constructs like 3DES, which are still (barely) secure despite being based on a 45-year-old cipher.

(So no one mistakes my intent, there are many reasons to prefer AES over DES. I just wanted to provide it as an example, especially since it happened to line up with the 40-year timeframe.)
The biggest sin is that it's too fun to write macros in elixir.
And even if they accomplished it, they wouldn't come even remotely close to being as financially successful with the same product.
My favorite part was that the only negative marks I got was on leadership. My manager admit that I was not given any power or opportunity to demonstrate my leadership skills.

I got a raise, but ended up leaving 6 months later.
For anyone wondering, Berkshire Hathaway is worth over 400 billion USD... Their site doesn't use css or JavaScript...
Why is this flagged? It seems like a very legitimate thought. And now this post is at #63 (on page 3).
Are they over priced? They're cheaper than Sennheiser or Bose at $159. They have a value-prop of having their own, better, wireless protocol that works flawlessly with iOS. And people seem to like the form factor.
They also seem to have better performance specs and software quality than anything else on the market. In addition to a design that people actually like.
I'm more interested in what it's going to cost in 5 years.
He doesn't have to support the policy choices of his predecessors. Actually, the policy that led to those consolidations was ended in 1998:

In 1998, DoD unexpectedly reversed the pro-consolidation policy
and urged the Department of Justice (DOJ) to reject theproposed
merger of Lockheed Martin and Northrop and the proposed General
Dynamics acquisition of Newport News Shipbuilding.

https://www.dau.edu/library/arj/ARJ/arq2001/Deutch.pdf
CRC is faster than SHA1
That's the part this regulation is taking away, more or less. That airspace is being given to Amazon for commercial operations.
As always, none of the numbers are official, so take all of them with a huge grain of salt. The article also doesn't link to a single source, not even an unofficial one.

> Assuming an even split of sales between Gen 1, Gen 2, and AirPods Pro, Airpods revenue was $12 billion in 2019

This itself is a terrible assumption. AirPods Pro launched in November 2019, so had just 2 months of sales. Even otherwise, there is never an even split between the lower and higher priced versions of any product, especially when the higher one costs nearly double.

Another source (https://hypebeast.com/2019/12/apple-airpods-stats-third-larg...) estimates the sales at $6 billion, half of what the parent article says.
For a market to be both free and fair workers must have symmetric power and information with ownership and the customer. Otherwise the system is inherently unfair (in an economic sense) toward workers.
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I've idly thought that Spotify should get into hardware. Headphones and/or speaker, purchase it connected to your account, and one touch button to a stream of music you like.

Obviously a million times easier said than done, but has to be a better margin business than where they currently are and would be good lock in.
Smallest as in order not length.

In the second example with input cbacdcbc a possible solution would be cbad but acdb is "smaller" (ordered before).
But that system is made of employees. It's not the office building or the computers. It's not the copy machine or the coffee maker. It's other workers.

If all I needed to do was make the same capital investments as facebook to get the same returns wouldn't that be wonderful?
This is only because most home purchases are fueled by debt.
As opposed to the phone itself?
> “As a pilot, my eye is always on safety first,” FAA Administrator Steve Dickson said in a statement Thursday announcing the rule. “Safety is a joint responsibility between government, pilots, the drone community, the general public and many others who make our nation so creative and innovative.”

How does this make it any more safe? People are still going to fly where they aren't supposed to and in ways that aren't safe, and this rule won't change a thing in those regards.

If you're currently using a drone to fly over downtown LA illegally and take shots, why in the world would you put identifying information on it?

I would also like to know what private companies are getting all this money to implement a new system? Could they have any ties to individuals within the FAA? The Commercial Drone Alliance has also been pushing hard, presumably since it is trying to keep its commercial partners the only operators that can fly.

To me, the fact they are saying this is for safety, is a very VERY thin argument.
So what's new about this? It's been in the market for a while at around $20k per tile iirc.

On the other side doesn't Sony, Barco, Christie and a few other signage companies have something similar to it?
How do you validate B2B startup ideas?
Suppose you find an inefficiency with your company's software development process. You think of a product idea to solve this problem. Before starting a company, what is the best process for validating the idea, making sure other companies have the same problem?

What stakeholders at other companies do you need to talk to and what's the best approach to gain their cooperation to discuss your ideas?

Please respond if you've successfully done this before. Thanks.
I think that a lot of it it also due to the fact that the existing modern ECUs in most cars can just be reprogrammed in place. Why swap out the ECU, when you can just plug in to the OBD-II port and tune it?

The use scope for replacement ECUs is pretty limited. Limited to a handful of 80s and 80s cars with extremely primitive ECUs (by today's standards), old cars that are being retrofitted to run fuel injection, and specialty one-off builds (where even most of these people buy something like a Motec, AEM, Holley, etc, etc ECU that plugs in and goes).

The possibility of damage is the same whether or not the ECU is DIY or not. It's all in the tune whether you will blow up your engine or not.
That doesn't differ from their other offerings...

Their laptops and phones do not have replaceable batteries, why would their headphones?
Who will save Kenyans from predatory digital lending apps?
Airpods are an integral part of Apple's future medical ambition. Always in ear Airpods constantly taking your Temp, HR, Glucose, GSR, etc. With the kicker that it is only stored locally and securely on your device, all processing done locally via HealthKit. That customized data will change how we think about patient care.
Have you read BHo7K? If so, what did you think? If not -- read it!
https://python-poetry.org/

I think the snake animation is pretty cool.
I have several friends who successfully don't consume HCFS, even when traveling or at friends' houses.

On the other hand, your vote for those politicians has near-zero effect. And if it does have an effect and they ban HFCS, then you've just imposed your will on people who wanted cheap sweeteners more than they wanted to avoid the health consequences of HCFS.
Has anyone found any info/study on "average likelihood of losing or damaging an airpod in a given year"?

That's all that's stopping me from buying this and other premium products. I love premium products but not if I have to replace them every year.
Thank you. What then would you say motivates you?
The conclusion of the article is that it is getting harder to disrupt the incumbents. I'm saying that regardless of whether it is or isn't, there are still lots of new companies to come that can take advantage of technology to disrupt other, old-guard incumbents.

That, I think is where the metaphor Ben uses breaks down. The automobile is a single idea (move people around with an ICE). Tech is more like the ICE than the car. So, there might not be much disruption to consumer hardware (Apple) companies, or search (Google) companies, or cloud computing (Amazon, Microsoft) companies. But there will still be lots of disruption to come as tech (just like the ICE) gets applied to new features.
Once upon a day, phones had replaceable batteries. I'm still holding on to my ancient phone specifically because of that.
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The Fed's information is outdated for an arcane reason. Susan Houseman figured it out - listen to her interview on Econtalk.

https://www.econtalk.org/susan-houseman-on-manufacturing/

Almost all the growth in US manufacturing is in semiconductors.

This wasn't obvious because economists made an accounting mistake when calculating trade flow. Everybody repeated the misinformation from the same source and so everybody is wrong.

In my opinion this should have been headline news for weeks.
Here's the website directly: http://www.2arms1head.com/

Thread for anyone who's interested: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21729056

Very similar topic, also recommended: Johnny Got His Gun by Dalton Trumbo.
If it's treated the same way as popup windows, then scrolling shouldn't count.
could even use light persistence from LEDs. Not necessarily on the fan blades, perhaps on the body as it moves forward

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yn4KRySf3LM
> a beautiful story of a guy who was too kind to be a dick when he needed to.

This is a narrow and incomplete view of what's being talked about.

> words chosen for your eulogy depend on the influence you managed to build while still living.

Assuming there's anybody at all around to choose them, and assuming that they are honest, I'd say they depend much more on what sort of person you were.

Maybe the influence you built will have a large effect on who hears them, but if you weren't "obsessed with success and prestige" in life then you would probably have been fine with a smaller crowd at your funeral anyway.
Which also describes legal locations to use drones. You, without an exception, can’t fly a drone in class e or above airspace.
A workaround if you really want that might be to set a bettertouchtool hotkey mapping pinch to CMD+/- when in the Firefox app.
I think they're getting at a model either like Kickstarter, or directly funding a department ( say Google's AR department, if you liked their Glass idea ). The problem with a normal investment and no seats on the board is that you don't really have a say on direction provided that a company does more than one thing. there's also the fact that money is fungible and would probably just subsidise loss making departments as is common today
I think he may be referring to AV1's economics weakness. Not the actual quality itself. As in the cost to bring quality to this level while disregarding encoder and decoder complexity. Kostya has a rant about it here [1]. He was the guy that made Real Video work across all platform .

Personally I am giving the industry a benefits of doubt and one last chance on VVC / H.266.

[1] https://codecs.multimedia.cx/2018/12/why-i-am-sceptical-abou...
Good. The Chinese people won’t rise up against their government until the economic (relatively) good times end.

What can we as citizens do to help?
>With the kicker that it is only stored locally

Do you think most people would want to lose all their data if they lose their device?
Not really anti-competitive reasons. More of a pissing contest between the two companies who want to use their own protocols.

Spotify just wants Sonos to implement their Connect protocol and so their native Sonos integration is pretty half-assed. But implementing connect makes Sonos a 'dumb' speaker so it's obviously unthinkable.
For what it's worth, I've interviewed 200+ engineers at Google and I think the problem you linked is not a good interview problem. I'm sorry you were asked it!

A good problem gives people with algorithms ability a space to demonstrate that, but it should also give space for demonstrating strengths in design, coding, communication, etc. This one is almost all algorithms, of the "have you seen things like this before" variety, plus a small amount of code.
I've always used the security.enterprise_roots.enabled flag for this, is this new one different?
> Tech work isn't like coal mining where ... the number of alternative options available to the average worker is low to non-existent.

Strange, I tend to see situations where some people can pick up a new job at the drop of a hat, and others just struggle to stay employed.

The industry goes through cycles, and someone who has a certain kind of engineering talent can easily pick up and move to another job. Everyone else is often stuck taking what they can get.
I hated them until I tried them. Their integration within Apple's ecosystem is killer.
NYC here, never have heard it with an 'a'. Its always just 'in shambles'.
Please don't overegg the issue with AMP by comparing it to cancer.
rustc still has a number of cases where it performs poorly compared to gcc and even clang
The phone battery is hard to replace, not impossible.
>> Size of mining reward and transaction fees per given amount of kb of transactions is vital thing for miners.
> Transaction fees per given data volume is less important than net profit on actual services provided, a chain that has a thousand times the capacity and a hundred times lower costs is still ten times more profitable than the competition.

That's true but you it's not guaranteed that you'd get 1000 times more transactions when you increase capacity 100 times. It's a gamble and if bitcoin did that it would get unpredictable result but show miners that it is willing to gamble with their profitability.

>> Increasing block size would be same as decreasing payout (of tx fees) for each block.

>Just as stupid as saying that increasing seats on a train decreases the ticket revenue on that train. Completely false.

Increasing number of seats might cause the train to be partially empty and if this one isn't the next one might be. Since people get tickets on auction then non-full trains bring no revenue because tickets for them cost zero. So it might be not sufficiently attractive to participate in the burden of sending more trains.

When there were ton of transactions fees skyrocketed but in weeks they went back to normal and tx fees revenue for miners dropped. Tx fees dropping to too low value in times where they are main income source for miners might be what kills bitcoin. Same way that low traffic might kill a train line if trains are running mostly empty and tickets don't have fixed price and their are auctioned instead.

Again. Bitcoin is built and governed for survivability first. You can do it differently with other cryptos. You can even fork bitcoin. People did. Miners voted with their legs on which solution they prefer. It's really miners that decide everything.

I don't get where you were going with federal reserve tangent. I'm just getting a vibe that you overestimate politics and underestimate economy.
> This is not something current LED displays are prone to,

I will disappoint you. LED displays have burn ins too! And with pixel sizes approaching that of OLED, burn ins will start sooner, and be more visible.

Samsung will not go for microled for consumer market until it gets "led on the backplane" going. That eliminates the transfer process, and most of cost associated with it.

The unsolved issue is current transfer. If you grow LED in-situ, you have to somehow put power supply there too, and preferably do it in the same manufacturing process.

If you have to transfer LEDs mechanically, it makes little cost difference to put LED driver ICs there mechanically too.
Late Applications to YC Winter2020
I applicate to the winter 2020 of YC with a late application 5 days ago and i want to know which is the time average in order to get a answer.
If there's something wrong with the statistics given in the source, point it out. If you've got statistics that you think are more accurate, give sources, and say why you think they're more accurate.

But this drive-by snide comment is pretty worthless. You can be better than that.
Hah. I am reminded of a particular conversation I had when I was working in China. Our admin informed us around Christmas/New Years that we had to register with the police for "religious celebration" if anyone wanted to have a Christmas party. We were like, "we can't even have food and drinks/gift giving? It isn't like any of us were religious." Yep no parties that might be even superficially religious. We ended up having regular night out instead.

While I was there it was noted that any version of the Quran which was not in Chinese was banned and needed to be turned into the authorities because only the official Chinese translation was permitted.
Who else do you think? Globalists of course.
The batteries in the other items are replaceable, it’s just not easy. In my understanding, the AirPods batteries simply aren’t replaceable at all.
> Unless HN prefers static documents

Have you looked at HN lately, or read any of the submissions? Shit, we'd go back to using Gopher if possible.

Static sites with a sprinkle of optional JS to enhance usage (votes in HNs case, although inline JS replies would be a good idea as well) is the way to go for most sites.

SPAs are meant for _large applications_, where the majority of functionality derives from JS, and would be cumbersome to manage otherwise. There are very few of these in comparison.
Bushfires haven’t got any worse over the decades, but the writing about them sure as shit has.
I have. I didn't have time to rewrite it (I'm working, and I didn't want to take it down) so I added a few caveats. I am going to research this more and follow up again. Thanks again to everyone for the great responses. I learned a lot from the comments here.
Or, you can pay to replace the battery. I've done it with an old iPhone6 and got back a pretty usable device.
Live a little! Nobody would buy anything nice if they were constantly worried about it.
I would want to invest in projects that I think will take off. For example, if I had to invest in Tesla, I would not invest in the Cybertruck. In fact, that project turns me off investing in Tesla entirely. But say, the Model Y, on the other hand is something I think will be successful so I would bet on it
True enough, there are many applications that do not require critical timing.

As far as engineering goes I would expect most engineers would feel more comfortable putting their seal on something that was over-engineered than just good enough. This is similar to why when designing a circuit it is common practice to double the power dissapation or wattage of components.

I see no reason Java or Python languages wouldn't work or any other language for that matter, as long as they were running on a stable system, I'm just not convinced that arm processors offer that stability but again I may be wrong.
How does this compare to Apple Watch? Sounds to me like this is a fairly big upside surprise. If you were given the choice beforehand, which of the two would you want to have managed?

I would have guessed Watch but it looks like I'm wrong. Pretty astonishing that people will throw an extra quarter on top of the price of their phone for this, especially given that I've used noise cancelling headphones before. My guess would have been that removing the wire would only make a small difference.

I guess the market is there to discover this kind of thing. Kudos to Apple for finding this.
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From the property name it sounds like your property is about trust roots (CAs) and parent's about client certificates (for mutual TLS authentication).
The dealership model really helps manufacturers keep a tight reign on the market, look at all the trouble Tesla had.

In a similar vein, Apple, Google and Microsoft control the medium and have grown so powerful, I can't imagine there ever being a new "Google" that comes about the old grass roots method.

Someday Apple will be bought though, probably by Facebook.
It's certainly possible for the Apple Health data to be backed up to iCloud. I haven't changed devices recently, so I don't know if it is.
> Always in ear Airpods

stopped reading there.
Amazing how Apple managed to make the first cool MP3 player, then the first cool smartphone and now the first cool bluetooth headset. For almost 20 years now, Apple has owned electronic fashion. Sony for example was unable to parlay its Walkman dominance into similar positions with new devices.

And make no mistake about it - a huge portion of these sales are people buying Apple's marketing - not buying the tech itself.

Which I think may bode well for Apple in that we are only scratching the surface of what the tech can do.
This myopia really puzzles me.

It seems like the whole analysis is predicated on the idea that technology = software made in Silicon Valley, with unimportant secondary factors. That 3M and ExxonMobil are not "tech" companies because they don't make iPhone apps.

Every company is a tech company, not because we've had computers for a while, but because technology is what we build to get what we want.

These kinds of narrow, myopic, siloed takes miss the forest for the trees.

If you think the epitome of human evolution is going to be people looking at bright rectangles for eternity, you haven't been paying attention to what technologists are doing.
echo '' | fzf --print-query --preview-window wrap --preview 'cat test.json | jql {q}'

Trivial note. echo instead of echo '' or echo "".

$> [[ "$(echo)" == "$(echo '')" ]] && echo $? || echo $?
$> 0
I don’t want to denigrate the achievements of those involved, but it probably didn’t go from seeing seeding plant to, a ha, planting crops. It likely consisted of a long series of very much smaller incremental steps.

1. Hunter gatherers collect seeds, but drop some near their temporary settlement.

2. The next time they stay in the area, they notice food plants growing where they dropped the seeds, so they don’t have to travel as far to collect them.

3. They start deliberately spreading seeds so there will be even more there next time.

4. They start clearing land to make more space to spread the seeds on.

5. The quantity of seeds they can gather at the site meets or exceeds their needs, so now they don’t need to travel to gather enough and can settle down.

Throughout the process they discover little tricks, like scratching the ground before scattering their seeds, or which kind of ground is best to clear and sow, which seeds grow best, etc, etc. This could take many generations but once the process starts under the right conditions with the right seeds in the right area it snowballs.
At a time when Apple in many ways feels like it's stagnating, the AirPods are a breath of fresh air. With an "old Apple" focus on the details, they present a fantastic user experience and give me faith that Apple still has the ability to innovate when freed from the constraints of a long-lived, entrenched product.
Hey OP,

im not much of a math guy, I'm getting hung up on this part:

SHA1(P1+C1+X) = SHA1(P2+C2+X) for any X.

The example above seems like SHA1(GOOD_DRIVER) == SHA1(BAD_DRIVER+C2+X) somehow.

How does the C1 and X get appended to the signature of the good driver.
A “single purpose music box” would be neat to me. Maybe it controls all the speakers in my house, informs me of concerts coming up, let’s me set a mood, and most importantly doesn’t care about anything else.

I feel like every gadget being in one is gonna start breaking down now that software interop is more of a thing.