skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Do you expect security updates and updates to keep 3rd party services working to happen in perpetuity?
Having scattered several of the ikea sonos-compatible speakers around my house, I appreciate that perspective.

But I am a little concerned that when I move to the new iDroid Megapixel XXXL 3000 in late 2025, I'll have to replace them all if I want to be able to send audio from my phone to the speakers.

When having the sync across the whole house is the main reason you like the setup, it's even more galling to need to replace them all. I wish (and will be watching to see if they do, before I add any more speakers to their system) they'd come up with an upgrade path.

It'd seem like a smart thing for them to do. Surely they could come up with some kind of bridge gadget you could connect to your network between the old and new for the cost of about one speaker. That'd spare them having people angrily leave their ecosystem because, if you need to do 5 rooms at once anyway, you might as well shop around.
Can you explain why blocking old TLS versions is even necessary? Didn't all the browser vendors announced that they're disabling old TLS versions in their browsers in a few months now?

Blocking poor people is the only thing that is accomplished by this policy employed by Wikipedia. It's very sad that everyone's celebrating all these actions, instead of calling Wikipedia out for widening the digital gap, and quite literally expiring your right to read.
Words Are Hard – An Essay on Communicating with Non-Programmers
In the late 90s a lot of these machines were being abandoned. Properetary Unix was dying due to Linux, and non-intel CPUs were also getting crushed. Plus there was the dotcom crash meaning defunct companies got rid of gear.

In those days I got an extremely cheap Sun workstation on ebay as an example.

Anyway, I guess supply is low but there are still nerdy people who think an old Unix machine is cool. (I'd take one running Irix just to play with for sure.)
There are also issues of how to account for the same set of carbon emissions.

Suppose a Chinese factory uses electricity supplied by coal to manufacture a product. The product is shipped to the United States aboard a Korean container ship before being shipped by diesel train to Seattle, where it is delivered to a retailer by truck, purchased, plugged into the wall and powered by a combination of hydroelectric and natural gas energy. In this scenario, many of the carbon emissions can be counted as Korean or Chinese even though the end consumer is American.

The flip side of this is that the United States can also directly affect Chinese carbon emissions by simply buying fewer Chinese products.

Edit: Also, since China is a totalitarian dictatorship, it’s not like Chinese people can pressure their government very much.
Why can't it be both? It's both.
I think you're confused about how a prenup works in regards to the current context
Optimal Vote Buying Strategy [pdf]
now im hungry
So, here's what I sincerely don't get: why is she allowed to spend a bunch of money on her criminal defense while there are civil cases working their way through the courts, and after she's basically admitted she doesn't have enough money to defend herself in both cases?

I understand it would be probably unconstitutional to delay criminal proceedings until after the civil proceedings. But can't the judge in the civil proceedings do something to prevent all the money from being spent on her criminal defense?

It seems morally wrong that someone can commit fraud and then spend the money obtained via that fraud defending themselves against the state before having to settle up with the people who they defrauded.
She's a proven extremely competent swindler. It's probably a mistake to assume she can't possibly have convinced someone a pre-nup isn't necessary.
Not for awk:

BEGIN {
RS=""
FS="\n"
}

{
for( i=1; i<=NF; i++ ) {
nfields = split($i, afields, ": ")
if( nfields != 2 ) {printf( "Bad fields count: %s %s %s\n", NR, i, $i) | "/dev/stderr"; exit 1 )}
field(afield[1]) = afield[2]
}
}

(Untested, but should be generally accurate.)

That parses records based on blank lines, into fields based on lines, splitting the fields into individual data recoreds based on ": " as a regex.

For more, see the GNU Awk User's Guide:

https://www.gnu.org/software/gawk/manual/html_node/Multiple-...
If you think you will ever be cross platform, do yourself a favor and write as much of the business logic as you can in C++ or C. The platform-specific piece should be small and “just enough to make the platform happy”. Do everything else portably from the start.
>That color discrimination runs deeper than you think, man. The last company I worked at the full time employees had blue badges. The contractors's badges? Green.

Hah, the badges had this color scheme in a job I interned at years ago. Never thought to make that connection. :)
It's a shame the words "real", "deep", and "investigative" are needed. Used to just be "journalism".
> Why wouldn't everyone file and wipe out their civil case debt then?

Because bankruptcy involves losing your unsecured assets and adverse credit. The same reason not everyone declares assets to erase their dischargeable debts that aren't civil judgements.
Was just reading on this topic while learning Arvo Pärt's Spiegel im Spiegel, and couldn't help interpret it as being heavy on critical-woo and light on functional analysis.

(see linked papers mystical treatment of a for loop.)

People talk about his Tintinnabuli style as being algorithmic and generated, but this particular paper wasn't persuasive, and reading the score while listening to it, I don't think it is. There are probably some symmetries encoded in his work, given how demanding they are on your attention, but the idea of discovering hidden meaning is itself superstitious.

https://www.researchgate.net/publication/271513800_Mathemati...

or if link is down:

http://xn--urnalai-cxb.lmta.lt/wp-content/uploads/2014/11lie...

However, the idea of reasoning about relationships and intent in music could have some applications to reasoning about code, and machine language and behaviour in particular. So I'm not entirely dismissive of the poster, just a bit wary of some of the baggage the ideas may have collected along the way.
Really strange how this is painted as a gender issue, and the strict definition of "hobby" is strange too. What's the difference between a "hobby" and an "interest"? I know plenty of people who refer to cooking as their main hobby, and they seek out new recipes, buy new equipment because they want it, and experiment with new food all the time.

I also know far more dads who were gifted a tool set "so they can be handy around the house" than I know people gifted fridges. It's not something I know of people complain about, and it's not something I ever thought as being strange until I saw some people on the internet being enraged about giving women cooking equipment. As a person who never asks for anything in particular for Christmas or birthdays, a sharper new kitchen knife, a new pan, or a new (non-smart) fridge would be absolutely perfect. If I'd want anything, it's something I'll use daily, and if I'm sharing it with family, that's fine.
most systems are laptops, tablets, and phones now and none of that applies.

but in application it does about everything, and most jobs it does haven't changed much.

HN is generally filled with other tech people who have turned luddite in their old age.
Precisely why my brain immediately went to, "we need to get this far away from today's media industry..." after feeling the necessity of writing that
This is a much better article than the title would suggest. If you're the type that just reads the comments here on HN-- and I'm guilty of this-- I recommend this article.
Compared to illegal mass surveillance programs that remain running to this day, and a witty intelligence head who remains free after lying under oath, this is a shinning success that should be celebrated.

Hopefully other nations follow their lead one day.
Theranos wasn't something that failed to happen because of execution or market trends, it was something that mathematically could not and cannot happen, ever. Also, when that became apparent, the company's response was not to pivot to something else, or to close up shop and return their investors' money; instead, it was to fraudulently claim that this mathematically-impossible process existed, and to sell it.
Transitioning to SaaS would be difficult, but they'll probably need to figure something out. Their current situation isn't tenable. People expect them to continue updating their software for free forever.

The software they provide that makes their speakers work is the magic as you say, and it really does work better than anything else. It's certainly way better than AirPlay 2. But keeping that software working requires updates.

I don't know the best path forward, but they should at least consider the Eero+ route of selling a subscription service that provides real value that also helps them support devices long term. Eero is incentivized to continue to support my 1st-generation Eeros because I pay them $99 a year.

There is a lot of interesting stuff that they could do with a subscription service that would add value, and would also help them continue to pay for updates on older devices.
If you mean Freudian psychoanalysis, you're right. Freud was a quack. The word "pseudoscience" was literally coined just to describe him.

If you mean all psychotherapy is bullshit, you're wrong. There are bad therapists just like with everything else, but good psychotherapists have saved a lot of lives over the years.

And if, on the off chance, you think all therapy is bullshit despite never having had therapy yourself... well, nobody is that stupid, right?
Can you give an example of beginner hostile documentation?
So what would be some examples of when a scrappy upstart took over because the segment leader ran into tech stack scaling issues? (As opposed to the segment leader running into corrupt or incompetent management, failing to notice a new market opportunity etc.)
Ditto the cultural proscription on passing/returning small stucts by value.

Which really should be a compiler decision. Depends on the target CPU. If you pass something as const ref, the compiler should copy it if that's faster. For AMD64, it probably is. If something was just written, it's in the L1 cache and is really cheap to copy. On-chip data buses today can be as wide as 64 bytes. Anything not bigger than that is better copied.
del.icio.us is now an unconfigured Apache install
Does it matter? Either she spends all her money to get out of jail and ends up penniless or she spends all her money on the civil case and ends up both penniless and in prison. The court can order her to pay up all they want, but you can't squeeze blood out of a stone.
Drove into NYC last year and could not believe people were allowed to live in those buildings.
When Historic Preservation Hurts Cities: Prohibiting Solar Panels
The trap is anthropomorphizing oil companies with some sort of intent beyond making money. It's entirely a supply-side issue of people wanting to buy oil, and as a society, we have to deal with the consequences. Blaming oil companies is a cop-out for failed public policy.
Upvoted to counterbalance the downvotes for what I perceive as a legit question
Could have gotten diagrapher.com

Still available...
The 22x figure is dubious. I had seen articles citing a more believable 2.85x number. What is not clear to me is what is considered a "scientist" and why is the Nobel Prize used as a metric. For example, what happens if you compare Nobel Prize winners from top universities with the rest of the scientists at those top universities?
My solution to this has been to simply not use my phone for anything reasonable. I browse the internet, play games, capture media that get sync’d to dropbox, and I use VPN/VNC + ssh to do work on other machines. iPhone has potential to be more, but it isn’t. By Apple’s design, the most powerful thing it can do is be an access point to more capable machines.
I don't think there is much downside in starting with the good stuff (placing and moving pixels). You can, and will eventually expose more of the cruft as needed. But if you lose a students on day 1 because you spending the day configuring instead of creating, you may never get it back.
This guy dropped by to lay down the truth: https://news.ycombinator.com/threads?id=medman77

His one and only comment. I wonder who he was.
More than 300,000 websites are still blocked in Turkey, just to put this in context.

Also it's quite naive to assume that lifting the ban wasn't the government's intention, just days before European Court of Human Right's deadline to oversee the case.
I believe they’re making a movie with Jennifer Lawrence playing Holmes.
Now, but not when it was invented and first came out.

When the car was invented it was barely more useful than a horse and for many jobs horses were still used. Give all the home automaton time and I guarantee it fill far pass what it does now.

Not a single argument you have is unique in either product or time. EVERYTHING you say was said of cars or many other technologies before this. Horses were way more reliable, parts were specially made (talk about lock in), and there was obsolescence there too.

It is absurd to think "but this time its different" and you somehow have hit some good enough level of technology in this area.
A civil judgment is to take someone’s assets, which the creditor can still do in bankruptcy. It’s not to make someone the creditor’s permanent slave. As far as I know, only spousal support can do that.
It no doubt aided the movement to deinstitutionalize patients with mental illness. Between 1955 and 1994, most state hospitals for the mentally ill were closed. This was done with the best of intentions, but the implementation led to the current mess where many severely mentally ill people are without adequate treatment and are homeless or imprisoned.
Haha, the new Hadoop - that's funny! Upvote from me!
I’ve been running it for 3-4 years. After a long initial setup, I’ve only had to touch it once: when some authentication protocol was deprecated. A small price to pay, all things considered.
Was it not acquired by the founder of pinboard.in?
Cool. I don't want a dock with an external power supply, though. I want to reduce cable clutter, not add to it.
According to this article[1], nanoparticles drop off quickly compared to larger particles:

"However, the highest averages were recorded inside the cars and buses: the closer to the source of the pollution, the exhaust pipes spewing out the fumes, the higher the total number of nanoparticles. The difference between walking by the kerbside of the road, and by the building side, on the same pavement – just a few short steps – was an average of 82,000 particles versus 69,000. The same readings registered no change in PM2.5."

1: https://www.bbc.com/future/article/20191113-the-toxic-killer...
HN discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=21552934
Oh, pretty much every single comment I make gets at least one immediate downvote as soon as I post.

I assume I got in a flamewar with the wrong person some years back or something.

Don't really care about internet points on VC-sponsored forums, but it'd be nice to get an answer to this question from someone who knows something about law, though, so thanks :)
I think he is making insinuations as to her wiles.
It's not in an investor's interest to be ignorant about problems with their investment.
Needs a (2018) tag.
Bold indeed. ‘Cause not listening to your lawyers worked so well for Ross Ulbright and Hans Reiser...
There's absolutely nothing wrong with loving to cook, regardless of gender. But women are often expected to cook, whether they like it or not, and women are often gifted things that help them take care of the house and family rather than things that are actually personal interests for them.

A big part of the difference in my mind is whether this is an expectation hung on them by other people and/or forced on them by circumstances versus something they genuinely want to do out of interest and enjoyment.

I'm a former homemaker. I did a lot of cooking while I was a military wife and homeschooling mom, but I don't actually like cooking. My oldest son took over the cooking when I got divorced and got a corporate job.

I've done a lot of reading to try to figure out how to make my life work. I was one of the top three students of my graduating high school class, a National Merit Scholarship winner, etc. No one expected me to be a homemaker for two decades, least of all me.

The ways in which sexism exclude women from some things and force other things upon them are often fairly subtle, which helps make the problem intractable.
You can make all your smartass sassy comments about those cavemen using $30 thermostats, but until the industry behind your spiffy $300 smart thermostat is forced to get its act together, you are way, way more likely than the cavemen to wake up to a dead climate control system because you missed the "Thank you for going on our wonderful journey with us, your thermostat is now a paperweight" email your manufacturer sent three months ago.

Observing that this is a problem with the smart home industry in its current state is not some kind of crazy Luddite "you kids with your fancy calculators and automatic transmissions" ranting.
Not the OP, but I think you’ve actually made exactly the point quite well yourself.

The field of study is not supposed to be “do we like this sort of people and get along well with them” or “are they well adapted behaviorally to be productive members of society” but rather an actual set of illnesses which can be diagnosed, treated, and conceivably cured. We do in fact prescribe powerful pharmacological agents based on these criteria, after all.

And yet, as the Director of the NIMH rightly laments, "DSM diagnoses are based on a consensus about clusters of clinical symptoms, not any objective laboratory measure."

It is in essence a type of culture war hiding behind a so-called diagnostic manual. In that sense it is more aptly described as a dictionary, whose lexicon is revised more based on their perceived common usage more than hard scientific study.
because then people could potentially sue others to sabotage a criminal defense. I'm not sure to what extent her finances are monitored by law enforcement and the various judges.
Because it's not actually in the interests of users/consumers (woohoo! over here! remember us?) for everyone to have to "design their own" interaction model.
That’s actually kind of wild. This person nailed it to a T, and as their only comment of all time.
I am extremely frustrated at the lack of options for USB-C multiport adapters. The majority of the models seem to be manufactured by brands I have never heard of. Any that seem to be decent quality and have decent port selection are also extremely expensive.

Apple decided to eliminate all data ports except USB-C on its notebooks several years ago, yet they don't offer a robust multiport adapter? (I guess you can spend $70 if you want the privilege of being able to plug in a conference room HDMI adapter, but not much else.)

I am also completely confused on how many of these multiport adapters work. One I purchased in the past required that I install drivers on my Mac. Others seem to not require that. Can I plug USB-C adapters into USB-C adapters, if say, I wanted to plug a USB-C to Ethernet adapter into my main USB-C multiport adapter? Does it depend on the adapters? Does any USB-C multiport adapter that has a female USB-C port allow me to charge the device the adapter is plugged into? I seem to have had mixed results with that in the past.
Her creditors and the plaintiffs in the civil case could file a motion to freeze her assets. I don't know whether they have attempted to do so.
Well, certainly more than five years (see below) — that’s nuts for a device that costs several hundred dollars. And I would distinguish between security updates, keeping existing functions working, and adding new functions (in increasing order of length of “support”).
This is the stomping grounds of young, 'soon to be rich' idealouges. The current world is dripping with what people who frequent this site have done wrong today. Sociopath is incorrect. We just no longer care about our peers, because it is fashionable, and Profitable.
How is this not flagged??? How can you decide something you don’t have context of?
That looks like a dream, but I'm wary of trusting a newcomer on delivering a dream.

Apple's entire game is making things small and making them work well. Why are Apple (who has unlimited funds to throw at this), Anker, and other established companies unable to make something like this, but this newcomer is?
Modernising Data Supply Chains in the Age of Algorithmic Intelligence
Making the Case for Mobile Marine Protected Areas
Hmm. OP, you sort of editorialized a key bit of the source quote:

> Compared to other scientists, Nobel laureates are at least twenty-two times more likely to partake as an amateur actor, dancer, magician, or other type of performer.

> Nationally recognized scientists are much more likely than other scientists to be musicians, sculptors, painters, printmakers, woodworkers, mechanics, electronics tinkerers, glassblowers, poets, or writers, of both fiction and nonfiction.

Nobel Laureates are 22x more likely to be performers of some sort than their peers. Being “just” a nationally recognized scientist is associated with being “much more likely” to have a music/sculpture/art/tinkering pursuit than other scientists.

I don’t think this implies “have hobbies”. But the argument for breadth definitely holds.
Diary of an Engine Diversity Absolutist
Awesome! Anyone have a copy of the paper/presentation? Or is it not allowed to be distributed prior to the conference?
I do own my business, it's fairly low volume but it's sustainable.
These are cumulative figures since 1751. In other words over 200 years of emissions before anyone knew what the consequences would be, and decades after that when the consequences weren’t widely understood. At least current figures are fair in the sense of accounting for who’s making it worse.
I am impressed how fast Chinese scientists developed a genetic test distinguish 2019-coronavirus from other kinds of pneumonia. I am old enough to remember biologists flailing around for 4 years to identify the HIV virus and two years more for slow (two week) test.
Hadoop did not event reach 1/10 of Kubernetes popularity.
Did it set back psychiatric practice? Maybe not. But did the Rosenhan experiment set back the public perception of psychiatry? How could it not? If you remember that suicide hotlines are life-saving interventions, and that a lot of don't call them because they think they're staffed by "head-shrinkers"...

At the very least, Rosenhan convinced a lot of people that the Church of Scientology might be right about something.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scientology_and_psychiatry
If you had that kind of guilt and worry, you wouldn't put yourself in that position to begin with. These people don't have the same kind of emotional reaction you and I have. From my experience with people in a similar psychological category, this kind of quasi-fearlessness is viewed as a super power from which the person is able to manipulate those around them to get the outcomes they want. They're not process-oriented people, they're rats in a Skinner box pressing down the lever that gives them their food pellets. If they feel stress, their lack of moral qualms only makes the sensation feel exhilarating, like a roller coaster or an action-packed video game.
Welp, do you imply I should stop gifting my father tools and my mother cooking equipment and explain to them that they should stop liking this stuff because it reinforces patriarchy or what?
So this means there are no hubs that can do 4k60 for an iPad Pro because it's not TB3?
Apparently he is, or he won't be re-elected because of this choice.