skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
SD cards typically lose their data integrity within a decade, and sometimes as soon as 5-7 years.

Some SD cards support "extended storage" for up to 20 years, but it's an uncommon feature.
I’m really starting to appreciate Masayoshi Son’s determination to prove that much of the tech industry is make-work for grifters in our era of low interest rates.
You could try OpenOffice/LibreOffice Impress.
This style of quotation is difficult to read on mobile.
Which outage are you talking about? Got a link I can check out? Thanks!
Sure, but motors last many times longer than the batteries. On old laptops you could replace the parts that get obsolete. The memory, cpu, hard drive. But probably not the parts that last - the screen or the power supply.
Depends heavily on your definition of "build yourself"...

The airplane is a big one and I'm building one myself in my garage, as did the inventors of the first airplane.
Hell, a solid chunk of all other inventions were created in someones garage. Compared to a full scale airplane, making nuclear reactors or transistors yourself is even easier and the transistor is easily the single biggest invention of the past century.
Well, macrophages are a lot like amoeba. And we already know that diseases that can infect amoeba sometimes infect macrophages.

From amoeba to macrophages: exploring the molecular mechanisms of Legionella pneumophila infection in both hosts
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23949285

Ancient bacteria–amoeba relationships and pathogenic animal bacteria
https://journals.plos.org/plosbiology/article?id=10.1371/jou...
Menstrual cups are a step up from this!

They produce much less waste, are much less messy (almost never leak), and don't need to be changed as often (once every 6 - 12 hours and without the TSS risks that tampons have).

It's better to use running water to wash them out, but simply wiping them with tissue paper can work too (albeit a little messily), if water is scarce.

A downside that I've read about however is that just like with tampons, some cultures consider inserting anything into the vagina as losing your virginity so using them may be considered taboo.
It's an infinite loop that increments/decrements registers. This emulator is too slow to run real-world programs.
Redneck Bank
Or here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22294989
It's not clear to me what this new keyword should do when a function has more than one value to return. Does it always use a zero value? What if a user wants to return something else?
> By the time Elop took over at Nokia they were already doomed.

Yeah, someone in Nokia engineering had made some company destroying miss calculations.

It's not like the didn't know what they were up against - it was race between engineering teams. And it's not like Nokia the company couldn't fund that race - they were a gorilla in the ring when it came to resources. They even saw the train coming at them, knew what it would do to them, did some awesome things like buy QT in preparation but it was nowhere near enough.

Blind freddy could see the pace of development happening on MeeGo and is predecessor (I forget what it was called) was nowhere near fast enough. Given the resources I expected Nokia to be throwing at it, either the team behind it was tiny, or they were tied up in some titanic tide of red tape go-slow goo.

It's not like it was an impossible ask. That was back in the days of Android Honeycomb and Gingerbread which were clearly something Google has slapped together in a rush. They were IMO barely usable. iPhone was barely more than a phone + ipod back then, granted with the best UI on the planet interface but even then the gulf between what Android would allow you to do what would be possible in Apple's walled garden was apparent, so there was space in the market for a different mix.

> The final iteration of Windows Mobile was excellent, what killed it wasn't marketing but ecosystem.

Well in that case it was obvious what happened. I've lost count of how many "throw it away and start again" iterations Microsoft went through. I do recall using one of their earlier attempts when they had very little competition. It was a Win95 interface crammed into tiny resistive touch screen, complete with start button. It was unusable without the stylus they provided. It had an uptime measured in hours - literally far worse than Win95, which was an amazing "achievement".

They threw major bits of it away and started again, and again, and again, each time with something that was 100% binary incompatible with the previous version so they never built up a customer and app base. Eventually they ended up on the NT kernel with an amazing GUI toolkit that as you quite rightly say was the best in class by any number of engineering metrics, but by that time the network effects of their competitors building up an enormous customer and applications by keeping compatibility completely annihilated them. Numbskulls.
Yeah, no, that seems to be about the size of it.
Unfortunately, I'd be hesitant to call a whole lot of hardware from 15 years ago "generally usable for baseline tasks", either. Even running just a web browser, a 2005-era machine is gonna struggle quite a bit on modern websites with a modern browser and underlying OS.
White House calls for biggest NASA budget in decades to reach the moon, Mars
And here’s the current link on their website (for whatever reason, they moved it from (or renamed the directory from) 'news_md' to 'reform_md'):

https://mntre.com/media/reform_md/2019-05-20-reintroducing-r...
I'd say it's pretty correct, but I'm not sure I'd agree with what I think your conclusion might be. If you want user interface toolkits based on 20 year old paradigms in your browser, just build your app on something like YUI. :) "Make it like the desktop" was the initial wave of web developers' first instinct, and it wasn't great.
I think you underestimate the number of people who urgently need real, substantive change in this country.

Voting for Hillary is not palatable to those people.
> Does any computer manufacturer out there anywhere care about longevity like that, today? The Cadillac answer to that used to be “Thinkpad”, but those days are long gone and as far as I can tell there’s nothing else in this space. I don’t care about thin or light at all. I’m happy to carry a few extra pounds; these are my tools, and if that’s the price of durable, maintainable and resilient tools means a bit of extra weight in the bag I’ll pay it and smile. I just want to be able to fix it; I want something I can strip all the way down to standard parts with a standard screwdriver and replace piecemeal when it needs piecemeal replacing. Does anyone make anything like this anymore, a tradesman’s machine?

Panasonic toughbooks. I have a CF-C2. Here's a couple of comments I did on it:

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22122762

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22122803

I also found the bottom strap/handle is made from a thermoplastic. When I got mine, it was too "open", which made the laptop jiggle a little while typing. I just took it off, and with a bit of patience, a heat gun, and a soldering iron (to seal a crack I did from improper use of the heat gun), I managed to adjust the shape so that it was more comfortable. I grips my hand better too.

Here's a review Linus from LinusTechTips did on a newer model toughbook:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x7rt6BZYscs&t=2s
Try chorus.ai
IMO the main benefit of a dishwasher is giving you somewhere to stick dirty dishes that’s not the sink. I agree that it’s not particularly time consuming, and prepping dishes for the dishwasher and loading them probably takes about half the time of hand-washing anyway.
Maybe it's because it uses (at least at launch, dunno if they every changed it for something else) Web tech for it's interface?
> The main thing I've noticed is that natural fabrics don't pick up smells nearly as badly as synthetics.

This is especially true of wool.
What's the next best guess for a target now that the amyloid hypothesis seems to be a failure?
Just wanted to mention that you can already mine the data that would be useful for something like you mention, like so: https://console.butt.google.com/marketplace/details/github/g...
Yeah. Now try again with the latest Mac mini and compare :(
I have been bearish on AGI, but GPT2 surprised me with the lucidity of its samples.

My take from the past few years is that we're 99% done with the visual cortex - convolutional nets can be trained to perform any visual task a human can in <100ms. Now I'm mostly convinced that GPT2 has solved the language cortex, and can babble as well as we will ever need it to. We just need a prefrontal cortex (symbolic processing / RL / whatever your pet theory is) to drive the components, which is a problem we have not even started to solve. I am 90% sure it is a different class of problem and we won't knock it out of the park in 5 years like the visual/language cortexes, but we can hope.

edit: it's possible cognition follows from language, which would be convenient. is GPT2 smarter than a dog? I don't think so but I could be wrong ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
This is like Windows Vista Aero UI on crack.

There is a reason that UIs don't look like this. The transparency alone is a major issue for usability, accessibility, and productivity.

It's an interesting project. I wish this person would have pushed themselves to think of new paradigms, rather than trying to use more effects to very staid looking interaction design concepts.
Cities have property crime. The only way around it is to sequester yourself in a gated community or similar.

I have a fun anecdote too -- the last time I was out in a rural area I got knocked over in a Walmart by two rednecks who were fighting. I've elected not to judge the entire area based on that one experience.
You could make it stronger and more durable, but it will definitely be larger and heavier if you make it out of PLA, and more expensive than a bit of bent wire if you FDM it.
> So if recreational heroin had never been made illegal, pharmaceutical companies would today be "forced" to sell it?

If one company does start to sell it, its competitors will probably be "forced" to sell it too.

> Some things simply should not be allowed to be profitable, and it is not up to for-profit companies to decide what is and what isn't. It's up to society as a whole, though government, to decide what is allowed to be bought and sold. Personal data should be in the category of "not legal to buy and sell".

Agree
Your blazingly fast and thoughtful comment is much appreciated. Let's see what others have to say ... :-)

One clarification that I would like to make (which IMO diminishes your second point's potential value) is that the B2B SaaS platform that I plan to build would stay away from implementing a myriad of domain-specific scientific methods and algorithms (though I plan to provide a valuable core) and rather would enable users to integrate their own implementations (through a plug-in architecture). Thus, Julia's package ecosystem seems to be a factor of somewhat lesser importance.
Sort of implies that copper smelting was really the important innovation, to warrant the need for electricity?

In all seriousness though, the printed circuit board might be a good one to bundle with that. The old methods of creating a mechanically robust compact electrical package were nowhere near as efficient. They're also very recent and very easy to make yourself, even if it's thin plywood with tinfoil glued on.
You're literally on Hacker news. Not everything needs to be viable. Fun is enough.
Correct, but flat design is objectively simpler than skeuomorphism.

I don't even mind skeuomorphism, I quite like it, but it's just bullheaded-error that has people claiming that it's simpler than flat design.

Complexity isn't a sin or something.
Any chance to compile some benchmarks (spec int) for this and see how well it compare to the original silicon?
At some point we have to decide if the goal of humanity is continued population expansion or some other project. Of course, good luck with the latter.
You don't, that's a waste of time for anyone actually proficient in OPSEC.

After years of advocating for privacy on multiple fronts (amateur-enthusiast to professional) I realize that most people are not capable of being trusted to protect themselves from even the most basic threat vectors, and that convenience is the biggest priority in their calculus, thus it will never occur to them why things like PgP encryption and cryptocurency is necessary until its too late.

At which point they're a potential customer, so why am I going to reduce my Market share?
It’s common for women in Japan to get their friends traveling abroad (to eg Taiwan or Vietnam) to bring them back eg birth control or the morning after pill. It’s expensive and typically not covered by insurance (problem 1), and extremely hard to get a prescription for because the doctor will likely be male and lecture you on how you should get married and have babies (problem 2).
You could also say the bra.

Less of a hygienic product for sure, bras spelled the end of corsets and really helped usher in many changes that led to a big increase in personal freedoms for women (both physically and socially).
Meltem Demirors on how the elite work to control the government
As an alternative to "2nd/3rd" or "developing" countries, I really like the "Four Levels of Global Income" model[0] that Hans Rosling put forth in his book Factfulness[1] (a must-read IMO).

It gives a much clearer perspective on how people live (and as you mentioned, how similarly people live across the world amongst the same income levels)

[0]: https://www.gapminder.org/topics/four-income-levels/
[1]: https://www.amazon.com/Factfulness-Reasons-World-Things-Bett...
That's really cool to have the charts generated as code. Very concise way to specify things, and with all the power of graphviz behind the scenes.

Another tool in that space is https://cloudcraft.co/ although only for AWS, and you have to manually do the diagram layout.
All the data and anecdotes I’ve seen suggest the correlation is in the opposite direction. Especially when it comes to race; in many minority groups grandma is very much part of the stereotypical family home.
I have been bearish on AGI, but GPT2 surprised me with the lucidity of both paths. I still maintain my support for the basic metric of the GPT-I. However, I have a number of requirements on how my proposal is to be funded to resolve concerns. First, I strongly believe that academic research should be the method of choice (that is, if we are to figure out how to make AGI possible), and I advocate funding to support results from the central bank community. Second, given that the GPT can be articulated in mathematical terms, this should be reflected in funding policy. A very serious concern is that if funding of GPT is disincentivized, investors may react similarly to the way they reacted to AGI. This is
Responsibility and liability are not zero-sum. You can put the thief in jail, and also sue the pants off the bank for negligence.
Genuinely curious, as someone who wasn't building desktop apps 20 years ago, what are the toolkits you're referring to?

When I google "cross-platform desktop frameworks", the entire first page of results are all about the modern toolkits like Electron, Photon, ReactNativeEverywhere, etc.

So it seems like your complaint is many years too late at this point. Maybe there were solutions to this 20 years ago, but if I'm starting from scratch today trying to build a cross-platform app, what I'm looking for are frameworks that are mature, well documented with lots of tutorials on how to do basic things, and have a large community around them for getting help on e.g. stackoverflow. It doesn't really matter what has been around longer, if the newcomers have surpassed it on these fronts.
For something more accessible to laypeople: bicycle touring is a thing.
Pack a few bags, attach them to your bike and cycle across a province, country, continent or around the world.
I biked across Europe in 2017 and it is my most happy and memorable life event to this day.
> Perhaps this was just careless wording, but I challenge you to find a liberal who thinks the state should replace the family in this regard.

I think a better phraseology might be that liberals are insensitive to the fact that safety net social programs may displace support provided by charities and family.

For example, consider two families, each with a retired grandfather, in a country where the state pays for child care. These subsidies are typically not available where care is provided by relatives. That creates a weird situation where both families are better off if each grandfather takes care of the other family's child.

To slightly change the hypothetical, say instead of subsidizing child care you’re subsidizing baby formula. There is in fact strong opposition to such subsidies, even (and often especially) among liberals. The reason is that by making formula free you reduce the incentive to breastfeed (which is perceived as more beneficial).

The false premise is that you can design a safety net program that only kicks in "when [community or family support] fails." The safety net becomes an alternative to community or family support, and disincentivize relying on the community or family for help. You don’t just affect the small number of people who have no alternative, you alter the whole equilibrium.
I never was able to get julia to do what I want. If I were a data scientist who developed and maintained large libraries, then it would probably be great, but I'm not. I just want to quickly visualize and modify data, or maybe see how a model compares. Much more difficult to do simple things like that than in Octave/Matlab.
A Kayaker and a 134-Foot Waterfall. What Could Go Wrong?
. Duct Tape

. Bungie Straps

. Zip Ties

Not necessarily in that order.
I read somewhere that the transformers cartoon from the 80s was created as a commercial.
> In the last five or six years I've come to dread the Linux desktop and its constant churn of rewrites and UX "improvements".

Not like Windows is especially immune to this, either, though in Microsoft's defense they actually listened to the users somewhat and backpedaled to a proper Start Menu instead of continuing to shove Metro down everyone's throats.
Just some scripts I find useful in Windows
It's certainly not very easy to read. And a real person probably would realize most readers would think Adjusted Gross Income in a title mentioning houses and jobs.
I don't think this is correct.

I don't believe the concept of one way data flow was in the old desktop app approach was it?

Nor was the idea of "props" i.e. a consistent mechanism for pushing parameters down to subcomponents through a consistent and flexible interface.

Nor was the idea of the render function - giving components a consistent function used to display itself.

Also gigantic leaps are being made in the area of simple componentisation - we are now down to very pure functions that handle a very constrained task.

State management in ReactJS especially with hooks is giving much more simple and clean mechanisms for handling cross cutting.

Old desktop applications, because they did not have a core application "cycle/flow" and were not arranged as a tree of components, had a tendency to end up as a spaghetti mess of complex highly coupled interactions with the whole thing risking collapsing under its own weight of complex interactions. Modern frameworks like ReactJS address these things by reducing complexity, increasing modularity via components, giving applications a general structure which is a hierarchy of components, giving all applications a consistent model for data flow, forcing a simpler mechanism for data sharing via the one way data flow rather than the more highly coupled two way data binding, and lately, emphasising the power and simplicity of plain functions over classes, objects and inheritance.

Surely there's other innovations too I haven't thought of.

Characterising modern web development frameworks as somehow only now catching up to 20 year old desktop development does not seem correct to me. Such an idea does perpetuate the myth though that the JavaScript world is full of dumbos badly trying to reproduce what all the smart "real developers" did a long time ago.
Those are US gov't agencies, not "dissidents in other nations."
How do you talk to people, at all, with rising CO2 levels and Trump?

You don't.
There are parts of Julia I really like but it has some problems.

* Multiple dispatch is an odd design pattern that seems to over complicate things. I know there are people that love it and claim it’s better, but after working with it for some time I just want a struct with methods. It’s much easier to reason about.

* The packaging is cumbersome. I understand their reasoning behind it but in practice it’s just more of a pain than denoting functions as public one way or another.

* The tooling is poor. I work with Go for my day job and it’s toolchain is an absolute pleasure. The Julia toolchain isn’t in the same arena.

* The JIT is slowwww to boot. I was amazed the first time running a Julia program how slow it was. You could practically compile it faster.

* Editor support has never been great.

* As others have mentioned type checks don’t go deep enough

I think it has some neat ideas and in certain scientific arenas it will be useful, but IMO they need to focus a bit more on making it a better general purpose language.
I was really worried for a moment, because I thought Unbranded [1] went under. It seems like many businesses have a sort of 'brandless' identity. I suppose it is difficult to be well regarded, well heard of, and also lack branding. I'm curious what the takeaways are here, and what broader lessons there are to learn.

[1] https://theunbrandedbrand.com/
Agreed. I always found Lowrey's doxxing to be appalling, especially given that she is a journalist. Tracking him down to his place of work. Extending his doxxing using the resources of her publication. As if listing his full name and place of work was in the public interest.

(Originally posted under wrong thread.)
We don't have an exact date, but, we plan to share more details in a later submission. If you want access, please send an email to [turing_ AT _microsoft _DOT_ com]. Remove underscores and spaces.
”People are vastly underestimating the changes that are about to come from NLP.”

Maybe, maybe not. IMO, we don’t know what problem we have to solve to get what you describe. We also don’t have a metric as to how far we are along the path towards that goal (do we need 100B parameters? A trillion?), nor do we have any idea as to whether the current approach can get us there.
What evidence do we have that any of that military technology was directly reused in the civilian applications? Furthermore, to make such claims is to say that the military developing this technology, plus the associated mass murder that results, is somehow a better deal than privately paying to develop this technology from scratch independently without the associated violence.

It’s the second part that is the nut that your argument must crack, and that is a very difficult bar to clear indeed if you in any way value human life.