skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> have failed to provide proportionally economically efficient services

This myth appealing to some automagical optimality of "free markets" has been disproved in real conditions time and time again in domains like healthcare, transports, telecoms or urban planning. Please don't pull that science string when discussing societal choices, especially out here where there will be people contradicting you that probably share your technical knowledge.
Disliking people for an immutable characteristic that they had no power over(racism) and disliking people for actions they chose to take, are not even remotely equivalent
Just run current firmware from last september or later and keep the pi4 standing up on its side naked, it will never throttle no matter what you throw at it. (unless maybe your room is 80F or more)

I've had my pi4 compile stuff for days on end and it does not throttle if the above setup is followed.
We detached this subthread from https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22452815
PRISM was just a fancy NSA source name for “the FBI serves warrants and collects data on our behalf.”
> Doing it wrong twice means you learned nothing from your first failure.

And yet falcon 1 failed how many times before they got falcon 9 up?
There is no way to avoid leaking implementation details, it's just a matter of how much you leak. Even monads leak their performance characteristics.
OpenAI is to X as DeepMind is to Google.
dark pool. Its not always best there can be jolts at the sunday open.
While people are debating whether Apple should have the power to revoke certificates and disable such apps, I for one am glad that in the instances where this has been made public, they’ve all been shady apps meant to mislead and abuse people with a broader aim to subvert human society itself.

Look at the previous well known cases about this same decision — Facebook tracking people’s every move with a “VPN” software, and Google doing the same (though on a smaller scale) with its own “VPN” app.

These apps and app makers knew about the restrictions on the App Store, and yet they proceeded to bypass it through the enterprise program because the app makers (or those specific teams) and the apps are shady end-to-end. AFAIK, both Facebook and Google pulled the offending apps and decided not to go ahead with them on iOS. But they did continue (again AFAIK) with those on Android.

While we can hope that such bad publicity helps expose such massive threats to people around the world, there’s not much that can actually be done without regulation.
Honest Question: What if we started pouring that money into food stamps and similar instead of "not and graves"?

Or am I missing a something like "these are apples and oranges"?
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The plethora of companies building mission critical apps on platforms like Ionic and React Native would stand to disprove this
Don't design planes.
> - Modern ventilators have a price tag of if you have to ask you can’t afford it.

Not sure about the efficacy, but I was reminded of this discussion ("A doctor in Bangladesh has found a simple way to treat infant pneumonia"):
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=17945071
> I think the main issue keeping the pi with a 32b userspace is the lack of availability of 64bit GPU firmware

Uh, no. It's there because of the design goals and priorities of the Foundation. They want to be able to distribute a distribution that runs on any raspberry pi generation. Performance is of secondary concern to them. So Raspbian remains at 32-bit.
Go has a nice set of polished libraries now for distributed computing (hashicorp/raft, etc) that makes it easy to start new projects. I wish other languages also had as many, might have to start porting.
By definition, didn’t most news ‘Just’ happen?
The Art of Recording the Big Band, Part 2
Dyson (re Oak Ridge experiments): So if you change the carbon dioxide drastically by a factor of two, the whole behavior of the plant is different. Anyway, that’s so typical of the things they ignore.

'Different'. 'Ignore'. Not Dyson's best day. Oak Ridge was hardly a climate lab. Many studies have followed. This two year-old SA article, Ask the Experts: Does Rising CO2 Benefit Plants? [0]starts with this summary: "Climate change’s negative effects on plants will likely outweigh any gains from elevated atmospheric carbon dioxide levels"

[0] https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/ask-the-experts-d...
I agree.

But the enterprise program IS using the App Store. An enterprise distribution just sets up a virtual App Store within the larger App Store. It's still a service that Apple provides that comes with a business agreement and terms of service (that these terms may be ethically uncool is an orthogonal point that we both probably agree on).

No one is stopping Clearview from hosting their code on GitHub with a Readme.md that makes it clear how to download XCode, and how to build an install the app on their own phone. Not even Apple.
Well, the one edge of this sword is essentially being used by wealthy, businesses and those in power to gain additional information on average citizens to leverage for their own advantages and the expense of those folks happiness.

Traditionally, an average person had a tremendous amount of privacy simply by the virtue of being average. It wasn't worth the time/effort/resources to collect data on them. With ubiquitous sensors, it's now far more manageable or even trivial to collect data on people and use it no matter how unimportant or insignificant you are in respect to money/power.

People of great wealth and power also somewhat enjoy this privacy. Unless you're a public facing official or on the top of the wealthy list, you essentially can also disappear in crowds and enjoy a degree of anonymity. Some may recognize Gates or Bezos in a crowd but drop down to say Forbes 400 rank... #144 (picked at random) and you'll find.. (searching) Leonard Sterm.

Prior to that sentence I've never heard that name and certainly wouldn't recognize him in public even though he is estimated to be worth a modest $4.8B. I might (probably not) interact with them in the future and as an average person, I'm at a disadvantage because I can't recognize his net worth and public information which I could potentially leverage to my advantage in the same fashion someone wealthy/powerful may use their resources to leverage me.

Take this a step further and focus on business investors and participants promoting these technologies, pouring money into them. For example, I can't even name the people involved in Cambridge Analytica even though they were in the news and probably wouldn't recognize them either. Sure, I can dig around and find them but that wouldn't be useful in most situations.

For the most part, your average person doesn't have knowledge or resources to access and leverage such data that businesses are starting to use against the average consumer and worker rapidly and in ways that significantly impact their quality of life.

As such, I would propose leveraging these same identification and recognition approaches against those pulling the strings or in public government office positions who should be fighting for citizens rights and developing a targeted dataset for those folks and exposing it in a way your average citizen could use it. Perhaps as a phone app that can pass a few frames of sampled video back to a service that identifies these individuals and gives detailed public information about them. Make their anonymity suffer. Link it to public facing records of their history, etc. Develop network information for their families, friends, business associates.

Obviously, this is worthless against high profile individuals (celebrities, high government officials, etc.), but a lot of wealth and power hides in the shadows of the general public's eyes yet are pulling the strings on these cultural shifts us plebes are dealing with. Turn the tables and make the technology problematic for their daily lives as well--drag them out into the light for the public--maybe then you'll see more regulation and penalties for using these technologies surface. Just a thought.
You are probably right; I originally thought that the message was to invite people from abroad to visit Barcelona, hence my skepticism about people wanting to travel there.
This was a little different. Lead levels were due to iron smelting -- the production of new iron from ore. As the population dropped, it became more economical to recycle already smelted iron that wasn't being used any more (because its owners were, y'know, dead). So there was no market for ore for a few decades.

The pollution levels in that case reflect a rapid change in a single industry due to what amounts to a buffer overflow, not economic activity per se.
I recently installed Arch Linux on my Pi Zero, it also uses FAT32 for the boot partition. I did the initial setup the way you described. Check out https://archlinuxarm.org/ , it's pretty great.
Maybe this mysterious “bug” is a backdoor
I thought Quillette had been blacklisted on HN. It’s a right-wing rag and never leads to any interesting discussion.
No info on the webpage. No (or very few) posts on Github, Twitter, Instagram. What is it about?
Personally, this could be a brilliant idea.

I am a person that struggles to sleep on planes due my length (6"7) and basically never sleep on flights. Especially, when the person decided to recline their seat the whole flight. Which I find really rude to do on a 12 hour flight.

Normally I end up sleeping most of the day when I arrive at my destination. I slept for 24 hours after not sleeping for 32 hours (stopover plus too windy to land) when I flown to NZ.
Washington state man becomes first U.S. death from coronavirus
I'm always surprised to see Quillette show up here. For all the complaints about partisan bickering, politics in tech, etc. Quillette is an obviously biased political opinion page. (Not that I have a problem with bias in media -- in fact I'd much rather have opinionated media rather than the milquetoast 'both sides in equal measure' media we seem to strive for today.)
Then you may be happy to learn that OpenAPI documents can be written in YAML (since OpenAPI 2.0).
I wonder if using zram or zswap can help "eat" those overly long pointers in RAM via compression ?
I think it's a dichotomy where half of the thinking is bonus-oriented as you describe, and the other half is them wrongly assuming all users think/work as they do and will thoroughly evaluate before making a meaningful decision to purchase or put into production (because surely everyone has massive SRE/QA budgets and only does 10 hours of relevant work a week and the rest is for deep optimization). Thus you get the outcome of releasing beta products and then be surprised when either the product is a disappointment, or it gets yanked later due to poor/unideal adoption.

> I'm not sure what you're saying about sharing blame, that these products are too popular? I'm not sure that's a sufficient reason, but it would certainly explain Google's overarching product strategy through the decades.

I'm not sure if it's sufficient cause either, I just try to peel back the onion to understand more then just "those people are dumb profiteers with simple minds making simple mistakes". Also I think it yields some unique insight into my own work/coding/life when I identify the deeper subconscious flaws in product development.
(deimorz is former Reddit staff and now operates a Reddit competitor)
I have an old Zune. Going give this a try this year
No another leap year would be fine. But yeah a very common (wrong) pattern is, if you want to find the same day a year in advance, is to do `d.replace(year=d.year + 1)`, and that would break on Feb 29 only, so one day every 4 years. It's a very common pattern unfortunately.
> You could still delegating the decision to Apple without restricting other people use of their general purpose computer[1] if Apple simply ran a curation service. Your choice to only use apps that have Apple's stamp of approval doesn't require forbidding other people from making a different choice.

You have a much greater ability to inspect any code / processes that run on a general purpose computer running Windows and the like. With an iOS device, you have it on trust that the app isn’t doing anything nefarious. In that context, Apple’s role as benevolent guardian as to what is and isn’t allowed makes more sense.
I originally sent this out to the founders of companies I know. To your point it can apply more broadly.

Many larger company boards have already discussed this, but many startups have small or no boards to bring this up (hence the email I originally sent which turned into this post when founders suggested I publish more broadly)
An expert in the field discusses how to stay safe when a dangerous virus is spreading. [1]

[1] https://foreignpolicy.com/2020/01/25/wuhan-coronavirus-safet...
Yeah, I was confused too, there’s plenty of molecules made up of two atoms. Sounds like the guess from other commenters about conservation of energy and momentum are most likely to be correct!
Your points are irrelevant because it's simply impossible to use paper anymore for any but the smallest local businesses. Paper is too slow. Customers and employees would quickly leave.
And inhalation isn't the only way to get infected -- any mucous membrane (including the eyes) is a possible infection route. The only real protection is a full hazmat suit with a full face shield. And you need to know how to take it off without infecting yourself.

The best way to protect yourself from the illness is to stay away from other infected people, not wear some home made protective gear that you're probably not going to replace often enough or handle and dispose of properly after you take it off.
How much has SpaceX had to “start over” from what NASA and others have researched over the decades?
You know what magics away a lot of problems? Being profitable.
> "... and re-writing things in a breaking manner. IMO you should just build the entire thing yourself."

Well that could be said for literally any 3rd party library. New updates may break things, that's why you need to pin the exact version you use to prevent things breaking.

I would rather use a library which has been tested and used by many people, than reinvent the wheel on a bunch of things...
Precision of understanding would go up and emotional investment in a topic would likely be more proportional to true stakes?

Sounds boring but functional.
What Kind of Content Should You Write in 2020 to Increase Your Success?
I don’t know how that makes a difference to his comment. Which is exactly what I was thinking.
A lost bet. Their user growth stalled in the past years, they could have moved at least some parts of Google Cloud without losing scalability.
On the other hand, it could have gone the other way around and they could have been actually in need of all the scalability Cloud Services offer. From what I have heard they messed up their interface some time after their IPO and that really hit them in the guts.
Yes, we did. So what? Someone that buys an iPhone can use their property as they desire. Apple is selling a general purpose computer (even if they wish they were selling an appliance with a specific limited set of features). They can (and should) make recommendations about how to use their product safely, but they don't have any right to forbid people from using what is now the customer's property for an "unapproved" purpode.

A manufacturer looses control of their product after the first sale[1].

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First-sale_doctrine
In fact if you want to specify some kind of rigid schema (and for SOAP/XML Schema it usually is needlessly rigid) you are reinventing either ASN.1 or SunRPC's XDR, only with larger overhead...
People have been building pressure vessels since the days of the steam engine and cryogenic pressure vessels since the early 1900s. Robert Goddard's first liquid engine ran on liquid oxygen, that was in 1926. The metallurgy and processes are well understood, an explosion shouldn't have happened, yet Musk managed to have one twice in a row. Fire engineering and management, Space X is beginning to look like Boeing!
I don’t really want a user removable battery and make it less water proof. The devices are pretty good and last several years if the batteries are well taken care of. I’m also fine with Apple replacing the batteries with its own certified batteries where I don’t have to worry (much) about the quality or longevity or even stability of the power source.

The bigger issue with all lithium batteries on devices is that even third party replacements are available only for a limited number of years. I’d rather have Apple and similar companies be forced to provide paid battery replacements for longer than their self-defined device obsolescence cycles (which are quite short for phones, tablets, and even for laptops). That’s how you can make sure that devices remain (kinda) usable for the long term, even if they’re handed down to someone else.

If Apple is indeed forced to do something, I’d rather have a better way to load apps outside of the App Store and increase competition for Apple.
Ask HN: Quickest way to create a Covid-19 volunteer job board?
I would like to create a job board for people to post COVID-19 volunteer projects.

I am of the belief that the coronavirus spread is a dangerously multiplicative process and slowing its spread now is critical. The merits of this belief are not what I intend to discuss here.

Like some popular freelancing sites, it would include profiles for willing volunteers as well as posts for projects that are needed.

Are there any freelance site themes available on common platforms such as Wordpress? Do you have any better ideas for paths to explore in order to build such a project?

Thanks.
Web Design for dual-screen devices
I think the answer you were looking for was, apparently NO there is nothing special about 2020 in relation to this problem. Despite the misleading use of year 2020 in the title and the title of the linked page, what is being experienced is a simple mis-coding of year+1 calculations. The title could have been,

"Leap day bugs, again! People, must we go through this every 4 years?"

So this is a crop of bugs that are either code written in the last 4 years or untested/unnoticed/unreported 4 years ago.

One of the Sprint examples (someone roaming between two cell towers and their date changing back and forth) is especially disturbing.
I don't know anything about it, but I think there may still be related litigation going on.

Edit: maybe not. Wikipedia says he was convicted in 2007.
However, I was given an NDA regarding something that sounded related at some point after that, so...
I think there is a better solution: On a new install on first login, over ssh or on the gui, a user/password must be created.

This way the initial login only works once. Both gui user/pass and ssh user/pass are tied by default.
I also probably did thousands of hours of unpaid moderation and development work on Reddit before I worked there.

None of that's very relevant here though, other than showing that I'm intimately familiar with the dynamic from spending a lot of time on both sides of it.
Also sort of interested in this comment. It can be difficult to make ECC useful. There's chipkill vs SECDED, for starters. On paper, EPYC Rome has chipkill. More important than paper features is integration with the board firmware and the OS kernel ... Linux RAS features are quite useless if the kernel fails to notice the errors. Whether this stuff is well-integrated depends a lot on your vendors.
One of the main benefits you get to running a proper aarch64 userspace is ability to run a modern functional firefox install. The 32-bit builds usually don't support anything newer than a very old LTS release. It's been hell trying to build and/or run that target (see: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1452128 )

This is especially important if considering use as a low-end desktop as Chromium will eat through 4GB of ram like it's nobody's business.
These daily updates on r/supplychain have been interesting and, from what I can see, well sourced: https://www.reddit.com/r/supplychain/comments/fbcc9h/covid19...
But who supports json5?
There aren't a ton of quillette posts upvoted: https://news.ycombinator.com/from?site=quillette.com

I wouldn't say they really stand for anything other than "opposiste of political correctness" regardless of the topic. They post articles that would never be allowed in other media.
If you're not sensitive to main memory latency, just say that. Don't try to tell me that 25ns is not relevant. It's ~100 CPU cycles and it's also about 25% swing from fastest to slowest.
There isn't a free market because FDA approval takes at least a decade and hundreds of millions of dollars. The result is only a few companies can actually get a drug to market and without competition, can set the costs.
I neither condone nor condemn your assessment, but I do agree it's somewhat relevant to keep these things in mind:

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

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Intellectual_dark_web
The French supported "America gorilla revolution" against the British.

America has supported "gorilla revolution" for revolutionaries and counter-revolutionaries against multiple nationals, at least some of which involved the CIA selling cocaine domestically for money to fund foreign weapons.

Which is half of a dozen? Which is six of the other?
No, it isn't using the app store. A company rents an enterprise certificate from Apple for $299/year. The company can then sign as many apps as they want using that certificate, and distribute the apps through MDM, itms-services links or manually using IPA files installed with iTunes. Apple can remotely revoke these certificates. However, Apple does not know which apps are being signed, unless they are informed through (in this case) the media.
"INSERT only, no UPDATEs" - sounds like event sourcing?
How many users block Google analytics? (2017)
It's more complicated than that. There are still die-local memory controllers, but the penalty for remote access is vastly lower than earlier Epyc models — so much so that you plausibly could run your workload with naive UMA memory access and be just fine. AMD's ad copy says it's UMA, but really that's just marketing spin on improved remote memory perf.
The reality is that containment has long been off the table, which should be obvious to anyone who understands the jist of R0, the long incubation, the reality of global travel and the lack of tests.

It is time to switch modes from quarantine to containment and stop pointing fingers. Openly tracking potential cases in realtime can help communities slow the spread so we don't get crushed with huge spikes of critical cases all at the same time.
Looks like results of a GPU company being in bed with a CPU company. Wonder how much this all stems from the AMD's acquisition in ATI in 2006, and what they learned over their years together...