skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Agree, but as well a big "normal" keyboard (incl. a keypad). Basically like a lenovo p70/1/2/... but thin (and without discrete GPU nor superfast CPU). I just want a big screen & keyboard :(
For anyone else not familiar with the exact shape:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disdyakis_triacontahedron
Property-based testing in Rust with Proptest
Hackers Target WhatsApp with Verification Scam
I was homeschooled K-8th, went to a traditional school for high school, and then a big public college (University of Florida) and dropped out Junior Year to move to SF and join a startup.

My parents' goal for our (me and my siblings') educations was basically just to teach us how to think. They cared a lot more about what we were like at 25 than what we'd be like at 15. I found this to be super freeing, and something I valued a lot.

We didn't have much money growing up, and my dad worked 3 jobs so that my mom could stay home and homeschool us. My mom was actually a public school teacher, and wrote a paper in college on why homeschooling should be illegal. I have always loved her willingness to change her mind on that once she realized that public school wasn't the best fit for us.

My parents both sort of split the "education" responsibilities, and they really tried to empower us to view learning as a journey we could join them on vs. something that was compulsively forced upon us. So, whenever possible we would learn things from the "real world" vs. a textbook or classroom setting. I remember when we were learning about the pulmonary system, my mom convinced a local butcher to give her some cow lungs so that she could show us how inflating / deflating lungs worked. When we learned about the founding of America, she put us in a van and drove from Florida to all 13 colonies and visited all the historical sites.

I found the transition to traditional school and then a big public university with 50k students to be quite easy. I also played a lot of sports growing up, and I find that sports / music / other forms of community tend to give kids plenty of socialization, and the "homeschoolers are socially awkward" meme is a bit of a myth in most cases.

Anyways, it was hugely positive for me. It's not for everyone, and requires a specific type of parent with a specific type of motivations, but I think it can be incredible for many families.
But where are those small cameras?

Panasonic's GM series is all but abandoned, and the E-M10 is hardly small compared to a Fuji X-E3 or Canon M50.

To me, that always felt like M43's Achilles heel; it promises to be small and light, yet most kits actually end up just as big as APS-C.

I still love my GM1, though.
I haven't but a close friend did. It was a cool project (built from shipping container). It took about 9 months before they moved back into an apartment. The biggest complaint was, lack of space and feeling confined. The exact words were "felt like prison".

I think everyone's experience will be different and everyone can adapt, but there are side effects for those of us that are already homebodies, spending large amounts of time in a small space.

I would encourage you to rent an RV and try to live in for a month or two, or rent a tiny home for the same period of time.

Another factor is costs, as they're not as cheap as you may think.
QBASIC 4.5 is responsible for my entire career in software engineering. As an 8yr old kid I was fully able to grok the documentation included in that environment building games that emulated what I would play on my NES. Mostly it was just dumb Dragon Warrior-esque RPGs with HORRIBLE dialogue, first text-only then with full-blown graphics. In the early days of the internet there were tons of communities and forums and some of my first websites I published were dumb game websites where I'd publish my .BAS =)

Before that I would tinker with Applesoft BASIC on a IIe my father brought home from Rockwell Collins... BASIC was/is such an approachable dialect for kids.

After a few years tinkering I graduated to Pascal and C/C++ after an uncle unloaded all of his old Borland books on me. If it wasn't for BASIC teaching me programming fundamentals (variables, conditions, loops, "functions", etc) I don't think I would have been able to grok formal/more-powerful languages. At first I didn't have any resources/mentors/Google for programming so I really needed BASIC.

BASIC will always hold a special place in my heart!
IIRC, Canon's 1" sensor cameras use Sony sensors too. Don't know if their smaller sensor cameras are home made or not though.
woo, hadn't heard about firecracker
So you are saying that money laundering/tax evasion/trust theft no longer happens? Or do all of the relevant agencies have all of the information they need to stop it and choose not to use it?
Wow, that's a name I haven't heard in years!
I don't understand why you're trying to pick Samsung out. If Google strongarm Samsung and Motorola and LG and say "you can't put Google apps, Google Maps, Google play store on your phones anymore and can't get Android updates from Google unless you XYZ" that has a greater reach than Samsung alone has, doesn't it? And that is a reach that Google can have, and Samsung, Motorola, LG alone cannot have, right?

And by reaching over multiple Android phone sellers, that has at least a similar, but likely much greater reach than anything Apple can do, doesn't it?

Whether a company can be sued for being a monopoly in a given jurisdiction isn't so interesting to me, as whether they can influence ~80% of the worldwide smartphone market; If they can do that but you can't sue them for being a monopoly in Tuvalu that has no bearing on anything interesting.
pop(Jacksonville) > pop(Atlanta)

903,889 > 498,044
Work bought us System76 Gazelle laptops [1]. Quick thoughts after six months of use, coming from a MacBook Pro user:

* Chiclet keyboard feels nice to type on

* Plastic fake brushed-metal case is

* Battery life is about an hour, almost unusable away from a charger. If I were spending my own money on this laptop, this would be a dealbreaker.

* Built-in display sucks. It's allegedly matte, but still has incredibly high reflectiveness. 1080p resolution and just okay LCD color reproduction

* Fan noise is a serious issue. I made the mistake of un-muting myself on a video call while the fans were going and other people on the call immediately muted me. They thought I was in a wind tunnel.

* Webcam quality is low. Video calls with an open window behind you mean you will be washed out by backlighting

* Performance is great. Runs a bunch of simultaneous headless Chrome browsers in Docker and completes our unit test suite pretty quickly.

* The trackpad is truly horrendous. I use tap to click on my MBP, and I had to turn that off on the Gazelle real fast. Palm rejection is nonexistent - had false clicks every 15 minutes. That is not an exaggeration.

* Keyboard is backlit

* USB-A, HDMI, ethernet means it's easy to use it as a desktop

* Built-in speakers sound tinny and low-quality

* Large and clunky, but weight isn't bad

I'm torn: Ubuntu and GNU/Linux generally are excellent developer environments, but the laptop hardware is horrible. It feels like the $600 Windows machines my friends used in college.
Are basic Posix utilities parallelized?
When you ask how many deaths in Iraq were caused by "the Russians", you lose any assumption of intent to engage in good-faith discussion. We know you didn't read the 97-page study linked by GP, because it discussed the question of who caused the many deaths in several sections, including one beginning on page 28. Before examining the figures more closely, the Physicians for Social Responsibility observe the following:

A priori, of course, those who started the war also carry the main responsibility for all victims. Since the assault on Iraq unequivocally constituted an aggression in violation of international law, the U.S. and its allies are also responsible for all its consequences.

What could you possibly be thinking? "Of the million violent combat deaths in Iraq through 2012, we should only blame USA for 600k, not 850k!" Such an argument would be silly, if it weren't completely monstrous.
Then use roads as an example. The point is, internet is obviously a communal good that can’t be logistically provided by more than one entity, and the government is there for the benefit of the community.
Arlan Hamilton was the keynote speaker for Detroit's Startup Weekend. She knows the people who created this site and wanted to see it get some publicity.

The idea is to get the first $5000-$10,000 of seed money to black founders. If you're not a accredited investor this provides a way for you to help black founders.
They absolutely are allowed.
> screenshot tests

> the UI is changing all of the time

Far from an expert in UI tests, but I’m not sure the former is possible given the latter.

> it'd be a nightmare to maintain UI tests at this stage.

IMO that is likely.
I think that is different – that’s simply the case where all the harmonics are integer multiples of the fundamental, but the fundamental itself is missing. Every cycle of the waveform will be identical, so the period will unambiguously be the frequency of the missing fundamental.

In my case none of the harmonics are an integer multiple of the perceived overall pitch. And while the waveform will be aperiodic, it shows clear signs (on visual inspection) of similarity at the perceived frequency.
It's seriously the bomb.
> Extending longevity exacerbates the strain on global resources

Suppose we didn't die. Would you start killing people (yourself or others) in order to "reduce the strain on global resources"?

It helps to not take the status quo as a given, or as immutable.

> So even if we could tweak our bodies to live longer, it is not a foregone conclusion that this would be healthy for our minds

We're going to need to solve that problem too. I'm currently supporting people working on Alzheimer's research, for instance.
Except if you have a spy in the group that transport the bombs,
they just tip off some people with guns to grab it. And given the number of Islamist extremists in Pakistan and how much they would love to have a bomb, it seems rather likely that sooner or later they would get a spy installed.
> - you cant use external monitors without the NVIDIA card enabled which requires a reboot. This is the single largest failing IMO and is more annoying than you'd think it is.

> - you only get about an hour of battery life with the NVIDIA card enabled making it totally useless to keep on unless you plan on using this thing like a desktop all the time.

With these 2 caveats I'm surprised you still think it's fine! I guess it depends on your work situation and pain tolerance. If I had to toggle graphics cards and reboot every time I detached or re-attached my laptop from/to my desk-with-external-monitor setup... Well, I wouldn't be happy about that.
At the bottom they mention using Jitsi

> We just launched video functionality powered by Jitsi!

https://github.com/jitsi/jitsi-meet
Firecracker is f'ing awesome. I have a lot of notes to write up about it. I know this isn't how products actually succeed in the real world, but I'll be honest and say that Kurt had me at Fly with "WireGuard and Firecracker".

(For the unfamiliar reader: Firecracker is a micro-vm system that sits sort of in between a fully virtualized host, like an EC2 instance, and a container like Docker; you get the security isolation of a hypervisor but the speed/simplicity of Docker. It's the engine that powers AWS Lambda and Fargate. The Usenix paper is a pretty great read, and the code [it's all in Rust] is simple and easy to follow.)

https://www.usenix.org/system/files/nsdi20-paper-agache.pdf
Facebook has a terrible and slow UI, so IMO not the best counterexample.
Bitcoin isn't necessarily well aligned to what people usually think of as a "currency".

It's an entirely new beast in the financial instrument space.

It does bear some characteristics of traditional currencies, but not all of them.

Specifically, as it works today, and until Lightning gets some traction, BTC isn't very convenient for small day to day transactions like buying a cup of coffee.

On the flipside, it does have attributes that traditional currencies strictly do not have.

For cases such as the OP, there is no other financial instrument on the planet that will cut it (other than things like Monero / ZCash / MimbleWimble).

Besides being antifragile and censorship resistant, there is also a very strong case to be made for Bitcoin in the 'preservation of wealth' niche (if you are strongly insensitive to short-term volatility, and capable of playing on a 5 year time horizon, that is).

[EDIT]: To answer your question more precisely, Bitcoin has most definitely been a success story for sites like sci-hub, Wikileak and generally speaking, people who try to speak truth to power.
Part of the issue is lack of entry-level positions. When everybody is hiring seniors, you're competing with the same existing pool of talent. You need to grow the talent pool.
Econometrics is the application of statistical techniques on economics-related problems, typically to understand relationships between economic phenomena (e.g. income) and things that might be associated with it (e.g. education).

Machine learning is typically defined as a way to enable computers to learn from data to accomplish tasks, without explicitly telling them how.

Both fields can use logistic regression, regularization, and gradient descent to accomplish their goals, so in that sense there's no distinction.

But IMO there is a difference in their primary intention: econometrics typically focuses on inference about relationships, machine learning typically focuses on predictive accuracy. That's not to say that econometrics doesn't consider predictive accuracy, or that machine learning doesn't consider inference, but it's usually not their primary concern.
Python and Ruby are both functionally equivalent in my book. The difference is prevalence; for systems tools, Python is more common because it comes installed by default with more Linux distros and in my experience anyways, is faster to respond to breaking upstream issues and build failures, which is almost certainly just due to more widespread usage. I have nothing against Ruby, it’s a pretty language and does what you need and has good metaprogramming support. Just saying for a tool you want lots of people to adopt, it’s more mainstream to choose Python.
Wouldn't it be cheaper to get reliable 4G/5G coverage to currently undeserved places ?
Even then, it's an uneven distribution. Homeschooled in Montana? Probably. Homeschooled in the Bay Area? Probably not.
Not because of social media or a formal algorithim but a less formalized one referred to as "socialization" and decided by prior actions of those who came before, some long dead and some still alive today. It was madd up in part of thoughts of thinking people in different contexts and in part unthinking set in stone doctrines. Just like an algorithim essentially with the tweaks by programmers ans input sources providing the "thinking" and the content and program providing the "unthinking".
What good is a contract between Mozilla and Comcast to me if Mozilla is unwilling to notice/care/sue when Comcast breaks that contract because Mozilla has a financial incentive to turn a blind eye?
Ruby has fallen by the wayside in recent years largely because its lunch has been eaten by Python and JavaScript, but mostly by happenstance, not as a result of the merits of the language itself. Ruby has comparable speed and arguably more robust niceties for building complex software vs. Python. See, e.g.,
https://leanpub.com/combinators
https://computationbook.com/
https://www.toptal.com/ruby/ruby-metaprogramming-cooler-than...
if i wasn't dumb as a rock.
The British still use trucks to transport their nuclear weapons. Search online for "TCHD Convoy" for some pictures. America also continues to use trucks, in some contexts.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Defence_Nuclear_Material_Trans...
The fact that homeschoolers in the US are likely to be religious also tells you nothing about homeschooling if done by someone who's not particularly religious and cares about science.
That's only true when comparing lens-less cameras, which isn't that meaningful when lenses are required to use the body. An X-E3 with lens isn't a similar size to an E-M10.
Is there a disclaimer upon account creation that your account, once created, cannot be deleted?
See also: the paper "Why Most Published Research Findings Are False".
Previously on HN: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1825007
But do you really think allowing homeschooling would improve any of this on a societal scale?

Sure, some people will do an excellent job at educating their kids, but many will indoctrinate them even more than the public school system ever would.
Exactly, with her background and informed outlook [1] she’s probably picking up on ideas that other investors would miss. In addition, being in venture now doesn’t preclude direct involvement in research or startups in the future.

[1]: https://www.ldeming.com/longevityfaq
Correct. But why does google deserve to know everything about you? What does it matter if they can still browse everything about you and they happen to resell targeting. All still bad. I agree the Warrentless wiretaps are a problem for every American company, google included.

My point stands, apples revenue is not from privacy violating advertising and has no motivation for data collection beyond product improvement
It depends for sure. However most households have a diversity of friends and the kids do have to go in group outings. Besides, depending on school district your claim might not be accurate (ie you may attend a school full of rich brats, you may attend a school full of ne’er do wells, or a school where everyone is on the lunch program) neither broadens horizons).

Religion might be a problem with strictly religious parents, but I don’t see the damage being worse than that done by school systems. I experienced way too many friends who didn’t fit in and dropped out and other kids who believed in the system and believed things their teachers told them.
> He said “Because that’s what the law demands. And so that when we get caught, we can go to the Parliament in the inquiry and say ‘you’re absolutely right, our software did mark this as a problem!’”

Why even bother write a detection software then? Just flag all transactions, and you get the same level of plausible deniability.
They are not. An explanation here https://photo.stackexchange.com/questions/57625/can-i-use-ca...

Short version: optical physics, proprietary link for autofocus, capability differences
> They might control the DSLR space, but they certainly hold no candle to Sony, Fujifilm, and co in the mirrorless space.

Agreed, but mirrorless is not a full replacement for DSLR, at least not yet. For static scenes in good light my phone camera is already all I need. For static scenes (or slow motion) in lower light mirrorless seems now just as good as DSLR (so they eat some of DSLR market). But for fast motion or long ranges DSLRs still excel. I tried mirrorless but did not like it -- if I am carrying something that does not fit in my pocket I might as well take a bigger DSLR (and enjoy better autofocus and optical viewfinder that does not kill my night vision). But that's just me.
Absent the religiosity, the same can be said for the average public schooled kid.
I worry about what immortality would do to our legal system, moral judgments and overall progress. If a life is immortal then life preservation actually becomes priceless in a non-hyperbolic way. And that means it really does outweigh everything else -- including wellbeing and the cost-benefit of taking risks gets very lopsided. People could still do risky things individually, but any business that had inherent risks would be very difficult to do on any scale. And that includes way more businesses than just the unpopular ones. Think human drug trials, eg.

Or at least that line of thinking becomes very difficult to resist. I still want to promote the research, but like AI progress I hope we think about the second-order effects sufficiently along the way.

One of the cliches around progress in certain fields is that it requires the death of those unwilling to change. Would immortality slow down progress in those fields? Would we have to place more "term limits" on those in authority (whether political or in organizations).
That's strange, in my experience it shouldn't have 6x slowdown. Probably might be due to several factors, but here's your test, running on my system without Docker:

Ryzen 3900X (host machine)

$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4k count=10k | gzip >/dev/null
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
41943040 bytes (42 MB, 40 MiB) copied, 1.02284 s, 41.0 MB/s

qemu-aarch64-static

$ dd if=/dev/urandom bs=4k count=10k | proot -R /tmp/aarch64-alpine -q qemu-aarch64-static sh -c 'gzip >/dev/null'
10240+0 records in
10240+0 records out
41943040 bytes (42 MB, 40 MiB) copied, 3.33964 s, 12.6 MB/s
The presumption is that this area deserves to have less autonomy. Perhaps the author should consider the reverse: the rest of the country deserves more autonomy. If you are so concerned for the city's special privileges, perhaps you should vote (ha!) for the same privileges to be applied to yourself. Instead, predictably, the author wants the states power to expand ever further.
> Moreover, it's clear that DHH is not interested in even something like basic PWA support, and will instead spend his time attacking Apple for not approving their app on the app store.

Let me paint a somewhat less strawman-y picture of DHH for the benefit of those who doesn't know him:

- He is the guy who built Rails and inspired a huge number of other frameworks from Symfony and Laravel to parts of modern JavaEE.

- "His" apps (obviously built together with others) were early examples of actually working Ajax.

- He has been preaching against the hunt for unicorns for a decade or so I think, talking about sanity and sustainability.

- I think the thing about PWA is less that he isn't interested in it and more that he wants things to just work across all browsers.

- The thing about Apple is less about attacking Apple and more about defending himself - and in the process a number of smaller devs - against abuse from Apple.

I have a lot of nice things to say about Apple, but for cases like this where you wonder if it was Apple or Oracle who called you to extort money then Apple deserves all the criticism rhey get (and then some more if you ask me). Just because one is mostly nice doesn't make it OK to run an extortion racket on the side.

(Apples platform, Apples riles one might say but as far as I have seen so far they didn't break any of the rules, so even by that rule Apple is in the wrong here until they change their rules to add something tvat allows them to do this.)
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Sorry the police and government generally do not have free reign over us. In an era of so much police brutality its perfectly reasonable to ask how they were trained and what the training materials consist of. Lots of things at the library are under copyright but I can check them out and read them for free. Why should police training materials be different?
Everything in life is an engineering problem until someone makes a breakthrough/discovery at which point it becomes an ethical, moral, political and financial problem.
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It compresses executables.
This is the biggest factor. Canon Professional Services offer extremely good support for their cameras. Nikon Professional Services are good too, but not quite as good as Canon's. And Sony... is lagging very far behind.

Canon also is known for top notch lenses, which is the real core component of a camera system. You may spend $2k-3k for a camera, but as a professional you'd spend much more money on multiple lenses you need that are all $2k+ each, and you'd be using the same lenses each time you replace the camera body.

Canon cornered the professional market this way.