skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I don’t believe that’s a relevant comparison. AFAIK Pixel always has been the Android flagship. iPhone SE clearly isn’t its iOS equivalent. It speaks to a completely different audience / sub-market.
Well let’s see in four years which one is still likely to be getting operating system and security updates.

The original iPhone SE released in 2016 will be supported at least through September 2021.
Ask HN: How will Zoom compete with JioMeet (details inside)?
Quoting from https://techcrunch.com/2020/07/02/reliance-jio-platforms-launches-jiomeet-video-conference-service/

"India’s Reliance Jio Platforms, which recently concluded a $15.2 billion fundraise run, is ready to enter a new business: Video conferencing.

On Thursday evening, the firm — backed by Mukesh Ambani, India’s richest man — formally launched JioMeet, its video-conference service that looks uncannily like Zoom."

About the similarities between the two products, there are tweets like: https://twitter.com/avinashraghava/status/1278890988514099200

Considering that Jio has taken whatever Zoom built and is offering that for free, how will Zoom compete with it?
The Sacklers were able to keep their business relatively disconnected from polite society for a long time as well.
My objection is that it's no longer clear if you're dealing with content addressing or server addressing. If I see example.com in the URL bar, is it a server pointed from the DNS record example.com (a CDN that server tells me to visit), or am I seeing content from example.com? If I click a link and it doesn't load, is it because example.com is suddenly down, or has it been down this whole time? Is the example.com server slow, or is the cache slow? Am I seeing the most recent version of this content from example.com, or did the cache miss an update?
The issue with everything which is not PuTTY is terminal emulation bugs, in my experience. I’ve never experienced one in PuTTY or at least not noticeably. Whereas using SSH in every other Windows terminal (including the newer windows terminal emulator they’ve been working on), I eventually run into display bugs requiring me to refresh the terminal somehow, particularly in long running tmux sessions.

I believe they will get there with Windows terminal (https://github.com/Microsoft/Terminal), I just don’t think they are there yet.
pedal power also propels
I don't know if this still works, but nvidia had a "program settings" override, where you could select a .exe and force vsync on for particular programs. Might try messing with that. I did that for media player classic a long time ago.
According to this†, the Pixel 3 stops receiving updates next year. We know that Apple supports its phones for at least five years, so this iPhone should last until 2025. Seems like a pretty good investment for $399.

† https://support.google.com/pixelphone/answer/4457705?hl=en
It is true but it proves nothing. US has ridiculously inflated health care prices. According to this article https://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-47491964 monthly cost of diabetics treatment in 2016 was $19 in Italy and $360 in the US. So US is spending here over 20 times more for the same treatment.

Here’s about the $1.1M bill for the 62 days treatment https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/inspiring-story-of...

They charged $2,835 a day for the ventilator. Seriously? You may buy brand new ventilator for 29,000 PLN in Poland which is around $7500, hospital usage certified ‘PHILIPS RESPIRONICS TRILOGY 100’. You may rent brand new top model of Lamborghini in Los Angeles for around $2500 a day. In Europe they won’t even charge for the ventilator. The room, which costs on that bill $9,736 a day should be already equipped in everything what’s necessary to support life. If the room price doesn’t cover the equipment, does it mean it’s just 9k for the bed a day?
Ask HN: Where to find online mathematics community?
After browsing HN for a couple of years, I've seen that a fair few members of this community have studied math at the post-secondary level. It's not uncommon to see Ask HN posts about how to weave a mathematics background into a coding job or how to continue studying mathematics on one's own.

I find myself in a similar position and have resolved that, at a bare minimum, I need to involve math in my life at least in a recreational way, if not in a professional way. Although this could be fun completely solo, I'd like to have like-minded people to talk to about this. Since my location is somewhat rural and because of COVID, I'd like to commune with other math people online.

For clarity, when I think about involving math in my life, I'm thinking about picking up where I left off with abstract algebra, real and complex analysis, and maybe some theoretic physics.

So HN, the question is, where are the other math lovers hanging out online?
I think ultimately this endeavor would run into the same issues which befell the efforts of the GOFAI research program. A translation layer would need to "understand" embedded higher-order contexts of language making implicit references to the world, and which vary by different languages and cultures. Such contexts are not analytically decomposable in a manner which permits a centralized mapping.

As with GOFAI, a formalized representation of meaning entails certain ontological assumptions about "how the world hangs together". These assumptions often hold true for an isolated domain of inquiry but falter when dealing with more complex phenomena. I could, however, see such a system useful for 'Simple Wikipedia' articles which largely consist of existentially quantifiable sentences.

There is a wealth of philosophical scholarship on the issues of semantics and formal representation; I recommend the works of Hubert Dreyfus if you want to dig into this more.
It's a shame Huawei isn't allowed to have Google services on Android anymore. Their flagships smartphones have the best cameras in test, by far.

But an Android phone without Google is not very attractive in the western world.
> of all the large "FANGish" tech companies, Uber actually has the most experience with non-HQ teams building business-critical systems.

Tangential, but the core product of AWS, EC2, was developed in South Africa and (largely) continues to be today.
> a brutally simple alternative to the web

Yip and gemini's markup is so simple that it is useless for me. :-(

Combining a restricted HTML maybe with 1-file-only limit (use data url for insets) with gemini's protocol could make sense for me.

"rHTML" like PDF, all in one file, maybe a bit JS for rendering maths, but maybe there are other/better ways to do it (no maths in PICs please!).

Or brutally different?
Distribute DVIs over gemini://?

I like the 1-file-only style in the dimension gemini and apart from not yet having automated images to data-url-conversion, ... sigh ...my image-less HTML stuff already is 1-file-only.
It's a unix system, demoed in Jurassic Park:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dxIPcbmo1_U
> “It must be ingrained in human nature to pile rocks on top of each other. There was no other way it could have got there other then a human stacking it on top.”

We gotta stop blaming Instagram for things that have been human nature for 12,000 years. Even as Hammurabi set his chisel to a tablet I have no doubt he was tempted to carve a photo of what he had for breakfast that morning to show his peeps.
Go is boring, and that’s exciting!
Flip the silence switch off, then tap the screen where the “notes” are playing.
I just picked up a SE with the T-Mobile free additional line & 50% off promotion. Cost was only $200 + Taxes. Amazing deal when you consider the support & hardware quality.
Ok. What’s your alternative if an inmate is violent and attacks other prisoners and guards on a regular basis?

Doesn’t the govt have a duty to protect other inmates?
IMO (in my observation) natives actually instinctively do pick the side of the pavement to walk on as if they were cars on the road...

It's fun then when you have Chinese or American tourists in Japan (Japan is right hand drive)...
If Enc(2) + Enc(3) = Enc(5), and Enc(1) + Enc(4) = Enc(5). Does Enc(5) represent the same ciphertext in both cases? I'm asking because, if so, shouldn't it be trivial to uncover the plaintexts if you can perform any math op on the ciphertexts?
Will it also run slower and slower until you know that you can pay Apple to replace its battery, or buy a new one?
MAGZine says>" your lungs generally aren't capable of aerosolizing the virus into small enough matter to qualify."

No, every exhalation is aerosol and filled with particles from your body. They slip by the mask's edge and through it's seams. No mask that isn't airtight can stop those particles.

Droplets are emitted when you cough or sneeze and are much larger. Droplets are like boulders, aerosol like marbles. Viruses are tiny compared with aerosols and ride on both aerosols and droplets.
>hasn’t it been suggested that the internals of google translate and similar systems have effectively constructed such a meta-language?

No, Google Translate and other state of the art machine translation software rely on large corpuses of linguistic data from which they make statistical inference. They do not have a 'centralized metalanguage' which ontologizes meaning in the manner described by OP.
I always unsubscribe from corporate newsletters, so I don't get a whole lot of them. And in any case, this wasn't a corporate newsletter.
Would be a lot more useful in practice if they did all of the benchmarks after touching the lens. Flare when you point it at the sun? No kidding.
Another thing is that human lifespan might well improve in the meantime. Pair that with deep sleep/suspended animation and you have a pretty potent combo for conquering long distances.
Amazing testing work; interesting to read about the company behind it:

https://corp.dxomark.com
Tangentially related, one place to experiment with this might be charter communities that serve retirees living on social security. This group is increasingly relegated to poor quality of life due to reduced or non-existent retirement savings.

A targeted charter community could be funded through the social security income of the residents, then, supplemented via a work culture that focused on operating the community itself. They'd pay in their social security income, have a place to live, and take on work that supports the community. I suppose this would be similar to (or exactly like?) a collective: let's say everyone works 20 hours per week and people can rotate through assignments such as preparing meals, brewing the beer, cleaning the pool, caring for the less firm, harvesting the tomatoes, planning movie night, arranging social events, etc.

All participants would essentially work together to raise the quality of life for all.

Such an endeavor could benefit substantially from supporting software infrastructure to automate and streamline the operating activities, identify, define, scope and schedule the work.

Community and purpose not only improve quality of life, but also extend it.
>legally independent city-states

How about we just pay our workers fair wages instead of scheming up ways to put as much power as possible in the hands of oligarchs.
While the budget-friendly Apple device offers comparable quality in many respects to the more expensive iPhone 11, its single camera setup falls short for zoom and bokeh shots compared to our top performers.

So, a $399-$549 phone doesn't perform as well as a $999-$1,449 phone. Shocking.
inline illustrations predate internet by hundreds years. imagine a child book but all the images are in the appendix.

it is the definition of inconvenient. it's usable, but it's not like inline media is a modern or even contemporary concept.
The humanities aren't just in the universities. If what you want is self-edification, you can get a lot of it online. The rest can be solved by carving out a niche of people like yourself you can talk to about the subject in real life.
Remote Working During the Pandemic: Network Security Challenges and Solutions
Why Embedded Analytics Beat Dashboards and Reports
Does the blog of a NYC-based trading company need to be GDPR compliant? They don't offer goods or services to EU residents AFAICT.
I love sites like these. I use to listen to https://www.bitlisten.com/

Bit Listen was a bit distracting though, because it has some really oversized transactions.
Most developed nations have highly regulated healthcare systems, and part of the government involvement is in setting prices.

The U.S., through everything from safety regulations to IP laws to insurance regulation has destroyed competition, but outside of medicare isn't involved in determining prices. The result is predictable.

Markets work great when the incentives are right. It's hard to get incentives right in healthcare and most nations want medicine to be part of a government safety net, so they go the direction of socializing healthcare. Almost anything would be better than the system the U.S. has now.
They definitely do, and LEO knows. The schemes and cons, deflection... they’ve not changed.

Think about, this is only 3-4 generations back. What neuroscience is revealing about shared/inherited brain structures and limbic->cortex system algorithms, the habits of agency haven’t had that long to fade out, especially as we clung to tribal communities and abusive nuclear family silos.

But those families control LEO, so their mandate is to fight DVD player theft and smoking pot.

They again demonize our individual minor failings to control the greater human narrative, gift trillions to their buds while we fight over TP, face masks, and flat or skeuomorphic UI day to day. Doing the real important social work!

Western culture hasn’t really evolved it’s emotional organization habits all that much until recent times, say the last 20 years.

Now that the first generations raised primarily on science and a much less overt, yet still present, racism are coming into power, we’ll see.

Until the last generation though, most people in power were raised in “story mode”. “Be a godheaded manipulator, manage the masses effort and agency, for of course they’re idiots for not having your job of rich guy! If I can do it anyone can! Why they aren’t is their free will!”
Couldn’t you make the exact same argument about hydrogen? As renewables grow the emissions associated with hydrogen production will come down too.
The Doggerland portion of the North Sea has yielded prehistoric artifacts.
You have a very good point.

However, Gemini does not exist in a vacuum. The web will be there. There will be social media platforms, multimedia, awesome webapps and all that. And Gemini is just text.

When you have the choice between easily consumable infinite multimedia and just text, you only pick the latter when you really care about the quality of text content. It's not sexy so all the spammers, content marketers and ego boosters have nothing to gain on Gemini. And so there can be this esoteric little corner of the internet, with down-to-earth text content written by ordinary people.
Let's not pretend that it would have been flagged if the request was different. HN heavily leans liberal, and Muslim is a protected identity. I don't believe that it would have played out the same if it had been a similar request that suggests it's a white supremacist, but you're free to tell yourself that.
Interestingly, content collapse was one of the most salient ideas I took away from reading Fahrenheit 451. Of course, the book took it to an extreme that will never become a reality.. Social media may be incentivized to keep their users within the system and feed them short headlines that satisfy their question of "what's going on in the world today" via content collapse. But I don't see this spreading to all forms of content on the internet/devices. Online publishers, digital advertisers, brands, and even Google rely on medium to longform content for their business models. Caveats abound, but from my perspective, the internet runs on articles.

"Hamlet was a one-page digest in a book that claimed: now at last you can read all the classics; keep up with your neighbords."

- Bradbury, Ray. Fahrenheit 451
> A subset of the authors point is the "truth collapse". It's increasingly difficult to differentiate truth from falsehood. Also increasingly difficult to differentiate between truth and 'almost' truth.

It's kinda hard for there to be, in actuality and in an objective sense, a destruction of truth when, really, truth never existed in the first place except as a perspective-based pragmatic tool and even a self-actualized Other-being. Really, when one person claims that truth is becoming destroyed or something, such occurence is actually an instance of a contest of truths, all equally valid, in essence, with the one that has the most ambition able to enjoy the fruit of victory. That's why "fake news" is often touted: a transgressive action on its antithesis and opponent that is the "false."
Green energy will decarbonize hydrogen production as well.
> In the case of D-STAR, the algorithm is well known, it's just not analog FM

For a long time the audio codec was only available in a chip (technically a readout protected microcontroller). There are patents on the audio codec, but they didn't disclose enough of it to decode it, only enough to make it unlawful for other people to publish compatible implementations (which, of course, kept the resources available for reverse engineering low).

For a while I contemplated selling bespoke custom versions of Opus as a bit of performance art under licensing where the first copy cost $500 and all further copies cost $1,000,000 with some marketing copy about keeping lids off your repeaters. ... just to see how the FCC would react.

Considering that they let AMBE use get away with it, as the old joke goes: We've already established what kind of licensing regime they'll permit-- pay to access encrypted audio-- my performance art differed only by the price.

:)

> The reason amateur radio exists is because we follow the rules. It can all disappear overnight if you violate them. There are a few well-known bad apples that make it harder for all of us. It's not to be encouraged.

Personally, particularly on bands above 70cm, I think the prohibition against encryption is killing amateur radio. The lack of encryption for signals that would be naturally point to point anyway and disturb no one inhibits a lot community use, and the relative non-usage of these allocations risks use losing them.

I'd much rather see a rule that allowed encryption on 33cm+ subject to the constraint that stations have to be identified, non-profit in nature, cooperate with local coordination, and act as secondary users to non-encrypted uses.
When do you need to report your app's use of encryption?
Previous discussion on reddit https://www.reddit.com/r/iOSProgramming/comments/hhnilf/when...
You can cross busy streets in India on foot - it comes with practice. But doesn't mean drivers wouldn't be aggressive towards you. Pedestrians are almost never given right of way even on designated crosswalks.
There are market forces behind the engagement cult, so - unfortunately - they're probably not wrong while those forces continue to operate.

The root of that problem is the use of the web as a device for capturing time and attention and selling that attention to third parties. As long as that continues to be the prime directive, the race to the bottom will continue.
I think you could make your lowercase loop shorter – and definitely faster – by jumping into a second loop when inside a string, instead of setting a flag.
Do you have any sources relating to the foreign family you mention, and of them securing landholding rights? Based on what I've found, the man that was burned wasn't rich (his family does appear to have become moderately well off by the time's standards at a later date, however).

I haven't found any mention of foreigners. The lawyer in the matter was Icelandic.
Your citation says

>A new study from academic researchers found that 66.5 percent of all bankruptcies were tied to medical issues —either because of high costs for care or time out of work.

(My emphasis.) In other words, people going bankrupt because health problems = lack of work = lack of income. That does not contradict the fact that only 4% of US bankruptcies are because of medical bills (https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/0... that is, bills for health care treatment exceeding available income.

Your article goes on to quote a study author who carefully elides the difference between the two. Oh, by the way, he is a prominent proponent of Medicare for All! Imagine that.
ELI5 level isn't what I'd want, personally. Cryptography is of interest to many programmers, and the mental gymnastics needed for mathematics and programming are quite similar. This topic could be explained to a much broader audience without the mathematical notation, albeit not nearly as concisely, and it'd likely lack the exacting precision afforded by the notation.
You can always install gappa bundle
Ask HN: Why was this submission flagged?
Link to submission: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=23728390

I noticed a bunch of "too many files open" errors in my logs - turns I missed one of the nine places you can configure that setting on Linux/systemd nowadays.

So I'm wondering if it's because the site appeared to be down/struggling, or because the consensus was that it was "clickbait", or another reason entirely?
> Standard cell phones do not use encryption.

Yes they do. Decades ago they didn't. Today there are devices that use active attacks to downgrade the encryption by impersonating a base station.

It's also possible to crack the encryption used by GSM, but I believe the base station impersonation attacks are much more common.
I’m glad to hear that the compiler nudged you in the right direction for optimal code. That nagging feeling that there’s a “better way” or more optimal solution is really debilitating to me when writing in an unfamiliar language.

This is probably one of the reasons I’ve been drawn to Go, where that feeling Is basically non-existent.
For all the empathetic discussion here, it’s important to keep some perspective - in many cases, these prisoners are in solitary because they have repeatedly attacked other inmates or guards, maiming or killing them. Of course they are still human and deserving of human consideration, but it’s not like they end up in solitary for not writing enough unit tests or saying the wrong thing on Slack...
I'm a Gemini newb, but I've enjoyed using the AV-98 client so far: https://tildegit.org/solderpunk/AV-98

If Gemini sounds like a dumb idea, I'd highly encourage you to move along. If Gemini sounds intriguing, you'll probably have fun.

Lots of opinions in this thread, but doesn't look like many armchairs have tried it. Personally, I've enjoyed the rabbit hole.
There are a lot of pretty bad commutes in SV too.

I live (well) outside of Boston. About 20 years ago, there wasn't a single real tech employer in the city. That's changed primarily with Kendall and the Seaport. But there's still a huge amount in Metrowest and some in the northern suburbs going up to southern NH.

I've been lucky that through several jobs I've never had a really bad commute except into Boston for a time--but I didn't have to do it every day and there is a commuter rail.
Realistically nobody still uses the original iPhone SE now.

You can run Windows 10 on a Centrino laptop from 2010 but you're not gonna have a good time.
Process management, not project management.
Contest of truths sounds an awful lot like alternative facts.

I disagree with you.

There may be many perspectives to a truth, but there is always a singular absolute truth. Something that can be objectively stated, without judgement.
CAN-SPAM does not require a business relationship at all to send an email, let alone a double opt in.