skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
1. I repeated an argument made in the article itself. That cannot be considered flamebait.

2. I've always expressed strong opinions in my posts. Sometimes this results in multiple upvotes, sometimes in multiple downvotes.

3. About being "unsubstantive" - I underscored the main concept/rationale for Core Linux, and linked to its Wikipedia page. You could argue that it's not substantive _enough_, but when you phrase it this way it's as though you merely dislike the fact that I repeated the inflammatory term from the article.
You'd be very wrong. Component cost (not including any assembly cost) for any modern flagship smart phone is well north of $100. North of $300 on most phones.

Take a look at the cost estimates that most folks do on smartphones (Ex. https://www.techinsights.com/blog/samsung-galaxy-s10-teardow...). Apple isn't undercutting other companies by $300+.
They could also track it at server side which would not need any form of consent.
This article should mention that the original conception of, & strongest warnings about, a global 'nuclear winter' effect haven't really held up with better models & better understanding of how ground fires/explosions might affect the upper atmosphere.

The answers here include a fair summary of the updated case against:

https://www.quora.com/Is-the-nuclear-winter-a-hoax
I think if any bomber were to be used in this capacity it'd be a B-21, stealthy, good capacity, but still subsonic so vulnerable. The range of AMRAAM is still considered being in the danger zone for those aircraft. I've used the F-15EX as a missile boat against China in Command: Modern Operations to great success. Some context I used to be in the AF and worked on raptors but, now it's more of a hobby. All information I'm discussing is gleaned from the Command simulation which is publicly available and a relatively good approximation of reality.
My addition is that Dark Rock Pro TR4 is pretty bulky and I have a problem with Asus Zenith Extreme (Please note it's the older generation for 2950X) and radiator covers my PCIE#1 slot, so that I can't put graphics card there.
Quick and simple load testing with Apache Bench
> but typically only valuable roles are offered stock options and not all employees can afford to execute them.

For early stage startups in the valley, pretty much all employees receive options. How many options, dilution and if if a positive exit will occur are all variables, but generally everyone gets an option grant.
My experience with DTP shots is that one of my arms is a useless-but-painful dead weight for a week or so. I'd still take that over getting tetanus.
I think the point (certainly one I would make) is not that risk doesn't exist, but that overavoidance of risk is a problem. Yes, given the prevalence of power tools, there are statistically going to be some accidents (especially with the cavalier culture many shops have regarding tools). And yes, it sucks to be the statistic. I'm still glad I grew up around tools (and people who knew how to use them). As a result, I'm pretty handy with them, unlike many adults I know who are just super-awkward around them.

Regarding flesh-detecting table saws (which I fully support), there's a third possibility - lack of funds. Those things are seriously expensive. When the choice is not between sawstop and traditional saws, but instead traditional table saw or none, the traditional table saw can still be a worthy investment. It's all situational.
All your questions are addressed in the article. It does turn out that some of the author's beliefs were incorrect (e.g., the state of Fortran GPU compute libraries), though, so it's possible that they would have come to a different conclusion had they known that.
If you are wondering, what you can already do with this phone: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bH3RbrwhNd8
(but this is Ubuntu Touch)
The full results are paywalled [1], but the questions are not much of a secret.[1]

The story isn't right, though. This isn't a reliability survey. It's a survey of initial build defects shortly after purchase. Reliability surveys have to be made a year or two later.

Tesla is still learning how to run an auto plant. The first years of Fremont were pretty bad. They botched the automation. They were operating in a tent at one point. Bloomberg: "Paint, panel gaps, scratches, and dents were the biggest problems owners reported." That's routine auto factory quality trouble. Possibly delivery process trouble. The drivetrain and control system seem to be OK.

There's a tradeoff between production volume and quality. Some companies, like Toyota, can do both, but it took Toyota decades to get that worked out. Most of Detroit then figured out how Toyota did it. Tesla isn't there yet.

[1] https://www.jdpower.com/business/automotive/us-initial-quali...
You have made me laugh.
We don't care about reality, merely perceptions. "Well I humiliated the person for an hour in front of a whiteboard" is the new "Nobody gets fired for buying IBM."
The last straw that got me out of mobile was working at a place with bad engineering discipline (or more precisely, bad management of engineering discipline). They were either paranoid or just didn't trust the team, and every time there was a blip in traffic someone in management would ride the engineers until they could prove it was on the other end. It almost always was. When I later saw the "stack trace or GTFO" comic I had a pretty clear idea what the author was feeling.

Eventually they rearranged the cube walls so management had to get more exercise to come harass the team. Yes, it was better use of space and the windows (in part due to my input), but that's not why the 2 people who started disassembling the cubes were doing it. "Fit of pique" is a phrase I don't get to use as often as I like, but that's what it was, whether cooler heads legitimized it or not.

Oddly, someone tried to blame my failure to convert to FTE on my interactions with one of those two engineers. He was all bark and not that much bite though. I could already handle him almost as well as anybody else and I was the new guy. No, they were trying to get everyone pagers and if that same kind of interaction happened at 2 am, I was gonna say something that got me fired. Found a much better offer and I stayed at the next place for 5 years, working on a surprising array of things and nobody ever said the p-word to me since.
I've heard several people say that they are having more vivid and stranger dreams since quarantine started. I wonder how broadly this is occurring.
The obvious problem with this approach is that it's essentially "I'm on the good side, and I need to protect the platform/society/world from the bad people who are not arguing in good faith. I can judge this, and so when I censor this, I'm not doing this because I don't like hearing opposing view points ... I just don't like hearing wrong, evil people who make arguments to trick me and the audience".... which pretty much looks exactly the same from any angle, in any group and you just need to replace a word or two in the justification for the cleansing.

It's really a long winded version "there is no orthodoxy, it's just that there are the right things and the wrong things, and the things I say are right and should we really spend time listening to things that are obviously wrong?", which is a good way to make the point of the essay, ironically.
Okay, but most people are murdered by someone they knew (well).
I think it's worse than Walmart. At Walmart you get cheap garbage for low prices. At Amazon you have cheap garbage for high prices because masquerading as a premium brand with high prices and drop shipping from (ex:) AliExpress is super lucrative if you can corner a market.
It is obvious now that if totalitarianism is to be imposed on a modern country, the easiest route is via scientific authority coupled with technological tools. In the US, the constitution (such as it is) was voided and very few people objected. (This is an objective fact, not a value judgement. I am as confused and concerned as the next person.)

That does not mean that the current situation is an attempt to impose a totalitarian system, but it does give me pause.
The text on the "privacy checkup" page says:

> Web & App Activity

> (Paused)

> Used by Assistant, Google Maps, and others

> If you turn this setting on, Google will save your activity on Google sites and apps in your Google Account, including searches and associated info like location. You can also choose to save which apps you use, your Chrome history, and which sites you visit on the web.

(emphasis mine)

To me, that reads like a careful lawyerly declaration that they are already saving all my activity, but if I turn this on, it will also be saved in my Google Account where I can see it.
To be fair, even these interviews are mostly garbage, they don’t have a better way to gauge you with just 2-3 meetings. Which really sucks. What they should do is to check your pass job experience, verify from the people you work with. That’s not easy.
This kind of thing tends to happen when young and inexperienced. After it happens once or twice we have the experience and clarity to speak up.
Most interviews I've done in my software career were done on more than 24 hours without sleep.

Not by choice, but because I cannot sleep the night before an interview. I have difficulty sleeping in general, and the anxiety of an interview drives it through the roof.

Whiteboarding is also terrible, pretty sure it is used intentionally to skew hiring results toward certain types.

If someone is looking over my shoulder while coding I can't think, I think best when there are no external inputs(no noise/eyes closed).
Your anecdote reminds me of this fantastic image and caption from the UK: https://i0.wp.com/www.irdial.com/batleth_out.jpg
For now Outlook for Mac seems unaffected
I installed a screen reader to read my writing back to me the next day. Hearing my words helps me find confusing wording.
Why shouldn't it? Putting on a uniform assumes responsibility for the positions and actions of the represented organization - here the various police forces and unions of the United States.

Police officers aren't being judged or punished for the color of their skin, creed, religion, or sexuality but their choices. I find it hard to stomach the idea that people shouldn't be judged for the organizations they choose to represent.
I agree. Latency is much less of an issue than most people think. It's mostly about bandwidth.
I didn't. It sounds like a fun idea but not sure if the content consumers would understand it, and also Twitter caches the card content (not sure for how long though), so it might just not work.
Awesome, that's where I can coordinate DDoS attacks with the community, right?
I'm young, and this is the first release of a phone I've been eagerly awaiting.
And yet, time and time again we see that Generals promoted during peace-time rarely have the skills necessary to lead men under intense combat conditions. The best generals are identified on the battlefield.
If the question is "generate the Nth number in the series", I would be inclined to suggest a closed-form solution that returns in O(1) time (assuming regular size integers), no iteration required.
Manufacturing quality is hard. Tesla, as a SV company, isn’t really interested in manufacturing it seems. Think they could really benefit from merging with Toyota especially at this valuation.
This should hit home with everyone. What I would add is one thing that adds to the anxiety is whether the interviewer is looking for reasons to _reject_ a candidate (i.e. don't let the bad ones through) vs reasons to _hire_ a candidate (i.e. let them shine on aspects that are hard to communicate on a resume or when checking references.
I may be alone in this, but I genuinely think editing is bad a feature in the context of the way twitter works. Considering the problems it already has a platform, the last thing it needs is for people to be able to edit tweets after they have reached critical velocity.
That is likely deliberate, and allows you to pull quotes from the craziest of people and claim it's the view of the mainstream.
Looks good, on the shopping list!
Essays like this are always enticing to people who consider themselves “reasonable”, “logical”, or “intellectual” because they seem to defend the virtues of reason on the surface—flout convention—ally yourself with reason, science!

Then you start to realize that while the slef-aggrandizing, implicit, unstated analogy is to someone like Galileo—the mytho-legendary figure of “unconventional wisdom”—the sage that rose us out of the muck—the actual analogy falls apart very quickly because the stances being defended, generally when people rage against “cancel culture” are not progressive, scientifically backed, or methodologically carefully won informed positions, but rather regressive values, such as arguments for the subordination or mistreatment of certain classes of people, the objectification of people, etc.

Galileo was a progressive flouting conventional regression—most (not all) whiners about cancel culture are regressive flouting conventional progression.

If you think about the broader context in which this article was written you really have to wonder what the so-called “unconventional views” being defended are. As many views that are positive, progressive, evidence based, and generally in service of a more equitable world are in this period finally reaching the status of being “orthodoxy”.

pg seems to want to ascribe some inherent moral value in being heterodox without actually questioning the contents of that heterodoxy—which is really foolish. It’s a view that abuses history by viewing it in the abstract in order to, at worst, build up extremely flimsy defenses of bad behavior, and at best, state nothing more than the extremely obvious “some people in history were right when the majority of people were wrong”

I also think right and wrong are the completely incorrect categories to use in this context—going back to Galileo—it makes sense to say he was “right” in matters of science while the church was “wrong” because science is rigidly defined, verifiable, etc.—politics and moral questions are not rigidly defined and there is no completely agreed upon system for working out binary categories of “right” and “wrong” when it comes to political and ethical matters—people subscribe to tons of different moral systems many of which yield incompatible views over the same issue—pg seems to assume everyone operates using the same moral/political calculus—it would be different if we were discussing matters of science but its very clear that the intended topic zone here is political—pg just never states these things explicitly since being concrete about it would demolish his position and reveal how ridiculous it is.
There's something ironic about planted articles from a fake person being planted by a PR firm.
Because they go against the narrative the wokes want to impose. Why doesn't anyone ask why 13yo girls are not interested in becoming loggers, or police or trash collectors? Why are most 13yo boys not interested in becoming ballerinas?

Sure the wokies try to pretend there is no such thing as human biologically encoded biases: everyone is a supposed blank slate. That's why it seems a bit stupid for people who don't share their views, why try to fix human nature (as if it were possible) when you can just live with it?
Yes, I was unclear.

> that would have been

I meant to say "publishing would have been" illegal.
Well in a court of law, it is the letter of the law that matters, not how we feel. So it may be immoral but is not illegal.
Daniel Ellsberg was interviewed on the awesome 80,000 Hours podcast. Great to listen to:

https://80000hours.org/podcast/episodes/daniel-ellsberg-doom...
Because nobody has done that yet. Go over to debian-devel, talk to the Debian ARM people and the Debian installer people, and you can help bring Debian to the PinePhone.
I thought China had a lot of border conflicts.

https://www.indiatvnews.com/fyi/india-china-border-dispute-w...

Looking some of them up seperatly, the article seems correct.

Stating border conflicts with 18 countries
That snap was 18 hours old and was lacking new details (like it being the co-founder of Gokada).

Here is an updated link: http://archive.is/7LbxX
Personally I think that until we figure out economical long term seasonal storage, we should build LNG plants and use them during the winter. They burn very cleanly compared to coal and also cause less CO2. Overall this would still mean a reduction over an all-fossil energy mix. Then, one day renewably generated hydrogen or methane can be used instead of the extracted LNG.
Can biotech startups make breast milk without the breast?
I use it only for services. If I have an actual person I give them my other (normal) e-mail.
When it comes to spending hours unwrapping code, gotta love js that has undocumented heavy use of string based property access for things like imports. Like the worst of both functional and OOP combined, and generally no IDE support to be had.

Implementation approximate, but otherwise true story, both LHS and RHS:

`let { statefulMutatingAccessor } = require(obj["prop."+tree+".subtree"])`
Thanks! ฅ^•ﻌ•^ฅ
Except that the current consensus on nuclear winter hypothesis is that it was largely politically (as opposed to scientifically) motivated. So comparing it to climate change is rather controversial in its own regard.
Frogs became green – again, and again, and again
>2 up isn’t sufficient for work from home

maybe! I video conferenced on 1.5up for a week and I did have to turn down send quality, but other than that, it was fine.

I think the bigger issue is that if you can only get 1.5 in 2020, then that means that the physical layer between you and the internet is tenuous. Like, DSL far away from the DSLAM and thus packet loss and line noise.
(I usually try to not comment when there's not much value added)...

but I see what you did there...
> the Elon Musk-founded firm

Musk didn't found Tesla. From Wikipedia https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Tesla,_Inc.

> Tesla was incorporated on July 1, 2003 by Martin Eberhard and Marc Tarpenning.

and that they, with a third employee,

> connected with Elon Musk, who contributed US$6.5 million of the initial (Series A) US$7.5 million round of investment in February 2004
> you will never be able to bring risk down to zero.

I'd avoid these straw men, trust your customers to understand risk management.

> you can plan for all kinds of issues - power outages, natural disasters, human error, technical error, etc

Great, I'd love to see this risk modeling. Which sets of components would need to fail in order for a sample to be destroyed? Which components have failed? How often? Are the failures correlated?

What legal risks exist for the customer in your industry? When things go wrong in that way, how does it happen?

Do samples degrade over time? How fast? What is their viability rate?
Except the “all” encounter is a stereotype. It’s just framing things differently to try to make it different.

It’s like saying “well, we’re not targeting women, we’re only targeting people who visit gynecologists”.
The F-15(E) is the only aircraft capable of carrying the bigger munitions and in large quantities including the heavier nuclear gravity bombs that isn’t a strategic bomber.

With the F-14 gone and the F-111 gone the US doesn’t have the ability to drop big heavy bombs outside of using a B-52/B-2/B-1 bomber.

The strike eagle is aging and the F-35 isn’t as suited for ground attack missions.
You think the actual BOM cost for AirPods Pro's is less than $32? (Assuming you mean replace both earphones 7 times, so 8 total earphones)

Pretty sure that's on the low side. Plus, logistics cost of dealing with replacements and such adds far more than just absolute BOM cost.
> It's a test of your ability to solve new things, which is a capability the company finds useful.

Correct.

I work with early-ish stage startups. There's always a library that solves any given known problem. We don't have the scale or nuance to need to reinvent the wheel.

Where I really need engineers to shine is in solving the parts that don't have a library because we've stumbled onto something new. Or at least something new to the team. Or the way we've cobbled libraries together creates something new.

The important work is the work you haven't done before. We're engineers not line cooks.

November should involve completely different work and a whole new set of problems than February. If you're still doing the same thing you did in February, something's gone wrong.
The best interviewers can feel you from certain job experience questions that you’ve done in the past. It’s looking for a series of related answers that a candidate just cannot make up on the spot.
(I guess now's a good time to actually register for HN -- we end up on here often enough...)

Hi, Pine64 sysadmin here... yea, our store doesn't like the big surges of traffic we get around product launches. As I speak, we've been getting about 600 concurrent connections for the last 30 minutes, and at least 450 for the last few hours.

We've done some optimization behind the scenes in anticipation, but it's clearly not enough. We're going to be doing some heavy upgrades right after these preorders close.
These are exciting times. It's encouraging to see this among all the waves of new devices that restrict what one can do with their own hardware.

I feel like there's a silent war on general purpose computing, (in the sense of having open, non AppStore platforms, ability to boot other OSes etc.), so these efforts are very important in my opinion.

I already have an earlier revision, but pre-ordered this as well both to have a "daily driver" device and a secondary one for more risky tinkering and to support the projects involved, (PINE64, postmarketOS).

I feel like GNU/Linux on smartphones is where the excitement currently is if you want to see rapid improvement on an open platform in the hacker spirit of early Linux desktop. There are daily builds with major, visible improvements, excellent geeky community, lots of potential on this frontier.

One major recent improvement is that battery life is now on par with most mainstream smartphones, (with the modem disabled much, much longer even).
Cops put countless minority and other less-privileged persons lives at risk every single day. Worlds smallest viola.
Yes screen recording is built-in, but something like Screenflow allows you to do a lot more, for example adding other audio or video (like camera for example), adding transitions, effects, annotations etc. This won't be important if you literally just want to record your screen, but if you are publishing anything these sorts of tools are useful.
OpenBSD (Proposal): integrate wsmoused into kernel
It looks like a Wordpress site, but caching or a CDN should resolve a lot of what feels slow, right?
Someone who able to immediately understand and write out the solution to 80% of hard DS&A questions is at least able to write code. The question is if this is honestly better than generating your own FizzBuzz. I don't think so. I have heard rumors that Google has studied employee performance predictions based on interview score and found no correlation. I would bet this is an open secret and no one knows what to replace it with that isn't enormously expensive.
You do not have to be a CPA to be an accountant. a CPA is an accountant who can sign off on financial statements for an auditing firm.
This is what I had hoped Android would be when I first heard about it before it was fully available. It looks like the OS still needs polish but not bad. And only $200 with a dock.

Here is a video walkthrough I found on youtube. I am not sure how up to date it is.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mjaJJ6o-mbM
More like one user made a single revert that will soon be reverted.