skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Around 2000, I was working at OracleMobile, attened 3GPP/Mobile Congress/etc meetings, and there was a similar discussion around 3g. People were like "what's the killer app"? At the time, most phones were WML/WAP and Blackberry-like SMS/MMS/Email experiences. People speculated "maybe music or video", but it was all very vague, no one imagined the smartphone revolution that brought all of these services, like Uber.

I'd say it's impossible to know what super-high bandwidth and low-latency will bring to the table as the next killer app. It's going to be something we don't expect.
If it’s given as a warning then yes, e.g. the dplyr package in R sometimes outputs “feature xyz is deprecated and will be removed in version x.x”.

Often though it’s used when the feature is already removed, i.e., it’s not only best practice not to use it, but also impossible with that version.
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VW devised software to detect when an emission test was being performed and blatantly cheated the testing system so more people would buy their cars in the belief that they were environment friendly when they clearly were not. They got caught but instead of admitting fault they showed a complete disregard for animal life by piping diesel exhaust into monkeys for several hours. It's one of the most sickening business practices I've heard of, it's outright evil and sets a dangerous precedent. I will never understand how people can defend these kinds of actions and resort to trivialising their heinous acts. Have we become so calloused that we freely make up excuses for this kind of behaviour? What message is that sending to these companies? Sorry for being so judgemental but I find this awful. I really recommend watching the documentary to grasp the nature of how terrible the people calling the shots on this were.
Syntax for doing things like this with DDG:

https://help.duckduckgo.com/duckduckgo-help-pages/results/sy...
I'd like to offer you my anecdote, suggesting this will have lasting effects:

it forced me to learn cooking! My folks have commented on this a lot, I really stepped up my cooking game in this confinement. I've learned how to make a lot of pasta sauces, and how to do them _easily and quickly_, etc. The key was learning it well enough to become comfortable with it so that it doesn't loom as some esoteric activity which will eat some unknown amount of time.

Moreover, I crossed the point of being good enough that now it's one of the activities I enjoy... and I'm now intrigued about general principles rather than wracking my brain over strictly, unconfidently following recipes to a tee. Basically, it forced me to get on the right track of starting a wonderful adventure.
I don't know how accurate this information is but they way it was completely explained to me, the Japanese government and population were not that affected by the first bomb in terms of morale. They had already suffered horrible large-scale bombings (e.g. Tokyo) and regardless of the initial effect, the US leadership had already decided to drop two bombs to give the impression that these bombs could keep coming 2-3 times a week.
And the first one was likely to be a dud, thereby completely removing the psychological effect from further atomic bombs, of which there was only one for the next couple months.
If you haven't yet, be sure to call your city councilperson and demand improvements for cycling safety. Probably nothing will happen, but it can't hurt.
It would be fine to move on but in the case of Angry Birds. Wouldn’t the company get a bad reputation if they didn’t keep the game compatible between the 3-1/2 inch iPhone up to 5 and the iPhone 5? When a new version of iOS caused it to crash?

But more importantly, if you bought MS Office for a one time fee of $100 and the next month, Apple introduced a new form factor or new features and either MS didn’t support it all or forced you to pay the full retail price, would you be upset?

People buy apps and expect them to continue working when they upgrade their phone. What are you left with besides ads and subscriptions without upgrade pricing?
the hype cycle is alive and well!
Makes no difference. Ohio had Amy Acton, a medical doctor who specialized in public health. She did a great job but the right wing nutcases still sent her and her family death threats to the point where she was forced to resign.
Bernard Stiegler has passed away
I used to always use "depreciated" until I was embarrassingly corrected one day :P
My internal walls are solid brick. In the last 3 years, I've moved my router twice (moved from DSL to coax and to FTTP),and I've ended up running Ethernet cabling around one room.

Fixing the walls after cable runs is nasty. Underfloor is possible but usually involves pulling up a floorboard or two which isn't ideal...
+1. I am always surprised that they used to do (and of course still must do) proper full-on formal verification of e.g. train track scheduling systems, so train accidents, and consequently 100s of deaths don't just happen because "sorry for the bug, ver 1.2 fixes it" -- but people are happy to sit into a Tesla going at 120km/h and allow a well-tested, but not formally verified deep learning system to make decisions. BTW, I know it's not formally verified, because formally verifying deep learning systems is a currently very much unsolved problem for anything but toy examples.
You can get fiber even as a translucent version, that is almost “invisible”.
There are a bunch of articles etc on this, of which this is a pretty good overview:

https://harvardmagazine.com/2020/08/covid-19-test-for-public...

I'm also a huge fan of this work and struggling to understand why it isn't more mainstream.
I live just a few miles to the North. Nice to see a few other ~Dorking locals here :)
I think you can do this directly, the linked project just tells the kernel "this is a parallel port here", and it just uses normal I/O instructions. The IDE port is already exactly that, though I think the data-direction register controls the whole port at once, rather than one bit at a time.
The allies had already started to resort to obliterating whole cities and their inhabitants before Hiroshima (see Dresden, Tokyo).

IMHO, this was not the result of how "evil" the German and Japanese regimes were (which seems to me to be a rationalization) but the result of 5 years of total war. I think that at some point people came to accept doing whatever it took to win and end the war.

In the context of what was going on I think dropping atomic bombs to precipitate the end of the war and send a message to the Soviets was perhaps not considered as big a deal as we might think because, as said, the result was already accepted looking at the conventional bombing raids that had taken place.

War is hell and total war means total hell.
Another candidate (and the first person I thought of when I read the HN link title):

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rumiko_Takahashi
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So would Rumiko Takahashi and a number of other creators. This is just a puff piece where the author is showing off how deep they dug into a subject to namedrop and overstate the importance of someone.
> I can at least get a lot of value out of premium I've paid for Apple products like my seven year old MacBook Pro or five year old iPhone.

Yep, their Total Cost of Ownership can make them very appealing. I’ve made significant contributions towards my MacBook Air upgrades by selling the old one part-for-part.
Such a tax would affect the poor the most.
The fact that the military is still awarding Purple Hearts that were manufactured for the invasion of Japan tells me that it was more than justified. Japanese intelligence itself estimated 20 million casualties during an invasion.
This is liberal bullshit. If you reject your responsibilities you'll find a boot on your neck. See: the SDP in Weimar Germany.
In the tst directory they have .asm files, which they load in the program memory to test the CPU. The abstract mentions that they run it in FPGA, but it wouldn't be difficult to run those tests in simulation too (albeit exceedingly slow).
No, I mean if cost is as stated. I'm saying cost as stated is plausible if you account that flights may be sold.
> I realized that it actually did bring an end to the war

This may be the mainstream opinion in the US, but do note it's not the mainstream opinion in other countries. Alternative explanations include that the real purpose of the two bombs was to show the Soviets the nuclear might of the US (this view is suggested in the Hiroshima museum in Japan, but just in case you discount it because Japan is obviously not a neutral party, this opinion is also held in some countries in Latin America -- even some people in the US believe this). Even at the time, some people in the US army opposed the bombing and believed it had no military justification.
Powerline can have major problems, depending on the quality of the electric wiring. In addition to that latencies are bad.
Maybe zero young people but I’d say well informed middle age and up would know who Facui is. It’s hard to debate this with a source but these people have even in the news for decades when things go wrong. I disagree with the “effective 0%”
The dysfunction of the US healthcare system predates the Trump administration by a lot. I consider blaming Trump a shallow explanation of what's going wrong. Why are other leaders doing such a poor job articulating the way forward? Why aren't governors getting together and doing all they can to work around the obvious failures of the federal response?
Loved the spectacular images.
> In what other industry are people willing to pay at least more than twice, for the same hardware?

The whole premise is incorrect, so the conclusions are incorrect. The hardware is not the same, and even if it was, clearly the software makes a difference to the user.

The whole Apple fashion status trope is tired and has never been true. The amortized cost of an Apple device in my 15 year + experience with them has always been less than the competitors. Especially if you add my troubleshooting time.

Not to mention they’ve been selling iPad Minis for $400 for 7 or 8 years, and they now have an iPhone at $400. Their stuff works, they offer physical stores you can get technical support at, and they seem to be the best offering for privacy conscious users.
It strikes me as odd that practically any victorious military finds all of its actions optimal. If it had not done as it did, then the outcomes would be worse. The regularity of the superiority of the action taken is fascinating.

Curiously, this website has a large number of commentators that believe that luck is one of the biggest factors in startup success. Yet, in this other domain of antagonistic participants, war, the victor is always the better strategist, having seen through the flaws of his enemy. Mere luck plays no part here. A curious result to me. It appears that Man is elevated to supreme intelligence when tasked with war, and finds himself a mere leaf on air currents otherwise.

Of course, I’m no peacenik. I have no problem over-bombing a population so I don’t really see Hiroshima and Nagasaki as tragedies. Since no one has an incentive to reveal the true minimum that would cause them to capitulate, it is usually a good idea when you’re almost winning to make sure you’re definitely winning. I have no problem with the death of those who would prefer my death. Just fascinated at how we conquer luck in this sphere alone.
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Wiping out one city in one single gigantic unprecedented flash was pretty convincing.
What's the point of the long scale? The numbers seem impractically large for anything other than science (which uses scientific notation, anyway). The only other time I've really seen "quadrillion" actually used is in with the Zimbabwe dollar.
It's a lot easier for a bay area company to successfully have remote workers in Idaho than in Romania. The time difference is minimal, cultural differences are less, and it's easy for the person to visit the office.
Military doctors are supporting the military no matter the nefarious means or ends, so yea, they're sociopaths. Maybe if there weren't doctors in the military we would stop killing innocent people for no reason because people would realize the grift.

Also, just because a military occasionally does useful engineering doesn't justify the non-engineering purpose of a military.

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As someone with very little music theory knowledge is there a better alternative to getting into music theory to be able to write music, than the western system, that can be recommended?

Like how it would feel to grow up learning in metric instead of imperial units for example?

Sorry if I didn't understand what you and GP were trying to say
Whoa, this is amazing! I find this example much, much easier to read:

> For example, where Haskellers would write:

f = average . filter (> 0) . map normalize

> in hinc the idiomatic translation would be:

let f(lst) = lst.map(normalize)
.filter((x) => x > 0)
.average

These seems like very sane, pragmatic choices considering the massive segment of programmers used to C/Java/JavaScript derived syntax.

Now, if the currently top comment about category theory could be addressed, I think we'd have something.
Well, the cost can be both reasonable compared to other market rates and yet ridiculous. I know someone who got a quote recently to connect their rural property to fibre, literally about 100 metres from the cabinet, like, not far at all. But because they had to dig through a road and lay the cable over a small stream they quoted about £60k for the job. That might be "in line with the market" but it's still a ridiculous amount, there's no way a normal homeowner can afford that.
How is that different than both the iPad (which is much better now than it was in 2011), the Watch and the AirPods.

Jobs was there to see the successful transition to PPC to Intel. Cook will be there to see the transition from Intel to “Apple Silicon”.

But Apple wouldn’t have succeeded without Cooks operational expertise. Apple never had to manufacturer at the scale it does now during Jobs first tenure.
It probably works well to learn Python as well, although the learning curve would be pretty steep. Cool idea, I tried it out.
They (or someone within the government at least) may have known, but they did not act on it. On the contrary, for example California defunded its emergency stockpile.
“Text Neck” stress from impact on breathing
But amazon has AWS too which is high-end.

Yet we keep hearing stories about their abusive employment pradctices, even in AWS. It's in their culture to squeeze every last drop of blood out of their staff.
That's me – trying to perhaps add a bit of balance & avoid the moderation for politics. Apologies.
Exit nodes are Tor worst feature. And it undermines the whole effort!

Makes node operators liable for all sort of legal crap. It is the best thing for Spammers. Every service of note have already blocked them all (all the ones listed publicly, but if you choose not to, you are liable for even more legal crap)

Do not run exit nodes. Do not promote it.
The New York 1911 is amazingly well done.
I turned my 60 minutes of daily commuting with podcasts into 60 minutes of walking around my neighborhood with podcasts.
ULA is a leech created to attach to pork. It’s current rockets were designed by parent companies 20-50 years ago. ULA just kept making the same rockets, at higher pricing without the competition the parent companies provided, and without improving them in any significant way.

They got caught with their pants down by SpaceX, and now their existing rockets are technologically and economically obsolete. So instead of shutting them down, the Air Force gave them first position as a lifeline, even though they have to build their first new rocket ever, using an unproven engine, that’s unlikely to be cost competitive and won’t be reliable for years.

That’s the truth, Vertical assembly and ULAs reliability on their old rockets is just red herrings. Vulkan is no more worthy of a government contract than New Glenn or any other paper rocket from a first time launch system design team.
He's thinking from a pragmatic, utilitarian mindset. He has no principles surrounding privacy. If it has to be sacrificed to get the job done that's fine in his mind as long as it's a net positive.
Being very capitalist, I don't give my employer free labor. I make my employer pay. Capitalism is great for me.
In the surrendering words of the emperor himself the atomic bomb is directly mentioned as one reason for the surrender.
> May be there're not enough juridical grounds in Russia to block Tor

That long since stopped being a problem for the state here, in general. But also, Tor is explicitly against the law that regulates VPNs—since proxy-like services must block the same sites that are blocked by RosKomNadzor, to be allowed.
I looked directly at the Sun for 20 seconds without blinking. My brain could not settle on any particular color - it kept shifting hues.
It’s fine to take time off first of all.

In terms of success: I have dozens of side projects lying around, some of them educational, some practical, most unfinished.

It is completely fine, even beneficial to do so. At work you are already forced to finish and maintain stuff. Giving yourself some free, playful space balances this out.

Also in time some of those things trickle down (quasi) to your day job, or at least it has for me repeatedly. Not in the exact form I was expecting, but in tangible ways nonetheless.

There are two things that eventually keep me “on track” when I have a low phase: reminding myself that I’m a creator with ridiculous power at my fingertips is one. I keep a collection of notes with interesting and fun ideas (together with a friend). The other is more like a safety net so to speak: I seek long term financial security. This is one helps especially when I think about people close to me and how I can be strong for them.
If I read this right, it's saying we live in a universe with either a short program, or a fast program (program here means theory). From an algorithmic information theory standpoint, this seems to suggest whatever fundamental theory of physics we find, it'll be short. I'm wondering if this points more to a cellular automata style theory being at the root of reality. Maybe Wolfram was right?
Model uses voice analysis to help life insurers detect undisclosed tobacco use
This is such a remarcable piece of writing. I'm sure among americans this is already somewhat of a classic but if you haven't read yet it do yourself a favor and take half an hour to read it.
Nope.

It is deprecated -- it's use is disapproved of, you should stop using it. In the future it will go away but for now it works, so you can use it, but its use is discouraged.

Depreciated doesn't make any sense -- the value of the deprecated API does not diminish over time. It works, until it stops working. It's on or off. It doesn't work less and less every month or anything. It currently still works completely, but is deprecated -- that is, discouraged. At some point in the future, it will stop working, completely.

the rest of us don't just kind of but REALLY cringe when people say "depreciate" when they mean "deprecate". They are different words, "deprecated" is the right one, it is intentional, it is the word.

Sorry, you are the one using the wrong word.
> Read the whole thread.

Obviously I read the thread, otherwise I wouldn't have commented on what you wrote in it.

> Regardless, I don't agree that it's a banality considering the ECDC lists it as an important caveat when using face masks

It's a banality when in absolutely every thread on this subject at least one person states the totally obvious that doing something incorrectly could might potentially possibly may be worse than not doing it at all.
I wonder why Apple doesn't have a problem with the Orange company. Maybe Apple is just afraid of fighting someone within their own weight class...
I will put the ask forth. Thanks for the context.
I actually am writing a book and I have told myself that I should work on it after work, but I have failed miserably to switch to that hobby after work :(
Thousands rally in downtown Montreal to protest Quebec mask rules – CBC News
> I have no problem with the death of those who would prefer my death

What about those who have no opinion one way or the other about your death, or are incapable of having an informed opinion, such as very young children?
Sweden's Success Is Kryptonite for Lockdown and Mask Advocates
thank you for this link. That interview was actually rather interesting and gave off a different perspective then most.
Why is this called "dorking"? "Dorking" is a word that just means using search engines to find very specific data? This seems bizarre to me. Why does this need a special word?

Or it actually means using search operators beyond natural language entry? That's what this page seems to be about? I don't know why that would be called "dorking" either?
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They aren’t cheap, but I find them worth the price and live in them.
I also think the Flashman books fly under the radar, but not for the reasons you suspect. No one so far has tried to cancel Tarantino despite the liberal use of racist slurs by characters in his works. Most people can tell the difference between authors/creators and their characters.

I think "anti-hero as protagonist" just wasn't so popular in the 60s and 70s, when the Flashman series was written. Flashman goes well beyond anti-hero, sometimes into downright villainy. If the Flashman books were written and released today, they might do better.
Fashion is simply marketing gone wild. It's preying on the idea that the best way to be a better you is to wear ____. That you can cure your inferiority complex by consuming X, Y or Z. Which in turn belittles those around you, and so on.

TL;TD - An expensive ____ (e.g., watch) doesn't make you a better person. And you know this. So you get a nice car. Doesn't help. So you get new shoes. And so on.

Fashion is a cure for people who lack confidence and style. But that cure is more like an addiction.
Obviously SpaceX 100%, and offer to divert 40% of it to one of the other bidders when their unproven launch systems actual pass rigorous testing and actually launch something into orbit.
I'm going to level with you: that's the kind of things that are easier said than done. When you meet people you often end up communicating with whatever means of communication you have at that point in time, and then you move out and things change, and you talk less frequently, and people change their phone number, and address, and so on... really what remains is usually their facebook account.
Why is my Nest Thermostat talking to Facebook?
Kinda rich he spearheaded his own control of what people do with his bytes to now say others can't. I wish it wasn't true that enabling something like this would compromise all of our collective security.
How has your IT budget changed over time since founding?
Quick question: With all of the free credits out there for AWS and other services, I am curious how the IT budget has changes over time (in the different phases of from 0 customers/users to 1000, to 10000, etc).
Why are we not living in a universe with all possible theories (short and long), and there is only one of these theories which we actually see? Of course, enumerating all possible theories might be actually a simple program ...
I think they mean contemporary with the period the novels are set in.

I've read a couple of the Flashman books and while they're quite fun, the stuff happening in them in and the language is decidedly un-PC (and that's a massive understatement). This is by design - Flashman is an amoral, despicable, and cowardly character, and colonialism was all of those things. We're meant to be horrified by the stuff Flash and the people around him do and say so casually.