skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Heh, don't let computer science blind you to the real world realities of running something. Sure the n^2 time will dominate somewhere before infinity, doesn't mean that Reed Solomon is slow for practical use cases.

I have a 19GB test file on a desktop Xeon e3-1230 v5 (a quad core Intel from 2015) and an encoder written in Go (not the fastest language).

I can turn a 19GB file into 10 2.4GB files in 44 seconds, I can recover the original with any 8 of the 10 files. That sounds pretty slow, but it is reading 19GB and writing 24GB. In fact when I watch with top it looks like it spends a good while reading in 19GB, spends 1-2 seconds running the Reed Solomon calculation on 4 cores, then spending a bunch of time writing out 10 2.4GB files.

So Reed Solomon is fine even on a 6 year old computer on a pretty large file. I suspect a current 8 core desktop from 2020 could do even a 100GB file without taking noticeably long. After all a 100GB file shared over a p2p network is going to take WAY longer than the reed solomon calculation. Similarly I expect a recent vintage android phone or IOS phone could manage similar not to differently than a 6 year old desktop.
> my point was you can't, in good faith, claim "straw man" when someone uses the term that most non-economists in America use.

The term for what you're doing is called weak man. It's finding some idiot or hypocrite in the world who is actually advancing the weak position so you can claim it isn't a straw man, and then knocking that down instead of addressing the stronger version being advanced by someone else.

> I also never claimed that subsidies were a component of the free market nor did I claim any politicians think so. I believe that's an actual straw man :)

That's an argument. If "free market" means what anybody who says they're for free markets says they want, that would imply that "free market" means oil subsidies. Which is clearly absurd, ergo so was your claim.
I'm embarrassed to admit how long it took me to realize what the hamburger button did. Designers just started assuming everybody knew.
Yep. The GA is basically our household's sole interface for Netflix at this point, among other uses like lights and thermostat.
They more than likely mean Rapier, the sword.

But honestly, I agree. Why would you _choose_ a name that sounds like this?
Sounds like you're viewing Go as a silver bullet to endemic organizational issues here, and I find it hard to believe your assertion that Go is going to fix an engineering culture where "testing is sparse"
Still for those unfamiliar -- these are standard utilities that are part of every git installation.

There's also `git am` (as in "apply mail"), also standard part of git.

https://git-scm.com/docs/git-am

The whole workflow of git is based around email: the commit message requires a Subject line, then a blank line, followed by the description of what the patch attempts to solve.

The reason patches are required to be sent as plain-text for Linux and OpenBSD is that you can save the whole email, and pass the contents of the whole email to git (in case of Linux) or the patch(1) command (in case of OpenBSD -- the patch command will automatically ignores all the headers and non-patch part of the body of the email). This guarantees you won't end up with undocumented random patches on your filesystem -- each patch has the accompanying documentation as part of the same file, metadata on authorship etc. But if you use weird encodings, then the workflow breaks down.
Part of getting a FCC license for space radios is having a plan to avoid Kessler syndrome. For things like Starlink that plan is "stick them in low orbits so they naturally deorbit within a few years in the absolute worst case".
A tiny video relating a lot of antique use of asbestos https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-EJ-4koV7m0
My view on privacy is simply that it's too important to trust to the government. If we care about what a web browser sends out, it's a problem that should be solved by the browser, not the government. You don't trust the government to ensure the privacy of your communications; you shouldn't trust them to ensure your privacy in any other respect.
I disagree. Apple maps is worse than competition but they push it to their consumers because it's not bad enough to be worth switching away from iOS.
Not parent; your comment made me think, is that?:

- swipe down from anywhere in the vague middle of the page?

- swipe down on the right hand edge where an "invisble until you need it" scrollbar might be lurking?

- swipe down at the "not quite the top/bottom edge of the screen" because you don't want the OS swipe, you want the app swipe.

Aarrrgh! I don't even have an iPhone and the options drive me crazy.
The Nazis ran out of food at some point. It doesn't take a powerful imagination to think what the CCP would do if it ran out of some essential resource.
Apple AI/ML residency program
I recently went for a run around Mt Saint Helens, which I started before sunrise. It's a very desolate area, with limited light pollution. I suddenly noticed dozens of satellites flying overhead and was startled by how vivid they were. First time I've ever seen them. My response was to become a little bit choked up. I haven't felt pride in humanity like that for a while. As we become a space faring civilization, the night sky will be influenced by us more and more. It's not worth holding progress back for the sake of a nice view.
I think that would only be helpful if you're brining in an expert to consult/swarm on an issue.

We have a rotation program that involves three 6 months rotations for select new hires. The company claims that gives those people exposure to a broader understanding of technology and business use cases. I think that's true. I think it also builds their professional network in the company. This seems to work ok.
Nothing is hidden on a VCR. There's input connections, a tape, and a big record button. At most there is an additional source button to choose the input source. It's all there, in the open, and not hidden.

Some VCR’s had a timed recording setting. More commonly, and you see this on cars before they got touchscreens, there were settings and options that you had to navigate to by hitting a specific sequence of buttons to get to the appropriate menu.

The core loop was generally fine. It was when you needed anything else that suddenly you needed the manual.
I don't know of a video but I'll try to summarize.

How to make a chip:
1. Slice pure silicon into a wafer.
2. Apply a thin coating of a light-activated chemical which does something to the wafer (etch, build up metal, dope[1] silicon, etc.).
3. Shine light through a mask which exposes a pattern into the silicon wafer.
4. Rinse off the un-activated chemical.
5. Repeat steps 2-4 many times for each layer.
6. Slice the wafer up into rectangular chips
7. Package the chips into a plastic, metal, ceramic, package with exposed metal contacts which can be soldered to a circuit board.

Why EUV?
Extreme Ultraviolet - really small wavelength. When you're trying to expose really small structures you need a really small wavelength.

Why is EUV so hard?
EUV is extremely high energy so it destroys everything, and it takes a huge amount of energy to create the light source. Also: quantum things.

[1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doping_(semiconductor)
I mean, assistants are basically voice UI's for any service.

Google has a huge knowledge graph so naturally they'd be better at answering questions, but I think between Google Assistant and Alexa the race to win will come down to integrations/partnerships with third parties.
Further, you will then understand why you need a framework like React should your project become complicated enough on the frontend.
Full Page Reload
I wonder how this compares to the YubiHSM2?
I suspect the search engine effort is actually part of making Siri better. To do that they need the data to analyse, which means scraping and indexing, which is search. Might as well wraps that in a UI and nail two birds with one stone.
I would guess that yes, they are actually worried about certain religious groups no longer doing business with them because they "support" "immoral" practices.
> With sex being such a huge part of our lives, why aren't we bending out backs to _help_ the sex industry thrive, instead of defending corrupt oligopolies?

Because the "sex industry" is a bunch of corrupt oligopolies?!

I mean, we're talking about a business that thrives on human trafficking and exploitation and preying on the weak and vulnerable and defenseless. We're talking about an industry whose business model depends on an endless supply of defenseless gullible victims that see their lives thrown into the furnace to keep it running for just another instance.

Was it so long ago that one of the biggest porn sites in the history of the internet was caught knowingly hosting and refusing to take down videos of abducted underage girls getting raped?

https://www.independent.co.uk/life-style/pornhub-petition-ra...

The banking industry is not innocent, but let's not pretend the sex industry is a paragon of virtue in comparison.
As of recently, you can spend credits within the app and purchase audiobooks.
The world to come: What should we value?
That icing is Yandex, so no thank you.
I've been writing about the world of gaming via Substack for the last year or so (https://pausebutton.substack.com/) for somewhat sizable audience, and this is a particularly accurate breakdown.

Links/Round-ups = retention. They make sure your brand stays top of mind for folks, but very rarely are they the thing that makes new subscribers come in. The tradeoff is that this is way more time-efficient that writing your own long-form.

New Long-form Content = Growth. The long-form stuff takes us 10x the time to write, but is consistently responsible for the increase in audience size. If you're going full-time, this is the place to invest. Particularly because Substack is so bad at reader Discovery, you need to invest in getting people onto your publication in your own way (original content), because Substack only really helps the biggest creators drive traffic.

It's why the I think the idea of bundling is going to be so big with newsletters, akin to how traditional newspapers started through a bunch of independent writers coming together. Eventually producing new long-form stuff wont be able to drive sustained growth and there's a cap on how much content a single person can put out.
Like to go for dip ’n’ drive, Darling?
On older Android a press and hold on an SMS conversation brought up the context menu options, of which there was only one: SPAM - block this number.

So if you accidentally hold the press for a fraction too long you block that number.

And then you wonder why your friend(s) don't love you anymore...

To unblock it, you have to go to the Contacts and dig through options there, the SMS app showed nothing of help. It wasn't obvious that you had it blocked!
Oiva is a good name! Yeah, I don't think Myrsky would pass the nimilautakunta!

We considered Ukko for a minute, but ... wow, English speakers would definitely have struggles.
Virtual Tourism – Maranhão
> it certainly seemed that specific GC latency issue they hit and blogged about would have been solved by upgrading to a modern Go version....

Do you know if that was the case when the decision to switch was made? They said elsewhere they tried Go 1.7-1.10 and none of those solved their issue, and at least back when the blog post was released I couldn't figure out whether the fix for the corresponding issue was known to have been slated for release in the next Go release.
How to restore broken and dying marriages
Yes I know...
I’d be interested if I could alternate which sort of weights to apply-like you and sibling comment suggest.
It’s been said before, but Bella Thorne isn’t a nobody. She has already existing fans she’s simply transferring to the platform.
Their support page does imply if you want to avoid cloud sync you should keep it offline, but perhaps that is just because it is the most brief/user friendly way to describe the situation. There definitely isn't an explicit option to turn off the cloud sync in the device settings, but I wouldn't be surprised if there are workarounds to this once you ssh in. You could also maybe block internet access to the device via your router settings, so you could at least use rsync while at home?

https://support.remarkable.com/hc/en-us/articles/36000264829...
CMU Lecture Notes on Compiler Design
I also think that $8/mo (or $9, whatever) is a much lower barrier to entry.

The difference here is I'm unsure how much I'd actually use it... so if I like it I'd happily pay monthly for a sort of extended "pro" trial, knowing that if it turns out I don't really use it I can just cancel in the App Store.

At $100/year I have to be pretty sure I'll use it a lot: I probably have a dozen different subscriptions in that range but I definitely don't want two dozen.

I'm not saying I won't give you the $100, just that I prefer to trial full-featured products and I'm happy to pay for an open-ended trial within reason. No idea how typical that attitude is.
The Empowering Feeling of Throwing Useless Stuff Away
I really love this graphic showing the difference between hard work and being productive: https://twitter.com/lizandmollie/status/1231605700960432128/...
Few nations, especially in Africa, have the sort of control over the sale of small electronics that is envisioned here. One would hope that the monopoly providers wouldn't invest many resources in policing areas they don't even serve... Musk probably isn't relying on any one particular nation to validate his business plan.
Exclusive access to a walled garden will certainly help.
But most of these jobs are only temporarily gone.
So dragon and unicorn dildos are OK, but human ones aren’t? WTF?
WHO hopes Covid-19 pandemic will end in 'less than two years'
I'm impressed as well - but I do think many of us here are overestimating the size of the audience that sort of technical messaging would apply to. It being open is a big deciding factor for us on HN - but there's a much larger audience for whom it would simply dilute the messaging. (I'm guessing their product marketing team did a substantial bit of research on this before going live).

I could, however, see them building out a 'developer community'-focused microsite. But I wouldn't expect them to put anything related to that on their homepage, as it would likely be confusing and irrelevant to their target audience.
thank you, pretty impressive. sounds reasonable for them to think they can accomplish the same with search, then
> Personally, I'd love if Apple put this out there ad-free.

Apple isn't a charity.
Look at u/rmhack on reddit. They managed to get a normal arm Linux image to boot on it.

My main complaints are that it's not encrypted at rest, and the only way to use cloud features are to go through reMarkable's cloud (and you can't host a private instance). Makes it really hard to get approved in an enterprise environment.
It is hard. After a few times around, you start to recognize the dreaded feeling. But then you realize you are closer to the other side than the way back and press on.
You sound like the right sort of person to ask: what do you make of PWAs as an alternative to proper apps on the AppStore?

I've seen various demos and showcases, some of them with pretty impressive UIs, but I've never encountered PWAs outside of exploring them as a novelty.
What are the usual use of ML right now ?

I mostly think about ML for self driving vehicles but I'd like to know where else it's applied.
yes but that really only matters if the second "engine" produces enough power for maneuvering if the first one fails. Plus, there is still mechanical interconnectedness so it isn't truly redundant. That said it is likely far safer than a traditional twin, the axiom with those is if you lose one engine the second will fly you all the way to the scene of the crash.
Oh yeah. Google to:

- discover which registry key

- discover how to craft shit in a game

- to find where my Android setting is and what the searchterm/keyword for it is.

Without google/duckduckgo 80% of the options in my world would be undiscoverable or take waaaay too much time to figure out.
>You can just click on Bing and start searching there as soon as Bing becomes even slightly better.

I think the central problem is that 'getting better' is mostly a function of having more users in the first place because that is the very data that helps Google improve the service, it's probably one of the most simple cases of network effects.
I don't write much on my blogs nowadays, but that's mainly because I lack inspiration. For the past few years my 'blogging' has mostly been long rambling rant-thoughts about obscure stuff on Facebook: it gives my friends something to chuckle about.

When I do write proper blog posts, the lack of an audience doesn't bother me anymore. It is (as they say) what it is. It's also liberating: I can write what I like without fear of reprisal or the need to justify myself - an online occasional diary, if you like. Last year I built a new website to collect together all my writing work. I included some blog functionality in it and rescued a bunch of posts from old Blogger blogs. It was fun to read them all again[1].

I, too, loathe Medium's business model. If I see a potentially interesting post here on HN which links to that site, I've taught myself not to click the link.

[1] - https://rikverse2020.rikweb.org.uk/blog
The fact that you refer to those internal commands that are part of every Git installation as "projects" shows that you're likely unfamiliar with Git CLI.

Because git is so large, every individual command is documented in a separate manual page, with `git diff` being documented in the `git-diff` manual page, and so forth.

All the mentioned commands are probably present on your Mac in Apple's distribution of Git, for example. Even though Apple probably doesn't use any of those commands for internal development (because big corp, and not invented here).
I wonder if it's by design? If I was building a home assistant product, one of the cases I'd build defensively against would be kids saying "hey google delete all emails"...

Maybe I'm out of the loop, but when Alexa/Google/Siri started coming out in home-accessible versions, I did think there was a beat missing in terms of recognising a voice-print (if such a thing is possible) or similarly requiring some form of authentication.
As a startup founder and entrepreneur, what do you mostly need help with?
It's one of the most baffling UI's I've seen. Like it's actively designed to thwart you.
I predict (and hope) FIDO2 will commoditize all these keys.
I've taken to using a fling motion on my Android devices since grabbing the position indicator in a scrollbar is comparatively inconvenient... but performance is fine.
... And yet ... https://www.lovehoney.co.uk/help/about-klarna/ ...

Whether they fly under "novelty items" or not, idk.
They aren't, but they make a decent amount of money from other things.
You're welcome, and really, please don't worry about your comment. It's all good :)

I guess I can concede that the memorisation explanation is not the only possible one, there's always the possibility of learned heuristics. I still expect very strong evidence before I'm convinced that GPT-3 can learn arithmetic in the general sense and I don't trust the explanation that it's only learning partially- but let's agree to disagree on that. Thank you for the conversation, too.
According to the linked article it sounds like he was 16 when he started doing that.
Most people don’t want to run there own infrastructure. Also many newsletters are written by people that aren’t technical so self hosting is for a really limited audience.
I want to like products like this but I ultimately question the improvement versus actual pen and paper. I have a great notebook that I love, I found a pen that I love, and neither require power, take up much room, and have the best tactile experience possible. I can always use a computer whenever I need to get a lot of “digital” work done. Maybe I’m just not the target? But I do take a lot of notes frequently, just not annotations of PDFs.
Can I bug you when you get the remarkable 2.0 to find out if it still does all that?
Please read the message beginning this thread.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24271258

It's written there:

> "most of what's mentioned in this article are metrics used to understand how the features are used (bookmarks, highlights, dictionnary, etc.), how much they are used, and in which country."

Besides, I don't appreciate phrases like "fabricating accusations" or "you're talking nonsense about stuff you have no grasp over". I'm may be wrong, it happens often, but even if I am this aggressive tone is not in place. You can point out my mistakes politely if they exist, same way as I do with yours.
> Who cares?

At a point what made Apple able to print money was that customers identified with Apple as 'caring about the same things'--shared deep values. So technically doesn't matter if Steve Jobs actually had these values--if he could convincingly pull it off anyway--but it does make it a whole lot easier if you don't have to fake it.

I don't think this required a specific vision in any product roadmap, just the belief that the product will be different, beautiful, etc made for people like 'us'.
At least in the SAS and Finnair cases they haven't been replacing larger aircraft, though, which was the claim above? Unquestionably plenty of European airlines fly regional aircraft, but I don't see them replacing A320/737s.
Its worth more that gm, ford, Chrysler, and toyota combined. I am not sure what year they will make more cars, revenue, and profit than all those companies combined.
Apple generates like 60 billion in cash. That is 3x revenue of tesla.
I thought that was the kindle fire tablet
From the Substack-related interviews/content I've consumed, it seems like the company is more concerned with tools/support [0] [1] for its creators, before it worries about consumer growth.

The idea is that once you have an excess of supply (writers), who are all bringing in their own readers, it's easier to connect the dots for readers to other publications. Whereas if your reader demand outweighs supply, people will not see any value from sticking around.

As a writer on the platform[2] itself, I think the general tools/support for the non-Top 20 creators leaves a ton to be desired, so would love to see them step it up in a number of ways if they're really trying to get behind the average writer.

[0] https://on.substack.com/p/announcing-the-next-substack-fello...
[1]https://on.substack.com/p/legal-support-for-substack-writers
[2]https://pausebutton.substack.com/
I think I only agree with you on games and trading software. In games, you have 4ms (assuming an esports game at 240Hz) to read input, read game state from the network, do all your simulation, draw a frame to the screen, and write the results back to the network. There is absolutely no time budget for anything else; in fact, C++ games don't even manage to run at a 240Hz tickrate and just hack around the input / display handling while they wait for 60Hz networking and simulation run in another thread. (Going off topic, the end result of all of this is an incredible example of what "eventual consistency" means in the real world. Play a multiplayer FPS and you'll never use a database in any mode other than strict serializable again.)

For drivers and database implementations, there is more time to do stuff. For example, I wrote a keyboard controller with Tinygo, and it mostly sits around waiting for the USB host's C++ driver to ask it for data. Go isn't adding any latency (and it's not really C++'s fault either; the standard sets a time interval to poll at). And if you wonder what an OS written in Go would look like, look at gVisor. It's not technically an OS, but it does a large number of OS-like things.

Database engines that are focused on throughput rather than latency will also do fine with an occasional GC delay. CockroachDB and InfluxDB have plenty of users.