skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I have a Pixel.

My comment referred to the timeline outlined in the post, in particular this part:

Qualcomm gives an update on the progress of a microcode based fix. The plan is that the fix will be available for OEMs by September 7, but Qualcomm will request an extension to patch integration and testing by OEMs.allow more time for patch integration and testing by OEMs.

and for their multiple subsequent requests for an extension and/or grace period.

Your August patches don't fix this - Qualcomm only notified OEMs on 4 August and their plan was to get fixes to OEMs by 7 Sep.
Why Solitary Tests Should Be Easy to Read
I think this can definitely save you time in some cases, but usually at the expense of other people. For example, if someone asks me for help on something because I'm more familiar with it, my spending five minutes to answer their question might save them an hour of troubleshooting. Here, the Napoleon technique would save me time but only by wasting the other person's time. Eventually this might come back to bite me, perhaps if that other person is now an hour behind on a task that helps me.

And from the perspective of someone asking for help, it can also be really frustrating to not get a response. Slow responses give the impression that the other person is not paying attention. Any sort of reply, even a quick "I'll follow-up by the end of the day" is much better than no response at all. This shows people that you're listening and that they can trust/count on you.
Maybe you'll downvote, but I'll be that guy: It's very hard to read a text that is written in all lowercase. I don't understand why the author would choose to do that.

The topic of this article is very close to me but the style of writing makes it too hard to read.
At times it somewhat relates to the theory of constraints - where spending time optimising non-constraints will not provide significant benefits to the system. Obviously there is a balance between under and over optimisation, nothing is black and white.
I have became a boring manager
For the past couple months I feel like I am doing nothing.

I'm part of the research team, but the only 5 people I was managing were moved to a different project.

I've been working with the same company for 5 years, and I've build a lot of stuff, and I guess I'm at a position where they just pay me before I become relevant with some new project.

What do I do? I talked to my supervisor, and I'm suppose to conduct research in AI, but I don't even have a proper hardware to run training, or enough space to download datasets. I just so easy to procrastinate and do nothing.

I'm also going through some hard personal time, and it's impossible to focus on research while alone at home.

Should I just take time of to recover and don't do any work?
Should I change my job?

I feel like I have lost my function at the company. Is that normal from time to time? Maybe I should just enjoy the freedom while it lasts

I hope there is someone who went through that, or someone who can give me some perspective. I'm 30 yo & company pays me great money.
Yes all of those examples should also be liberated.
Nobody cares about Julian Assange. Assange is no longer useful as an asset through which to launder oppo research and whatever the Kremlin is pushing this week so why bother with a pardon? The number of people whose vote this would change is vanishingly small, and the optics might even end up losing votes.
https://stats.stackexchange.com/questions/47916/bayesian-bat...
So.. There are benefits to this for complex apps - but 90% (charitably) of this kind of code is not in a complex app.

I think it's for two main reasons:

1. If you don't use complicated new technology you won't get a job doing web dev.

2. Many new JS devs don't understand JS/HTML/CSS well, they only understand a particular framework - and even then not in a sufficiently deep way.

When you come across a seemingly normal site that requires JS in order to display anything, it's pretty unlikely that anyone involved ever considered not doing it that way.
There is a material difference between costing Apple revenue by doing something they're allowed to do and costing Apple revenue by breaching their agreement. They cost Apple revenue by circumventing the in-app purchase system and Apple will naturally want the lost revenue. My guess is they'll produce figures saying "We made 30% of X revenue from in-app purchases over Y time frame, this dropped to 30% of Z revenue after Epic breached our terms, so they owe us 30% of X-Z + punitive damages because they did this deliberately".
I just got back from an acquaintance with an old core 2 era celeron running windows 7. No GPU, no SSD. The thing flies I was shocked. Seriously shocked.
Thanks a lot for your thorough answer! I actually know about Apple 2 but had no idea about the two models and their naming scheme and was really curious what this was about
Ethics are only evolutionarily sound if cooperation among agents increases fitness. Since corporations seemingly do not need to cooperate, ethics indeed are harmful to their chances of proliferation.
They have a point though. They are not working on the weekend, so it does not matter whether you file the ticket on Saturday or Monday. If you solve the issue yourself they don't have to do anything. If you can't, you can always file it at 9am.
> 2-3 media firms basically own local media

... In the US.
An interesting approach for smoking cessation
Ha. If they think that is enjoying the game wrong they're going to really struggle with this:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JuZMvMtZCWU

PangeaPanga (a very good Mario player) made this Super Mario World hack named "Item Abuse 3" in 2015. The hack isn't human viable, it just contains so many frame perfect tricks that must be performed over and over or you die. Designing games, even very hard games is probably something the author can understand.

But this isn't about Panga's achievement, it's a TAS, a Tool Assisted Speedrun of Panga's hack. For Item Abuse 3 to make any sense Panga had to release a TAS of it anyway, as "Look this Mario hack is impossible" is not at all interesting, so the TAS is the only way to show that it's a complete technically beatable game that is also too hard to be possible.

But the TAS video I've linked above isn't Panga's proof of concept TAS, it's an independent effort. A whole group of people co-operatively came up with a way to beat this impossible SMW hack faster than Panga, spending hours on one trick, slowly making their way through the whole hack to shave off less than one minute.

Still that ought to be enough right? Nope. Here's XHF01X's even faster TAS of the same hack which entirely skips some of the already impossible stuff by doing even more impossible things.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-NWu_SqkkmA
It's worth making a tiny repository of tools that are light in resources, light on features, but satisfying to use from simple and clear ergonomics.
> I really wish there was a third party - the customer - actually represented in this trial.

Isn't this the entire concept of amicus briefs?
I think the death stacks make it too easy to just steamroll over the opposition. One military unit per hex makes it more tactical. It works for me.
Just when you thought nothing could be dumber than WebUSB....
> Then is it cool if I skip a few meetings to volunteer to help the homeless?

You don't have to help the homeless during the work day; that's a choice. But parents don't get to decide not to care for their children during the work day, when school/daycare/etc. is not available.

> It just seems completely unfair to make childless employees subsidise this adventure

How is that happening, though? As a non-parent who chose to work from home most of the time pre-COVID (despite HQ being a 30-minute walk from home), my work life is nearly unchanged due to COVID. I get up, work 8-10 hours, and then go and do whatever I want (obviously "whatever I want" has been curtailed due to COVID, but that's not my employer's or parent-coworkers' fault). I'm not "subsidizing" anything when a parent gets more flexibility during their work day due to child care obligations. The thing that changes for the company as a whole is that projects take longer to complete because many employees have taken a productivity hit, but that's no skin off my back.

> Besides, let's not pretend that people choose to have kids as a service to humanity. I've never, ever heard anyone claim that. People have kids because they're fun, and because making them is fun.

Agreed, and as a non-parent I can't help but roll my eyes whenever a parent tries to tell me what a grand service to humanity their child-rearing is. But, at the end of the day, humanity would cease to exist without people having kids, so regardless of their actual motivation, they are providing a valuable service to humanity.
That argument is pretty rich coming from epic considering that they sign exclusive deals for games pretty aggressively for their Epic games store.
Can't the cantonment just function like its own local body working alongside the other local bodies, with proportionate allocation of budget?

I understand with the influence the defence establishment wields in the affairs, it has a greater say but isn't it in their interest to keep the financial hub of their country healthy.
Came here just for the GRRM comment :)

But for I can see, he is NOT really using it...
Meanwhile the Apple AppStore is terrible for finding anything. It’s just a horrible list of most downloaded apps and a search bar, and even the search feature is bad.

For every other purpose like getting proper recommendations, you have to consult the internet.

Imagine having a “we think you will like these games because you played...” feature that works as well as Spotify’s or Steam’s recommendation engine. That will be a game changer for everyone, both consumers and developers.

I hope Apple will be forced to allow 3rd party stores, so we can get an Epic Games Store app, or a Steam Games Store app on our mobile devices.

The only thing worse than having multiple game launchers like we have on PC is having only one, and you cannot bypass it, and it’s awful, and it still asks for 30%.

I want multiple stores. Or I want Apple to seriously rethink their shitty store app. Preferably both.
Google Chrome ships in a DMG, doesn’t it? This means that if it is running out if your downloads folder, it’s not subject to the things that would mess it up because you dragged it there.
It’s a Race Against Heat, and Humanity Is Losing
You can get a pretty good idea of how long security updates will be provided already, so does that help almost ever? Like, great, now Motorola has an official promise to do security updates for for 15 months post-launch. If they decide to release a permanently locked phone, the consumer's still getting screwed just as much.

Basically, "doesn't go as far as" sounds like a massive understatement.
Immigration should solve it. Increasing replacement rate of developed countries doesn’t mean that exponential population in developing countries will decline.

Which begs the questions: is the race to fulfill replacement rate in developed countries the real reason to incentivise child births?
> For example, if someone asks me for help on something because I'm more familiar with it, my spending five minutes to answer their question might save them an hour of troubleshooting. Here, the Napoleon technique would save me time but only by wasting the other person's time.

Other people learning new stuff is not a waste of time.
A link to that hemmingway might have been good. I'll punt; something like "he rode off into the sunset". Close?
No, GoG Galaxy is not entirely optional. It is required to run many newer games, and can be required even if you're not trying to play multiplayer.

I don't understand how this is supposed to be compatible with GoG's marketing as "the DRM-free home for games".
There is another sense of the word argument where it simply means a well reasoned defence of something. This is the sense in which it is used within Philosophy and Mathematics.
Are theme parks essential to your daily life?

Because that what smartphones has become.
Fortnite essential to daily life?

Actually nothing on my phone is essential to daily life.
Show HN: Choosify – Intercom Alternative with Auto Responses
Hi HN,

I'm launching Choosify (https://choosify.chat), a website plugin for live chat / customer support.

It allows you to chat with website visitors directly via Slack. Conversations can be partially automated using a flow builder.

The main reasons for developing Choosify are:

1) Chatbot platforms like Dialogflow are too complicated for the average user regarding input/output context.

2) Intercom is terribly expensive :)

Recently more Intercom alternatives have been launched (cough Papercups (YC S20) cough). However, Choosify is unique in the way it allows you to set up automated messages and responses.

I hope this will help you to talk to your customers. The free tier should be sufficient for the average user. (Billing is not yet implemented, so it's 100% free for now.)

Features:

- Customizable lightweight plugin

- Automated replies using code-free flow builder

- Reply from Slack

- Free tier and affordable pricing based on how many messages you send/receive

- Golang backend, Vue/Nuxt.js frontend

Please let me know your thoughts. Any feedback is welcome, thanks!
> But they rip up even more surface.

Compaction is much, much worse. It takes a century or more to undo in temperate rainforests like the Olympic Peninsula.
Fencing Language in “The Princess Bride”
I used to love WordStar, it was an excellent Ctrl-Key editor.

I'm sure you could probably convert GRR to use something like Sublime Text and keep all his only WordStar shortcuts. Pick a nice font and size and just start typing.
I didn't watch all of their videos, but you certainly have a point with regards to them interviewing people with fringe views. For what it's worth, I've sent this feedback to them and they say they plan to do something about it.
Create separate user for every application and run it under that user.
It shouldn't be apart, meaning a way from.
"Become a part of something great", not "become away from something great".

It could be phrased as "become a piece of something great"
You’re responding to a comment about Google Cloud with complaints about how Chrome OS devices don’t get updates as fast as you want them to. This is hardly on topic even if you stretch, and you shouldn’t because that drags the conversation into an unrelated place that is easier to respond to which is a perpetual danger on Hacker News.
I think a big difference between Civ games and chess is that chess has very easy-to-learn mechanics. There are only a half dozen different pieces and the rules are pretty simple. A beginner can start playing almost immediately and have fun from the start. I think Civ’s mechanics are several orders of magnitude more complex.
When has a developer ever been forced into an exclusive deal? They get paid extra for that. It's pro-competitive, because it's what allows new stores to get off the ground, meanwhile nothing stops you from using Epic's store and Steam and five others at the same time. The biggest problem with Apple's store isn't what they allow into it, it's that people can't use it and any other store at the same time.
> Mandatory? Doubtful. But they are most practical in the rough terrain.

I didn't mean to imply there was a government mandate. It's the large forestland owners who demand it of their contractors.
Yeah, mainly electronic keyboards rather than pianos. I think to a certain extent it's to do with people's lifestyles, living in rented accommodation and owning a real piano doesn't really fit well together.

As for tuners, we're lucky to have a good tuner nearby who also does piano tech work so we're covered, although saying that, COVID-19 means we've not had a tune for 6 months and it's got a bit 'interesting' in the upper middle.

The best thing about having a good tuner is the difference a tune to a piano you think is in tune makes. It goes from sounding good to sounding outstanding, and if like me your sense of tuning isn't great, you can't quite put your finger on what has changed, but you can certainly hear the difference.
I haven't downvoted you - and there's no spin.

Just because people with vested interests in destroying journalism keep saying that journalists talking with your political opponents is some sign of underhanded activity, it doesn't make it true.
>Here, the Napoleon technique would save me time but only by wasting the other person's time.

The premise is that your time is way more valuable than somebody else's. And they're wasting it.
grep&awk.

I've become quite fond of gnu grep.
Thanks for the links. So he didn't release any names like the grandparent comment said. I thought that sounded strange.
Thanks dang. I do not think you are a chinese shill. But I do think your neutrality makes this site suffer, and I do think that there is a right and wrong side of this debate. You may think you are honourable in choosing neutrality, but I think in the end, you are enabling policies that hurt human beings under the guise of free speech.
Ok, that makes sense.

What does not make sense is that it's not optional.
Any 3rd party vendor tools like aws-cli?
Well like any large codebase there will be things that need improving. The handful of places where we have similar issues are relatively unlikely to cause a real problem in the near future.
I think the parent's argument makes perfect sense, and reducing it to adopting eugenics does sound pretty close to a bad-faith response.

Markets don't care about any particular specific implementation of children; the market just cares that there will be children, of some average productivity level to maintain economic growth. Sure, if we went full eugenics, markets would likely shift to expect a much higher productivity level in future generations, but... that seems like a pretty obvious outcome.

> Good faith is only relevant if both of us are in agreement according to contract law.

I think maybe you're talking about the legal definition of "good faith", wherein the rest of us are talking about the "don't be a dick" definition. Not saying you're being a dick, but it does feel like you're willfully misunderstanding the parent's argument.
Show HN: Ridiculously fast, easy and free website for your business
To be fair, you can’t sign up for a Netflix account on iOS. Arguably the entire transaction is taking place off platform.
We've been trialling the Native File System API in our PWA Construct 3 (a browser based game editor - https://www.construct.net).

I think it's absolutely fantastic, and users love it too - it gives them exactly what they expect from IDE-style software in the browser, such as "Save as" to any location on disk, and the ability to use folder-based projects (that are spread across multiple files).

The security concerns are obviously important but I'm pretty confident it's largely mitigated through the permissions model (which is similar to one Windows Store apps use). Also as noted elsewhere, existing web features already allowed reading files and even entire directories; the writing files part is new, and you cannot choose system directories, or ask for too much (e.g. root of the user directory).

So in short I think this is great news for the web and a big step towards allowing web apps to reach parity with desktop/native apps, while managing to do it in a reasonably safe way.
Six Thinking Hats by Edward De Bono
Yes!

Good grief, Amazon is terrible for finding things, but the Apple App Store is several degrees worse. I do a search for an app that is in a top apps list, and it doesn't show up in the search results. WTF?

The whole App Store experience shows major contempt for your customers, Apple. That sound in the distance is chickens coming home to roost.
Ideally, they should be, but there are just too many administrative divisions already, and adding 6+ more to them will not do good. There is a need to dramatically simplify the "topology" of Karachi's government.

As it is now, just finding out who orders whom in Karachi is neigh impossible. One needs a special talent to think of a government system this convoluted.
How many parents think about having kids because its an essential service ensure continuance of society? I would say none? It's a personal and selfish choice for their own family. I'm not saying that it doesn't benefit the society. But there are govt schemes like child tax credits etc. which are meant to control the population.

Yes parents should be given the time off. But do all parents need the time off? What if you have teenage kids? Also why limit this for parents only, why can't the same benefit apply to singles who can use the extra time off to find their potential partner and hence help in societies growth. I feel it's tone deaf to just talk about parents problems during these crisis.
Great article!
Idena is leading the way for decentralized human protocols with more than 3660 nodes.
https://idena.io/
I completely agree with you. My concern is that most of the super rich are effectively out of reach, because of their ability to shelter their wealth and income. If memory serves, most of the more recent progressive policy proposals involve raising taxes on the middle and upper middle classes, despite what the political candidates claimed.
Right, but they weren't asking about those normal fuses, they were asking about the special fuse that disables fuse-blowing.

And the simplest answer is that code could check if the fuses are reading out too early a version and abort. Which you could try to patch around but it won't be easy.
You could require user consent for resource increases.

For example, start the RAM at 12 times the number of CSS pixels. When the limit is hit, freeze the allocations until the user authorizes a doubling of the limit. Web sites would need about 10 authorization clicks to go from 4 MiB to 4 GiB. That goes for everything on the page, all sharing the limit.

Web sites would quickly change to minimize that, out of fear that users might not keep accepting the resource usage.

CPU usage could be similar, probably based on threads. The default is that only a single tab in a single window gets any time at all. Everything else is suspended. Users can grant permission for stuff like music players.

Network usage would also need to be limited, though limiting the RAM and CPU will tend to limit network usage as a side effect.
Capitalism killed Mozilla? Is Mao writing this nonsense? Do they even know where or how Mozilla started?

The source is open, you are free to setup your own hippy commune and continue the work. The project doesn't die.

If they clearly weren't 18, they must have lost their mind during the VA Linux IPO.
What to Expect from Tesla’s Battery Day?
> Firaxis's Beyond Earth has barely 1 person who played at least 1 minute for every 10 that bought the game. 9/10 buyers just handed over money out of nostalgia, never playing a minute, nostalgia was and remained the only compelling association with that product.

I bought Beyond Earth for full price at launch out of nostalgia for Alpha Centauri (of course).

Unfortunately it had many flaws:
- Much less interesting art direction and characters than Alpha Centauri.
- Gameplay was very one note, with little meaningful deviation from a few defined paths.
- On release, when you finished the game it showed a "finish game" button which unceremoniously dumped you back to the title screen. No opportunity to see stats or review your empire.

My impression was that it was rushed and had a limited budget, and I never felt like revisiting it. As sibling comments note, there is a sizable niche of mostly PC gamers looking for meaty experiences, and I believe Beyond Earth failed on its own merits.
> Civ 4 was the greatest Civ.

Alpha Centauri enters the room ;)
History doesn't only filter on quality though, but also on contemporary morals and whims of the powerful.