skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Just one issue - there are timers on connections regulating how long a connection can be kept alive before a packet is required. Larger timeouts are better for phones, but require more resources on the servers/networks.

Google/Apple work directly with carriers to extend the timeouts for their push services so the phones aren't required to send keepalive packets every 30 seconds to keep the connection alive. Carriers won't be willing to do that for every random server out there.

This is just one of many ways these push services are carefully designed/operated to save as much battery life as possible. If you had more than one notification service, battery life would degrade to the worst performing one (the radio would be forced to wake up to keep every notification service alive... Even if the Google one could go minutes between the keepalive packets)

(Another is the way Google batches low priority notifications... Sending a push message won't immediately wake up a phone - it delays to try to batch as many messages as possible. This scheme breaks down if messages aren't all routed through a single server)
I had a similar task once, tried it with awscli and s3cmd first,
then took about 5 minutes to google for a multithreaded alternative and found s4cmd[1], problem solved. (tmux to keep the session running)

Makes me kinda doubt at least parts of this story - not one of these 7 engineers thought about googling?

Edit to add: Agree with the basic premise though - s3 can be real slow when when you actually need to work with your data.

[1] https://github.com/bloomreach/s4cmd
"Apple's goal in many cases is to protect their software, not you."

Seems like it is easy to trick the public into confusing one goal for another.

There seems to be an implicit rule in the Apple software scheme: Apple itself is "pre-certified" as trustworthy. Not only at the time point of hardware purchase, but endlessly into the future.

The user of course cannot revoke that "certification". The way these systems are structured today, the user effectively cannot decide after purchase "Thanks Apple, I got this. I'll take it from here." This is sort of implicit trustworthiness of hardware vendor as software vendor also underlies the contemporary concept of "updates". There is no genuine (viable) option for the user to say "no, thank you". Saying no would be deemed as ill-advised for a variety of reasons.

The one-time hardware purchase is transformed into an ongoing dependent relationship that can be, and in fact is, exploitive. Its primary reason for existence is as you suggest not to "protect" or otherwise benefit the user, but it can be contrued that way.
The US never felt the full effects of that peak [0]. The difference was made up by imports and the US didn't have to face a raw decline in oil availability. Global peak oil is going to change that, or spark more very nasty wars as the US bullies people into continuing to send them oil.

In this century it is quite likely that we'll see peak oil globally. It is a bigger threat than climate change. Anyone who was going to suffer from climate change is also one of the people vulnerable to the affects of oil availability reductions.

[0] https://ourworldindata.org/grapher/oil-consumption-by-countr...
This is also known as the Socialist calculation debate [0].

[0] https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socialist_calculation_debate
Do you have any sources? Seed round founder salary is almost never market rate. At least in anyone I know who has done this.
I don't have any questions, I just wanted to say your blog is awesome! Thank you for it.
Absolutely. C++, C, Java, Python, learning Rust now. Working on another MS just for fun.

I don't do web dev so I don't give a shit about javascript.
Not quite the same; they're now selling two slightly different versions. One has 2GB of RAM, while the other has 3GB RAM and is usually marketed under a "Convergence" label. For example, the UBports CE and the pmOS hardware has some slight revision that changes your ability to connect with the phone over Ethernet. I believe that the upcoming Manjaro CE will have the same distinction between models.

[1] https://store.pine64.org/product/pinephone-community-edition...
The mechanics and psychology behind The Social Dilemma
Which you could’ve easily done with S3 Batch Operations or the EMR-based sync in a super-parallel way and little engineering effort.
Excel invented tabs! (Got this from some MSFT presentation, when they introduced tabs tonIE)
There are reasons not to upgrade. I'm staying on Mojave so I can keep using the 32-bit copy of Photoshop I bought years ago.
I did "Jump In"s for about 10 minutes. Thought I'd provide some feedback.

I <3 the idea. I've personally wanted to see something like this for a while as I continuously visit the same 10 sites every day (as do most people).

Some feedback for the next iteration:

- Maybe ping sites first to see if they're down before jumping? I hit a few 500 and 404s during my jumps.
- Possibly show "content" sites? Said another way - I jumped into a few business pages XD (lawyers, doctors, and such) and those aren't the most interesting.

UX and speed all seem pretty decent. Thanks for sharing
Basically anything that's been added to play services.

Here's an old - outdated list.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2018/07/googles-iron-grip-on...
I’ve been seeing this idea on the Internet a lot more for months now and I’ve been trying to put my finger on what I think is wrong with it I think I finally figured it out.

I work for a corporation, it’s not a massive corporation, when I first started it was a midsize family owned company and we never did work in service to the bottom line at least not solely. First and foremost we were interested in customers and providing value to them. I think that any major corporation or business small large whatever also has that same responsibility and probably also the same drive. Any organization is made up of multiple people and there’s definitely going to be some actors that are completely bottom line driven but you’re going to also have individuals whose purpose is meeting customer needs and providing customer value. I’m not saying Apple is an altruistic corporation or doesn’t have concern for the bottom line, but making such a broad generalization to say that Apple only serves their bottom line perhaps sets you and others up with a pessimistic attitude where the people doing good work are missed.

This is mostly a bit of introspection on the thought that I’ve been trying to flesh out for the last few months and it’s not meant as a criticism of your comment in anyway I understand the sentiment of where you’re coming from because I’ve also been in that same place. I think my views are just changing a little bit and I thought I’d take this opportunity to write them down hope you have a great day.
This is what I wanted. Make it available for Firefox mobile please.
Recently @tubetime reverse engineered a Snappy Play video capture device. The mysterious PLAY “HD-1500” at the heart of the device is actually an XC2064.

Follow the thread here:

https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1301990455182155776

https://twitter.com/TubeTimeUS/status/1302704667143544833
It's possible! But there's been been many instances of material exchange between the inner rocky worlds that could have seeded life on any or all of them. Either way, seeing evidence of flourishing biota on other worlds, be they local extremophiles or alien life, is exciting
Did you know that hospitals and urgent care providers are now having you sign agreements you don't even see? They say "ok, you need to sign the general release"..."now you need to sign that we can bill your insurance company"... and it's entirely verbal/on faith. You're just signing an electronic pad that displays no information.
If the Venusian life has anything vaguely like replicating paired strands of nucleic acids, I think we have to assume a common ancestor (and I'd put my money on it coming from Venus). Even if there's no commonality whatsoever in details of the genetic code. FWIW, if we do discover life on Venus, I expect this to be the case.

Regarding #2, bringing a sample back to Earth is way too dangerous. At least, I'm certain NASA will see it that way, and I doubt any other space agency has the capability to execute a sample return mission within the next 10 years without NASA assistance.
Most people don't have good WFH setup, that's one thing.

Two, WFH can mean less interruptions requiring you to move, resulting in far more sedentary behaviour than normal office work, even if you assume no difference in movement from commute.
Why is it useless for actually protecting users? Is it easily circumventable or is it just that there are simpler attack vectors that don't require modifying kernel code?
No, but it's an apocryphal Google interview question. One of these days I'm actually going to weigh my head (another Google question).

I've gotten a logic riddle that involves scissors and rope, asking what my super power would be, and favorite movie. One that was at least based in math was how many ways are there for a knight to move from the lower left hand corner of a chess board to the upper right without moving back (no left or down moves). Not the DP-solution, though, a closed-form equation.
There are widespread reports from companies that their employees are proving to be more productive working from home during Covid-19 than they were in the office.

Based on that, it would be wrong to jump to the conclusion the "most" employees need constant management in an office and will do the minimum possible at home.

This is why there's such a big debate about WFH now. Having tried it at scale in a forced situation, turns out it actually works ok for many jobs in the short term.
Hi this is Neha, creator of this word game - Word Hookup. This was my first dabble in a tech world making a game. Luckily for me it was noticed by Apple editors, and featured as game of the day some time after launch. Its been a while since I had launched the game but never got around to posting this here on HN. Now I am finishing up a new version of this game that merges it with a crossword layout. I am seeking your feedback on the original gameplay and any advise on improvements, difficult level etc, would be helpful in improving my new version!! Here are the links to the original games
IOS - https://apps.apple.com/us/app/word-hookup/id1467012830?ls=1
Android - https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.wordhookup...

Here's my original writeup about creating this game - https://medium.com/@wordhookup/word-hookup-my-journey-creati...
They have Snowball for this, up to 50 TB.
https://aws.amazon.com/getting-started/projects/migrate-peta...

Also, throwing a swarm of lambdas to chunk the files into about 250mb temporary zip files would help.
My guess is that once they initially raise a seed round they plan their business around re-raising in 18 months. After all it’s the standard advice they get from YC and their investors. And so it becomes a self fulfilling prophecy and by the time they want to change it’s too late (firing 3/4 of your team causes its own headaches).

It’s a shame there isn’t exit interviews for seed companies once they run out of money or go onto Series A. Because it would hugely benefit the ecosystem.
In the Strait of Gibraltar?
We could have crossed the great filter already if there is a great filter between bacterial and sapien life forms
This is somewhat fair, but I think it's also worth pointing out that it's not a business model w/o precedence. Not too long ago, you could have argued that same thing about the Tesla Model S; "electric cars are only for rich people".

The capital from selling at a mark-up to wealthy early adopters helps to fund cheap(er) versions (i.e. Model 3) that are accessible to more people later on.

Not a perfect analogy, and Purism's execution isn't exactly comparable to Tesla's, but I think the idea is the same.
My goodness you are slippery. Let me speed things along - you are trying to imply he went with the intent of shooting someone. For the sake of argument, lets assume that's true.

Now his attackers were also armed - lets assume that, unlike Kyle, their motive in bringing guns to a protest was self-defense.

Despite all of this, there's video showing he wasn't the first to shoot, was running away, and was on the ground being kicked and hit in the head when he shot the second time.

You are saying that, despite this exculpatory video evidence, the mere fact he went to the protest with a gun is so damning, he simply must be guilty? That he must have done something, not caught on video (such as threatening the protesters with his rifle), that justified their attack? Not could have, but must have, since if it was a mere 'could have', then you wouldn't find his self-defense claim so unbelievable.

Because he had the wrong reason for coming, he simply couldn't have been attacked?

And none of this logic applies to the protesters who also brought guns?
When I Google that headline, Google still pulls up a link to Earth & Sky which begins with the same lede. ("As far as scientists know, there are only two ways to produce it, either artificially in a lab, or by certain kinds of microbes that live in oxygen-free....") But then the page doesn't load.

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-1-d&q=Has+mic...
Craftedmaps – Custom city map posters
I guess the rule got changed at some point:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Verifiability#Self-p...
Intelligent life doesn't need to be very common before you should expect to be pervasive.

We're a matter of years from originating von Neumann machines ourselves, so any civilization with thousands or millions of years head start should have incredible galactic spread.
The End of the University (The New Republic)
That's probably possible, but not publicly exposed. Like a lot of the people on the Reddit post said, reach out to support. They have a LOT of data and knobs to turn, in my experience.
What is the journalistic value in doxing a private citizen?
At what point do you stop believing in titles society gives people such as Judge, Doctor, Lawyer, and start to fill in your own narrative because it's simply convenient?
> I’m happy to pay Apple to do it for me because my phone is nowhere near my main or most important computing device

But for millions, their mobile device is their main or most important device, whether it runs iOS, iPadOS, or Android.

It can be their main device, with one example being Apple's divisive "What's a computer" ad. Another example is those that rely on mobile, due either to cost or lack of physical space for a desktop or laptop.

For others, their mobile is the most important, likely because that's where all their messages, contacts, location history, and more, resides.
Well UNIX (or Linux more importantly) is "losing" C, C++ and more recently Rust are slowly displacing it. It's still probably going to be the ABI everything is based on but the language itself is not a first choice for many and that number is increasing over time.

Is that what you were implying ? It doesn't sound like it from the rest of the comment because you seem to disagree that Java is losing mindshare on JVM.
That's easy. It mostly goes into heat. Eddy current heating of the copper tube should be the largest part. Wires, waveguides, a microwave generator aren't 100% efficient too. Small part of energy is lost as electromagnetic radiation.

What's mysterious is where the energy and the impulse are going if thrust is real. We can point the drive in such a way that it slows rotation of the earth, so the earth's rotational energy and angular impulse are decreasing. Where should they be going? I don't know.
I hope I'm wrong, but I believe that's for the cost of the request processing, not covering the traffic.

The free tier for traffic is "15GB of Data Transfer Out", after that it's 9 cents per GB. https://aws.amazon.com/s3/pricing/?nc1=h_ls (under "Data transfer"). Check your AWS bill!
You are getting downvoted because tfa is about the s3 protocol.

All of these commands unfortunately wont help you with s3. If you want to manipulate that from the command line you are basically stuck with aws cli, s3/s4cmd or scripting it yourself using a library.
That depends on the email system you use doesn't it? Sure if you're just using a gmail account you're playing with fire. But if you back up the inbox then it's no more likely to get "lost" than a database.
The missing value would be the 12mN/kW that the top post opened with. Getting 7.5 MN output thrust with that conversion ratio requires 625GW of input power.
I would much appreciate the info that that's what was happening. The context helps to calibrate correctly.
Agreed.

I think an unknown route to phosphine generation seems simpler and more likely than a biological explanation. YMMV.

Occam's razor would therefore imply that this is not life.
Half of the sites were basically offline. Amusingly, I found that "Ma' Business Adviser Services DOT COM!" is now available, although it might actually be intended for Massachusetts.
What happened to this person?
The jugaad mentality may help coming up with innovative, low cost solutions to problems, but isn’t the best way to actually deliver it to a mass market.
The less widely known and palatable truth is that jugaad is simply a way of adapting to a few hundred years of colonial exploitation [1]. Indians have built precisely engineered monuments like the Taj Mahal [2] and the Konark Sun Temple [3] in eras before India was engineered to be a vast source of raw material for the British Empire, designed for optimum extraction.

Bygones are bygones, and we need to move on. However, I would urge all people who identify as Indian to reject this sense of "jugaad" as a uniquely Indian thing – it unnecessarily paints a picture of us as consistently turning out shoddy and half-baked work that will fall apart eventually.

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[1] http://www.nilejournal.net/politics/britain-exploited-india

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Taj_Mahal

[3] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Konark_Sun_Temple
Have you looked at https://supabase.io/?
Almost certainly, but maybe the type of valuable thing NASA scientists and engineers learn 100 times a year rather than once in a century.
Seems strange to not see a single mention of the "Quantum Vacuum" in an entire popularmechanics article about the EmDrive AKA Q-Thrusters.

Sonny White of the Eagleworks lab discusses this subject in a Breakthrough Discuss 2018 [0] talk. Has everything he says in that talk been since disproven or something?

[0] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-hjS7pdXGU
Utility Engines
If that's what happens when you've got hundreds of experts working to prevent it then why do you think it'll be a less of a problem when it's random non-experts?

edit: The imperfection of the current system does not prove that another option is better.
>> Furthermore, there is a lot of room to increase charging speeds, but most phone manufacturers have dragged their feet because extremely fast charging speeds aren't necessary for the standard use case.

And you know, the very small matter of rapid charging destroying phone batteries quickly. There are phones out there which will charge at 30 or every 40(!!!) watts of power, but it tends to kill the battery rather quickly. Vast majority of people charge their phones at night, and then the phone gets a good 6-10 hours of uninterrupted charging. If anything, phones charge too quickly by default, at the expense of battery life.

>>It's my device. I should have the choice to override the standard use case to unlock the phone's full functionality at the expense of battery life.

You're free to do with your device as you please, but I don't see why anyone else should be obliged to cater to your wants and needs.
Read the two comments (one I replied to and the one it relied to) for context. My comment wasn’t intended to be free standing on its own.
Requiring people to create a Google account to request Google stop spying on them is just insulting.

I just checked the neighbourhood I grew up in, and the Google surveillance van snapped fresh pictures last summer. Because the homes are so close to the street, you can literally see into peoples living rooms. Disgusting.
I guess it could be argued that it functions to pull back the curtain from the Wizard-of-Oz like elements of the Qanon conspiracy, and helps to show it for what it really is.
RHEL 8 comes with Python 3.6.
Why are humans that catch the food they need to survive total assholes, but the oracs who need to catch the food they need to survive are not total assholes?
> one of his teammates later warned me that he was keeping a journal of potentially incriminating things that I had said in Slack and a detailed log of every issue that he could find with our team’s project in case he “had to use it against me later”.

That is not cool.
work out your product, buyer persona, business model, go to market, and tell a coherent story around these for why you will succeed and you will get replies.

the cold email contents will be a concise summary of the above.
Most people also do not buy their phone in one lump sum. They add payments to their phone bill, so if their carrier doesn't offer this phone, it becomes unaffordable.
The move towards hiding concepts behind icons and symbols leaving people guessing has got to be the worst trend and an insult to all users alike.
> There is custom silicon in every recent iPhone that does nothing but stop modification of kernel code, even in the face of code execution and arbitrary read/write in EL1: interesting from an academic standpoint, but if you stop and think about it for more than a second it's entirely useless for actually protecting users.

Every single malware (or jailbreak) wants to modify EL1 code, it's not just interesting from an academic standpoint.
That's not how it works.

Nvidia/Arm merge is large enough to require the commission be notified prior to its implementation. The time between notification, clearing or final decision is just few months.

https://ec.europa.eu/competition/mergers/procedures_en.html

Merger cases by date - Last 3 months
https://ec.europa.eu/competition/elojade/isef/index.cfm?fuse...
Maybe it will require 1.21 gigawatts and travel through time.
Isn’t snowball for migrating on prem data to AWS? Not AWS S3 to another S3 with the listed reqs
Right, what you've got is an oracle that will tell you how many prefix bits of MD5(password) were correct. I suspect bytes is more realistic than bits but the same principle.

Rainbow tables don't seem like a very applicable technology for this. I think you'd want to pre-process a dictionary of passwords you want to be able to guess (either from known passwords or just obeying some rule) so that you can group and order them by MD5 prefix.

Using the oracle lets you narrow down 50% at a time, so if you've got a dictionary of 1 billion passwords, after 30 iterations you've either rejected all the possibilities or found a correct password.

NB This makes no difference against a strong random password, since a hypothetical dictionary of such passwords is far too large, it only impacts ordinary human passwords that you could brute force if you had the hash.
And how do you propose to obtain elemental phosphorus in the atmosphere of Venus? As a side note, phosphorus is actually named after Venus the morning star, light bearer, etc because it is highly reactive and glows slightly in the presence of oxygen.
Depends on the food source.
Given that it's a Google service though, it might be shuttered at any moment. I'm happy with my T-Mobile plan even if it's expensive and harder to use, for the convenience that I won't have to suddenly switch plans and carrier
In real life we also have murders and kidnappings, that just means no system is perfect. It certainly doesn't mean there's no point in having law enforcement.
Just Snowball down from S3 and then return it to S3?

Is it even possible to ask for a snowball with data and return it to be stored in a different S3 bucket or would you need two?
That suggests the instruments aren't faulty, but does not preclude systematic error.