skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
you're omitting something very important in your list of related aspects: health
I agree (was just oversimplifying).

I'm starting to think the biggest selling point for Java and dotNET platforms is, not platform-independence, but code obfuscation.

In mid-1990s closed source was big, and Java provided a platform to obfuscate the code before shipment, while retaining the advantages of hardware-specific code-gen (final phase of a compiler), to make it harder for the user to copy the ideas.

These days open source is king, no need to obfuscate, and a reason C is making a comeback of sorts.
This is a really nice system. Quake used it back in 1996 to fit the game in 8MB. They called it a "hunk"[0] and it worked pretty much exactly as you said.

The main drawback I find is that you can't use some generic data structure implementations that expect to be able to free memory out of order, unless you're fine with leaking before the final cleanup (if integrated into a generic allocator interface, the "free" method will probably be a no-op). For example, maybe you need a temporary hashmap to help with parsing a text file. It can be interesting to come up with implementations that work without freeing out of order.

Of course, you can always opt to use another, more general purpose allocator, on a block of memory retrieved from the hunk (see Quake's "zones").

[0] https://github.com/id-Software/Quake/blob/master/WinQuake/zo...
Unrecoverable is relative. If I wipe out the bootloader on a phone its unrecoverable because I don't know how to flash it directly to the chip and I don't have a copy of the bootloader to even flash. Its a brick because I will never be able to use the device again. If I send it off to the factory in china they could certainly restore the device to working condition again but it would cost more than a new device if they even accept my one off job.

If a DRM system triggers on a car and I can't disable it its now bricked if the dealer won't come and fix it.
Ha, sharing it with more than a handful of people would definitely be an abuse.

Though from what I remember they recently drastically cut down the ability to share files, installing caps that most people would never hit, so it's not like they needed to cut the storage amount to fix that problem.
That is how you dent the "premium" perception you have built over several decades. You don't want your users buying $1500 phones and then having to search the web for solutions and pick up $5 converters off Amazon. You could have easily included one in the box.
Even if it were true that Apple always sends a location home, which it is not, if it is anonymous, by definition it is not your location.

But that’s the least of it:

The text you quote in you your linked comment nowhere states that your location is sent to Apple every time it is requested.

That’s not a quibble. It’s much more serious

You wrote comment so you must know that what you just linked doesn’t support your actual claim, so it creates the impression you are doing this to be intentionally misleading.
It works great with Lynx (text-based browser in the terminal), which indicates it's at least usable by screen readers. Bonus points for not making me scroll past a horribly formatted list of links at the top of the page. I see your point, but at least give the credit for the tooling that generates an accessible text-based experience for those who prefer it. I'd rather have a few good tools that generate something reasonable and consistent than a wild west of everybody hand-baking their own personally flawed interpretation of the standard.
That pricing comparison makes no sense.

For example in Finland from one carrier, unlimited data:

5G 300 Mb/s 29.90 EUR/month (cheapest 5G option)

5G 1 Gb/s is 44.90 EUR/month (currently the fastest option)

In other words, you pay for bandwidth, not data. Unlimited data means unlimited data. https://twitter.com/mikko/status/1315178802356649986 ,discussion https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24749971
Covid Misinformation Is Killing People
Though, the added 2.1M posts seems to be specifically among the ones here:

https://usenetarchives.com/groups.php?c=utzoo
Good solution to boost Macbook sales then, I guess.
I worked at a financial institution during a migration from one core system to another. I was their "Administrator of Legacy Systems." At the time I thought that the "legacy" was the data we kept in the system - all of the transaction records, account information, etc. At the time I didn't consider it a pejorative, but seeing how the term draws derision these days I'm not really so sure!
Iphones always had screens that were close to the sides which is what really matters. The chin and forehead don't matter for reachability because you never had to reach them.
Yes, that's how the Moore Tool Company did it. However the first screw-cutting lathe actually dates back all the way to 1800. While as far as I can tell the first use of interferometry for distance measurement was the Michelson interferometer, in 1887; it took until 1960 for the meter to finally be defined in terms of wavelengths of light.
Can we talk about the hypocrisy of the recycling segment given that Apple is a known adversary of the “right to repair” bill?

All of this “net-zero” talk yet they have a system in place that makes it prohibitively expensive to repair slightly damaged devices (ie, bad battery) out of warranty. So, consumers are left to live with the problem, pay for the cost of the repair which ends up costing about 1/2 to 3/4 of a new phone, or just buy a new phone.

Of course, people could go to a third party repair facility, but Apple doesn’t provide these businesses with the replacement parts and software to fix their phones. In one case, the display hardware identifier is tied to the “True Tone” feature and changing the display will result in this feature not working. In another case, the TouchID is hardcoded to the device and can only be reset by Apple techs, otherwise the Touch ID feature no longer works.

I like Apple products in general, but this is one of the few cases where Apple can do better.
So you agree that creating reserves is not necessarily inflationary.

Also, a bank is not limited by reserves to lend. In fact, in practice, banks first lend and then search for the reserves in the inter-bank market. Those demand-offer dynamics between banks determine the interest rate. If the Central Bank doesn't want to loss control of the interest rate, it has to increase reserves in the system when there is demand.

Central Banks have to choose, or they control the quantity or reserves or they control the interest rate. They target the later. The quantity is kind of irrelevant.
Why would they pay out all their net income, provide better customer contact/service, and go from being massively profitable to break-even?

What’s in it for them to do that?

Even if they went 25% of the way there, does it make them a stronger company in the long-term? That they don’t do it suggests they don’t think it would.
Not necessarily. When rates are low, banks are more cautious with who they lend it to. And in times like these, it's especially risky for a bank to lend, and couple that with absence of high rates for a bank to mitigate the risk, you end up with actually less lending.

On this chart [0] you can see how lending increase when crisis started, kind of matching inflation of the dollar. But lending is slowing down, and no amount of QE can speed it up, indicating probable deflation of the dollar.

https://fred.stlouisfed.org/series/BUSLOANS
This is the weirdest part about working in big tech. So many teams can reuse world-class tech in other products with very little barrier to entry.
Yeah, that's the main cause.

Also occasionally when traveling, so combination of long days + higher than normal usage. I've got a battery case for those days that more or less doubles the built in capacity (at the cost of also basically doubling the weight)
Google Maps has long frustrated me this way on Android, too. It's surprisingly unwilling to just let you see the map unobstructed.
Also an iPhone SE user, a smaller form factor is definitely important for me. I've actually ordered a Nokia 2720 flip phone. Features might be limited but it'll be good to have as a backup and to play around on.
SF resident here. Yes, lots of people have left SF...however every single person I know who has left is a MAN! I don't know a single women that has left SF out of dozens of people. Has anyone else noticed this?
Designers, developers, and users increasingly have larger devices.
I find the feature to be entirely useless. In my usual hand position I can't trigger the mode and I can't reach the back button which ios places in the top left corner for some reason.
Ultra-low power electronics could charge out of thin air
Totally. But as a Nolan fanboy I really want to see Tenet and wouldn't mind paying extra to see it before the physical release.
Try Asheville, NC
> Or do you honestly expect that your iTunes "purchases" will still be viewable in 5 years

Well, mine from 5 years ago still are viewable.

However, I cannot play my old Bruce Springsteen albums (records) because I don't have a record player anymore.

I also can't play my cassette tape of 38 special because I don't have a cassette player anymore.

I also can't play any CDs (unless I'm in my car), because I don't have a CD player at home.

And finally, I can't play DVDs anymore because I don't have a DVD player anymore.

Technology marches on. I've bought and rebought multiple media versions of the same thing due to changes in technology: cassettes, records, CDs; Betamax, VHS, DVD's.

Your argument is tired and irrelevant because technology will obsolete it one way or another.

And if you really do like watching crappy old VHS on your new 75" 4K tv, then god bless you, because that would make my eyes bleed. (Seriously, if you do, then none of my comment should apply to you, because you are keeping the flame of old tech alive, and my props to you.)

Side note about technology - I have old 3.5" hard drives that just aren't worth keeping around too, and are too hard to securely erase, so I destroy them physically. (I just tried to securely erase an old 50GB external spinning disk two weeks ago and it was painful. I decided a ball peen hammer was a better approach.)
I think if they actually split out the COL adjustment amount on the paycheck then it would be a much simpler conversation. But with most every company just making it a lump sum it feels like a demotion vs. a COL adjustment.
Global wage equilibrium would be horrible for western labor.
Not when the interest rate is 0%
From then on, any increase in reserves doesn't make borrowing more attractive.
When the Federal Reserve said that a little more inflation is acceptable, they were talking about the Consumer Price Index.

It’s not that price increases are good in themselves, but that it would be good if people spent more, and if it results in prices being a little higher, this is okay.
Scott Locklin has an interesting take on this, IIRC it was most crap?

https://scottlocklin.wordpress.com/2019/02/26/cybersyn-and-a...

I don't think he does justice to Cybernetics itself, but you should read e.g. "Introduction to Cybernetics" and make your own call. http://pespmc1.vub.ac.be/ASHBBOOK.html

Information Theory is the attempt to make the real world act like symbols, Cybernetics is the attempt to make symbols act like the real world.

In logic "A = not A" is a pointless contradiction, in Cybernetics it's an oscillator.
This and most discussions about inflation lack an actual definition of the term. This leads to heated discussions that sometimes talk past each other.

I suspect what the article is talking about is Core Personal Consumption Expenditures:

> The Labor Department’s latest report on core consumer prices showed the index down for a third consecutive month in June for the first time since 1957. The core personal consumption expenditures price index, the Fed’s preferred inflation gauge, increase 0.9% on a year-over-year basis in June, the smallest advance since December 2010.

BEA reports that the index is up 1.4% YOY in August, which follows 1.1% in July and 0.9% in June:

https://www.bea.gov/data/personal-consumption-expenditures-p...

The use of the word "unlocking" suggests a benefit to surging headline inflation, which is very strange because inflation by itself implies nothing about what the economy itself is doing.

I suspect all the talk from central banks is just jawboning. It wants to raise the specter of a big bond market decline to get certain kinds of investors out of treasuries and into risk-on assets. Recent history has shown that doing that is highly stimulative.
Actually, I provided multiple sources and you provided no counter sources beyond conjecture (like your claim that news articles become false after 6 months). You still haven't addressed the evidence backed by US intelligence, unless you're calling them into question.
Most software engineers are men. They are leaving because they can work remotely now.
Relatively I've understood that iPhones are still more repairable than Samsungs and other Android, based on ratings from companies that rank these (can't find a link on my phone)
In what sense are we not closer to a vaccine? I’m not following vaccine development closely, but my understanding is that many candidates are progressing along nicely.
Well... not really:

* The Fed buys treasury notes and bonds from third parties, because it cannot buy them directly from the US Treasury at issuance.

* The Fed can earn and book profits from treasury securities only to the extent the US Treasury continues to make interest payments and repay principal.

* The US Treasury can pay continue to pay interest and repay principal only with money that is (a) borrowed from third parties by issuing new treasury securities, or (b) collected via taxation.

Things are this way by design, for many reasons, including the explicit goal of limiting short-term political influence over monetary policy.
And the clash of meteoritic rise of apartment rent continues.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24765398
More hysterical reporting from irrelevant mass media. Instead of using the perfectly standard "compensation adjustment," they went for the incendiary "pay cuts" to drive up traffic!
Number 2 doesn't really exist. It simply means lying about the service you're offering when you really intend to offer a lesser service. All so you don't have to say "practically unlimited" or "virtually unlimited" in your marketing copy.
Hello???
London Open Source Meetup for RISC-V (2020-10-19)
And the Silicon Valley paycut continues.

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24753589
This seem to be a cool thing to use. But I have to dig to find what is what about. I think it should be more simple with a clear slogan or USP
And if you haven't heard, all the public school names are going to be renamed, since people like Lincoln and George Washington were terrible people who shouldn't be celebrated /s [1]

[1]: https://abc7news.com/renaming-sf-public-schools-school-name-...
They don't matter for reachability but that's only one metric. They certainly matter for, say, whether or not it'll fit in your pocket.
Narrator: The features were not insane.
Is this what you are referring to, the lady taking 130,000 IU per day? https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/33030138/ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24734774
...But it does change the functional purpose of the room layout? I suppose interior design decisions would be the most controversial part of any room for crowds of bike shedders
AirPods already have their own special SoC called the H1. It's in AirPods (gen 2), AirPods Pro, and a few Beats products.
>It probably gets more clicks if you talk about pay cut and tension, but if companies are expected to compensate for higher cost of living, shouldn't they be equally expected to take it away if a person moves to lower cost of living.

If engineers are providing a tangible dollar value for their work, shouldn't they be paid what their work is worth and not paid relative to their cost of living?
The chairs make perfect sense in the context they were used, and this was all built on a shoestring budget by hand. The bare bones Cybersyn was actually used during the trucking strike in Chile, and Beers theories worked perfectly. The whole thing is worth digging further into to fully comprehend the design decisions that were made.
I have one of those photos saved! I should have read the article more closely. Thank you :)
That was my thought as well.

Also let's not forget about the 100k functional devices Apple sent to recycling and wanted to remove from the second-hand market.

https://9to5mac.com/2020/10/01/apple-catches-electronics-rec...

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24663718
Well, considering the keynote cast used to be exclusively old white men...
There is certainly an element of legitimate scientific inquiry. That is drowned out by the volume of people using medical credentials to enrich themselves with half truths.
It depends on what drives value. Backblaze’s value proposition isn’t bits. It’s just a different business model than yours — and I think rsync.net is awesome for different reasons.
This is not unique to California and happens in other places. If you have taxes based on valuation, retired senior citizens or low income workers that live in a neighborhood will be forced to move if prices go up. So by keeping tax low, they can stay there. Of course it has it's disadvantage, you could be paying so many multiple as another and the person will claim to have more rights than you because they have lived there much longer or as you mentioned, they can afford to rent out and make more profit. Do you have any solution you recommend?
That's really nothing new. Plus you're taking their word they won't send anything.
Don’t forget, the closer you get to things that affect people’s lives, the more they will be compelled to knee jerk react.

If people fuck up on the understanding of black holes, it doesn’t matter for the economy. If people fuck up economics, it can mean the next Great Depression.
Seconded, her videos and papers are fantastic. Previous discussion here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=22994420
has google stopped destroying things yet? https://lwn.net/Articles/827233/
https://www.investopedia.com/terms/c/common-resource.asp

>A common resource (or the "commons") is any scarce resource, such as water or pasture, that provides users with tangible benefits but which nobody in particular owns or has exclusive claim to.

Google owns their hard drive space.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commons

>The commons is the cultural and natural resources accessible to all members of a society, including natural materials such as air, water, and a habitable earth. These resources are held in common, not owned privately.

Google owns their hard drive space. Also a commons has the implication of everyone having access to access said resource. You aren't entitled to access to googles hard disk space.
That's how you disable it! Thank you!!!
What its marketed as is bullshit. 5G seems essential to fit more devices in packed spaces like sports stadiums. Marketers are trying to convince users that 5g is absolutely essential even if you aren't quite sure what for yet. The news post I read today listed 4g as enabling video streaming and 5g as enabling "Hyperfast gaming and augmented reality". What a load of meaningless bullshit.

I'm not going to be one of those "the eye can't even see 60fps" people but lets not pretend that 5g is going to be anything but an incremental infrastructure upgrade that won't affect people in a non congested area.
Rent is not the same thing as house prices. Additionally, it's imputed rent - not actual rent. The fed released their own study just the other week showing that if house prices were included in the cpi as they were in the past, cpi would be drastically higher.
Not sure what your seeing, but it renders fine for me in links2.
There is 'Sherman' for an American which is Sherman Tank -> Yank. So that can only be WW2 onwards. And 'Ruby' for curry (Ruby Murray) is from the fifties. Those are the most recent I can think of.
Constraint streams will be awesome! Writing constraints was the hard part, hard enough that eventually we gave up on a solver and went back to our terrible home rolled algorithm. That's always the case with solvers though.

Another hard part was combining chain through time with entities that can be scheduled together vs ones that need gaps. This seems to be a common use case, grouping work where you need a setup/teardown gap between entities. Not sure how to improve this but maybe add some kind of built-in support for "entity coloring" on chained variables where you can configure which run together in a chain vs which ones need setup/teardown gaps between.

Overall Optaplanner is an amazing piece of software though, good work!
Except that it's not free, and Coke doesn't have to promise infinity if it isn't offering it.
Archive.org is so weird. Henry Ford died in 1947, so Moving Forward is out of copyright (and consequently available on Project Gutenberg, as another post points out). Yet on archive.org I can only "borrow" an encrypted copy.

Meanwhile, Foundations of Mechanical Accuracy was published in 1970 by Wayne R. Moore, who was presumably still alive at the time, so its copyright status is still very much in force... but archive.org says "Here, have a nicely-OCR'ed .PDF."

I hope they're able to survive their present legal difficulties, but I'll be darned if I can see how.
Agreed. Anyone know how to get in touch with him? I used his audio player code, found some bugs, and want to give him the fixes. Tried the email listed on his Profile page, but never heard back.

ChaN, if you're out there:

https://i.imgur.com/E8Z29VE.png

The original code fails to load WAV's containing metadata – even though an intent to tolerate them appears written into some of the handlers (DISP, LIST FCC, etc). I can provide files from Audacity which reproduce the issue.

Moved remaining details here to avoid boring the HN audience: https://pastebin.com/raw/XdneQ8xh
Are you saying you've ramped up to taking 52000IU of Vitamin D per day over several years? That seems excessive; what motivated that choice, and are you monitoring (including with blood testing) for negative side-effects?
Apple chokes the repair shops by banning other companies from selling them parts. Even if Apple devices are more repairable (companies find other ways to source parts, schematics), Apple is actively working against the right to repair movement.
Every week there's another one of these that leaves me more confused. One article says that much vitamin D is toxic, now this one says it's necessary. Does anyone who has looked into these contradicting results have an idea what's probably safe but high enough so that it get's someone who doesn't get much sun in the winter at least acceptable levels? I currently just take a 1000 IU pill every day because that's what it says on the bottle.
Interesting that COMP.LANG.LISP has posts dating last month. I guess the network isn't dead. I wonder if there are groups with interesting recent activity.
ah, I quite like 'YEET Cargo' as a name
I've had the same idea for Rust builds where builds and artifacts are stored on a remote server. Looks interesting, but devil will be the details.
Apple started out as fairly repair hostile while Androids were relatively repairable. Now most android phones are sliding more and more towards glued together bricks while iphones are mostly the same to the point where most android devices are actually harder to repair.

I took my Pixel 2 in to a store for a battery replacement and the person told me that there is a chance the screen will shatter when they remove it. If a person with all the tools and training can't reliably replace the battery something is seriously wrong. Apple might be doing a lot of things horrible but they are the only ones who actually have a store in my area and offer repairs on their own devices.
I can select text on Firefox. I also really enjoy the scrolling effects, I think the experience is really high quality.