skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Everyone says this about the lock up and it makes sense intuitively, but it doesn't really match the data. I saw a presentation by a major investment bank that showed that in most cases there is not a significant drop following the lock up expiration -- I'm sure there are examples either way, but this was a compelling basket.
> the difference between masters and PhD has nothing to do with classes.

huh ? what's your education system ? in europe it's generally 3 year bachelor, then 2 year masters, then 3 years phd so when you have classes during your phd hopefully they are different that the one you get during your masters
Not a problem at all. For non-introductory courses, this works well.

But needs to have at least some sort of synchronous at some point. In my one class, we use Notion for discussing so it has a live sense of discussion.
I think this must depend very much on the laptop. I have a Dell Inspiron that's been running Ubuntu for several years and I haven't noticed any significant issues with sleep/wake.
This can be done with the Cloudflare free plan easily, so long as you use Cloudflare as your DNS. You just make an authenticated API request to make the DNS update, and there are off the shelf tools to automate this in the background if you don’t want to roll your own.
Not the only insects using poop. How about dung beetles:

[1] https://www.thoughtco.com/fascinating-facts-about-dung-beetl...
It's not vapid and his anger is righteous.

Please realize that the cohort of people we're talking about have supported policies of enslaving "others" through laws for decades and that they continue to do this today.

These policies have and are destroying communities, families, careers, lives, and to some extent, the fabric of the nation.

It's also not a coincidence these are the same people that just lost an election and are trying to overturn the result by any means.

Remember that story about raiding the home of a scientist in Florida a few days ago for doing science? That's the same people as the "anti-drug" people.

It turns out that the anti-drug, anti-transgender, anti-gay, anti-science, anti-abortion, anti-vaccine, anti-education, anti-environmentalist, anti-healthcare, anti-mask, pro-police, pro-prison, pro-corporation, pro-pollution, pro-inequality, pro-torture, pro-religion group are all the same people.

The anti-drug laws are just a symptom of a much wider societal corruption.

We can't be handing out forgiveness to our oppressors while they are still actively oppressing.
No. Airbnb can sell more shares tomorrow at $150 if they wanted to. OTOH if they gambled and set their price at $150 and the stock tanked it would screw over shareholders who are taxed based on the IPO price and would be underwater immediately.

The IPO is just one transaction in one point in time. They aren’t losing sleep over this.
Genetic clues for severe Covid identified
Sleep and hibernate have nothing to do with drivers.

They are done via ACPI. ACPI is implemented by the device vendor, is part of BIOS/UEFI and is notoriously buggy.
At least NTP is a standard protocol and there are a bunch of cromulent alternatives to the original Mills ntpd. Chrony and ntpsec are both reasonable. If any one of the implementations went away tomorrow, distros would scramble but they'd have a place to go.
Percent of what? This all depends on the particular hardware. If you want hard data, measure this yourself on your own device.
It did, but the final exit deal has yet to be worked out.
That was true for a long time, but to quote the Government of the Netherlands (the closest thing I can find to an official source) [0]:

>The United Kingdom (UK) left the European Union (EU) on 31 January 2020. A transition period is now in place until 31 December 2020.

As far as I can tell from my distant vantage point on the west coast of North America, there is very little doubt left. Brexit has already happened and most of the fallout will be settled by the end of this month. I supposed you could say that it's still in a constant state of happening, but it's well past the point of "not happening" as far as I can tell.

[0]: https://www.government.nl/topics/brexit/brexit-where-do-we-s...
There is an initiative[1][2] to create a tree-sitter parser and GitHub Semantic support for COBOL.

[1] https://github.com/Neppord/tree-sitter-cobol

[2] https://github.com/github/semantic/issues/452
There are various weird and wonderful niche languages out there, if you appreciate programming languages as an end in themselves. Two examples: Sentient [0] and Factor [1][2].

[0] https://sentient-lang.org/

[1] https://factorcode.org/

[2] Factor's home-page does a poor job of presenting examples to give a flavour for the language, so here's one on GitHub: https://github.com/factor/factor/blob/master/basis/roman/rom...
It's weird though isn't it...

> the computer you grew up with couldn't even handle the colour palette and resolution of the screen that you now carry around in your pocket

the other way of looking at this is that the phone is enormously more powerful, can render hi-res full colour depth 3D scenes at 60fps that would take minutes per frame on a 90s computer, can store and transfer amounts of data that would have been unimaginable back then

so why is it so slow to boot up?
California Covid exposure notification app released
If they paid well enough, your average working programmer would flip to COBOL for a pay raise. Once you've learned a few languages, you can solve problems in any language. It's just about having the manual and maybe an overview of available facilities so you don't have to read all the docs upfront. The syntax doesn't matter for data plumbing applications. COBOL is as good as BASIC as good as Java as good as Python etc. You might prefer writing Python (or Haskell, Clojure, Rust, C++, Go, Scala, Kotlin, whatever is en-vogue these days) because it is more concise, but if you can effectively hack in one language you can do it in COBOL too with a little effort.
> Maybe assessing and fixing the damage would not even be worth it since SN10 and successors are being built right now?

Treat your starships like cattle, not pets!
And handed all the gains on the first day over to the private allotment that was distributed from Wall Street banks to their top clients because no one else could buy shares. It’s total Wall Street bs.
> It is almost impossible to wear a $550 device on your ears and not become immediately biased

Not saying I disagree about confirmation bias at play - especially given that TFA states at the beginning that they received a pair for review purposes - however I've personally become upset by dropping large amounts of cash on lackluster products before. Not everyone is necessarily susceptible. Some might ask for their money back. In this case, the author didn't even pay the $550 though.
Let's start to take creators seriously and call them Knowledge Entrepreneurs
It's not clad in stainless steel -- it _is_ stainless steel. The reason being it's cheap, and that especially the alloy they use is very robust under cryogenic temperatures as well as high temperatures.
DevSecOps Steps into the Limelight
Visit any rural diner between 8:00 and 9:00 (or urban diner between 9:00 and 11:00) when it's otherwise quiet. I'll bet you will find a cluster or two of elderly people swapping lies.

Indoor malls used to be similar gathering places for people who wanted to walk without being in the weather.

Basically, look anywhere the 20- or 30-somethings aren't.
Apple's just trying to convince headphone buyers to pay more for less. Even if they can't compete on quality with existing headphone makers, they'll undoubtedly make more money.

Some people are going to buy a new pair of AirPods Max every year for $550. It hurts me deep down to know this fact, and it offends me on a level that's hard to describe with words.

But as long as other headphone manufacturers continue to sell quality and serviceable products, I won't be directly affected by it. I just hope Sony, Sennheiser, etc. don't follow Apple's lead. If they do, maybe I'll have to start looking at cheap Chinese brands.
Yes, the telephone is also superior in every way to the computers I used until well into adulthood! But it's difficult to break the persistent feeling that while those antiques were very limited, the software was much better optimized for what it did. Like most Mac users in my generation, my word-processing productivity peaked on Word 5.1a and everything since then has been a disappointment.
AWS Proton is “Conway's Law-as-a-Service” - but is that a good thing?
Why does SpaceX "news" get so much visibility on this forum? It feels like people have a lot of emotion invested in a company. That cannot be good for your mental health.
You don't have to have kids. I'm 35 years old; my wife and I (10 years together now) revisit this question yearly - neither of us want kids or wanted kids in these years. We're most likely never going to have kids (by choice).

The way I see it, bringing a sentient being into this mad world needs to have a good personal reason, it shouldn't be the default that you need to find a reasons against.
And painting a blue line down the middle of it is the best way to respect the flag. /s
Yes, app publisher. The first version of my biggest app I wrote in 4 hours.
> There is also a generous crawl delay between pages on the same host.

What's the order of magnitude of this delay? milliseconds? hundreds of milliseconds? seconds? I'm curious what's considered 'polite' in this realm and how the various parties come to form opinions on this.
That kind of reductionist argument can be made for any kind of software development...we're all just plumbing bits around at the end of the day. If you're a web dev, you're plugging web tech, if you're a backend dev it's network protocols and storage tech, if you're a kernel dev it's instruction sets and memory buffers.

As we build tools to make that plumbing easier for certain use cases, we might move around in the hierarchy to plug different things together, but I don't think anything has fundamentally changed in an alarming way. We're still just moving bits around!
Thx. Useful feedback. We will take this into account as we iterate.
Subway email weirdness linked to Trickbot malware campaign
Brian has talked about getting into flights in some capacity. I wonder if dealing with bookings is not their goal but imagine if they had Airbnb louges in major airports. Those traveling with an Airbnb stay booked could access the lounge free of charge. Sort of like a loss leader to promote downstream Airbnb bookings.
As far as I know, ARM as a technology has little to say one way or another about closed vs open systems.

As for the broader trend towards closed: open standards naturally flourished in a world where one company wasn't huge enough to do everything themselves (except maybe IBM, but they dropped the ball to everyone else's benefit). Companies were forced to cooperate if they wanted to succeed.

That's no longer the case, and that's why open standards are dying. Just one of the many ramifications of corporate consolidation. Just one more reason for megacorps to be broken-up.
Your [Crypto] Wallet in 2030 Will Be Full of Free Money
> poster clearly doesn’t understand if they are saying

I have a Ph.D. in CS, so you might want to consider the possibility that you are the one who is misunderstanding.

> Touring machines are just one class of computers

So first of all, it's Turing machines, not Touring machines. Named after Alan Turing. And yes, it's true that they are just one class of computer, but the reason Turing machines are a thing is that they are universal. A TM can compute any computable function, where "computable" means computable by any physically realizable model of computation that any human has been able to come up with, including quantum computers. (Quantum computers are just faster for certain problems.) So the details of the TM don't actually matter. There are lots of different computational models that are equivalent to TMs. It's just that the TM model was the first to be proven universal, so that's what everyone talks about. But all physically realizable models of computation that humans have been able to come up with to date are either equivalent to TMs, or strictly less powerful.

So: TMs can't solve the halting problem, and so no other physically realizable model of computation can solve the halting problem either because all known physically realizable models of computation are equivalent to TMs and therefore subject to the same fundamental limitations as TMs. If you knew BB(n) you could solve the halting problem. Therefore you cannot know BB(n). (It's a little but more complicated than that because we can't rule out the possibility that a more powerful model of computation exists and is physically realizable. But that would be the greatest revolution in the history of human intellectual endeavor, so the odds of discovering such a model are pretty low.)
collaboration requires the other people to use the same tools as you, and you don’t always get to choose what that is.

Indeed - my point being that whether a vintage platform is viable or even superior for your workflow is very situation-dependent, it's not "all or nothing" nor "one size fits all".

Hell I am reading HN now when there is something I could be working on. I should go into the other room and boot up the ST.
I don’t see any open source software in power generation. Vxworks on plcs and then osi pi and some horrible HMI software.

One exception is inductive automation ignition HMI which uses java
Great company. Changed my traveling life. Way awesome for longer stays.
Are you really arguing the that Windows CE platform was more open than Android?

Back in 2005, an open source Linux based phone was a hippie pipe dream, and carriers were FIRMLY against allowing anything open source on their networks. Android blew all of that wide open, and now the most popular phone OS in the world is an open source Linux based OS. This is what we were all dreaming about back then. I feel like this is an incredibly underappreciated fact.

Yes, some carriers lock down their Android phones, because it's an open platform, so carriers can do what they want with it, but since the dawn of Android there have always been high end Android phones that were trivial to put into developer mode and install whatever wacky OS mods you want.
Funny, I spent the last few nights reading about Transmeta's chips.
they run their own internal DNS resolvers
Bill Gurney talking about the inefficiency of the ipo process on Wall Street and the inherent conflict of broker-client problem the banks carry with them.

https://www.stitcher.com/show/invest-like-the-best/episode/b...
> I've had Macs and PCs which don't seem to suffer from the same issue.

Seem to, but windows also has these problems, for example https://forums.lenovo.com/t5/ThinkPad-X-Series-Laptops/X1-Ca... https://forum.thinkpads.com/viewtopic.php?t=127945
You do still hear about hidden cameras however.

https://www.theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2019/03/what-...
A Cybersecurity Policy Agenda
What's the granularity of the location you provide?
Cool. What are the first few lambda terms in the sequence?
Apple pivoted a bit on the M1.

With Intel based CPUs, Windows support was an important feature and selling point so Apple created Bootcamp. Windows ARM is far less appealing that its x86 counterpart was 15 years ago, so Apple didn't add Bootcamp. With their hypervisor it seems like Windows will run just fine in a VM instead.

I'm not sure Microsoft is interested in selling a version of Windows that runs atop MacOS as a child OS. As things currently stand, Windows running on the Mac embarrasses the heck out of the Surface Pro X. That's without decent driver support. How would Microsoft look if the fastest way to run Windows on ARM was as a child OS on a Mac?
They can raise more more at $150 in a secondary if they wanted to.

The consequence of setting too high and cratering your stock the first day is that employees are taxed based on IPO price. Imagine if you owed taxes at $150 and six months later it was at $70. That would be a nightmare.

And I think you’ve been reading too much Bill Gurley.
I don't get why Apple haven't added source independent spatial audio. Like Audeze did with Mobius. The headphones use accelerometer and gyroscope (which AirPods have too I presume), and position the center of the audio to where you are looking. You can re-center it with a button press. And it works pretty well!

So, the hardware is all there. Apple could have done the same, bringing spatial audio to whatever place you want.
Pay-with-a-Selfie, a human-centred digital payment system (2017)
In the US, it's typically a 4 year undergrad, 2 year masters, and a ~5-7 year PhD depending on the program itself. From what I understand, while there are some classes you take as a PhD student, a majority of your work is doing research
That is exactly the point. When a 16 year old non-male teenager is accepting it, than you won. See iPhone, facebook, whatsapp, tiktok or whatever they are doing nowadays.

I owned two of these devices as a personal information manager (contacts calendar ...). They were not comfortable and the data plans then were so prohibitive expensive that modern usage was far away.
Yeah, it seems most tech standards are design-by-committee disasters.
I guess that's the root of our disagreement; I would give an emphatic Yes to my question above, and I think all our other differences of opinion stem from there.
>A simple thought experiment - think about the most widely used libraries and tools across the whole developer ecosystem. How many are built in Haskell? I count maybe one, Pandoc.

Purescript and Elm are two more. If you don't count languages, then Xmonad and Darcs are another two. Both Github and Facebook's efforts in mass source-code searching are written in Haskell (though Facebook's is not really released to the whole developer ecosystem).

This is also a misguided thought experiment - Haskell is relatively unpopular anyways (as Rust is). It has a reputation for being difficult to learn (as Rust does). How many tools across the developer ecosystem are written in Rust? Ripgrep, and maybe Alacritty. Does this reflect badly on Rust? No, it's immature and needs a lot of developer support - which is why much of Rust's development effort is in new libraries.

Does a(n alleged) lack of tools reflect badly on Haskell? No, both because it was for a long time considered an academic language, and because Haskell's great successes have also been outside of the "developer ecosystem" - in webservers, for example.

And none of this addresses my original objection to your point: why, if simplicity is so productive, is it not easy to replace complicated libraries with simpler versions? In Haskell, the answer is that the simpler versions are much less powerful, and the power of advanced languages features is actually a boon for productivity, because encoding your invariants in a good type system saves you work elsewhere. That's the whole benefit of Rust's borrow-checker over C++. There is no real risk of Rust getting "too complicated", because these advanced concepts still let people build shit.
Turing raises $32M and proves software's eating remote hiring and management
> not even much to do with computer science

That is very debatable.

Lambda calculus is a BFD in the subfield of programming languages, which is the topic at hand.
Imported energy is already cheaper than the one generated by coal plants - the only limiting factor is the capacity of connections.

Meanwhile there's currently over 2.5GW of solar capacity in this country - most of which was built during the last two years when a subsidy program for residential installations was introduced.

It so happens that coal plants cannot operate at full capacity during the summer due to cooling issues, so having more solar is actually pretty beneficial.
> I think we'd find that men juncture towards spending time alone sooner than women

This is interesting to me because my dad was far more social while I was growing up than my mom ever was.

I feel like I am also much more social than my wife is.

I guess there may be trends by gender, but I'd guess it's not nearly so clear cut.
Agree with this. I do get enjoyment out of writing and executing code. Is that just dopamine rewards - I can’t tell.
I would say that it has a lot to do with CS. Basically there's two equivalent ways to look at computing: as Turing machines or lambda calculus. The first is far more popular as early machines and even our current day hardware is close to this. As machines have become more powerful we can do more useful work using formulation based on function composition. If anything this is a trend. What we don't yet have is common sense/knowledge on how to use it judiciously.
App to find and replace app icons on macOS Big Sur
Exactly.

I live in California, and recently had a conversation with a family member in The Hague.

She was telling me about her frustrations with Anti-Maskers and Covid-deniers she has been arguing with locally.

Apparently these are not just US political issues.
Are you going to change the mapping? You cannot change the mapping of an existing field. You must create a new index with the new mapping and reindex.
Becoming a verb can be hit or miss. Take for example Kleenex. If I say to you, "can you grab me a box of Kleenex at the store" you don't instinctively buy Kleenex brand, you buy whatever is on sale/stands out/is your regular brand.
Ten years ago I tried to buy a blazer in Downtown Vancouver.

I could not find one larger than a size 38 without going to Mr. Big and Tall, where the blazers would fit my size 48 chest but had enough extra room around the waist to store a couple of toddlers.

I had the same experience with width of glasses frames, with shirts, and with any good that fell outside of a single standard deviation from the average.

There's a paper where researchers compare the "average" sizes for human factors to individual people and discover that people who fit all the averages are vanishingly rare. Almost everybody is outside a deviation for at least one characteristic. I wish I'd bookmarked it.

Canadian retailers just stock within the one deviation and shrug. I specifically went to the Bay for that blazer.
I do art on the side and came across Shibasaki's videos maybe a year ago. I agree with others on the thread, he's a wonderful man.

One note: if you are inspired to try watercolor after seeing this article/videos, don't be discouraged if you struggle. Watercolor seems easy (that's what kids do, right?) but it's very difficult to master.
How I quickly increased the domain authority of a new domain?
Recall the Media Outlets That Peddled the “Russian Disinformation” Lie
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A lot of transit gates do this because you can use Apple Pay or a contactless credit card directly on the gate without going through the intermediate stage of a ticket.

This is very handy in Chicago if you are making a single leg journey. Due to Apple Pay’s privacy architecture it can’t recognize transfers and always charges full fare.
> some documents relating to the regulatory submission for Pfizer and BioNTech’s COVID-19 vaccine candidate

Hold it. Wouldn't these documents be publicly available already?

> confidential information about the vaccine and its mechanism of action, its efficiency, its risks & known possible side effects and any unique aspects such as handling guidelines

Why is this confidential? Isn't this information exactly what they're supposed to be shouting as loudly as possible to the scientific community and the general public?

If Pfizer's keeping confidential information about the side effects and risks, doesn't that completely undermine the narrative that the vaccine is safe and effective, and citizens oughtn't be concerned about it?

I'm not an anti-vaxxer. But this article definitely raises some doubts in my mind about the Pfizer vaccine, where there were none before.