skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
>>I cherry-picked 8 articles?

Yes, one can cherry pick 8 sources. Most of your sources were unscientific media articles, and most of those from left-wing activist outlets.

>>Alright, so now we're back again to the classical CryptoPunk style of honing in on semantics and refusing definitions.

Your argument is made in bad faith. It's totally disingenuous pedantry. You and I both know that you weren't claiming that 'consumers in a market economy consciously choose lower cost disposable products', when you claimed the market economy produces planned obsolescence.

And I don't deserve the accusations you're levying at me. I am debating in good faith, and making sincere arguments that reflect my honest beliefs. I am not lying to myself just to make myself believe I'm right. I'm objectively and fairly assessing what you're saying before responding to your comments. You on the other hand are only trying to win the argument, truth and decency be damned. This pedantic appeal to the 'planned obsolescence' used in an entirely different context than we both know you originally used it in, and subsequent attempt to criticize me for pointing that out, being a case example.
Probably not... I didn't see TSLA mentioned once in this article :)
> The screensize/weight ratio, the screensize/body size ratio

Based on HN comments, one of the most popular non-Apple laptops seems to be the Dell XPS.

XPS: via https://downloads.dell.com/manuals/all-products/esuprt_lapto...

- 15.61”

- 4.14lbs

- overall dimensions 14.06 x 9.27 x 0.66in or about 86in^3

Apple 16” MBP: via Apple.com

- 16” screen

- 4.3lbs

- overall dimensions 14.09in x 9.68in x 0.64in or about 87.3in^3

—-

So weight/screensize ratio:

Dell = 0.27lb/in vs Apple = 0.27lb/in

Screensize/bodysize ratio (higher is better):

Dell = 92.7% coverage vs Apple = 93.6% coverage

So just using your first two arbitrary criteria, seems Apple’s 16” laptop is ahead of or tied with, but not “well behind”, this competitor.

I’m sure you can pull out some edge case laptop that beats it, but as the XPS is arguably the most popular non-Apple laptop among devs, I feel it’s fair to say the Apple laptop is definitively not “well behind the competition”, at least using your criteria.

For a laptop that’s <3oz heavier and only 1.3in^3 larger dimensions, you get a screen almost a half inch bigger, almost 20% larger battery, the worlds best trackpad, 8 core i9 vs a 6 core i7 processor, option to get 64gb ram rather than being limited to only 32gb, etc etc.
> Isn’t gaming a larger industry than the movies,

nowhere near comparable in reach. Way more people watch movies than play games. Since movies are typically cheaper to consume, it appears as a smaller industry while it is actually bigger in reach.
Great for road trips!
I've taken more than 6 trips longer than 15 hours and they rock.
Here is their diagram[1] of the cycle. Wankel engine uses the otto cycle (blue), theirs is what they are calling the High Efficiency Hybrid Cycle, or HEHC (in red). In terms of shape they do seem approx. the same, so when LiquidPiston says theirs is different I think they are just saying it is a more efficient cycle, not fundamentally different in terms of stages.

[1] https://uploads-ssl.webflow.com/5f6086e9bbbabd41a20f2984/5f7...
Logically it's wrong. If you COULD care less then that means you do care to some level whereas most people mean you COULD NOT care less. Simple...
The thing about a "brownout" is that service goes away, and then it comes back - for a while.

The idea is that even though you wrote a blog post, maybe sent out formal notices to users, even in some cases put up billboards or did PSAs on TV - some people won't know it applies to them, or may even mistakenly believe it doesn't apply even though it does.

The brownout is an opportunity for those people to notice. "Hey, why doesn't the Foozle work?" "I dunno. Ask on Reddit?" "Huh. Reddit says we need to use tokens, but I'm sure we... oh... did you actually update the Foozle script?" "I thought you were doing that" "D'oh".

Users who can't react immediately when things go bang will get a reprieve - for a while - when it starts working again the next day.

So that's why "blockout" isn't an appropriate description.

There's some degree of art and some science to planning these so that they're disruptive enough that humans notice something went wrong, while not being disruptive enough that they're worse than just a one shot change.
I've watched S1-3, S6 and part way through S4. One thing contestants seem to overestimate is the use they'll get from a bow. I saw someone suggest that unless you are going to get 30ish squirrels with the bow, you're better off taking a ration pack.

I watch it with my 6 and 8 year old kids, and they love getting ideas for building shelters or creating elaborate traps (that will never work). Leads to many great discussions about whether you should forgo paracord and get double duty from the fishing line, what combo of axe/hatchet/saw/multitool/etc is best.

There have been some hapless contestants but also some seriously capable ones (winner of S3, 3rd place in S2, top 5-6 of S6).

I see they've tweaked the target for S7, but from what I've watched, I think a strategy for the mental side would've been to target 100 days as a personal thing, rather than the dreamers in early seasons expecting to be out there for a year and then that going out the window at the first bear or storm.
Just to make an example, politicians are certainly not the best political/organizational minds that one can find in this world. When the results of an activity are nuanced, that is the results are not clearly measurable (revenue, profit, distance, weight, etc. are clear, measurable metrics), the skills of the members of the community are unlikely to be the best one can find. Since most of the research work is inevitably useless, there are reasons for hiring that are other than skills and experience and quality.
All you really need to know is whether you’re keeping the pace up with your current resistance settings. The cadence sensor shows you that. A speed sensor wouldn’t be accurate unless you could also figure out resistance (requires a $500 power meter...).
How do you figure that the sentence was too severe?
> No YouTube, no Snapchat etc.

> With YouTube Google used their position to keep it that way.

YouTube is available to anyone with a web browser, such as people using a smartphone.
Actually you just kind of convinced me of the opposite -- that there was nothing nefarious with Google+. Clearly these companies have a track record of getting out of non-core businesses where they don't have expertise and/or don't have much to gain.

Google buying up affiliate networks and shutting them down is just plain consolidation of monopoly -- not conspiracy to divide up the market like the other actions. (It still deserves antitrust scrutiny, but for wholly different reasons.)

And weekly or bi-weekly dinners? Conspirators go to great lengths to have legitimate pretenses for any meetings. Trade shows are/were notorious for where these cartels get business done because everyone has a legitimate interest to be there. You also want plausible deniability.
He literally wanted to hire a hit man to get someone killed apart from breaking several other federal laws.

Meanwhile thousands if not millions of people of colour are sitting in a jail cell petty drug charges, doing much worse time relatively speaking.

This is nothing but white privelage.
openWRT compatible, not splashed all over CVEs.
I built a lot of infra to monitor what’s going on in PL research.
There have been cases where it happens after a certain amount of time after the announcement, technically, but where there wasn't enough time for speed of light delay to get the information to the place where the trade was executed.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2013/09/24/trade...
maybe. i mean, he hired a hit man.
No, why would they? He's not whistleblowing. The commenter even admits that he has no context on the link in question and just suspects it's what's being implicated.
There was also the RX-3.
Wow, what a read! I hadn't heard of this paper before and it's a treat.

https://susam.github.io/tucl/the-unix-command-language.html
https://github.com/zerotier/ZeroTierOne
usually you need to give talks about and more generally publicize your work; if it's interesting people will pick it up, but they need to be aware of it first. Number of citations also depend on the publication venue: better venue => more visibility => more citations.
I remember not too long ago when the Wii and the Kinect were supposed to be the future of gaming (they were hugely popular at some point) before everyone got sick of standing playing games and went back to their couches.

Wondering if the same thing is not going to happen with VR as well.
Not sure what is wrong with a 200x car that has 133K miles. With diligent routine maintenance, most cars from that era should last another 133K miles easily. I remember the days when it was good advice to avoid cars with over 100K miles on them, but that time is in the distant past. I would buy a 200K mile 2006 Toyota Camry today without any hesitation.
Personally, I am shocked at how unrealistic and immature the demands of these activist employees are:

> The demands in the letter include the removal of a Google vice president, Megan Kacholia, from the team's management chain; for transparency surrounding Gebru's departure; and for Google's head of AI, Jeff Dean, and Kacholia to apologize for how Gebru was treated. It also calls for the company to offer Gebru a new, higher-level position, to commit publicly to the integrity of research conducted at Google, and to guarantee it won't harm any workers who advocated for Gebru.

I sincerely hope Google’s leaders don’t cave in and instead hold firm on their prior decision. Employee activism is highly toxic and distracting, especially when activists organize like a mob to prop up someone as toxic as Timnit Gebru. Anonymous forums like Reddit ML and Blind are full of stories from victims of her aggression/toxicity and yet the alliance of employee activists and tech journalists continue to make her out to be a victim of injustice.
I just want to point out that this, "The world before Google was a worse world" might be true before 2000 or so, but certainly not for the past decade. Remember when Google result pages had sparse ads, that were clearly and boldly delineated from "natural" search results? Google was great then in helping me find stuff, I knew when I was clicking an ad, and the best products and services could still rise to the top of "natural" search results without paying a "Google tax". I also didn't get ads that followed me everywhere I went on the Internet, but I still had good relevant ads because Google had plenty of context from my search terms.

These days, nearly the first entire page of results is ads, which for most people look nearly the same as natural results. Google even gets most people to click on ads, and collect their pound of flesh, when the user typed the name of the business in the search bar. Google doesn't really need to worry that much about competing with other search engines for better natural results because they've mostly killed them all off. IMO Google's search engine peaked about a decade ago and has just gotten worse since.
The only places with high birth rates are Africa and SE Asia. These days complaining of birth rates has a tinge of racism. Wouldn’t want too many more brown and black people would we? Especially with white birth rates in a free fall that doesn’t seem to have a bottom.
> let me tell you that this is an absolutely unstoppable evolution of computing.

If that's the case, the sales are hardly convincing. If this was such a revolution you'd see more people buying them. Beyond head tracking and movement tracking, the fact that you cant feel anything (no feedback) in the world you are supposed to be in makes it illusion breaking.
Seems like it would also be pretty good for lawnmowers and such.
Makes sense. The Trump presidency and the broader wave of corrupt right-wing nationalism have been big victories for international organized crime. The spotlight has been on Russia, but they're just the biggest mafia state.
For RHEL Server (MSRP)

Self-Support: $350/yr
Standard: $800/yr
Premium: $1300/yr

Those are all starting points without including potential addons.
> riches and glory

I think most would settle for living wages and reasonable career progression prospects.
I would argue that a much more effective approach would be to incentivize and isolation. If you report (correctly) that you have a positive test, you stay home, and the government provides food and benefits for however long you should isolate. And your employer is forbidden from retaliating.

Isolating sucks, but it shouldn’t be more of a hardship than absolutely necessary.
If you're going to do Ulbricht, which is a giant FU to the FBI (who Trump believes screwed him over), you might as well go ahead and do Assange and Snowden and finish the job. At this point in the unhinged circus show that the US has become, I'm really looking forward to it just to watch the spectacle that will be the deep state meltdown and media tantrum ('one of his final actions as President will be to demonstrate just how lawless the Trump Administration was' - or something like that).

I'd put money on Assange having a very slim shot at a pardon and Snowden having zero shot (Trump ultimately leans toward being a big government, big national security type).

Snowden, Assange, Ulbricht, Manning, Kim Dotcom - all under the Obama / Biden Administration, and now Biden is about to be President (the guy that took direct orders from Hollywood & Co. to go after Kim Dotcom). I'd also bet on another wave of martyrs at the hands of the Biden Admin.
Meh, this "whitepaper" is just thinly-veiled spam.

I'll sum it up for you:

> "IP over HF is really inefficient and should be avoided whenever possible."

> "You wanna know what's SUPER-DUPER EFFICIENT over HF, though?"

> "STANAG 5066!"

> "You know what's really crazy, though? It just so happens that WE SELL STANAG 5066 PRODUCTS! To governments and militaries! Would you believe that? I mean, what's the chances, right!?"

(Also, FWIW, the "whitepaper" is at least six years old.)
Pencil Talk: Sean Malone
"Language acquisition" is quite different from "no accent". My manager is a non-native speaker of English, but the only way you can tell is by his accent -- he's perfectly fluent, both in construction and in comphrenension.
Community first!! Really appreciate this. Thanks.
I keep in good physical condition in every possible manner: running trails, playing soccer, lifting weights, hell even playing DDR.

Fitness is literally getting your body into a more physically fit form, it has nothing to do with "connecting with the real world.", whatever that means. I'm down with anything that motivates people to elevate their heart rate.
I do this in my own projects. Specifically, I have them defined as:

"Defects" are a deficiency in the project. They come about through a failure of process. We have to fix them, and fix the failure of process that resulted in them.

"Bugs" are anomalous behavior that get in from outside. A defect in a dependency or external service can cause a bug in my project. We have to fix them, which may require fixing the dependency, working around the bug, or ejecting the dependency completely (I like to call this "deprecated due to infestation").

"Glitches" are anomalous behavior outside of the specification of the system. Example: a user whose cable splitter outside is dangling from a single strand of wire, preventing them from having a reliable enough network connection to use our telecomms system. We might not be able to do anything about glitches other than improve user training.

And finally, "User Error" is a myth.

I find being able to evaluate and define issues by this criteria is really helpful in figuring out the best course of action to take with them. For example, when I realized I was spending the majority of my time working around Bugs caused by Defects in Unity3D, I knew it was time to eject Unity3D. It's kinda like Unity3D had bedbugs, and those bedbugs gave us unsightly sores. It was better to burn the bed completely than be constantly applying bandaids to the sores.
And the expressiveness here isn't meant to suggest that you can write programs that you can't in other languages (they're all Turing complete) but that you can write new kinds of control flow and scoping constructs so you're not limited to the sequencing selection and iteration that the language provides.

That's all great... once you already know how to use the language. But, at least relative to the way I think and learn, I really want to quickly be able to do three or four things when learning a new language: sequence, selection, iteration, and console I/O. Once I can do that, I can write essentially any arbitrary program. And then I can start adding onto my knowledge and learning the more interesting ways of doing things.

Maybe I'd have a different perspective if I'd learned Lisp first, instead of having 20+ years of programming in Algol derived languages under my belt first. But I do feel uncomfortable spending days and weeks with a language and not even learning how do use (their version of) a for loop or whatever.
Talking like a woman in Ted Talks is associated with more popularity
Amna – focus on tasks in one place – Productivity
However, money can go the other way. Paying a subscription might end up just sending at least some of the money to the Foundation, rather than Firefox (or even Rust) development.
As I understand it, there's a lot more to it than stealing from the till. I used to work for a company that was peripheral to the security industry, so I got a lot of their literature. One was a pamphlet showing more than a dozen fiddles that are possible at the cash register. I've also read that most shoplifting is an inside job, at least involving an inside helper.

There's stuff like having a bar code on the palm of your hand, so you scan a cheap item while passing an expensive item through the scanner.
Odyssey is pretty good. Have you tried it?
And just for fun, this is a quote from the paper [0] cited in your YouTube video:

"Nevertheless, the overall 3.4 fold reduction in aerosol copy numbers we observed combined with a nearly complete elimination of large droplet spray demonstrated by Johnson et al. suggests that surgical masks worn by infected persons could have a clinically significant impact on transmission"

[0] https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/23505369/

Edit: article -> paper
Is anyone else wondering why Visa and MasterCard aren't being targeted for antitrust? All of this applies to what they do with credit card fees.
Living in a non-English speaking country certainly helps. Everybody around here is using `git` without realizing what it means. Same for CockroachDB.
Let's explore that after we figured out how to live without destroying the planet.
Intake/exhaust is happening through the rotor, not the combustion.
Yep.

If there are HN mods here, please, set title as mentioned above.
When optical waveguide comes in an affordable consumer AR/VR product with a separate tethered battery/computer pack.
>What was the failure? This isn't a retrospective that makes any sense.

Windows Phone had great, snappy, intuitive UI (which was really surprising coming from Microsoft). However it had no apps. If you look at the top 10 iPhone apps in the app store, only Facebook and Netflix were officially supported on the platform. I recall there being (great) 3rd party apps for apps like Instagram, but there was a dearth of anything else.
Motörhead [1] and Aerosmith [2]

[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wh3t49NsWBA

[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o-0lAhnoDlU
You've likely created a text box by double clicking on the document.
Stop posting` links to paywalled sites
The platform shouldn't be held responsible for their content, similar to social media right?
There's an interesting Ubuntu spin off called Ubuntu Web Remix. That boots to a simplified desktop that revolves around the browser and PWAs. Their browser of choice is Firefox. This Ubuntu variant is designed to be a Chrome OS replacement. I haven't tried it, but it looks quite interesting.

https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/ubuntu-web-remix/19394

I wouldn't be surprised to see someone attempt a Chrome OS clone at a startup or corporate level. Seems like all the building blocks are there. Someone just needs to assemble it. Simple desktop that revolves around Firefox. With an immutable base system and seamless, invisible-to-the-end-user containers.
DNA is very often damaged or modified by environmental as well as physiological factors, and is then "corrected" so that DNA is in flux at the primary sequence, but has a central tendency that is chased.

DNA is also wound into a physical conformation that is also in flux, as well as the complexing of DNA whith protiens and other regions of DNA, this is the foundation of our current understanding of epigenetics.

the spatial distribution of DNA in the nucleus also is dynamic, the tendency is for DNA segments coding for transcripts that are to be exported from the nucleus are in proximity to nuclear membrane and a nuclear pore.

these factors vary throughout the various cell and tissue types of the body and over different physiological states.
This seems to be the best deal I have seen since a long long time . . Time to enhance our technical skills !!
It is a planned feature, yes.
> Trump ultimately leans toward being a big government, big national security type

I'd say he has very little ideology that he's committed to other than his own personal gain. He's likely to pardon anyone who might have shown him fealty in the past or who is willing to engage in quid-pro-quo.
I don't think Netflix actually belongs in there, it's just that if it weren't the acronym would be FAAG, and if you say you want to work for a FAAG company people will assume you're talking about Grindr or Mozilla or something.
I was thinking "let's buy some of these" then I realized this is not a green energy firm.
Couldn't you also encode data in audio itself ?

I heard of a project to do this where you send out an inaudible sound and receive it elsewhere
thats because all the times the weatherman could have got it right, i could have guessed the same...its the hard stuff i want a weather man for, and its the hard stuff i want an AI for..
Well, you might not find this helpful but... A physical whiteboard, sticky notes, and then fed into Markdown files in a project design repo.
Oh definitely. I brought one of the first stereoscopic camera robots there. It was very clear we werent in the same financial support league but we did well I think our second year on there.
I feel like I'm in the minority in that I prefer to NOT learn things by just "diving in". I am much more successful when I start from the absolute fundamentals. There are objective pros and cons to either approach, but I suspect the success factor is based on one's personality (or some such).

I definitely find value in the project based approach, but I guess I'd say that I tend to want just a little bit more "here's the fundamentals" first, before transitioning into that mode. As a generalization. But Programming Common Lisp isn't bad for this reason, it's just a hair short of what I personally might consider "the perfect Lisp book" if I could imagine up such a thing.
Thats interesting. Do you think there is a potential of a better protocol suited for HF compared to TCP/IP or even just IP alone.

I would also want to hear more about your experiment like what hardware were you using at that time.
So glad this isn't going unnoticed. Does anyone remember that random email Google sent years ago (I suppose 2015 from this), informing us that WhatsApp backups no longer count towards your Drive quota limit?

No press releases, no fanfare about it, nothing. There was a small discussion of the intent of this, but the media didn't seem to care.
Remembering Licho, the Last Speaker of the Sare Language