skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Perhaps it is just a defect in my hardware, but on mine it is nearly impossible to reliably "soft" press in either direction. Every motion either registers as nothing or hard press.
Believe it or not, there are senior engineers with comp packages of $300k+ who spend 80%+ of their time writing and being in meetings and very little if any actual coding. You could really call what they do as writing blog posts, just for the company.
Something a little less paralyzing (in the ambient music category) from Starfucker this year called Ambient 1: https://starfucker.bandcamp.com/album/ambient-1
Anything that claims to implement IEEE 748-2008 must have the floating point multiply-accumulate instructions.

RISC-V Rocket has had those for half a dozen years already, as has any other RISC-V core with the F/D extensions.
Ask HN: Outside USA, how much do other nations citizens receive from their govts
Wow! Did you ever meet Charles Babbage? ;)
The number of flaws that make Java inferior to other JVM languages is surprisingly small. By far the worst parts are excessively verbose "Beans", nullpointer by default, the JEE ecosystem (there are good alternatives) and the high RAM consumption (a JVM flaw). Honestly 80% of the value I derive from using a different JVM language come from avoiding NPEs, getters and setters. The remaining 20% can be very useful but they are certainly not essential nor can they be considered mandatory.
What about Litvinienko?
What about the novichok attacks in the UK?

Also unbelievable?
My Digital Zettelkasten Workflow
Nobody drives in those cities; there is too much traffic.
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I personally don't like saga pattern. For example when some operation fails, it should be reverted ob every service it went through. But what to do, when that revert fails? It's just matter of time when the system ends up in inconsistent state.
+1 for jq. It is so useful for mucking about with API responses. I used it to write a bash script that acts as a NAGIOS plugin for spotting changes in our Digital Ocean server and DNS configs - curl to pull from the API, jq to strip out the bits we don't care for, and sed to put actual newlines in instead of \n.
We had Cisco as a customer, and infrastructure change-monitoring was one of their infosec team's requirements... that was part of our solution.
We had a weekly deploy (plus any hotfixes) that built the images for all the new VMs (we used KVM) and then when done, stopped all the services and restarted them with their new images. Total down time was about 15 sec which for our application was acceptable. The build time was a lot longer than that (3-4 minutes), but that happened before the existing services were stopped so it didn't affect downtime. If any of the services failed to build, the deploy was aborted and the existing services were left running uninterrupted.

The deploy tool was home grown and was part of the repo. Having everything in a mono repo was really important because it dramatically reduced the number of permutations of interfaces that had to be tested down to one.

These trade-offs might not be right for everyone, but for us they were fine and allowed us to create a highly efficient development environment.
> It wasn't offensive and we knew each other's boundaries

Then what's the problem?
WebAssembly and SIMD: A match made in the browser
A self driving flying consumer vehicle that is fueled by any organic material (100% clean) would be the "biggest achievement of the century".

Road/highway infrastructure would be a thing of the past. Billions (if not trillions) of dollars saved in new road construction and maintenance. Can divert federal/state/local funds to education, public health, and social programs.

Then highways can be replaced by housing infrastructure and thus slowly driving down the cost of housing in markets across the country.
I hadn't thought about this until your comment. While I think Apple building a car is... dubious (both the idea that they would and that they should even if they can), I'd been thinking "well, at least Apple is good at UI," but I really don't like Tesla-esque touchscreen-for-everything auto interfaces, and that would be a serious temptation for Apple.
^^^ this.

As others have pointed out (and some disagreed with), Apple has capital, supply-chain expertise, patience, and a dogmatic focus on the whole experience. In a realm where technology is increasingly a driver of the experience (no pun intended), cars start to make some sense.

But the battery claim... I just can't imagine a universe where Tesla isn't aware of the same hard-science. I'd love to be surprised though.
Apple's brand is too feminine. An Apple car sounds as manly as a VW Golf Convertible. To Tesla's credit, they have maintained a more masculine image. Don't laugh...people see cars as extensions of their own physical presence, a "gay" car won't sell
I feel guilty when my C# method isn’t immediately returning a LINQ expression.
At that point why not write a Python script?
> 2. Allocation of free public space (car parking) to drivers, effectively subsidizing (disproportionately suburban) commuters at the expense of residents.

The times I've commuted into a city, I had to pay for parking, usually in a private lot. I suspect it's like this in most big cities, and in smaller cities where people still commute, parking is probably private lots owned by the employer, not street parking. Picture a standard office park.

In places with free street parking (or public lots), I suspect the population is sparse enough that the added land cost for parting isn't a big deal, most people have cars, and most people support having parking.
For some things, like navigation and settings, I absolutely love a touch screen. For other things, like wiper control in the Model 3, I definitely do not like it and it is worse.

I think this might just come down to personal preference. After owning a Model 3 for a while now, I can't stand my Audi (or other cars) that aren't touch screens. There are far too many buttons and dials. It is overwhelming (and ugly to me). The non-touch UIs are clunky and confusing and often far more distracting for me as I try to figure them out.
> and then didn't [resolve the problem] - how many iterations of the butterfly are we on now?

Uh, the butterfly isn't used in Apple keyboards anymore. They reverted to the old scissor switch design some time ago.
> Isn't that mostly because all the RISC's either killed themselves or got killed

Every ecosystem where Windows was relevant ended consolidating on x86, because that was the platform that had best Windows support (Microsoft didn't even make their own software available on most of those).

POWER survived because it has its own ecosystem. Alpha was axed by Compaq, because Windows on Alpha sucked and they knew little else, PA was starved to death by HP with lack of investment, then buried by moving to Itanium (with the spectacular results we all know). SPARC wandered in the desert until Oracle acquired Sun and promptly bled it to death.
> it's clear that observation and model are being conflated

How so?

> [cosmology] isn't a science the way that, for example, physics is.

Why not?

> I'm sure many will disagree with this factually more accurate description, because of the emotional role their ideation of science plays in their lives

Perhaps i will once i understand what you're going on about.
Is this focus on EV cars in general slightly unjustified? What's the evidence for the increased demand for EV cars post-pandemic? The way i see it, remote work will revolutionize the life of ~40% of the population , turning the car to an accessory that will be used much, much less in cities. For getaways outside cities, the autonomy of an ICE car is much appreciated. Battery trucks may be in high demand, but those don't fit with apple's (high-spender) demographic
Thanks, that's a helpful example, may be most of my programming questions don't involve C++. ;-)
is there a docker image ?
Then then legislature needs to be really careful over what is and isn't a full line, otherwise they could end up giving the executive arbitrary powers.

If the legislature wants to give the executive the option of passing a law in multiple ways, they can do that explicitly.
Keyless Tables in Dolt
> But, this prints all 317 resource types on a new line, not super helpful.

> So, let's group by and count:

> cat 1396-Ledner.json | jq '.entry[].resource.resourceType' | sort | uniq -c | sort -nr This gives me a list that looks like this:

This is so funny! We came up with some of the exact same combinations of tools (jq + sort, uniq, wc etc.). I mean, it makes sense so I shouldn't be surprised!
it's used for mesh networks (but can also be used for other applications) - some freifunk communities in germany use it and there is ongoing development to port the most popular mesh firmware called gluon to use babel as it's a layer3 mesh and gluon is using a layer2 mesh (using B.A.T.M.A.N) - layer3 scales better because with more nodes you have a noisy switch on layer2.

Fascinating stuff - if you want to learn more about babel here is a technical talk from the developer: https://www.battlemesh.org/BattleMeshV8/Agenda?action=Attach...
Well yes, but actually no
(0.5 + (2x0.25)x(2x0.25)) != 62.5%

Your math there doesn't add up... quite literally
I'd think they could be a bit more creative here and make an assignment to discover the fraudsters. It's real life experience, where they have a stake in the outcome, and possibly an interesting and fun exercise.
How do you compute the reciprocal without division? A precomputed lookup table?
Tesla's touchscreen is so functional it made you change to voice control, you say?
LOL, but what would happen if that computer was in active use?
Having an android and an iphone and had two vehicles with both AA and CarPlay, I can confirm that android auto is a much better experience than carplay.
911 doesn't need cell coverage from your specific provider or even a SIM card to be in the phone. It'll use whatever cellular network is there.

https://www.scienceabc.com/innovation/how-can-mobile-phones-...

If that was your sole reason for having it enabled, you can turn it off now.

Public places can easily claim its not them, but for a house I can imagine it can get tricky, specially if its long-term abuse by a neighbor.

Case in point:

https://www.registercitizen.com/news/article/Man-mistakenly-...

The truth was found after all, but the loss of reputation and legal stress are not worth it, specially in your Good Samaritan scenario.

As a side note, I like that almost all new cars will automatically call the police for you when they sense an accident, using built-in cellular systems.
Also, in Netflix's defense, users are horribly inconsistent in their expressed ratings (they'll rate a movie based on their personal mood at the time, and they'll binge shows they claim aren't 5 stars while ignoring their 5 star movies)

This is exactly why they switched from 5 stars to up/down/blank.
The technology was not very fanciful if at all. If you think that movie was ahead of its time in terms of exhibiting what was possible, then might I suggest Three Days of the Condor (1975), and of course the ever popular Sneakers (1992). The former is far more fascinating given its age, although I suspect less so for someone who was in the middle of their computer science/computer engineering/signals intelligence/cryptanalysis career during that era.

The things that governments are capable of doing are rarely secret. They leak out over time, and you'll see them portrayed in niche culture long before they become undeniable public knowledge. For example, off the top of my head, the satellite photos published amidst the 1998 missile strike of the Al Shifa pharmaceutical factory (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al-Shifa_pharmaceutical_factor...) are the types of evidence that inform the private sector, including authors and screenwriters. I'm sure similar photos and descriptions were publicly available much earlier than that, so the generic ability to track people on rooftops via satellite (notwithstanding all the little gotchas that aren't fit for storytelling) was more than plausible at that point, especially considering that then as now the military doesn't typically release material that discloses their best capabilities.

I used to have a link to a pre-9/11, accidental admission in a magazine interview by a general about the Navy's ability to tap undersea fiber optic cables. Though at that point I think it was already assumed the U.S. performed such missions--certainly by Russia and China, but even among intelligence geeks--which is probably why he didn't think much of the comment. (IIRC, the topic was a submarine designed for tapping undersea cable, though at that time it was only "public knowledge" that it could tap traditional copper cables, not fiber optic. He impliedly--only barely shy of explicitly--admitted that it also tapped fiber optic cables.)

What's fanciful is the degree and extent of corruption assumed in these narratives. People seem to think it's more plausible simply because of the true-to-life character of the technological portrayals. But NEVER forget that the principal aim of movies is to elicit strong emotions by leveraging common fears[1] and desires, suspending disbelief by deftly mixing fiction with non-fiction. And I don't mean to preach; it's definitely a life-long struggle for everyone to differentiate culturally constructed narratives from reality.

[1] E.g. Big Brother, the particularized fear of powerlessness that comes when mixing it with political cynicism.
Yes, it’s just a very simple point to make to the people who say they like targeted ads (which I have seen quite often, although this sounds like Stockholm syndrome to me). I see my wording could have been better.
Sorry, but you're wrong.
I saw a whole exchange like that on my friend's phone who needed to locate someone in the Russian Federation.

Also, it's really that cheap.
The museums accepted blood money when they accepted Sackler money literally made from the deaths and suffering of the victimized.
No, you are absolutely wrong here. But before I explain why I need to ask a question: are you by chance a young-earth creationist? Because your rhetoric here is very similar to that employed by YECs. (The reason I ask is that my explanation is going to be different if you are not a YEC than if you are.)
Private entities are horrible at self-regulating. They are equally horrible at creating their own laws to selectively apply to users of their platform, in addition to laws of the location of the user.

This law effectively diminishes the ability of those private entities to enforce their own laws and terms of use. That sounds like a win for regular folks like me and you.
Wasn't there a time, not so long ago in fact (pre-1920's), where almost all your beloved physics models, beside Netwonian gravities, were wrong as well?

So Astronomy, as a "hard science", is around 100 years behind...what's the big deal with that?
> Has Apple been poaching significant self driving talent to attempt self driving version of the electric car?

Well, the linked article mentioned Apple's rumored project is being led by Doug Fields, who was Tesla's senior VP of engineering. There are probably others.

Of course, poaching engineers in such a hotly competitive industry seems like could lead to a lot of accusations of trade secret theft. It's sure a good thing Tesla and Apple aren't both famously litigious...
I bought a 70-300 Nikon ED VR specifically to take pictures of the moon, and it does a pretty good job. Turns out it's useful for a lot of situations (birds and other wildlife). My vacation setup is normally iPhone + D7100 with the 70-300 attached. That can easily cover most situations w/o changing lenses around too often.

I'm planning on picking up one of the Nikon mirrorless FFs soon.
> He said that black communities have higher crime rates, which should rightly deserve more police attention, hence their interaction with police on a per capita basis would increase.

"Interaction" is one thing; police killing people is another.

(An aside: if we dig deeper to figure out why black communities often have higher crime rates... welp, there we go again, it usually boils down to some form of systemic racism.)

> ... but you've chosen to only accept the racism one.

Why do you feel the need to steer people away from racism as a cause? Nowhere did I say that racism is the "only" thing; please don't put words in my mouth. But it is, by and large, the root of the majority of the problem.

I've already spent more time than I care to on this topic, so I'm not going to go digging again, but if you look at studies around general police behavior (who they are interested in, who they detain, how long they detain them, stats around escalation, arrest vs. warning rates for same offense, etc.), it's pretty clear that police target -- whether consciously or subconsciously -- non-white people, and black people in particular. You can call that "bias" or "prejudice" or whatever you want; I call it racism.

But regardless, bottom line: black people are killed by police at a disproportionately large rate when compared to people of other races. That is what the data shows, plain and simple. I'm not really interested in quibbling over vague claims that racism has little or nothing to do with it, as that's clearly false. If you want an acknowledgement that racism isn't 100% the entire picture, then sure, ok, fine. (Though you don't seem particularly interested in venturing forth any suggestions or data pointing to other causes, so I question your motives here.) But racism is a huge contributor to these disparities. If tomorrow we could magically eliminate racism from everyone's mind, I guarantee you ant disparities would be so small as to not really garner anyone's attention.

So here's my question for you: what are those other non-racism causes of this disparity? And if you can name some, do the causes of those causes not actually boil down to systemic racism in the end?
Rekowl: Knowledge is your most valuable asset
Yes, the favoritism in search results for sites using your own tech could definitely be an antitrust issue.
Support for vector chaining, I imagine.
> I’d love to be proved wrong.

Why would you love that? It's 100% a factor. One of the key drivers of house price increases has been two-income households, with the nice double personal tax allowances, that allow much higher offers. Additionally in the UK I think it became illegal for mortgage companies to offer a lower multiplier on the second income, so it's a huge boost.
In the beginning, it had great power characteristics, but it was also much faster than any x86.

That it evolved in the direction of power efficiency is more an effect of it being power efficient and being popular with embedded manufacturers, which created a feedback look that guided it to extreme power efficiency with reasonable performance, while x86 went the route of performance, power be damned.
I got a ticket for jaywalking when I lived in downtown Washington, DC about 15 years ago. The officer asked to see my license (what if I hadn't had one?) and wrote a ticket, but as a warning with no fine. Said it was the first sunny day of the Spring and the city had him out to try to cut down on tourists etc. wandering around and possibly getting hit by cars.
Her Majesty’s Kidnappers
> So in at least some percentage of cases, there's simply nothing even the most attentive driver could do to avoid hitting someone.

Only a sith deals in absolutes. Just because you can't prevent someone who _wants_ to be hit from being hit doesn't mean you shouldn't be completely vigilant. As an example, it's not reasonable to expect an obstruction on highway/motorway traffic, but it _is_ on a 40mph road with crosswalks.
>Having one display off to the side, without buttons, that does everything is an awful experience in a car.

It also totally sounds like something Apple would do.
same joke here to play disney music in the background of any risky videos you send your significant other so if they upload it to a revenge porn site later, Disney will take it down.
I'm a simple man. I prefer my mobile device manufacturer to be different from my auto maker. Maybe that's just me.

Another aspect I think Apple will struggle with (if they really pursue a full blown car) is the very same reason it succeeds: brand affinity.

It was easy to ditch BlackBerry when the iPhone came out because the cost of buying a first gen product wasn't so high.

I love BMW and don't see any current or nascent tech changing that. I'd love for them to compete, really compete(!!) with Tesla et al. because EVs and all they represent is exciting but I'm not so hot on Tesla. Great brand and product but kinda feel I'm not their primary demographic: tech bros who wear Allbirds and live in Silicon Valley.

German carmakers have a rich history that speaks for itself when you see the badge on the bonnet. Can't say the same about Tesla, let alone Apple.

Say what you will but Nazi Sled > Tesla any day. At least for me.
I took a look but it was very brief given that I broke my RTL-SDR :-D but I was using it to decode FM radio RDS (probably bit more that what I could chew!)
Only a problem if you're on the same subnet.
I believe the idea also made its way to microcomputers (or was realized independently) shortly after, like with the SemiDisk:

https://web.archive.org/web/20201112040756/http://www.s100co...
It mostly killed Acorn. Olivetti acquired them.
They got through at least 3 versions of the butterfly design, and kept using it from early 2015 through late 2019, before finally switching to a new (thinner than pre-2015, but still substantially thicker than the butterfly switch) rubber dome scissor design.

It would have been much better if they had figured out how to cut their losses and revert the keyboards in 2016 or early 2017, even though that would have taken a substantial redesign of the rest of the laptop internals.

Selling 4.5 years of laptops with keyboards that broke easily under ordinary use was a huge black eye for the company.
As a reader of the old slashdot and a non-native speaker, the progress of score on my comments give me mixed emotions. It first gets a small bump, then hit in the head to -1/-2, making me question my thinking, ideas and my English skills for conveying them.

Then, after a random time, it gets back to 0 and gets a small or a big bump depending on support, converting my comment to a small battleground which is kinda amusing. :D
I don't own a car anymore, but the Car2go I rent has five (maybe 6) buttons total
Shameless plug: https://github.com/fiatjaf/awesome-jq
personally, I do not want an automobile that tracks my movements at all times, and shows login events every time I drive - electric or not
I don't think I've ever seen an American strip mall without a wide sidewalk running in front of every business on the strip. The sidewalk is such an integral component of a strip mall, it sounds like what you're describing isn't a strip mall at all. And if people are so lazy that they drive around the parking lot instead of using the sidewalk, that reflects on them, not the sidewalk.
Except they were better at making a phone, and then controlling costs in making advanced phones. Nokia could NOT compete. Even Microsoft gave up (despite billions). Even now, with years of competition, their margins are FAR higher than others making smartphones. Eye wateringly higher.
The underlying question here is: Should Facebook be forced to obey the government of a country in which it operates or be an agent for US values and ignore the government of any specific country in which it operates.

I don't think there's a simple answer here and the default should likely be 'listen to government, regardless of how terrible they are' because we want to respect other countries' sovereignty as we want our sovereignty respected.