skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It’s not any different than a criminal taking evidence to a pawn shop, and then expecting that the pawn shop couldn’t say anything about it to the police.

The problem is that we’ve all become accustomed to agreeing to give away our data, while pretending that we didn’t.
Luck confirmed for me. I feel very grateful and at the same time sad about the advances I won't witness.
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You're just moving goalposts all over the place.

The F14 is not in service anymore. Iran has probably less than 10 that are actually flyable, and they've been so heavily modified as to be mostly not recognizable as F14s anymore. The only other actual airframes that are anywhere near a 50 year lifespan are the B-52s, and they've been totally redesigned and rebuilt multiple times over those years.

There are no F15 airframes over 45 years, there are no F4 airframes over 45 years. The F15 production line is still open, there are 7 F4s still in service and they are a heavily upgraded version that wasn't produced in 1984 -- and those 7 leave service next month. You're confusing first date of production with the actual production dates of the aircraft still flying in order to make up a point that isn't even accurate as you've stated it.

Anyway, you just keep making up stuff so I'm going to leave this discussion here for now.
unfortunately it's not super well documented. Some of the concepts are a bit new (~2 yrs or so), and I kind of stumbled into this as a best practice by accident literally in the last two months when I had to do this for work and was like, "oh, this is a thing".

This video helped: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k_xDi7zAcNM
Interesting. So this is not cell phone tower data coming from ATT, T-Mobile, Verizon.

Does iOS grant apps access to your phone number or do these third party aggregators need another mechanism to link devices to phone numbers?
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> In these approaches that don't explain the grammar at all, you need to spend effort pattern matching to pick up the right grammatical rules to construct your own sentences, and you are never sure that you're doing the right thing.

To be fair, you learn your first language by inference and don't start learning the rules until you're some 10 years into fluency. Even as late as high school we were taught grammatical rules with "As a native speaker, do what sounds right, then find the correct rule and say you applied it. Immigrants, sorry you'll find this exam question impossibly difficult. Good luck"
Computers are klunky objects that get in your way when you try to use them. When they disappear inside ofbobjects, then we know they have arrived. They are starting to disappear inside of phones, tvs, appliances, voice assistants, cars, etc. But have a ways to go.
"Why don't they just switch to RISC-V?" is the new "This will be the year of Linux on the desktop".
I feel like quantum computers will truly be the revolution in computing as computing with them will exceed the human brain capacity just as automobiles exceeded human physical capacities to move in the 19th century.
Show HN: Cheap Coke – Helping Australians shop based on the price of a Coke
It's not mainly a food court, it's owned by a fairly typical commercial real estate investment group, and is divided into rentable office space.

https://bell.works/new-jersey/work/

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

aerial view: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Bell_Labs_Holmdel.jp...
It’s not the most exciting time. many centuries ago you could discover new humans living a different way. We can’t really do that anymore unfortunately.
Sounds like you want something like GDPR. Without that entities can collect and sell data about you like this, and the government can buy it.
It seems a lot of people are taking this sort of article more seriously than perhaps they should. To me it’s an interesting model to think about, regardless of its true validity; all models are faulty when they meet reality, after all. And I think with that it mind it’s interesting, and matches some of my own observations (loosely!)
That's impressive, although a dramatically easier problem than I was picturing.

Imagine nighttime, having to pass an accident, which means driving on the wrong side of the street with other cars beyond the accident waiting, and someone (quite possibly a civilian) waving you on.

Heck, I've been flagged down by a prostitute who wanted to get away from her John, running down the middle lane of an interstate at 2am. That was, admittedly, not a common scenario for a self-driving vehicle to have to deal with.
If you have any specific Win32 API in mind, I could write up a snippet to invoke it in this manner.
A Xerox Parc alumni told me the physical structure had massive influence on the dynamics of social interaction. it is not impossible Bell Labs, and MIT's Building 29 are examples of this too. I've never been to any of them. I know the common room of many university CS departments is where you get the low-down on whats really going on. Coffee helps.
Less domestic consumption means more available to export.
Just one more anecdote, but this is what turned me off from duolingo completely. You can't just learn words or sentences alone, you have to have at least some grammar in there. You need lists of prepositions and pronouns, and you need a little bit of at least simple rules for verbs and nouns. Yes, it's boring but otherwise you'll really struggle.
This is more spreading out final assembly to dodge tariffs, both US and Indian. Losing out on assembly is minor compared to moving up component value chain. Queue meme about China making $8 per iPhone 3G (3% of cost). It grew to $100 for iPhone X (25% of cost). Reliance is growing.

Samsung's somewhat exceptional in that they have a lot of domestic high end component manufacturing. But even they've been increasing Chinese manufacturing via ODMs for lower end models while media was talking about their move to Vietnam. I think their high end models still sources ~30% from China.
I am attempting to build a social network that is designed to generate truth, or at least emphasize expertise rather that simply attention.

I think of social networks like brains. They're both a graph of interconnected nodes that pass messages. The problem with our networks now as I see it is that the social networks are set up to maximize message transmission (i.e. attention) rather than truth.

We need a layer on top, like the neocortex, to connect the nodes and give them different weights to generate reliable outputs like a machine learning model does. That's what I'm building.
The examples picked by the author are evidence of this bias.

Triathlon hobby, “right amount of hops”, and PhD are the author’s examples of supposed middle-grade cluelessness.

Are those any different from a hunting hobby, “right caliber of gun”, and being a country club member? Presumably the latter would fall on the author’s sanctified leftmost ladder of Labor where people only talk straight and aspire for reasonable things. Yet the article makes no effort to justify why certain hobbies and pursuits are “loser real” and others are “clueless fake.”
It's slow to start, constantly downloads a bazillion updates. Information-wise, it's not very dense. It's hard to customize; doing so requires a bunch of hacky stuff: https://github.com/AryToNeX/Glasscord/wiki/Installation

Using a third-party client is a bannable offense under the terms of service. I hate the little "emoticon" icons that are all over the place. It set itself to auto-start on boot (this behavior may be different on win/mac). I don't like trusting it with my messages. It tries to show what applications users are running at the moment. There have been some improvements, but I still don't trust the security of electron.

These are some of the ones I can remember off the top of my head. Generally, it always seemed like it was both trying to baby me and seem "cool". It's many of the things I hate in modern software in one application. It's a chat app, which should shut up and show me messages, not try to double as a social network. It's also a voice conferencing app, which should shut up and transmit/receive audio, not try to double as a social network.

I know a lot of other people who seem to like it as well; good for y'all. All of this would be much less offensive if it hadn't banned me for opting out of its webshit.
I'm not sure it makes sense to suggest people who work with data are normally the other way around. People who work with data and their activists are why regular Americans are at all scared of government digital surveillance. On the other side of that, people who don't work with data use free digital services everyday and so even if they know those products are built with their data they are more likely to be sympathetic because in their minds it's a fair trade for the utility they've gained and even the trades they didn't make still serve as evidence to them of how useful doing things this way is. An interesting experiment would be if a single city went all-in on digital surveilance and monetization so that the country could see clearly what was being gained and lost for the participants.
Looks like FastMail had this until 2015

https://fastmail.blog/2015/11/16/shutting-down-our-xmpp-chat...
Love the frictionless tracking of habits. I’ll set up a small one tomorrow. Thank you
I think Google really was more idealistic. With their 20% time, thinking new businesses would grow from it.

There was also Sun's business model, of free software (eg java) to sell hardware.

It's not that they were selfless... but their interests were aligned with others.

Of course, looking back, MS's open platform seems positively benign today, yet te were habitually vilified at the time... maybe today's corporations will seem similarly benign in hindsight? After all, you can't make money without some alignment with customers.

Or, maybe it's just "power corrupts".
In general, I want to understand what happened and since most issues have a human component, that often means understanding which human under-performed, how and, ideally, why.

In that sense, I want us to understand where the responsibility for the failure (aka the blame) lies. That’s different from punishing based on any single incident.

You absolutely can have blame without punishment.
The Story So Far
You can’t model the entire world. Well, you can, but you can’t. Take a look at schema.org to see where that rabbit hole will take you. So instead we use more primitive tools that allow us to model our domain without needing a tool that magically knows how to do it for us. My domain has unique nouns that differ from someone else’s.

JSON offers building blocks of primitive types like integers and strings and can be used to build more sophisticated types like “timezone aware datetime”. We use ISO8601 for this. We can use that inside JSON. Now you and I can agree on what a date is.

We could build this into the language itself - but many would argue the beauty of JSON is in the fact that it is very naive and can be used quite literally to model any scenario.
Here's the short video about the technique itself: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N-T8MVrw1L0

and the printing process was just nuts: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g9S76vtk4Ro
FWIW I think you could do that with a pair of Pololu Wixels?

> The Pololu Wixel is a general-purpose programmable module featuring a 2.4 GHz radio and USB. The Wixel is based on the CC2511F32 microcontroller from Texas Instruments, which has an integrated radio transceiver, 32 KB of flash memory, 4 KB of RAM, and a full-speed USB interface. A total of 15 general-purpose I/O lines are available, including 6 analog inputs ...

https://www.pololu.com/product/1336
An amusing factoid to accompany this thread: We're up to roughly patent number 10 million, double the highest patent number in that list.
Literally false, metaphorically true.
The Stevens Unix and networking books.

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/W._Richard_Stevens
> Signal benefits from being the most similar to WhatsApp in terms of features, while Telegram has had problems as a secure and private messaging app, with its live location feature recently coming under fire for privacy infringements. Crucially, Telegram is not end-to-end encrypted by default, instead storing your data in the cloud. Signal is end-to-end encrypted, collects less data than Telegram and stores messages on your device rather than in the cloud.

Interestingly, this reads like a hit piece against Telegram.

Also, I thought the sentiment here was that Telegram was closest to WhatsApp in terms of feature parity.
On the other hand, its incredibly useful to establish what is a healthy baseline for your own body, so that when you do get a disease it is easier to compare your results.
Documentation and Importance. *
What gave you the impression that security wasn't discussed? At the time the group was pretty small, about 12 engineers depending on how you counted. Besides Mark Miller who had done the foundational work on Joule at Agorics I also had Whit Diffie to help with the cryptographic aspects, and access to some of the top infosec people of the time.

Literally as soon as we started prototyping "Webrunner" (which later became "HotJava"), the web browser written in Java, we started talking about the risks associated with loading executable content from a server you didn't trust and running it on your computer.

Everyone agreed we had to do something but not everyone agreed with how much we should do given that Sun was going to toss the language anyway and so we would be lucky if we got half the number of users that Tcl already had.

I was nominally tasked with solving this problem and chose to solve it to the best of my ability.

To do that I created a system for signing Java code, a capabilities model that would prevent unauthorized code execution, started Sun on the path of licensing a right to use the RSA patent, added an entire crypto subsystem to the sys.* code base, negotiated with the NSA a system that would allow Sun to actually ship strong encryption in an interpreted language, and designed some structure that had to be in the JVM to support this framework.

But what you have failed to grasp is that at the time the prevailing attitude at Sun corporate was that this was a 'throw away' project and amongst some of the engineers in the team, they were more interested in showing off their language design skills rather produce something that was an actual product. After all, as these language designers reasoned, Java had removed all the things that made C and C++ unsafe right? So if the language was correct (as the reasoning went) it couldn't possibly be used to do something bad.

One of them felt all of this "security complexity" was unnecessary. They also felt that my checking into the code base this complex stuff was disruptive. But they did agree that there needed to be "something" so they wrote the SecurityManager class over the weekend and called it done. And threatened to quit when I tried to get it undone.
Hey Hackernews,

I always had a fun idea of making a website tell me which of Australias two biggest supermarkets to shop at based on the price of a Coke, but only once I started did I realize how complicated it was.

The supermarkets themselves don't make the data easy to scrape, so instead I opted to scrape a third-party site they partner with to list their promotional prices.

Since the price can change from region to region in Australia, the scipt that gathers the data (via a github action) has to scrape every single suburb that a store exists.

All the source code is available on github here:
https://github.com/benkaiser/cheap-coke
That would just be mindless consumption. The computer revolution will be when everyone learns a little programming and accidentally complexity (bullshit) is beaten back enough that that little bit is useful.

In other words, I think we've long had the means, but capitalist underconsumption and the accumulation of technical debt holds us back.
They are working with them. Bluesky just did a report on the decentralized web: https://twitter.com/bluesky/status/1352302821140549632
Oh, it's not a new browser, just a different chromium wrapper.
That's also when true automation will take place.
Sorry, I meant 3-in-4 are female, not 1-in-4.

> A very confused sexism.

To an uncritical thinker, it might definitely seem that way.

To address the "liberal arts college" aspect, I mean specifically they're insulated from a lot of the reality of the rest of the world. I specifically mean the Dartmouths, Browns, etc. of the educational world.

I mean people for whom a $200,000 education to have a $35,000 - $115,000 a year job is perfectly reasonable, because after all, they're not the ones paying for it in any capacity. Their family can easily foot the bill, and if they can't, then they end up married to a junior IB / exec type who can easily afford to pay back that pesky student loan.

Obviously this skews more female because of evolutionary dynamics, but you still probably get the occasional male for whom this might be an option of some kind.

So what are the implications of a majority female, thoroughly middle class-to-upper middle class group who attended the same or similar small liberals arts colleges?

Homogeneity. Women are statistically more willing to conform to the group, or rather, they're higher in trait agreeableness if you want to hash it out scientifically. This means a reluctance to champion a book that could cause controversy, much less intense controversy. We're seeing this already with Penguin having to deal with employees demanding that Jordan Peterson's new book not be published.

The second layer of homogeneity is that in order to do well at those colleges - to even be accepted beyond being the 'token' of your specific sub-divided little group - is that you need to speak a certain way, act a certain way, and think a certain way. That gets reinforced and becomes self-selecting. The location of the major publishing houses are all large cosmopolitan cities, cities where the concerns are, "Do I seem culturally accepting enough?", "Am I projecting the 'correct' values?", etc.

You need not take my word for it though. You can find plenty of authors who complain about these sorts of things.

EDIT: I should add... I know these people. I occasionally work with and consult for these people. The certainty of their positions relative to their utter lack of worldly experience is not just staggering, but offensive.

I've travelled all over the world, for over 19 years. I've been to 72 countries, I've lived in 12 different nations for over a year at a time. Women and men with the kind of credentials I've mentioned above are almost always the same. They're utterly convinced of their own moral superiority, whilst also being utterly ignorant of anything outside of their little bubbles.
So then why do so many seem to want to start by constraining the organization with the highest level of trust?

Right now, individuals, businesses, and the US military can obtain this data without a warrant or due process. How can you look at this and say "let's start by reigning in the military"? Who, I might add, have a far more limited scope than businesses since the military only cares about information related to whatever mission they're tasked with.
Yep, carbon taxes that are split evenly amongst everyone is ideal. If you use less carbon than the average person, you will make money.

It acts as both an incentive to use less carbon and an easy way to even out the wealth gap.
To a certain extent, both Silicon Valley and Hollywood owe their existence to being inconveniently far from New Jersey, a different circuit court, and thus more easily able to ignore the patents of the tech giants in New Jersey.
> Have you considered moving to one of the tropical islands that’s advertising itself as a good place to hide out during this time?

Link? I'd be interested depending on the costs (same situation as the OP).
> The burden of proof is on showing that the unicode view is, in your words, a more capable abstraction. My thesis is that it is not.

The quote, as you presented it, leaves open the question: more capable than what? Well, there's no doubt about it if you go back to my original post: more capable than ascii. Up until now, as far as I can tell, your thesis has not been that unicode is less capable than ascii, but if that's what your argument hangs on, go ahead - make that case.

What your thesis has been, up to this point, is that manipulating text as bytes is better, to the extent that doing it as unicode is harmful.

> It must simply do something better. If there were actually anything at all it did better...

It is amusing that you mentioned the burden of proof earlier, because what you have completely avoided doing so far is justify your position that manipulating bytes is better - for example, you have not answered any of the questions I posed in my previous post.

> The heart of the matter is that a Unicode codepoint sequence view of a string has no real use case.

Here we have another assertion presented without justification.

> There is no "universal principle" that we use abstractions always, regardless of whether they fit the problem...

It is about as close as anthing gets to a universal principle in software engineering, and if you want to disagree on that, go ahead, I'm ready to defend that point of view.

>... that's cargo-culting.

How about presenting an actual argument, instead of this bullshit?

Furthermore, you could take that statement out of my previous post, and it would do nothing to support the thesis you had been pushing up to that point. You seem to be seeking anything in my words that you think you can argue against, without regard to relevance - but in doing so, you might be digging a deeper hole.

> An abstraction that does no work is, ceteris paribus, worse than not having it at all.

Your use of a Latin phrase does not alter the fact that you are still making unsubstantiated claims.
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No, no. This time is different.
> is the present spike in semiconductor demand a temporary situation, or a new reality?

I have access to quite pricey market research from Digitimes, SEMI and such.

Biggest contributors to growth are things very, very remote from both cars, and trendy gadgets.

You just keep getting more ICs put into just about everything, and at the same time very simple devices get bigger global penetration.

For example, a giant growth centre been rooftop solar equipment for developing countries — completely missed, and invisible in the West.

Electric mopeds, scooters, and lsevs — again, things mostly invisible, and unknown in the West.

LED lighting — growth immeasurable, and hard to count

Home appliances

Power ICs, and motor drivers

Security devices: locks, locators, CCTV, alarms — 100x+ growth over a decade

Vending machines, signage — 60x growth over a decade
Repopulating the Rust Belt and/or rebuilding American manufacturing while tackling rural poverty seems pretty win-win to me.

There are likely millions of people who wouldn't turn down housing and a good job even if it meant relocating somewhere else entirely. But many of those people probably don't have the means to do it, especially if the guarantee of betterment isn't at the other end of the uncertainty.
Not much, mostly lot of my tíme. Server and everything around is like 100$ monthly.
Just wanted to say that I’ve been using Checkbot for years and it’s great
Kind of amusing to find out that Myers declared personal bankruptcy, losing his stake in C.C. Myers and going on to found Myers and Sons instead. C.C. Myers (the old company) then went on to become employee-owned and later declare bankruptcy itself in 2016. Myers and Sons seems to still be going strong.
New study on why narcissists are so successful at attaining leadership positions
Also strategic reasons. If you own ARM you can dictate the direction they're focussing on a lot more.