skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
It was sad to see what happened to Touchstone Semiconductors. They made some really excellent components with no equal.

It seems like a VC pulled out, they were forced to sell to a big company at a terrible price, and then that company discontinued all their products shortly after.

https://www.edn.com/touchstone-semiconductor-falls-prey-to-h...

https://www.eetimes.com/touchstone-semi-sells-assets-to-sili...

https://www.silabs.com/documents/public/pcns/EOL-1609091-Tou...
There is absolutely NO WAY that a brand name drug costs $8 dollars. This is just confusion.

8 dollars is what the user pays in co-pay at a pharmacy. Taxes paid for others shoulder the rest, via a subsidy mechanism.

Reference from the first google search: https://www.chemistwarehouse.com.au/buy/78769/truvada-300-20...

Private prescription means you forgo the govt subsidy. Truvada is apparently no longer on the subsidized (PBS) list: https://www.starobserver.com.au/news/national-news/no-more-s...
Seems like base geometry with base textures are on local hard drive, beyond that higher resolution textures are streamed from cloud, down to 3cm precision, insane.

Nice article on this topic:

https://www.novatech.co.uk/blog/microsoft-flight-simulator-2...
Fwiw, Ubiquiti hardware is actually quite cheap.
Their wifi line used to be excellent.

Having APs that could be hardwired would be a requirement for me. The less wifi the better.
I think because workers have recently made a lot of money from stock, it doesn’t make sense to renegotiate their contracts right now.
I did my dissertation on an aspect of Combinatory Categorial Grammar, as mentioned in the article as a byproduct of Schönfinkel's work.

One of the interesting byproducts of considering sequences of words in a natural language sentence as functions, is a solution to analysing a phenomenon in syntax called right node raising: "I washed and you dried the dishes."

In context-free grammars of English, "I washed" and "you dried" do not form constituents (unlike "washed the dishes" or "dried the dishes", which are VPs — verb phrases). However, in Combinatory Categorial Grammar, this is no problem, as "I washed" is simply a function looking rightward for a noun phrase (NP), and returning a sentence (S). In CCG terms, this function would be notated S/NP, corresponding to an interpretation function of type NP -> S.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chaebol
MS FS is developed, marketed, and priced as a game. That's what it is and in terms of pure flight sim I'm sure there are better.
This isn't a Microsoft product... Microsoft is paying a third party to put their name on it.
Is there any HTML from PDF available?
> The device also gets like 80°C while idle.

This sounds like a 8 port poe switch. They get hot. However they also don’t seem to mind it.
I never understood why Samsung phones were constantly receiving praise by tech reviewers while LG got crapped on.

Samsung always wanted to do things their way -- different (shitty) UI, Samsung versions of all the core Google apps (but worse), reorganizing preferences for no reason, the stupid bottom button placement, non-remappable Bixby button, aggressively killing apps for power management and breaking widgets, etc.

LG always seemed a lot closer to stock Android, and was good at staying out of your way.

I had a Samsung Galaxy S4, then an LG G5, and now an LG V35. I hated the S4 and loved the G5 and V35. My fiance had an LG V20, and now has a Samsung Galaxy S20+ and feels similarly -- loved the V20, is super annoyed by stupid Samsung software quirks, even on this latest model.

Do people actually like all those Samsung annoyances? Why is Samsung considered the flagship of flagships? Build quality beyond the V30 is basically identical.
Yep, famously done with two kittens, one with agency to move and the other paws dragging on the ground - it was effectively blind and did not react to stimulus because it did not create meaning.
Deep learning for video compression seems like it'll have a natural advantage just because video codecs have never been particularly large (maybe 100 KBs?) but everyone expects an ML model to be enormous. That's a lot of space to store common data in.
What precisely do you think a microbenchmark taken out of context is going to prove?
VFR students shouldn't be anywhere near a simulator, imo. Primary training is all about stick and rudder skills, which you can't pick up in a simulator. The feel of the controls isn't even close.

(I guess you could use a simulator to help teach pilotage and dead reckoning... but that normally gets sprinkled in with the other lessons along the way.)

On the other hand, simulators are useful for IFR training, when you're focusing on procedures. But you're not looking at the scenery in that case. ;)
Unifi's router isn't all that great. I would go with other software (like opnsense), which is the recommendation of some others out there.

Their switches and APs are still really good. For alternatives, it depends on your goals. How many configuration options do you need? Is cloud management bad? Any more.

For consumer: Google, Eero, Orbi and some of the others are good. If you want more control, you need to venture into the SMB and Enterprise space.

Unifi, Engenius, Aruba Instant On, Tp-link Omada, Mikrotik, Ruckus and maybe some others. It really depends on your desired feature set.
I see a post from Glenn Greenwald. I think most would consider him right leaning. I also see a post from The Dispatch, which Wikipedia describes as "center-right".
Cost to the enduser seems to be the most important metric when you want people at risk to actually take the stuff to prevent the spread of a deadly disease.
More like

"We have updated our privacy policy. Please read and accept these terms to continue"
I'd disagree, what they do say is there.

There is hardware that could potentially be used for the car to drive itself. It might not be sufficient for safe unattended operation, but there is hardware that can steer the car and make it move.

They have a design for a system that could drive the car unattended. It could be a piece of paper that says "Requirements: car must drive itself" with a couple boxes and arrows, or it could be more elaborate.

They might deliver software that can be left unattended. Or they may not, who knows.

They can deliver updates over the air.

Is that what people expect? Probably not. Can you currently sit in a Tesla and go from A to B safely without paying attention to the car? No. Will they ever be able to deliver the experience that the average person expects after reading the second paragraph? Maybe, maybe not. Will it be reasonably safe to leave it to drive unattended? Who knows. Would the average person who paid for "full self driving" feel deceived if they never delivered that experience? Probably.

It's definitely been crafted to describe something that might potentially be delivered someday, yet leaving enough wiggle room to be able to say "we never said it could be left unattended and never promised we'd ever deliver something that could be" in court.
No SQL database is the one thing I disagree with. What if you want to write a SQL query/report? Do you have transactions? As the app gets bigger you might want that.
I haven't read the article in detail, but I think the point is some versions of this attack can be carried out by pure social engineering. Go into a store, claim to be you, talk your way out of giving ID, then get a new SIM card associated with your number and walk out with it. In this case, name+number is indeed helpful info for the attack since it doesn't involve any actual "hacking" in the computer security sense.
Indeed about twitter, I won't follow about 95% of links there due to the issue you mention.
Invalidating caches is super easy when you don't have to do it. You just pick some element of the cache and blow it away; nothing is affected other than performance.

What is hard is invalidating a cache in that situation when an item must be removed from the cache, because it no longer exists outside the cache. If that is not done, you get a stale cache entry, which is incorrect and possibly breaks the system.

So now suppose the cache is multi-threaded, distributed and whatever. Now you have edge cases and race conditions. Is it okay if the item is gone, but the cache remains for just a little window of time? If not, can we remove it from the cache first, then for real? What if in between those two, something accesses it so it reappears in the cache? Pardon me, did I say the cache? I meant seventeen different caches throughout the distributed system ...
Get a Jelly 2
> Time to market is greatly improved

Can you please clarify this?

If you are referring to a web app time to market I mostly see otherwise.

Here is an example: create a form to edit user settings. In Rails/Django it is pretty simple straightforward. But if you go React then you have an API and a component in React and have to think about routes and security of API and validations on both FE and BE.

There are advantages for SPA probably but time to market is not one of them in this case.

If you are referring to creating a mobile app and a webapp then maybe React with React Native is indeed faster. With this I agree. But I personally prefer to wait for Hotwire to launch their mobile framework and use that.
This was on Windows 7. (I thought I’d mentioned that, but I guess I forgot.)
I've appreciated LG's adventurous moves. The one I liked the most was LG Optimus 3D, which provided a naked-eye 3D display similar to that of Nintendo 3DS. The most recent LG Wing, I was hopeful.

But LG also left a bad taste in my mouth. The last LG phone I used, Nexus 5X, died all of a sudden, but after months of despair, I could revive it using a freaking hair dryer.[1] Yeah, some of you who are well versed to soldering may not be surprised by this, but the fact that such a huge company makes such a minor mistake completely turned me down. My reaction might be irrational, but after the incident I could not get close to newer LG phones anymore.

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/Nexus6P/comments/66wsvq/this_might_...
H.i.v. spread is not so easy to prævent as many think.

Many seem to think that the use of a condom turns transmission risk from 99% to 0% or something along those lines.

The reality is more so that it changes 1% to 0.3%, and it heavily depends on the sex act and direction of transmission as well.

Another not so often sung fact is that the transmission rate from patients who take blockers properly, and thus have an undetectable viral load is 0%.

https://www.aidsmap.com/about-hiv/estimated-hiv-risk-exposur...
I would speculate that for some people, while the feature that they removed was preferable for the consumer, it wasn't necessarily a deal breaker. So in the same vein, if they included that feature, it wouldn't be a deal maker either.

With all these features they are removing, I personally can't ever see myself buying a device solely based off of that one feature and so I compromise.

I'm not happy with having to compromise but it's not a perfect world and I'm not so set in my opinion that I would consider not buying it based off of X feature (to an extent)
I'd argue the classic memory model is much easier to model in a developer's mind than the alternative.
I love this.

Typo FWIW on page 8:

"You want to select the print background option and delect the print headers & footers option."
Can you please stop posting unsubstantive and/or flamebait comments to HN? You started out with a good post (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=24915604), but since then have been breaking the site guidelines.

If you wouldn't mind reviewing https://news.ycombinator.com/newsguidelines.html and taking the intended spirit of the site more to heart, we'd be grateful.
The comment I was replying to said.

> I think the concern is that medical ethics say (roughly) you cannot give anyone a treatment which, based on odds, harms them

This is clearly not true as we do medical interventions all the time that we know may harm the patient on the assumption that most people will gain a benefit. It's naive and dangerous to spread the idea that the good medical intervention is a 100 percent safe one. That's the pitch of the "alternative" medical industry and only possible for 100 percent ineffective medication.

There is no effect without side effects and no benefit without risk.
How's this news? He could be writing in notepad.exe and still make good books.

Heck, probably it's the better choice for durability purposes!
You don’t get elected for doing things, you get electing for promising to do things.
Authors typically do not do page layout and design, that's handled at another level.

However, I was able to manage quite a lot of both using Appleworks on the ][e in the 1980s. Formatting prose (rather than layout) was definitely in the mix: bold, italics, underline, font sizes. I would say that Appleworks made HTML rather easy for me to learn when it first came out, because you had to open and close each formatting option, rather like tags.
You'll teach your child things, whether you realize it or not.

You'll teach him to hold your hand when crossing roads, not running out in front of cars. You'll teach him the way you walk to the local shops and back, you'll teach him that kicking you in the crotch is bad, and that he should say "sorry" and not do it again.

You'll probably hang out with neighbours and teach him how to share toys and not fight over them.

All that kind of stuff matters, and is important.

We started taking our child to kindergarden in Finland when he was 1, he'll be going there until he starts proper-school at 7. Mostly they play, draw, listen to stories, sing etc. It's not academic in any sense, but he still learns.

Probably the most important thing he learns is to get dressed and be social with other children of a similar age. He has friends he likes, people he doesn't like, and often these change over a period of weeks/months.

I fully expect he'll be able to read in one/two languages by the time he starts school. We read to him every night, and usually I stop and say the "fox in ?" and point to the word - half the time he'll say the right word, half the time he'll be like "I don't know that word". At first I though he'd memorized the dialog, but when I switch to a new book he's never seen before he still recognizes simple words like "cat", "dog", "hat", "car", etc.

I don't think I'm teaching him to read, we rarely sit down and do anything for more than a few minutes, but he's picked up a lot of things. Like one day he said "That tram is 10", and now he knows about tram-routes within the city "This tram goes to the library", "This tram goes to the swimming pool".

One thing I do when the weather is nice is say "We need to buy cake, where is the cake shop?" He says "go left", "go straight", "go right" and gives directions which we follow. Sometimes he's either confused, or perverse, and sends us in the wrong direction. But that's OK, nice days are worth wasting. But with all that normal stuff we're teaching him stuff, whether it is academic or not.
WebOS is originally made for mobiles.

Not enough people want an OS that doesn't have native support for Android or iOS apps. Even windows couldn't cut it.
The real pain points:

- react programmers who solve every "problem" by pulling in yet another 3rd party dependency

- understanding react vs react with hooks + to redux (or not) + saga? thunks? etc etc...

- webpack
I'm going to guess the actual cost far out weighs the multimillion dollar fine levied against the company, which their insurance paid.
I think I agree with you, but then what about something like Hearthstone? How much glitz would they have to add before a digital version of the same phenomenon be considered gambling, if presentation were the metric?
I mean if there were too many details, it would just have too high a barrier to entry.
Anti-trust now (and yesterday too). I can not believe that the DoJ ended the anti-trust suit against Qualcomm[1][2]. This is such capitol evidence about how shitty chip-making is: everyone of potential value gets immediately snatched by a colossus. This system is poisoned. Why are the regulators doing nothing? Why is there no back-pressure against this system of everyone being acquired? Nothing new is ever permitted. Everything is hideously broken.

[1] https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=26629492

[2] https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2021-03-29/u-s-aband...
Actual video:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gl2823KAcyk

Article's just fluff around it.
Probably lots of us use vim. First release of vi is 1976. Emacs is 1976. TeX is 1978.
I suspect that depends where you are - here in Finland schools closed, but daycare stayed upon (1-6 years old).

It was strongly encouraged that you keep your child home, but if your parents were doctors/similar there was no qualms about the kids going to daycare. Ours certainly went for the duration.

We pay €250/month for that, which is very cheap.
I stand by my assertion that cost is the limiting factor :)
Because they're just as correct when you switch the labels.

With two parties both jockey for position in being as close to center as possible while still appearing unique. To leave the center is to sacrifice those voters to the opposition. This is why first past the post voting is stable yet nearly useless.

Democrats consist of actual liberals, marxists, authoritatians, etc.

Republicans consist of actual fiscal conservatives, the religious, libertarians, etc.

Both are unhappy alliances and occasionally fracture and spill one of these constituencies and the opposition rushes to appeal to them.
This issue is more of a hot potato than people seem to realize, because companies like Uber (inasmuch as they can exert direct control) are having to balance compliance with disability law with the religious sensibilities of their drivers in many cases (all against the backdrop of the dilution of categories of service/assistance/emotional support animals), and acknowledging what's happening would be uncomfortable, to say the least.

https://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-8066065/Moment-Uber...
are you sure? https://www.androidheadlines.com/2019/05/sony-mobile-strateg... (headline says "Sony Mobile Has Now Officially Left Most Of The Global Market" from 5/2019)

I guess that I will have to give Google phone or Huawei a try, for my next phone. (once tried xiaomi, didn't like them)
Yup. This advice is spot on. I started with just setting up my own server at home, and over the last 15 years, it's now a small data centre with a with a 24U rack and all sorts of tech. Eventually, I was able to quit my job and go solo with consulting. The home data centre has been really useful in keeping my cloud costs down. Since much of the infrastructure was already in place and properly setup it pretty much takes care of itself.
I want to add that being unemployed can produce unexpected shifts in your mindset. A certain desperation sets in. You become more socially isolated due to severing connections with coworkers. A lot of “friends” will subtly inch away from you because relationships are often built on what you can extract from the other person, and now you have less to offer them. Besides now you don’t want to talk to them anyways because you are ashamed. Will your girlfriend / spouse still respect you? That is to say I don’t recommend. There is a distinction between quitting a job triumphantly and in good spirits versus quitting out of desperation. The latter should be avoided.

Read my post about contract jobs if you do quit and have trouble finding something new.
Androids have become iPhone sheep.

That is, whatever iPhone decides to do, they just copy it.

I don't know if it is because the business just decide to follow market trends or if the designers are secretly Apple fanboys.
> after my G4 died in less than 18 months

The whole G4 bootloop fiasco is why i'll never buy a LG phone again.

Went through 4 G4's in 12 months because of it.
Fair enough. I can see where you're coming from. I will just add, there are some people who are pretty good at listening to people's problems, without labeling you and without prejudice, and they still gotta eat somehow, too.

If you are still more interested in a self-reflection approach I would read about something like the theory of positive disintegration: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Positive_disintegration

Still, I would stress that the act of naming problems out loud to a person putting their attention on you, even like in a group talk therapy setting or something, is not a no-op

Also, with your skills, you may just be able to find somewhere where they give you a long leash so that you can work w/ your math books in a mostly self-directed fashion. I agree that the job search can be hard, though..
You can detect it, but I wouldn't be sure they allow you to remove other apps.

Certainly, once a device enters into China, it should be considered breached and insecure.
The US had a president who tried. Yeah, that guy.

https://www.hhs.gov/about/news/2020/11/20/fact-sheet-trump-a...
Does anyone know how close Falcon 4.0 (or Falcon BMS) got in terms of the flight model?

Do the DCS games have a good flight model?
I think you've fallen into the uncanny valley, where it is very close to real but not close enough, so it feels off. The rest of us without your reference context continue to find it amazing.
I am a s10+ user and recently I ditched all the different google version of my phone apps. I decided to use samsung's version of the calculator, calendar, files and contacts apps.

They seem solid enough for me and some of them present better integration with the Samsung ecosystem . Those apps are also integrated with different third party providers including google .

I still despise bixby but I'm very satisfied with the rest of the phone.
I disagree, I believe that MSFS and XP11 are marketed to a similar niche. MSFS was marketed as a realistic sim and not as arcade, there were multiple statements about that, including in the very first post of the official blog[3]. At the same time, you can buy XP11 on Steam, a platform for gamers[2], and while it's true that there is a version of X-Plane for professional use[3], most people who own it, use it in a home setting.

[1] "We are making Microsoft Flight Simulator. Emphasis on the word SIMULATOR." https://www.flightsimulator.com/june-20th-2019/

[2] https://store.steampowered.com/app/269950/XPlane_11/

[3] https://www.x-plane.com/pro/
The number of digits out is only a simple function of the digits in if you're doing fairly trivial calculations.

Checkout https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Interval_arithmetic for what it takes to monitor precision through complex calculations (in particular, see the bits about using the taylor expansions of non-trivial functions).
More apropos would be "this is not about `mg`" (the tiny Emacs clone that is part of the OpenBSD base install).

Because the author is (was?) the maintainer of `mg`.
Odesta Helix and Double Helix were graphical programming databases. The early versions for the Macintosh were... interesting to design databases with. QSA Toolworks continues to sell versions of Helix today. https://www.qsatoolworks.com/
Here is a screenshot of the original design interface. Retro-future! https://www.qsatoolworks.com/ee/marketing/museum/images/1984...
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helix_(database)
It's not a partisan issue at all. Both parties are aligned with Big Pharma to screw over the American people.

Partisan gridlock is terrible, but it's even worse when the parties agree...
Oh, he's writing a lot!

Dunk and Egg novellas, a history of the Targaryen family, some new Nightflyer and Wild Cards scripts and pilots, blog posts, responses to fan emails... what more could you ask for?