skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
Taleb talks about the Lindy effect and some of the surprises in this article can be explained it.

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

The rough heuristic is: the longer a technology has been around, the longer it will last into the future.

That is, it's NOT the case that every piece of technology lasts roughly the same amount of time, and then is replaced.

For example, a chair vs. an iPhone. Which one will be used further into the future? Almost certainly a chair.

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Land lines have been around a lot longer than fax machines (both in the article), so they will likely outlive fax machines.

Will HTML or JavaScript last longer? Probably HTML, since it came first.

What about ASCII or HTML? Probably ASCII.

These have a "dependency stack" issue, but it applies regardless. And I think that is part of the phenomenon -- low level technologies that are widely adopted take longer to go away. Plumbing, electrical (AC vs DC), land lines, TCP/IP, BIOS, etc.

I can't find a link now, but there was a recent Kevin Kelly article about finding farming tools from a catalog in the 1800's still in use. I think he said that almost EVERY one was still in use, or able to be purchased, which is a nice illustration of the point. It takes a long time for old tech to die, and arguably it never does.
Gradle is sufficiently implanted into the Android ecosytem that moving away is hard. When you have a project with 80+ modules, buildSrc contents, gradle plugins, well, moving to Bazel isn't exactly a one day job. Add to that that many things add Gradle plugins that might be necessary for your workflow, and well, you're in a bad state.
Neuralink monkey experiment is nothing new
I have a librem 5.

At first I tried setting it up with a keyboard, mouse & monitor, but it was a little fiddly to get everything usable.

I had a USB-C hub from a macbook with PD + ethernet + hdmi, but I couldn't get the hdmi display to sync.

So I got another usb-c hub with ethernet + dp (+other ports) and that worked.

amazing: my phone desktop showing up on my 4k monitor!

So, that was pretty cool, but I still had a lot of fiddling to do - like which display the app comes up on, and how to switch things around. Also sometimes the display wasn't recognized when I wanted it do - I think I had to reboot with the display plugged in, because hotplug sometimes didn't work.

(There have been software updates since I tried this - it may be better now).

However, at the same time I ordered the second hub, I also got a $15 USB-C + PD + ethernet dongle.

Turns out that was really what I wanted. Let the phone be a phone, sit there charging and ssh/scp into it from my regular system. I can access the entire filesystem.

All of this really drives things home about Apple.

When the iPhone came out, apple was breaking new ground, so people even accepted web apps, because before they had nothing. And with quality/security, the app store made sense.

But after over a decade you realize that the apple ecosystem is more about control.

Why can't I write my own apps (without asking permission/eula). Why can't I run my own apps without either signing up as a developer and paying, or renew some certificate every 7 days? Why can't I plug all the things into USB and use them?

Apple has mindfully denied a lot of utility for their users. I thought maybe the mac usability would trickle over to iOS, but it seems the iOS lockdown has trickled over to the mac instead.

EDIT: wait. Let me say "Thank You" to the purism folks for doing this. It took a few years, but this phone makes me really really happy. I figure in a year or two it will let normal folks happily run their lives ios/android-free.
First off, I agree with you on principle. I do think it is too prone for circumvention. Whatever criticism is thrown at you in detail, it can likely be adjusted in the contract accordingly.

So, keeping that in mind, (and that IANAL) lets develop it further.

I have trouble seeing that as being a legal contract, as all the rules are in favour/at will of the BigCo. I believe that renders such passages void in some jurisdictions.
E.g. It is hard to claim that you can sell at market-rate, if there is no free market, since the buyer is at BigCo's choosing.

Assuming it is legal, it leaves Jane completely at the risk of deprecation and the will of BigCo to make use of it, and leave Jane with the debt of the difference.

Selling a property is usually accompanied by a property sale tax (at least in Europe). One of the reasons a lot of private people found companies to actually own their property.

Worst problem though I see is, that BigCo is here at risk that there could be a regulatory change, which renders parts of the contract invalid, making Jane not only owner in name, but also in fact.
Encrypted Client Hello, which is what eSNI developed into, is an active draft for the TLS working group. If you have relevant expertise I'm sure that the group would be happy to have you, in particular if you have any insight into how to achieve goals like Don't Stand Out while also keeping ECH as simple as possible.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AIDnO_QB64A is the most recent interim video conference meeting on this topic.

I expect that during 2021 they'll pin down the more controversial parts that remain to be done.
> The security credentials of an io_uring are established at creation time.

Well, the security credentials of a file descriptor are established at ```open()``` time. Is this really so different?

Running through the list of io_uring opcodes, only two of them work on ```char*``` paths: IORING_OP_OPENAT and IORING_OP_OPENAT2, which were added to io_uring after it was introduced. All the rest operate solely upon already-opened file descriptors, and POSIX doesn't do any permission checks for operations on already-open descriptors anyways.

It sounds like the issue you mention was an oversight when IORING_OP_OPENAT(2) were added. The easy, and retroactively safe, fix is to forbid these opcodes on submission queues by default, unless the submission queue was opened with a special flag whose name includes a scary warning -- something like IOURING_I_WILL_NOT_SETUID_WITHOUT_CLOSING_THIS_RING_FIRST.

https://unixism.net/loti/ref-iouring/io_uring_enter.html
It seems like you may be indexing on a reaction that either doesn't exist, or attributing a response from individuals as if it were coming from "everybody". In the latter case, it sounds like you've adopted the right mentality, which is to let the ball be on their court if they don't want to believe in you. Unless it's actually doing you from doing something you want to do, it doesn't really matter.
For many reasons, good or bad, the idea of mandated federal ID or national ID isn't quite accepted in the US.
It's bizarre how inverse-correlated motion sickness susceptibility vs VR sickness appear to be. I don't get motion sick at all, but even a few minutes in a poorly-designed VR experience makes me want to puke. Some of my friends are complete opposites. Most people I know are lean one direction or another, usually pretty strongly.

I do wonder if this is a simple statistical fluke, or if it's pointing at some deeper aspect of our biology.
> Doesn't make it a bad choice, particularly if his goal is student engagement - but it's not a tool that I feel has much use outside of the very limited environment of teaching/story telling.

And that's enough.
You still deflect and refused to answer a number of specific questions. You also continuously err into assuming you know my position. I’m asking questions to try and get clarity into your ideas rather than making those assumptions. Yet, you refuse to answer them and seem more interested in getting on a soap box rather than having an actual dialog. I’ll try to give an actual example so you can see what I mean.

You bring up the inability to improve health outcomes with specific government programs. I ask you how you would propose to fix that and your answer is “shrink the government and let people choose.” That’s a superficial sound bite and not a real answer. I was hoping for something like

1) Reduce price controls by reducing Medicare and Medicaid
2) To avoid those left out who would previously have been covered, create a health savings program for each individual
3) Expand the HSA benefits to those gainfully employed to reduce tax burdens
4) Create clear quality metrics to objectively measure various health insurance providers and clear, standardized, transparent guidelines to measure health providers to be eligible

This would reduce government to a role of oversight while reducing tax burdens on income. It would also allow individuals to make their own decisions about providers while allow the free market to innovate. It would alleviate some of the information transparency issues.

Instead, all you can advocate is:

Get rid of government + { hand wave + magic } = better outcomes

The latter comes across as a sophomoric understanding of the actual problem. Not unlike your overly simplified model of what you seem to think you can assume about my personal position. You’ve probably had some success in the past your word salad veiling approach without showing much concrete understanding but it’s failed to convince me
There is money in privacy. But there is even more money in pretending you give privacy while giving everything or at least what is juicy enough to malevolent (usually state) actors.
Yep. This happens to many businesses as they grow and get older - the people change, early innovators leave and decision making starts becoming dominated by milking the cash cows. The company becomes too large and too risk averse to be able to move fast.
I wish more people were obsessed with useful or insightful information the way they are with sex kinks.
Sounds like you're saying FAANG is above average. Which I'd grant, but that's not really a negation.
How is that helpful? If we were all lucky geniuses capable to afford the risk, into the required grinding (none of the IH projects were overnight successes), and succeed at bootstrapping a 500k SaaS, most of us would have already done it.

Parent is absolutely correct that for most of us, the best we can hope is wage labor to make someone else richer. Posting a link to indie hackers without context doesn’t change that, and isn’t helpful at all.
IMO health industry manufacturing trendy shifts from weak exercise science is large source of misunderstanding. Particularly when optimizations are exercises in minutiae. Fundamentally exercise + diet is simple but not easy.

Not easy generally attributed to adherence and effort, but not easy also because individual response curves and almost every intervention works for some cohort while not others as you highlighted.

What's really missing are better structured exercise plans that guides individual experimentation via roadmap from most effective -> least affective. Not major in minors, while constantly changing minors. Currently most people just bounce haphazardly from one fad to another, frequently mid-fad while biological processes from one response cause conflations.
Not sure if you are talking to me, or the parent.

I used the word "Honorable," as it seemed more effective than "Integral" (as in "having Integrity).

As far as I know, that word isn't on any blacklist. If it ends up there, I'll find an alternative.

In the meantime, I'd gently suggest that accusing decent folks of supporting the murder of female children might not be the most effective way to start good relationships.
> I don’t see why storing hashes of a number makes it a profile.

> even if it isn't a profile as facebook might define it

And this is the problem. It's a profile because you are storing information about me, without my consent to do so. Any information is too much when I don't want anything to do with you. Just because it's not obvious or easily accessible, doesn't mean it isn't there. So therefore you are very obvious ignorant on the existence of shadow profiles because you happen to define them more narrowly than I, or the GDPR would. Facebook has no right to even know about my existence without my consent, even if they don't target me for ads. I did not, and do not consent.
On deaktops, neither windows nor dlinux do not behave differently depending on developer's name. I see no reason why mobile devices should be any different. I wonder if there are grounds for anti-monopoly lawsuits.
It could make an excellent fourth stage, however.
Intel was so pushing WiMAX at one point. I really irritated someone there when a wrote something critiquing their efforts. We are seeing wireless technologies (including satellite) starting to handle some use cases where it's hard to wire. But I do expect denser areas to remain mostly wired.
It’s been an issue in Seattle and these other cities well before COVID, so my instinct is it doesn’t have to do with economic downturns. These cities had strong economies for the last decade but my take is that their permissive criminal justice policies induced a large population of drug addicted vagrants and other homeless cohorts to migrate here, since they know they’ll be left alone to do whatever they want. Thus far the city has not even collected strong data on who the homeless are and where they come from, and instead they tout self reported data from an annual “point in time” survey. Homeless advocacy groups coach survey respondents to claim they are from here so that they’ll garner more sympathy and political support. It’s hard to characterize the problem in provable ways when the authorities are not interested in the truth.

As for policing: Seattle’s police force was too small even before the calls for defunding. It severely lagged the median police officer counts among cities in America. That, combined with an ideologically driven city attorney’s office, has led to a revolving door of criminals that signals to other criminals that they’ll face no consequences for their actions. That in turn has induced more and more criminality.
I've got a long-standing bet with a friend that 'VR' will take off as soon as it becomes 'AR', ie transparent glasses that overlay information on the real world.

That, IMO, is the killer feature, and once it hits takeoff, the headset era of VR will be looked back at as a necessary stepstone that was ultimately completely replaced with what ultimately will be used.
care to share any warstories?
Not that I turn my devices off very often, but I'm pretty sure my Windows laptop boots faster than any Android device I've ever had.
Some names are complete nonsense: why is Benjamin Banneker there for building a mechanical clock in the 1800s (when such things were already everywhere) while Phillip Hahn (who build a four-operation mechanical calculator) in the 1700s is not?

They added Katherine Johnson who developed no new theories or applications on Math or Computer Science, but left Margaret Hamilton out (and she was the pioneer and creator of an entire new field!)
"On the bright side, you can replace almost any remote with a smartphone app, depending on your TV, cable box or streaming box. You can also use voice assistants such as Alexa or Google Assistant to control your home theater. "

I fail to see how this is the bright side. Both of those ways are worse at interacting with literally anything, especially compared to a dedicated remote for a TV. I'd try a foot controlled pedal for my TV before I'd be ok with using voice controls.
“Be fearful when others are greedy. Be greedy when others are fearful.” -Buffett
And with the amount of federal and state dollars going into scholarships and loans, it's hard to say with a straight face that society isn't directly funding its most promising youth.
No, but obviously it’s not the intended path, which would be a cable package.
While I get your point, I find it somewhat amusing that berries — and whole fruit generally — will actually not trigger this kind of reaction.

And if you think about it, in kinda makes sense.

A "large" banana has 121 calories for 136 grams [0].

A Snickers bar has 245 calories for 48 grams [1].

I think this kind of difference messes up the body's perception. Even honey has less calories than a Snickers bar [2]. I, for one, can't eat too much honey without feeling like I've had enough. But I can easily eat two Snickers bars one after the other.

Maybe we just haven't evolved to handle such a high concentration of calories being so readily absorbed from so little food.

This could explain another commenter's point: "we shouldn't have to count calories, the body should be able to handle that on its own".

Well, I suppose it does, but it handles that based on some assumptions which clearly don't hold in some situations. Of course, it's also not easy to "will" yourself into doing this. Suppose you eat 9 Snickers bars a day, which is more than the standard 2000 calories for a male. I'm pretty sure someone eating that would still feel hungry all day long.

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[0] Calories in a banana: https://www.healthline.com/nutrition/bananas-calories-carbs#...

[1] Calories in Snickers bar: https://www.sainsburys.co.uk/gol-ui/product/single-bar-choco...

[3] Calories in honey: https://www.caloriescalc.com/honey/
Yes that’s what you do, you might want to look at options other than Qemu though for more performance.

(I assumed FSE from your 40x worse perf figure, which is a very bad case)
Gradle has unfortunately gone the way of Maven in terms of becoming more and more of an unnecessarily complicated time sink.
Fulltext and figures of that paywalled journal article available here:

http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/download?doi=10.1.1.428...
The poster can just subscribed to the 50 Euro cable package. That is the legal way to get it. The poster just won't pay the list price.
It isn't impossible to watch by any stretch of the imagination. There just isn't a willingness to pay.
Fun fact: the original pre-computer punch cards used for the census etc. were quite like Bloom filters with degenerate hash functions. Some of the same principles of key number/width, density, and pollution even apply. I've often thought that would be a good place to start, if I ever had to explain Bloom filters to a layman or beginner.
I never understood why my android app with only 300 classes and 20 libs takes more than 1m to build on my custom 5k$ computer. In comparison i have a c# project 3x bigger and only takes a few seconds to fully rebuild.

Maybe its just how android is and nothing to do with graddle but still...
> "By letting other people invest in you, you are incentivizing them to promote your own story and do their best to increase your tokens' value."

In 1946, the US Supreme Court established the so-called Howey Test to determine if an investment opportunity is a security offering. These are the Howey criteria:

"Under the Howey Test, a transaction is an investment contract if:

"It is an investment of money;

"There is an expectation of profits from the investment;

"The investment of money is in a common enterprise;

"Any profit comes from the efforts of a promoter or third party."

IANAL, but these personal tokens seem to match every condition of the Howey test. I'd be extremely careful about conducting your own little security offering if you're resident in the US, or allow US residents to participate.

It's worth noting that Alex Masmej, the person mentioned in the article, conducted his token offering while in France.
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2 seconds was probably an unrealistic goal. Probably more to the point is that I rarely need to reboot a system and coming back from suspend almost always works quickly and reliably. In fact, I'd probably argue that's the more relevant metric at this point.
You can't put a 100mph high speed train on a freight line, and those freight lines don't cross with other transit arteries nor enter the urban cores where people are. What you say is true, but other than the fact that they are both "trains", it's not the same infrastructure we're discussing.
The link describes the problems but _not_ having a unified CJK table results in other problems. I regularly read texts in both Simplified and Traditional Chinese and some Japanese, and it's nice that at least characters that are uncontroversially identical have the same code point, so that what I type in my preferred input method could be used interchangeably (think eg. text searching).

There's enough trouble already with having a "handful" of commonly seen character variants between SC, TC and JP, making things like copyediting text a pain if you're not well versed in unicode shenanigans. I am involved in maintaining a Cantonese dictionary, and inadvertent duplicate entries occur very often because of these variants (yes, people sometimes, somehow, manage to input characters outside of the supposed locale -- and never notice because they look very similar).

Fundamentally the problem is that European notions of "character" breaks down in East Asian languages. Not sure whether this is anyone's fault, and if we designed it again today with hindsight and improved (font rendering, text searching/processing etc.) technology we might have decided to construct Han "characters" with radicals instead. But in the 90s there might not have been a better choice.

PS: not to mention the political fallout with having a separate table for Mainland-Chinese and Taiwan-Chinese if that were a policy. It's like having an English "a" and an American "a". Should Wales, Scotland and Northern Ireland have a different 'a' then? Why shouldn't the 50 states of USA each have a different 'a'. It'd bring the politics of the United Nations into Unicode.
The one I played with as a kid used oven light bulbs. They look pretty much the same, but solderless construction, and IIRC quartz glass and a slightly more robust filament.
I was going to say container or vm, but maybe ...

Are containers a hack that will go away as VMs become lightweight or will containers replace VMs?

I run proxmox, and when I first set things up I used VMs, but over time I moved most server kinds of things to containers.

EDIT: docker is a special thing - creating an entire environment from one Dockerfile is pretty powerful.
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Maybe it improved since the time I had to do Rennes-Toulouse, which is good (although it should be better). FWIW the SNCF website still says that the average is 10h30, 6h30 being the best.
Not sure why this is getting downvoted, he got like 2 out of 15 “right” considering he changed the definition of #2 so he could mark it “right”.
I'm surprised his #1 is still TBD. To me, ethernet lines have become more important in the last 5 years as competitive gaming/esports has completely taken off. Latency is a far more prevalent in gamers minds today, I'd argue moreso than bandwidth and the first networking related advice a gamer receives to make sure you are on ethernet.
In short China tried to be the saviour of the developing world promising to deliver millions of doses of vaccines that have ultimately turned out to be garbage and won't be produced on the required scale anyway. Their own people won't take the shot due to China's reputation for utter failure at regulating consumer products to protect their citizens. No wonder the Chinese wouldn't release the clinical data on their shots.

Now things are starting to get critical. The situation in Burma is deteriorating threating to send a flood of refugees and virus varients into a country with no viable vaccines and lockdowns as the only protective measure. Lets hope for their sake they approve and administer actually effective Western vaccines.
Anyone from the UK who remembers the TV program "Tomorrows World", is wise to predicting the future!

They kind of predicted a few things right-ish
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vix6TMnj9vY

Although I think the technology that exists now is much better than what I thought it would be like as a kid. Except for flying cars, I still want one
It’s ideological principles like this that got me into computers. I hate the new internet bf cancel culture. We had an amazing thing and now it’s in the toilet.