skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
On-off or "bang-bang" control actually makes a lot of sense for home thermostats. For example consider:

- With a home thermostat you probably want it to reach the desired temperature as quickly as possible. PID will never reach the setpoint as fast as bang-bang control since bang-bang control will always use the maximum possible power.

- PID might help you avoid overshooting the desired temperature but that's not really an important issue for a home furnace. In fact it might be better if it overshoots the desired temperature a bit on very cold days.

- The air in the home acts like a big thermal battery that helps negate the need for a sophisticated controller.

PID works very good for a wide variety of situations but it's important to remember it is not always the best tool for every job. In that way it is kind of like "quicksort".
XMPP did really well for a while until Google and Facebook decided they didn't want to participate anymore.
For exactly this reason I wrote a script that reads from the clipboard cut buffer and inserts the keys one at a time into the keyboard input stream; voilà, pasting that side steps asinine browser page restrictions.
Kinda dying to know if they dedup on the server? Cause technically speaking if everyone was on Apple then that 1 photo becomes 12 not to mention it getting send to another layer of people.
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I understand that this type of discourse is par for the course on Twitter and Facebook, but please don't track it in here.

Because you asked, the expert consensus at the time was that it was highly improbable that the virus was of lab origin:

https://www.nature.com/articles/s41591-020-0820-9

While you're right that laypeople in media and on twitter indulge in absolutes and sensationalism, the science seemed to be carried out appropriately. So if knocking over straw men is your thing, twitter is the more appropriate venue.
Seems like every system that achieves apparent stability but with a stable trend in only one direction will eventually reach a cathartic overturn. Population growth under absolute resource constraints, that interlocking network of pacts prior to ww1 that for a while looked like a mechanism for peace. And wealth concentration? What you need for stability beyond that horizon is some form of control valve.

I've recently started diving into the "what if" of a hypothetical society that used some kind of "financial lynchmob ritual" as an institutionalised check to infinite wealth concentration: it would be limited in rate, e.g. one property nullification per year per 100 million inhabitants. It would be open nomination, secret vote, "winner" would get stripped of every property and contract, perhaps with some generous lifetime pension in return. It would basically be like an inverse bankruptcy, just concentrated on one creditor instead of one debtor. The rate-limit would make sure that it wouldn't devolve into an ever accelerating tall poppy hunt, but it would be enough to force a requirement to be not disliked too much on the 0.0001% rich. This could have massive benefits, way beyond the direct spoils of occasionally nationalizing some Oracle or Facebook or Aliex. What would be its unavoidable failure modes? Lots of mud-slinging between the super wealthy, that wouldn't be pretty. Lots of defecting into other countries, for sure, but let's assume some total hegemony for the sake of the mind experiment. Seclusion, most rich and powerful would be more invisible than they already are. Chances are you'd eventually have a caste of super rich that keep an extremely low profile. Perhaps even secretly pulling strings for some exceptionally visible and unlikeable dickheads to somehow stumble into wealth, as a caste of sacrificial decoy rich. And the success of those, until eventually stripped, would make others try to emulate them. Perhaps that would be the failure mode?
The Olympics have run their race
This is why I left this site. Endless smug engineers explaining condescendingly to physicists why they’re stupid sheep, without knowing the first thing about anything. Intellectual curiosity, my ass. Do you have a reply to my concrete criticism or not?
> Hulu does have an ad free tier now just in case you weren’t aware

Well, it has a tier called (No Ads)*

However, the * is there because it still has ads on some shows.
> Don't be a know-it-all. Go actually learn something.

Try again, but with less personal invective. You're listing a few bad things that happen because Chrome ignores autocomplete="off", but you're not listing all the bad things that would happen if Chrome didn't ignore autocomplete="off" --- namely, users using weaker passwords and getting compromised more.

Sorry, all the things you mention sound like minor annoyances to me. It's much more important that websites not block secure password storage features in browsers.
I’d imagine it’d be difficult for Apple to migrate to anything substantially different as it’d require rewriting a potentially multi GB file, the space for which many users would not have. It’s effectively a massive, distributed, database migration.
It seems the project has adopted a repressive code of conduct, allowing for arbitrarily and retroactively defining people's behavior as unacceptable, and consequently sanctioning them all the way up to expulsion. There seem to be no due process rights and such procedures can be conducted secretly based on anonymous denunciations.

https://librefoodpantry.org/docs/code-of-conduct/

Now, don't get me wrong - I have no idea whether that actually happens or not, since I've only just noticed the project. But such a repressive official policy is a bad sign. I doubt it deserves the _Libre_ prefix in its project name.
In this case it doesn't seem to be some creative interpretation of the law, but a fairy direct interpretation.

> EPBC Act include providing for the protection of the environment

> The following principles are principles of ecologically sustainable development:

> (c) the principle of inter-generational equity—that the present generation should ensure that the health, diversity and productivity of the environment is maintained or enhanced for the benefit of future generations;
They are specialised in providing encrypted storage of email, as well as end to end encrypted emails between their users. These features requires some measures which deviate from the plaintext standard protocols.
I am convinced iMessages right now is a tool to keep your storage full, push people to buy higher storage iPhone, and pay iCloud Storage backup to increase their Services Revenue.

None of the problem listed in the blog post or what you point out are new. They have been there since day one. And it is not that they neglect it either like iTunes or Aperture. They added Memoji!

Which is why I am surprised a the popularity of iMessages in US ( and France ). I think it is mostly due to SMS usage before iMessages was a thing.
No, it isn't random either but it hasn't been associated with a particular physical feature size since 1997.

How Are Process Nodes Defined?

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/296154-how-are-process...
>That's unfortunately incorrect.

No it isn't.

The company has always operated as a foreign corporation in California, which means it only pays corporate taxes on income generated in California. The company isn't moving its operations out of the state. Their San Mateo office will continue to pay any fees and taxes to the city and county. Only the CEO and CFO will work from the Montana office. Both were living in Montana prior to the headquarters move, therefore the company had a nexus in that state and paid corporate taxes for income booked in that state. Nothing changes in that regard. Snowflake cannot take advantage of Montana's lower corporate rate because they are not a domestic corporation. Again, they are incorporated in Delaware and operate as a foreign corporation in any state except Delaware.
Landing an opportunity or a windfall sometimes wakes up new extreme character traits that previously were either dormant or perceived as minor "idiosyncratic inconveniences". I've seen it happen before as well.
They estimate that and wealthy know all about it. There is no equation for calculating value of a piece of art.
Agreed. The US Congress can act when it wants to. The ACA passed, even if altered by subsequent legislatures. The problem the environmental contingent has is that there is not the political will to move their highly controversial legislation, so they are looking to the judiciary to act instead. As I said above, that kind of activism without political recourse leads to some very negative outcomes.
i think it was specifically win2k that got it right. the 9x series still felt a bit clunky, even at the time.
Previous conversation:
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=14110112
> my opinion is the marginal tax rate should be very high when you get to this point of income, and the money should be redistributed via services, credits and direct payments (maybe?) to poorer people

The problem with this is that the government simply can't do it effectively. We had marginal tax rates that high in the past and the revenue didn't get redistributed to the people who really needed it. It got squandered in pork just like it always does.

Charity and helping those who need it is a fine thing, but it has to be done by people who will actually do it right. Whoever that is, it isn't the government.
On an annual basis, you "self drive" a staggeringly large number of cars into accident scenes, road construction, traffic jams, police, and just about everything else that could possibly be on the road.

Start talking about 99.998% or so, OK, now it's worth sitting down with the math. But 98% accuracy at avoiding construction/existing crashes/etc is horrible.
And this is one reason that we do not need to worry about inflation. All the money given to “not so wealthy” is already spent and gone.
But [0] they are licenced for specific usages, and carry is not allowed outside of that context, and 'personal protection' hasn't been one (barring extant holders) since 1998.

[0] - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Firearms_regulation_in_Finland
> We know dark matter exists because we can observe its effects on all the stuff that’s swirling around in the universe.

I don't even think I should keep readinv this. All we know is that outer/galaxies rotate about faster than expected accounting for known masses. It's a discrepancy between two calculations that don't fit our model of gravitation. Nothing more or less until we actually find a source other than proved missing matter.
> We had completely different backgrounds and worked on different systems. I was on an async messaging platform and she did Java web development.

I don’t buy this as the reason, it sounds like after the fact rationalization on your part to explain the status quo

Did everyone on the async messaging team earn more than the java web developers?

I could very easily see her earning more than you due to a multitude of reasons
Could this have an RSS feed? I'd like to put it in my reader.
It's the end of cloud computing!
Plenty of articles, including this one, have interviewed insiders that have revealed that they got to skip the vetting process due to nepotism. You might want to re-asses your "high bar" and stop making "wild guesses".
The statements regarding YC in the article don't make a whole lot of sense to me. Firstly:

> Y Combinator has a rigorous vetting process topped off by an exclusive demo day with "selected investors."

I don't think anyone whose been through the YC interview process would describe it as rigorous. It's streamlined, and I suspect design it minimize false negative rate while spending a minimal amount of time reviewing companies. They have a huge number of companies to evaluate. Personally can't imagine they spend more than 30mins evaluating each company (including the interview).

Then later in the article:

> The most serious accusation is that DreamWorld only got its Y Combinator backing through nepotism. According to Upton, a senior employee at Y Combinator claims that Bellack has a friend in the accelerator who helped greenlight DreamWorld without the appropriate due diligence

I don't know what "appropriate due diligence" is here. I don't think YC generally check references, or dive into code... maybe a quick look at the demo in the 10m interview? It probably helps knowing people on the panel.

> "[DreamWorld] wasn't vetted. They apparently had nothing to show on demo day, and they were still allowed through."

Doesn't make sense to me. Do YC ban companies from demo day if they don't have enough to show? It's not part initial DD? Have they raised from demo day investors?
It's not fake to smile at someone you do not know and ask how they are. It's merely a greeting.

All cultures have context clues. Your surgeon might have just met you, but be legitimately concerned about your condition. Your best friend might be interested in your emotional state. The stranger on the street might merely be "polite", or hoping/wishing you are having a good day, but neither wanting to hear a full dissertation on your emotional state, nor a recitation of your medical history that a doctor might find relevant.
These are high praises and more than enough impetus to watch Andreas’ videos and check out SerenityOS. Thank you, all.

From tfa:

> With no drugs or other vices to pass the time, the days seemed impossibly long.

Is honest, resonant, and bodes well, but it’ll be work to convince myself this [0] is more like ol’ skool X than ~WinNT circa 2000 — it’s not making me serene atm.

[0] https://awesomekling.github.io/assets/writing-this-post.png
Lol you and I both.
Interestingly, I've seen mechanical on/off controllers with a tiny heater on the sensor, turning it into a time proportioning controller.
Except programming apps and IDE’s?
Could you explain how world of Warcraft works then? You can certainly have more than 200 in one place at once... Are they doing some tricks to make this appear as if it's working but in reality it is not?

Would love to hear your opinion.
Embedded system: Has an OS designed to be flashed to firmware with no dependency on external storage devices and survive for a long time without updates/reboots.

RTOS: Any operating system that 100% absolutely guarantees IRQ response time or CPU scheduler time. An embedded system's OS may or may not be realtime. An RTOS may be possible on the standard PC platform.

Unikernel: User space program linked with required kernel code and designed to run in kernel mode; also possibly designed with the expectation of a hypervisor. The things that come to mind with this are Xbox and Xbox 360 games.

So all three of these to me are not mutually exclusive concepts. A unikernel program running in kernel mode probably doesn't need an OS, but there may be need for a hypervisor which the unikernel may use via some virtualized hardware type interface, and that may essentially be an embedded RTOS.
I wish I could have an ms outlook like interface for the long term storage of the messages. Folder per contact or group and excellent search, sort and filtering. Also could be stored offline or synced up with a mobile app.

2 apps I use for similar non iMessage archival are
- x1 - for file and email search
https://www.x1.com/products/x1-search/

- mailstore
https://www.mailstore.com/en/products/mailstore-home/
Go back a 100-200 years and check in on plantations
He's saying it because this is where the Overton window of Republican rhetoric has been moving for at least the last decade and because it's what many Trump supporters like himself believe. He's just ahead of the curve.
The blip or basis point.
I always wondered why its not n*x
But that's precisely how it's supposed to work. That there is not (yet) sufficient political will to adopt these policies by statute does not in any way create a duty for the judiciary to act. Congress makes the laws. It's the judiciary's job to interpret them. At least so far, there is no law (in the US) with a generic obligation to protect future generations from environmental harm. I question how such a law could even work given that a great deal of human activity permanently alters the natural environment.
Fortunately my friends are Engineers and we are immune to Apple marketing. Never had this problem.
Show HN: Orkestra an event-based alternative to Airflow built on the AWS CDK
I’m a huge fan of Airflow but over the course of the last few years working as a software/data engineer I’ve often needed to build pipelines that aren’t only scheduled, but event-driven.

I wrote Orkestra to scratch an itch I often have when building data pipelines.

I want the programming model Airflow provides — letting me design my workflows dynamically from code by combing operators with the >> bit shift operator — instead of doing YAML engineering.

I also want to have workflows that are triggered based on events such as those from EventBridge.

Lastly, I want to be able to scale from zero to infinity without breaking the bank.

I hope Orkestra brings you joy and addresses much of your pain when building data pipelines

https://www.knowsuchagency.com/orkestra/
> But it's essential in practice to remember that overwhelmingly the environment people are interested in is the Web, and on the Web those aren't actually different things again, in practice.

If the problem is the web, then the problem should be addressed by the web, not TLS.

...and of course, part of the problem is that we've conflated nearly everything to the "web", so thinking that the web is somehow removed from this problem is a mistake.

> We eavesdrop your purchase, we were prevented from tampering with it. But, this is the Web. The eavesdropped TLS session contains a secret cookie value, which identifies you to Amazon. We can use this to impersonate you and do whatever we want, just as if we were able to tamper with your TLS session. The apparently more limited permissions are a mirage.

Yup, that's a legit problem, though I'd argue it actually further reinforces my point. This is a good example of a problem that stems from conflating multiple security concerns, rather than addressing them as separate concerns.

If there's an acknowledgement that your authenticated & tamper proof session is fully exposed to eaves dropping, then you start using the authentication mechanism itself to identify people or you develop an additional identification mechanism that is resilient to replay attacks (both of which are entirely possible) or people just inherently become aware of the reality that buying stuff on Amazon from an eavesdropping environment means that they will be impersonated on Amazon. What you don't do is think a "secret cookie value" is a secret when it so clearly is not.
We should probably stop using 18th century political technology to manage 21st century problems. Eventually we'll need to move towards a participative form of democracy, a wikiocracy if you will, in which anyone can be legislator and work on any topic, substantive or trivial, but will need to overcome a certain amount of social inertia and semi-automated procedural brakes.

Right now you have an electorate mostly equipped with near-instant communication and responsive to mass information campaigns, governed by a legislature that works at a snail's pace, lacking in adequate transparency, and with no direct linkage between the popular will and the legislative process; effectively a large complex machine which voters are given a limited right to kick every 2-4 years in hopes that this will rearrange the internals enough to make it functional. Individual congresses and executive branch administrations can be good or bad to varying degrees, but the system as a whole is simply not adequate for the governance of the society and economy that has grown up around it.
Yeah, that's not "personal convenience". I would say this borders on safety. I don't think it's that difficult to imagine how this same dataset in the hands of a bad actor is to be abused.

In your case, my assumptions of you are based on how you continually downplay concerns to "not happening" or "that's no big deal". You also readily accused me of avoiding repercussions, then walking back and walking forward those claims in some kafka-esque dance.

"Arguing in bad faith" also doesn't mean you've offended me. It's just a realization that you have some other motivation at stake here. People don't just recategorize a safety and privacy issue as "personal convenience" while dancing around calling it a problem.
This was part of the exciting suggestion of the original Stadia trailers: with the entire game and all the interactions happening in Google datacentres, you would only need to receive a rendered version, and suddenly all this would be possible.

Of course none of that has happened and Google folded their games studio, which is par for them, but does go some way to reinforcing this point that there's a reason this stuff isn't done.
The context of this discussions is the government giving free money to people.... I don't understand how you equate that to people not believing in market forces.
>Very interested what marketing department will say after 1nm became old news

0.8nm. Something TSMC stated they intend to bring to market by 2030.

Yes it is marketing term. But I thought everyone should know that by now.
I'm pretty sure it's not true that anyone would make that choice.

It's not like killing a single actual baby is all that unusual.
I had no idea that memory safety was that big of an issue in cat and ls.
I think the interesting point that the article is doing is that contrary to the common assumption the revenue of the 1% didn't grew that much in past decades, however the revenue of the 0.01% really exploded in the same period of time.
Much more than that if you were unemployed.
Thank you, that was an awesome bit of 5 minutes of nostalgia. I know it must have taken you hours to build, and I could only get a few minutes to play, but it was worth your effort, and thank you for sharing it here.
FAS has a biased agenda. I wouldn't weigh their opinion very heavily. Poorly kept secrets are a problem but not when they are well guarded.
Just took a look at your product, I'm very impressed and have added myself to the waitlist. I'm almost even more impressed by the domain name itself though - how on earth did you manage to bag that domain?!
You don't have a concrete criticism. You just have a complaint. Either the math in the paper is right, or it's wrong. If it's wrong, say where. If you can't find anything wrong, say that.
Seems like a humble choice for an executive to not take <firstname>@corp.com.
Enacted in 1999, and the 'EP' is 'Environmental Protection'; there's no way they weren't thinking of climate change in writing that.

Which makes it slightly curious it hasn't come up before / that it required any interpretation at all?
It’s funny, I never noticed this. I grew up in Germany and had lived in the US for a year a while back. A few years after I met an American friend here who had been on a euro trip. She went to Prague (not exactly Russia, but culturally close enough I guess) and she said something like: "why are all people there so damn depressed?"
I myself had great times in that same city, I never got that feeling. But I realized that there is a big cultural difference.
I told her: "That’s how they are. They are still happy and loving people, they just show it differently".

I would never perceive them as being depressed. Interesting how your surrounding culture can change your perception of things.
Hey, at least we didn't find the flashcards for their OPSEC test!
...and the fact that these things happen without the aid of cryptocurrencies is not an argument that cryptocurrencies won't further enable these things, if that's what you're getting at.