skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> People weren't downloading, creating, or storing large amounts of data.

Yes, they were, which is why there were many attempts to solve the problem, despite no one solution winning.

> Most of the stuff would fit on a floppy and you'd still have 90% of it empty.

High-end, but not uncommon, displays were megapixel range truecolor displays. (Which makes how long we got stuck at FHD, which is 2MP, kind of sad). Uncompressed full screen images were significantly bigger than floppies.

> Any games would be on floppies you wouldn't dream of filling 10% your 420MB hard drive with 10 floppies at 1.44MB each.

Software distribution on floppies was quite compressed; you mightn’t fill your HD with one 10-floppy package (which is good, because the first 10+ floppy software package could be your OS), but it wouldn’t take many.

> Most people didn't even have a computer and those that did were not on the Internet.

The people that didn't have a computer really aren’t a factor in what was in demand by computer users. Those that weren't on the internet directly were often on BBS’s and online services like CompuServe, and were quite often downloading things.

Also, all that changed fairly rapidly over the time in question; in 1993 under a quarter of households had a computer, and internet penetration wasn’t even a thing people surveyed. In 1997 over a third had a computer, and about half of those households were on the internet. In 2001 over half had a computer, and about 80% of them were on the internet. [0]

> Music was not a thing yet or at least not the ability to download it.

Music downloading was definitely a thing by the mid-1990s, even if it didn't hit the public consciousness in a big way until Napster in 1999.

[0] https://www.infoplease.com/math-science/computers-internet/u...
Mathematica/Maple/Sagemath don't have a freemium timeout mechanic and can solve a lot more. Truth be told I think that integration techniques are much less broadly crucial for everyone to learn than they used to be, although you need to have some clue of what's going on because you need to be able to guide yourself towards posing problems in such a way that the integrals that can be solved.
In 2020 there were 304 publicly disclosed security defects in iOS of which 94 were severe [1] which means an average of 2 severe defects per week and 859 in Android of which 214 were severe which is an average of 4 severe defects per week.

These constitute fairly average years (within a factor of 2) so you can reasonably expect that a similar number of defects will be discovered in their currently shipping versions by the end of the year.

[1] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...

[2] https://www.cvedetails.com/vulnerability-list.php?vendor_id=...
Look at the kinds of projects apartments and leaky rural shacks the poor of the 50s-70s lived in. You might have to combine five to get what we today consider one working set of appliances and utilities.

Section 8 apartments and double wides are such a massive step up from that. There will always be a bottom of the economic latter. But that bottom has moved up a lot over the past couple generations.

Mobility is a somewhat separate topic from what standard of living constitutes the bottom.
Interactive labyrinth curve generation and applications thereof – Google Patents
And how, exactly, will the "network conditions stabilize" if over 1/3 of the votes are malicious, and thus able to prevent the honest voters from ever agreeing on anything ever again? Are you betting that the attacker will just get bored and walk away?

Also, what a confusing choice of words. A distributed system is BFT (or not BFT) regardless of whether or not the underlying message broadcast medium is synchronous/asynchronous, or reliable/unreliable. The "network conditions" being "stable" have no bearing on the voters' ability to reach agreement -- that's solely a function of whether or not f or fewer votes are malicious out of 3f + 1 votes.
So the contributors are paid in “exposure” or am I missing something?

I mostly enjoy A16Z and @pmarca in particular but they’re pretty hostile to contradictory ideas. Like if I pitch GDPR compliance for Substack I don’t think they’ll be super amused.

Still curious if this will rise to the quality of their podcast, which I find has a signal:pr:bs ratio of about 4:3:2, which is an excellent score for a corporate podcast!

[edit: not that exposure isn’t a valid currency here! For probably anyone who even knows who A16Z is.]
U.S. clinical trial results show Novavax vaccine is safe and prevents Covid-19
True. But I think the problems are more nuanced. It is just harder to scale across EU than US. You'll need localization, marketing, customer support separately set up for different languages/countries.
> For example, there's no direct switching between documents.

In case you haven't seen it already: https://github.com/ddvk/remarkable-hacks

The ddvk hacks are easy to apply and reversible. They add a bunch of gestures like instantly flipping between documents. One of my other favorites is a quick swipe gesture to switch to the last-used tool.

I don't want to annotate PDFs and then only save the annotations, but it sounds like biff would help with that if you don't mind another tool in the chain: https://github.com/soulisalmed/biff
Yes it makes sense, especially since Microsoft also owns Github ! will give it more thought thank you.
Arm-based cloud computing: Introducing Arm on Oracle Cloud
In a community of Olympians, the idea of not training on the weekend would be considered laughable and a non starter. It's the same in any field if you want exceptional results.
Hi all Googlers here :)

Quite amazing isn't it that a company with so many extremely talented employees (I'm actually serious) can produce such utter nonsense at such scales ..?
This is when 99.99% of the population would just whip out a numerical solver.
No one maintains anything in JS world. You just upgrade or hop to the next framework. The ES spec I believe discusses backwards compatibility but that only applies at the language level.

It wouldn’t be the cool hip framework if it had to commit resources to older versions.
In the company I work for, the guys that "solve shit" wear a tie-dye shirt, cargo shorts and two different sandals.
This might be completely a common knowledge, but I just learned recently that SPF (the number on most sunscreen products) is actually a multiplier of the time you can spend in the sun without any protection

So having an SPF of 50 increases a time 50 fold, which really puts things into perspective. Never leave the house around lunchtime without sunscreen.
Just to address the first point. Often a group has a software basis where probably 100 PhD years contributed. This of course has value for the group (it might even have a general value), but this wouldn't be possible if you kept your IP. So yes the work under a professor giving good guidance and ideas to a couple of PhD students has value. But this value shd be attributed if any to the professor. And here you could say, well it was funded by the university so it belongs to them. Here you could make a point that the prof shd get the IP.
I remember being angry about “activation.” sigh, the good old days.
US states will not have the same issues that GDPR had. The bounds of enforcement will be much more clear and the US has a much clearer way of dealing with vagueness in laws in general. Despite assurances, US companies do not like the “the statute documents the intent but not all of the specifics” approach the EU uses.
I agree with you. The fact that the visuals of the black hole didn't include the frequency shift and intensity variance was perhaps the smallest artistic license that was taken and didn't really prevent my suspension of disbelief.

If they wanted to create something physically accurate, then all we'd have seen is a blinding white globe as the accretion disk of a black hole emits tremendous amounts of energy and couldn't be resolved to the iconic shape in the movie by the naked eye.

The hapless astronauts would've likely received a fatal dose of ionizing radiation in minutes (if not seconds), and Matthew Mcconaughey would've been shredded by tidal forces long before he entered the event horizon of a stellar mass black hole.

The movie took some liberty with physics, but managed to capture the imagination of so many people. I much prefer it this way. Those who want to dig deeper can either watch an actual documentary or read some books on the topic.
I must say that I lack the Scandinavian/Baltic perspective here. Some successful software projects founded in Scandinavia and the Baltics some of you have heard of include:

Linux
Skype
Spotify
Mojang (Minecraft)
Rovio (Angry Birds)
SoundCloud
Klarna
MySQL
Opera
Qt

Even Tidal, Rdio and Beats Music can trace their ancestry to this region.

Not to mention the only(?) remaining competition to Chinese telecom, Ericsson and Nokia, following the defeat of Lucent, Nortel, Siemens et al.

With this perspective, perhaps it can be argued that speaking of Europe as a whole in this sense is unproductive.
Yeah, my world would have been flip-turned upside down as it is. The real kicker was realizing that I had not considered remote work at all when we picked our apartment. We've just bought our first house and it's much better now, but trying to work at ALL for the first 3 or 4 months was truly awful.
Do You Trust the DAO?
I wonder if something like old school Graffiti (from Palm OS) would work for you.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Graffiti_(Palm_OS)
Amazing work on these built-in/opt-in performance, accessibility, UX and DX features!
Why would Google have to pay Wikipedia?
Neat. Curious how to interpret this when you are tanned some. My understanding is that doesn't change your skin type, but you do build some resistance. That not the case?
So I'm a musician, I use a lot of pro-audio hardware and it's a miracle that some gear requiring 15 year old drivers are still willing to run on W10. I'd like to keep it that way if possible.

Now I understand the idea behind technical debt, however backward compatibility is one of Window's biggest strength, so if a new OS has to be designed, it should be considered carefully.

Obviously open source drivers when needed or strict class compliance should be what manufacturers strive for today.
Accuracy is great because it’s both consistent and changes expectations. Everyone expects explosions in movies to be giant fireballs so we get more silly giant fireballs. Movies that go for realistic explosions end up feeling shockingly gritty by comparison.
It was a bit tongue-in-cheek, and note the word “attempts”. This one is much too big/high profile to delete, thankfully.

The “this is just how to do science” defense is cute, but a lot people died and will die over it, and in general the conduct we have seen from formerly-trusted authorities is inexcusable. Most people are not going to let that gang of narrow-minded bullies “do science” to them ever again.
They should have raised ICO instead.
I guess founder is more appropriate
I'm sure it's ultimately an amalgam of who you are, your hard work, and good fortune that got you where you are.

I do believe you have to work to prepare yourself to make the most of whatever comes your way. If it all was so simple, and so easily digestible then we wouldn't be having a discussion at all!

I can see where you're coming from when you mention a media narrative, but I disagree. But I think that's just a matter of perspective—I don't see it as some moral or other failing to decide that working hard and hoping and aiming for good fortune just to acquire capital when in the end you really just want to work a day job and smoke a joint and watch the flowers grow.

I think that's the tone that's being expressed, especially in the introspective light of the recent pandemic. The big questions have come out for a lot of people all over again: what's it all for, anyway?

America, the modern world, what have you, glorify financial success in itself above all else as if its representative of something deeper, more profound. I think the article(s) on the subject are pointing to the growing tendency of late to question whether it's really worth it, or in the interest of most people.

Personally, I don't get the quest for money alone. Life, for me, is primarily experiential. I'm a practical person, but there's no reality I can fathom in which I'd put a raw capital value or property ownership above a wealth of experience. For instance, I rent a beautiful old century townhome in a small artist's town in Ontario from a wealthy dentist. He bought it several years ago and has probably made a killing in the increase in property values here, but somehow I feel like I'm getting the better deal here. Especially when he keeps wistfully remarking that maybe they'll move in when they retire.
That's a legitimate criticism, and one reason I've held off buying one. I wonder how long it would take to get a screen size of 13.5" (about the same as US letter paper size, which is what most pdfs are formatted for).
This whole conference could have been an email.
Really solid release, congrats to the team and contributors!

P.S. I have noticed that you put a markdown link as `src` prop value in the first `Script` example.
If the issue is about security and not economics,
free open source platforms already exist.

Europe should fund them heavily and by doing so give them the advertising power to compete with for-profit ones.

Otherwise they will end up squandering a lot of money, Covid apps are not a good example.[1]

[1] https://www.reddit.com/r/programming/comments/henwet/the_uk_...
Windows 10 has Miracast built in and has encouraged wifi drivers to support it. Miracast is built on top of Wifi Direct like most of these other p2p tools. Windows also has a hard to find "AirDrop"-like system, but between having no mobile devices anymore and incompatibility with Google and Apple's proprietary systems no one thinks to use it (because it's mostly just useful between Windows devices and at that point you probably have older tools like file shares that perfectly cromulent rather than worrying about physical proximity).

A lot of these things also don't get explored as much as they should be because the APIs are in the WinRT side of the fence and Project Reunion is only just now opening WinRT to a lot more classic Windows devs.

So Windows doesn't have "nothing" here, it's just trapped between rock (Apple) and hard place (Google).
Windows 10 did the unthinkable for me. It made my house Windows free since 1998, in 2020!

Now I have two Ubuntu 20.04 laptops - Toshiba SatellitePro and Dell Inspiron. Windows 10 broke the Toshiba touchpad and wouldn't upgrade from 8.1 without fits, seizures and loss of data. With Snap I was able to port most of my MS Office and other windows software.

TBH, Dell did have issues around the infamous Nvidia display drivers that would freeze the screen needing a hard reboot. But at least my laptops are able to bounce back to enjoy the rest of their natural life!
Absolutely, because after a while this helps you internalise and see errors in other people's work, that everybody else is just letting flow past them.

Even being able to do simple arithmetic in your head to check for errors in slides/talks is a major step up. It will only take one moment of realising that the person talking has made a mistake in their calculation, and is basing their argument on that mistake, to realise the power of this - and that's just the simple stuff.
Are much do these cost?
I'm seeing all kinds of negative feedback here but wasn't my case. (some people saying that it's created to steal your photos which is a bit absurd).

Sure enough, it asked me to create an account which is understandable, I don't complain. I have a multitude of Google accounts and I used one of them.

I waited for around 10-15 minutes and I used a photo of a statue of Caesar. The results were very, very impressive.
https://imgur.com/WOeOYR3

Awesome job OP. There must be some amazing tech at work!
> Doesn't this imply willful lying of government to its citizens. What's the guarantee that they aren't doing the same with contact tracing apps or other necessary apps?

It should be the default to expect government to be lying to its citizens.
> "How dare you listen to me when I am shouting my name in public?!"

Listening and putting it in a massive database along with other sensitive data, such as location, are two completely different things, though.
Linux was quite beginner friendly twenty plus years ago, IME. Remember Mandrake Linux? Then you had Ubuntu ten years ago! It's had enough time. The one thing that used to repeatedly make me chuckle was the "This will be the year of the Linux desktop" stories, which seemed to appear almost yearly! :)
It's going to take you a while to numerically solve that integral for the uncountably many values of \alpha that you are being asked to...
Disney Puts Focus on Streaming Ad Sales in Brisk TV Upfront
No. We have plenty of ways of detecting a large scale Covid epidemic after the fact, even if it ended up somehow avoiding all people from the risk groups. Analysis of historical blood samples for antibodies. Early population-wide antibody tests. Phylogenetic analysis. Wastewater analysis.

Think of just how contagious Covid would have been before we knew about it and started taking precautions. You could only introduce Covid into a country a few times before it'd inevitably start a self-sustaining transmission chain. We have no credible proof of that happening in the west until 2020.
Also just reading, it doesn't seem such a device has been build so far. Why not then compare to fusion. Hydrogen seems even more abundant than thorium.
I’m still using Windows 7 on my isolated machine. It’s great.
My company did this. Sold an incredibly desired and prime location in my city because like 90% of IT can just do their jobs from home. COVID was a somewhat of a blessing in disguise.
> Starting conditions are a factor, but a terrible predictor. If you look at income by the quintile you are born into, it is closer to random than 1:1 predictive.

Closer to random would mean a 20% chance of ending on any quintile from any quintile. From your report (which has data from 1991, quite few things changed since then), the probability of being at the top 20% is 3% if you are in the poorest quintile, 40% if in the richest. That's not "closer to random" and definitely not a terrible predictor, given that's just a single factor in social studies.

Not to mention that the quintile method is just an approximation. You don't know if the 24.5% of people in the bottom quintile who get to the next one moved from being 0% to 39% or from 19% to 21%.

> This means most people born into the bottom 20% improve their economic status, and most people currently in the bottom 20% started above it

Well, that's a minimum. If starting conditions weren't a factor you'd have 80% improving their status, not 55%. You can rephrase the statistic in another way, such as saying that 13% of the people at the lowest quintile should be in the highest income bracket, but they're not there because they started poor. Or that 22% of the people in the highest quintile are there not because they worked hard enough, but because they just started there.
This looks like they learned from tcp_random_drop which was a method for combating syn flooding back in the day, and the principle appears consistent and applies to higher level abstractions like filesystem writes and others.

I'm interpreting that congestion may be the result of the client expectation of sending into a queue based on the maximum possible availability of a channel, whereas if you add randomness to the percieved availability of the channel across all clients, all clients will then send based on the perception/calculation of the mean availability, which is always less than the max as they all converge/revert to that mean.

(crazily, it could imply if we halved speed limits but didn't really enforce them, people would mentally reserve twice the time duration for a given trip, and therefore only choose discretionary travel based on that doubled time commitment, reducing the number of people using the roads together at a given time, while the ones on the road could travel double the percieved speed limit)
The solution triggers me a little. I like pretty names.
For decades, I've just been hitting the control key with the part of my palm directly under my left little finger.

No rebinding required, it works great and I don't even think about it.. no issues with RSI either.

On the other hand, I've never liked chording, so I use evil on emacs to make it more vim-like and avoid having to chord much.
One can complain about Windows, but at the end of the day I have way more issues with desktop Linux (which I use principally.)

I find myself in an awkward situation where I don't like any of the three major desktop operating systems for different reasons. It's more a matter of picking the one that's less bad. Currently for me that's Linux for work, Windows for games, and Mac for a laptop.

I need a new laptop next year. I'll probably go for a Windows laptop where I can dual boot Linux.
If we’re trying to be serious: this is a bit like comparing strings to enums/sum types or sets.

The point of atomic/utility CSS is to have a well defined and composable subset of rules. I suggest you seriously try it. I was surprised after a short while. It’s a very productive approach.
Month ago I installed Windows 10 and created a local account while connected to the internet, if I remember correctly it was hidden by 2 or 3 steps. Professional version.
Why should I have to change my AP's name to opt out, since I've never opted in?
Alternatively, and maybe sub-optimally depending on your priorities, disable SSID broadcasting on your AP(s). Google might index it from devices that are manually connected but it won't be usable for the geolocation of others.
This is the same line of thinking a lot of ‘coding boot camps’ seem to take- why learn 4 years of computer science and engineering fundamentals when you’ll just be using node.js in the workplace?

A dangerous trap IMO- both are valuable but incredibly different. The former is teaching a narrow-scoped trade as opposed to learning a full-fledged engineering discipline. The latter is much more generalizable and equips you to understand / build / use most tools going forward, rather than overfitting use only to the current fad of high-level tooling.
Yes, please do not make such claims without actually knowing.

Just because some games are running more or less stable, doesn't mean you can run complex software with it.
The crucial bit of information is omitted - were these cases locally acquired or were they imported? Did the NIH follow up on that?
> I think there are a lot of people who believe they understand Python because it kindof looks like Java.

Have you actually met anyone who's asserted that Python "kind of looks like Java", let alone that its resemblance to Java makes it easier for them to understand? I've written both Java and Python, and out of all the things I could imagine saying about Python, "Boy, this is sure kind of like Java" would be very, very far down on the list.
Unfortunately it isn't even that easy.

The Google car that is used to take images of the StreetView also collected SSID's (and infamously got in trouble for sniffing packets too).

So GPS location + Multiple SSIDs = triangulated location for mobile devices. Google is able to use each mobile devices' location, and it's GPS co-ordinates, and the location of your neighbours SSID, all that raw data makes for a very accurate location detection even without YOU ever using Google's services.

You might have stood a chance if you lived in a Faraday cage, but the only thing that will stop this behemoth is legislation and politicians with morals.